Wellington Web Development. Custom Websites Built to Show Up in Google and AI Search.
We build custom websites and web apps for Wellington businesses, from the CBD out to Lower Hutt, Porirua, and the Kāpiti Coast. Every site ships with the schema, speed, and structure needed to show up in Google, ChatGPT, AI Overviews, and voice search. Hand-coded. No WordPress. No retainer.
> WHY WELLINGTON BUSINESSES CHOOSE US
Wellington's market is small enough that one well-built website can own an entire vertical. If it's actually built for how people search now. AI Overviews and ChatGPT are answering Wellington-specific questions directly, and they quote the sites with the cleanest schema, the fastest loads, and the most readable structure. We build for that. One build, done properly, and the leads keep rolling in without a monthly invoice landing in your inbox.
> WHAT WE BUILD FOR WELLINGTON BUSINESSES
Wellington business websites
Hand-coded React sites with LocalBusiness schema for every Wellington suburb that matters. From $5,000 NZD.
Web apps & booking systems
Full-stack platforms with logins, payments, and dashboards. For Wellington businesses that need real software, not a brochure.
Ready for AI search
Built to show up in Google, ChatGPT, AI Overviews, and Maps. Pulling leads from across Wellington.
> SERVING ALL OF WELLINGTON
We build websites for businesses across Wellington and greater Wellington, including:
Remote-friendly. Most projects run over email and video calls. No on-site visits needed.
> WHAT'S IN EVERY WELLINGTON BUILD
> WEB DEVELOPMENT FOR WELLINGTON BUSINESSES: WEBSITES, PLATFORMS AND WEB APPS
Web development here means more than a brochure site. The same team that hand-codes a five-page trade website also ships multi-brand platforms, online stores with live stock, and software with logins, billing and dashboards. Professional services, recruitment and consulting firms usually need the second kind, and that is where most of our published work sits.
Every build is TypeScript on React, Next.js or Astro, deployed to Netlify, Vercel or Cloudflare, with the structured data and prerendered HTML that Google and AI assistants read. You own the code at launch.
- CRE8 Collective: four divisions (recruitment, advisory, mediation, career coaching) on one Astro platform with live JobAdder jobs, an AI enquiry concierge and 90+ in every Lighthouse category.
- Recruitment and advisory CRM: pipeline, bookings, e-signatures, timesheets, Xero invoicing and automation, deployed as a single-tenant instance with NZ data residency available.
- MindGraph: team personality analytics SaaS with Stripe billing and organisation management; a registered NZ company we built and run.
- Cloudbase Print: five supplier data feeds (REST, CSV, SFTP) merged into one live B2B catalogue with a quote-first flow.
- Málama: seven-page practitioner site with Calendly booking, live in under two weeks on a small-business budget.
All sixteen shipped projects · From idea to app: how a software build runs
> REPLACING A SLOW WORDPRESS SITE
If the reason you are searching is an existing WordPress or WooCommerce site that has slowed down, we rebuild rather than patch. Nine of our sixteen projects replaced one. Every legacy URL is 301-redirected so the rankings the old site earned carry across: OPTC moved 2,677 products, Solis Panelbeaters 15 legacy URLs, Exudy 105 products. Hosting costs fall and there are no plugins left to update.
WordPress vs custom: an honest comparison · Flyinn: WordPress to Next.js
> QUESTIONS WELLINGTON BUSINESSES ASK
How much does web development cost in Wellington?
Hand-coded websites start at $5,000 NZD for a 5 to 8 page site and $10,000 NZD for multi-service or multi-location builds. Web apps and SaaS platforms start at $15,000 NZD and are quoted per scope. Every quote is fixed, sent within 48 hours, and excludes GST.
Do you have Wellington clients?
Not yet among our published case studies, which are Auckland and Wanaka businesses plus platforms with customers across New Zealand. Every project runs remotely over email and video calls with a live preview link and a recorded update each Friday, so a Wellington build works the same way. We would rather say that plainly than imply a local office.
Can you build software, not just a website?
Yes. MindGraph (SaaS with Stripe billing), the CRE8 Collective platform (JobAdder integration, AI concierge) and the recruitment and advisory CRM are all in production. Web apps are scoped and timed up front, usually 4 to 8 weeks.
How long does a website take?
Most websites are live in 2 to 4 weeks from the fixed quote being accepted. Málama went live in under two weeks; the 40-page Solis Panelbeaters site and the 2,677-product OPTC store took longer and were scoped for it.
What do you build with?
React, Next.js and Astro in TypeScript, deployed to Netlify, Vercel or Cloudflare with SSL. No WordPress, no page builders, and you own the code.
Tier details are on the pricing page; the week-by-week build is on how we build. Every project we mention has a case study.
> ALSO SERVING
> READY TO SHIP YOUR WELLINGTON SITE?
Fixed quote inside 48 hours. Built and live in 2 to 4 weeks.
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