Ghost sites and newsletters that load instantly and convert readers.
Custom Ghost themes and setups for publishers, newsletters and membership content — a fast, focused CMS built for writing, without the plugin sprawl of a general-purpose platform.
- Native paid memberships & newsletter sending — no plugins needed
- Minimal, static-like performance out of the box
- Built for
- Publishers, newsletters & membership content
- Ownership
- Site, theme & subscriber list — yours
Fixed price, agreed in writing.
Everything ghost should include — and usually doesn’t.
Custom Ghost themes
Handlebars themes built to your brand — no bloated marketplace template.
Built for publishing
A distraction-free editor your writers will actually enjoy, with drafts that publish fast.
Memberships & subscriptions
Paid tiers, free/paid content gating and member management built in natively.
Newsletter built in
Ghost's native email newsletter sends straight from your published posts — no separate tool needed.
Sub-second performance
Minimal, static-like output with none of the plugin bloat that slows most blogging platforms down.
Migrations from WordPress/Substack
Content, subscribers and SEO redirects moved cleanly onto Ghost.
Built on the platform you prefer.
Clean, fast websites on Wix, Squarespace, Webflow or a headless CMS — designed to your brand and easy for your team to run.
- Built on your platform of choice, done properly
- Fast, responsive and SEO-ready from day one
- Your team trained to update it without us
The team serious brands pick for ghost.
We deliver ghost as part of one accountable in-house team — designers, developers and marketers in the same room — across the USA, UK, Canada, UAE, Australia and India. Fixed prices agreed in writing, and you own everything we produce.
Fixed quotes, kept promises
The price you approve is the price you pay — scope changes are agreed in writing before they cost anything.
Senior engineers only
No juniors learning on your budget. The people who quote your project build it.
90+ PageSpeed as standard
Performance budgets are in the contract, not the sales pitch.
You own everything
Code, repos, accounts, designs — full IP assignment from day one.
Weekly clickable demos
See real progress every week; steer while steering is cheap.
A team, not a ticket queue
Named engineers and one point of contact for the whole project — not a different freelancer every sprint.
Trusted by teams across six markets
Why ghost is one of the smartest investments you’ll make.
Not a cost to minimise — money that comes back, in ways you can point to a year from now.
Lower running costs
Clean, update-safe code and right-sized hosting mean fewer emergency fixes and smaller bills for years, not just at launch.
Built to be found
SEO foundations from the first commit mean the site starts earning organic traffic instead of paying for every visitor.
Grows without a rebuild
Architecture chosen for where you're headed, not just where you are — so success doesn't force a rewrite in year two.
Your team can run it
A CMS or admin your people actually understand cuts your dependency on a developer for every small change.
Fixed price protects your budget
The quote you approve is the price you pay — no scope creep eating a budget you'd earmarked elsewhere.
You own the asset outright
Full IP assignment means the site is a business asset on your books, not something you rent from an agency.
How we deliver ghost — step by step.
Discover & plan
We dig into your goals, market and competitors, then agree scope, timeline and success metrics before any code is written.
Design & prototype
Wireframes become polished, on-brand designs you approve up front — no surprises at launch.
Build & test
Senior engineers build in weekly sprints with previews you can click, plus QA across devices and browsers.
Launch & grow
We deploy, monitor and hand over cleanly — then keep optimising with data from real users.
The stack behind our ghost.
Proven, boring-in-a-good-way technology — chosen for speed, security and long-term maintainability, not résumé décor.
GhostCore publishing platform
Node.jsUnderlying runtime
StripePaid memberships
MySQLDatabaseGhost packages & pricing.
Fixed quotes, no hourly surprises — these are honest starting points; your exact quote is itemised free within one business day.
Starter
A publication, live fast
- Custom Ghost theme (Handlebars)
- Up to 6 pages/templates
- Newsletter setup & branding
- Core SEO foundations
- Editor training
- 30-day post-launch support
Growth
Memberships & subscriptions
- Paid membership tiers
- Content gating (free/paid)
- Stripe billing integration
- Migration from WordPress/Substack
- Speed & SEO configuration
- 90-day support
Scale
Multi-tier publications
- Complex membership tiers
- Custom routing & dynamic pages
- Ghost Admin/Content API integration
- Subscriber import & management
- Architecture documentation
- SLA-backed support options
Prices are honest starting points for typical scope — complex projects are quoted precisely, and the quote is always free.
