Editions
Three editions.
One standard.
Pick the one that fits the brief, or leave it to us at intake. The edition sets scope and pace. It never sets the level of care.
Edition 01
Launchpad
$4,950 AUD ex-GST · two weeks
Five custom pages, every word written in your voice, and a design system of your own. Whatever the brief needs, within reason, is accommodated at this price.
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Edition 02
SignatureMost commissions
$12,500 AUD ex-GST · three weeks
Up to twelve pages, every word written in your voice, editorial imagery briefed and graded. The full studio, start to launch.
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Edition 03
Flagship
From $25,000 AUD · scoped at intake
Commerce at scale, multilingual, software, or a brand built from zero. The band moves on scope. The quality does not.
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Smaller than Launchpad, or a brief that fits none of these? Send it anyway and say so. Some of the best commissions started as one page, and if the studio is genuinely the wrong home for it we will say so quickly and point you somewhere better.
Who we work with
We are a fit if
A fit
- Fit: You have a brand (even a rough one) and a clear offer
- Fit: You care how the site looks, and how it reads
- Fit: You want one person who will handle everything personally
- Fit: You've looked at the work and it resonates
- Fit: You're replacing a site that's holding your brand back
- Fit: You can commit one decision-maker for the whole process
- Fit: You're based in Australia (preferred) or have an AU presence
Not a fit
- Not a fit: You need the site tomorrow
- Not a fit: The decision requires a committee of six
- Not a fit: You need paid media, Google Ads, or social media management
- Not a fit: You need ongoing content or SEO article writing
Before you spend a cent, we design your first room: a real page for your brand, built from your brief.
No speculative pitch · no proposal theatre
The process
Simple. Deliberate.
You fill in the intake
Five fields. Three minutes. Tells us enough to decide if the brief is right and which edition fits.
We read it and respond
Within two Melbourne working days. An honest yes with next steps, or an honest note that we are not the right fit.
We design your first room
Before you spend a cent, a real page for your brand, built from your brief. You react to something real instead of a proposal document.
Proposal within 48 hours
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline. One page, settled in writing. You sign or you don't. No negotiation, no drama.
The edition's timeline to launch
Two weeks for Launchpad, three for Signature, six to ten for Flagship. Discovery, design, copy, build, QA, DNS cutover, handover. In that order. On the timeline you picked.
Shipped this quarter
What a commission
looks like finished.
Also from the atelier
Some briefs are products,
not pages.
Native apps, web applications, commerce platforms, the internal tool a business actually runs on. Auth, data, payments, freight, telephony, App Store submission. The same hand that designs the interface writes the backend, so there is one accountable builder rather than a studio and a dev shop blaming each other.
Commerce platform · iOS app · Trade portal
Marmoré
A tile studio that runs on its own software: faceted catalogue, visual search, an AI room designer, tile-into-room rendering, Stripe checkout with postcode freight, and a trade portal with tiered pricing. Stock reads from five supplier feeds rather than a spreadsheet, merged into one answer per SKU.
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Native iOS · Room rendering · Backend
TuttoCasa
Renders a room, then prices every product in it. Behind the render sits a pricing core that returns a costed, supplier-linked material schedule: tiles, tapware, flooring, with box and wastage maths. Brand, app and backend built in-house.
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Commerce · Brand · On-site assistant
GoBlow
A reusable metal straw brand built to sell, not just to look right: the brand, the store, the campaign system, and an on-site assistant that answers product questions and hands the hard ones to a human. Shot at festival frame rate, run like a retailer.
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Web application · Auth · Dashboard
Repstra
An AI coaching platform shipped as working SaaS: brand, marketing site, Next.js application, authentication and a coach dashboard.
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Native iOS · Web app · Telephony
BackOnTools
AI that answers the phone for trade businesses on iOS and the web, qualifying the job and booking it while they are still up a ladder.
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Native iOS · Membership backend
Vigil Guard
Residential safety as a native iOS app, with the membership backend and launch strategy behind it.
