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Fixing the $10/Hour Agency Trap: How Automation Protects Your Margins
You quote 100 hours at $10,000, which puts you at $100/hour on paper. That’s good business, so you send the proposal feeling pretty smart about it.
Vito Peleg
10 min read
Why Small Web Agencies Can’t Afford to Hire for SEO, QA and Reporting
Most people ask AI to build something. Vito Peleg shares three better first prompts for client work — brand kits, SOPs and honest brand audits.
Vito
5 min read
7 Years Ago I Was Stealing McDonald’s WiFi. Today We Turn the Page to Year Eight.
Years ago, I was parked outside a McDonalds somewhere in Europe, stealing their WiFi to build a website for a client between gigs. I had maybe
Vito Peleg
8 min read
Beyond the Build: How Agencies Can Win the Next Era of High-Converting Websites
As the industry gathers around events like Web Summit, one thing is becoming clear: the way agencies build websites is changing faster than most operating models
Ryan Barnes
7 min read
Why Agencies Lack Visibility Into Client Sites And How to Fix It
When something breaks on your client’s site, the first question you ask is “How did this happen?” More often than not, this question goes unanswered. This
Ryan Barnes
7 min read
Context Engineering for Agencies — How to Get Real Value from Every AI Tool You Use
“AI doesn’t really work. What do we do with that? Because people say, ‘Well, over time it’ll get better.’ All right — but you’re building a
Ryan Barnes
7 min read
Web Agency Summit 2026: Tickets Are Now Open
Registration for the 2026 Summit is live. April 27–30, online, free. If You Were at the Last One, You Already Know… Last year’s summit drew thousands
Ryan Barnes
2 min read
The “Messy Desk” Update: Feb 25 Release Notes
We just fixed the biggest disconnect in the design process: the gap between the messy workshop where you create, and the clean room where you get
Ryan Barnes
4 min read
Figma, AI Vision & The Big Spring Clean: Feb 11 Release Notes
We’ve kept our heads down for the last few weeks, but for good reason. While the rest of the world was recovering from January, our engineering
Ryan Barnes
5 min read
What is Vibe Coding? The Comprehensive Guide to AI-Native Development
For the last fifty years, learning to code meant learning to think like a machine. It demanded that you memorize rigid syntax, manage memory allocation, and
Ryan Barnes
8 min read
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