Grand Street Works
Services // Three things, in order

The site first. Then whatever the site starts sending you.

Fixed fee agreed before work starts, and you own the code and the hosting at the end. Most jobs stop at the first one, which is fine.

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[SEC_01] What we build
Svc_A // Start here

Websites

Fixed fee · structure first, design second

Built on the structure the best firms in your trade share, worked out by reading them before anything is designed.

  • The best and worst sites in your trade and metro, read the way a customer does
  • What all the good ones have and none of the bad ones do. That becomes the page
  • Several directions to pick from, never one comp to approve or reject
  • Fast on a phone in a driveway: no page builder, no plugin stack, no monthly platform fee
  • Repository, hosting and domain in your name at handover
Svc_B // Off the desk

Native Apps

iOS, Android and Mac · shipped under your account

For the part of the job that happens on a roof, in a unit, or at two in the morning. Most businesses don't need one.

  • Photos, notes and signatures captured with no signal, synced when the truck has bars again
  • One place for the crew's day instead of a group chat and a clipboard
  • Native where it earns it: camera, offline storage, notifications. Web where it doesn't
  • Published to your own developer account, under your business's name
  • Same care plan as everything else, or hand it to your IT
Svc_C // Behind the site

Back-Office Systems

Built for you · running inside a week

A new site sends more enquiries. This is what catches them, maintained so it doesn't quietly rot six weeks after launch.

  • Every enquiry logged and attributed, so you know what the site is worth
  • Stale enquiries chased, drafted for your approval
  • Morning brief: the few things that need you, replies drafted
  • One page for where the pipeline, the schedule and the money stand
  • Monitoring, fixes, and one improvement a month
[SEC_02] Where the hours go
Sym_01 // Quoting

Quotes and proposals take two days, because one person writes every one from scratch.

Sym_02 // Double entry

The same client details get typed into three systems by three people, and by Friday they disagree.

Sym_03 // The software bill

Lines nobody has reviewed since whoever chose them left. One costs more than a part-time salary.

[SEC_03] If the site isn't the problem

An operations audit, fixed fee, report inside five business days.

Some businesses have plenty of enquiries and no hours left. What helps there is a costed picture of where the manual work sits and what it's worth to fix.

Book an operations audit →
  • A 60–90 minute walkthrough of how the business runs. Bring the software bill
  • Top five opportunities ranked by hours saved against effort, each with a price
  • What you rent monthly and use a fifth of, with the break-even maths
  • A "do not automate" list: what looks automatable but isn't worth the money
  • Optional half-day with the team, if the fix is a habit rather than software
  • The fee credits in full against anything booked in the next 30 days
[SEC_04] What we won't do

Build you an app you don't need

An app is right when the work happens away from a desk and away from signal. For most firms it's a more expensive website, and we'd rather say so before there's a deposit.

Anything compliance-heavy

Payroll, tax filing, accounting of record, clinical records, or anything putting protected health information through a system we built. That stays with the software carrying the liability.

Replace software that's good value

Plenty of what you pay for is cheap for what it does, or worth it because everyone else is on it. We'll say so.

Sell you a build the numbers didn't justify

If your site works and your week isn't drowning, we'd rather say so than invoice you for a project neither of us believed in.

[SEC_05] Join us

We read every email, whether or not there's a role open.

We stay small on purpose, so we hire rarely. When we do it's someone who can sit with an owner in the morning and ship in the afternoon.

Tell us what you build →
  • Designers who can build it, engineers who care what the type is doing
  • People who can explain a trade-off to a roofer without saying "stack"
  • Work you can point at: a repository, a live site, something you finished
  • Remote is fine. We're in Brooklyn, and on site in New York when it's needed
  • No formal openings most of the time, no application form, and we always answer