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Live supplier stock
Availability pulled straight from supplier feeds and trade portals, merged into one answer per SKU with arrival history behind it, on whatever refresh the business wants to pay for. A customer sees what can actually be delivered.
Product rendering into rooms
Photoreal placement of a real product in a real room: tile on the floor, stone on the wall, the sofa in the light it will actually sit in. Buyers decide on the room, not the swatch.
Trade portals
A private environment for wholesale buyers: login, tiered pricing, projects, quote requests and one-click re-order. Buyers order from whoever makes it easy.
Payments and freight
Stripe checkout, GST invoices, postcode freight quoting, loyalty and referrals, order history and returns. The unglamorous half that decides whether a store works.
Answering and booking
Voice AI on a real phone number, SMS confirmations, CRM and a booking engine, so enquiries are handled at 7pm on a Sunday without anyone picking up.
It talks to what you already run
ServiceM8, Stripe, Twilio, Shopify, your calendar, your CRM. A new system that ignores the ones a business already pays for is a second job, not a solution.
Accounts, loyalty and referrals
Login, order history, saved addresses, returns, points and referral links. The machinery that turns one purchase into the second and third.
Free tools that earn the lead
Eleven calculators and a document generator built for one client, so tradies arrive to work out a price and leave having found the business. Useful beats interruptive.
A page for every suburb you serve
Local pages generated from one template and real data, so a business shows up for the suburb someone actually searched rather than for its own name.
Subscriptions and in-app purchase
Recurring billing, plan gating, credits bought inside the app through the App Store. What a customer paid for is what the product unlocks, enforced server-side.
The dashboard the owner runs on
Not vanity charts. Uninvoiced work, quotes waiting on a follow-up, job pulse, break-even. The screen a business checks on a Monday morning to know where it stands.
The FORGE pipeline
Software runs through hard gates: scope, architecture, build, verification. Every release carries a note saying what changed and what to test.
Software is scoped at intake on its own cadence rather than squeezed into a three-week web launch. Name it in the brief and it gets priced properly. Everything the atelier builds →
The maker
You will be writing the brief to Luigi Turco. He does the work himself: strategy, copy, design, build.
Before you send it
The things people
worry about.
Everyone arrives with the same handful of fears, usually earned. Here is exactly how each one is handled, in writing, before you commit to anything.
“I have been burned by someone who did half a job.”
Payment is a straight half and half: half when you say go, half on delivery. Nothing is due before you have seen a designed page for your own brand and a fixed price in writing, so you decide with the work in front of you rather than a promise. Launchpad is $2,722.50 including GST each half.
“I will not know what it looks like until it is too late.”
Before you spend a cent, we design your first room: a real page for your brand, built from your brief. You react to something real rather than a proposal document, and you can walk away from it.
“The price will move once they have me.”
The proposal is fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline, on one page, within 48 hours. Fixed-price invoices, 14-day terms. If scope changes later, it is quoted and agreed before anything is built.
“I will be handed to a junior and never see the person I met.”
There is no team to be handed to. Luigi does the work himself: strategy, copy, design, build. The person who reads your brief is the person who ships the site, and the only person you ever email.
“I will be locked into whoever built it.”
The site is transferred to your workspace on launch day, with a 45-minute handover call and a written handover note. You own it. If you want someone else to touch it next year, nothing stops you.
“It will drag on for months.”
Two weeks for Launchpad, three for Signature, six to ten for Flagship. The timeline is agreed in the proposal before kickoff, and a reply to your brief lands within two Melbourne working days, either way.
Intake
Tell us about the commission.
A few taps. Tell us who you are, pick what you need, and add anything else if you like. No pitch deck, no "about your business" paragraph. We take it from there over email.
Received
Thank you. The brief is in.
We read every commission ourselves. You'll hear back within one working day, typically the same day in Melbourne hours.
Your confirmation reference:
If you'd rather not wait, email us directly at luigi@maisonturco.com