Los Angeles, Southern California

Your work is real.
Your website should look like it.

I design and build fast, clean websites for small businesses - schedules, bookings, and everything a customer needs to say yes - then keep them running after launch.

Fixed price, agreed before we start Most sites live in 4 to 6 weeks once we start Your domain and data from day one The site is yours on final payment

Pricing

How we price

Fixed price, agreed before we start. No hourly surprises, no retainer you can't leave.

How much site

Pages and sections, and how much of each one is drawn from scratch rather than from a system already built.

  • Page count, and the sections on each page
  • How much of the design is custom
  • Whether it has to carry more than one language

What it connects to

Booking, scheduling, payments, a live calendar - anything the site has to talk to. Each piece is quoted before anything starts.

  • Your booking or scheduling tool, embedded and styled
  • Forms, analytics and event tracking
  • Anything carrying its own account or fee, named up front

What is ready

Whether the words and the photographs exist yet, or whether writing and sourcing them is part of the job.

  • Copy: already written, or written with you
  • Photographs, logo files and brand colors
  • What you already have that can be reused as it is

How a number is arrived at: a short conversation about those three, then a fixed price in writing before any work begins.

Two maintenance plans - Essentials and Growth. Both include security and dependency updates tested before they go live, off-site backups with restore tests, and uptime, SSL and broken-link monitoring. Essentials includes 30 minutes of content edits a month and a first reply within three business days. Growth includes two hours of edits, weekly backups and link checks, a quarterly analytics summary, and a first reply within one business day.

Optional and month-to-month. Hosting, domain and booking accounts stay in your name on your own card, so nothing is held hostage if you stop.

Process

Five steps, no mystery

  1. 01

    Kickoff

    30-minute call, then a written scope, sitemap, and a checklist of what I need from you.

  2. 02

    Design

    Homepage and inner-page mockups on your real content; you approve before anything is built.

  3. 03

    Build

    The site goes up on a private link you can watch; forms and booking wired and tested.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Domain cutover, cross-device QA, and a walkthrough so you can update it yourself.

  5. 05

    Care

    Optional monthly plan - I keep it fast, current, and backed up while you run the business.

About

Sungin Kim portrait photo

Hi - I'm Sungin Kim.

Founder

I'm a firmware engineer by trade. My day job is embedded systems and FPGA, where a bug ships inside the hardware and can't be quietly patched afterward - that's where the habit of checking everything twice comes from, and it's the part of me that shows up in client work.

I came to the web sideways. During COVID a friend was working through a coding bootcamp, and I started learning web development so I could actually be useful to him. After years spent down among ones and zeros, building something you could see and click on was a relief - and, unexpectedly, fun. I liked it enough to keep going, and I've been taking on web contract work ever since, building and fixing sites for clients alongside the day job.

Last November I got serious about AI - less as a headline, more as a way of working. I've built a number of AI projects since then, documented openly at ArkNode Labs, and I use those tools daily on client sites. The judgment, the review, and the final call stay mine; the tooling is simply why a studio this size can turn a site around in weeks rather than months.

What you get is me, in the LA Area, writing the code myself, answering my own email, and still around when you need a change six months from now.

Contact

Tell me what you're building

Or email me directly at sungin.kim@arknodestudio.com. I reply within one business day.