What lands in your hands.
- Custom Ghost theme (Handlebars)
- Membership & subscription tiers
- Newsletter setup & branding
- Content migration (where needed)
- Speed & SEO configuration
- Editor training session
Don’t see something you need on this list? Ask — we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s in scope, and quote it if it is.
Signed into every ghost engagement.
Fixed quote, no surprises
The approved price is the final price for the agreed scope.
On-time delivery
A dated sprint plan on day one — and we keep it.
30-day post-launch support
Bugs and tweaks after launch are on us, not on a new invoice.
Your IP, fully assigned
Everything we make for you belongs to you. In writing.
Ghost insights, free to steal.
The same thinking we bill for, written up properly — guides our clients read before (and after) hiring us.
12 things we do inside this service.
Not a menu of upsells — this is the scope we work within. If what you need is on this list, it’s in the quote. If it isn’t, ask and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right people.
CMS Development — the full scope.
Every capability below is work we do in-house. Nothing is subcontracted, and nothing is a placeholder for a conversation about scope later.
- In-house team only
- One accountable contact
- 12 capabilities, quoted upfront
Ghost development
Custom Handlebars themes and integrations for a CMS built around publishing.
What that covers
- Custom Ghost theme development (Handlebars)
- Ghost Admin & Content API integration
- Custom routing & dynamic pages
- Ghost(Pro) & self-hosted setup
- Speed & Core Web Vitals tuning
- Migration from WordPress or Substack
Publishing, memberships & newsletters
The subscription and email tooling Ghost builds in natively.
What that covers
- Paid membership tier setup
- Native newsletter configuration
- Content gating (free vs paid)
- Subscriber import & management
- Stripe billing integration
- SEO & structured data for articles
Often combined with
These sit in the same discipline and are usually scoped together — one team, one timeline, one invoice.
Your ghost project, stage by stage.
Most agency process diagrams describe the agency. This one describes what lands in your inbox — because that’s the part you can hold us to.
Discovery & architecture
Before anything is designed, we work out what the thing has to do, what it has to talk to, and what would make it fail.
- Audit of the existing site, data and integrations
- Data model and API contracts agreed in writing
- Technical decisions documented with the reasoning, not just the choice
- Scope written down and priced — fixed before work starts
Design & prototype
Something clickable before anything is built, because changing a prototype costs hours and changing a build costs weeks.
- Wireframes for the flows that carry the most traffic
- High-fidelity design in Figma, on-brand and responsive
- Component library so later pages stay consistent
- Accessibility checked at design stage (WCAG 2.2 AA), not retrofitted
Build
Work ships to a staging link continuously, so you're never waiting until the end to see progress.
- Staging environment live from week one
- TypeScript end to end — type errors caught before they ship
- Version control with reviewable history
- Weekly progress you can look at, not a status email
Testing & review
The stage most agencies compress. We test on real devices and fix what we find before you see it.
- Cross-browser and real-device testing, not just a desktop resize
- Performance measured against Core Web Vitals thresholds
- Accessibility audit — keyboard, screen reader, contrast
- Forms, payments and integrations tested end to end
Launch
Planned rather than hoped. Redirects mapped first, because a launch that loses rankings costs more than it delivered.
- 301 redirect map from every old URL
- DNS, SSL and email deliverability verified before cutover
- Analytics and Search Console configured and confirmed reporting
- Rollback plan agreed in advance
After launch
Thirty days of fixes at no charge, then whatever ongoing support genuinely suits you — or none.
- 30 days of post-launch fixes included
- Handover session, plus documentation you keep
- All accounts, code and assets transferred to you
- Optional retainer — no lock-in, 30 days' notice
Ghost questions, answered.
Straight answers, no fine print. If yours isn't here, ask us — we reply within one business day.
Still have questions?
Real humans, one business day.
- No-obligation, fixed quote — free
- Talk to the team who'll build it
- Reply within one business day
Ghost is built specifically for publishing — faster by default, a cleaner editor, and native memberships and newsletter sending. WordPress wins on plugin ecosystem breadth if you need a lot of non-publishing functionality. We're honest about the trade-off either way.
Often paired with ghost.
Ready to talk ghost?
Let's build it together.
Tell us where you are and where you want to be — we'll map the route and quote it, free.
