What was going wrong
A motion-design studio is judged on how its work looks the moment it loads. The studio needed a portfolio that did the reels justice: fast, clean, and theirs. Not a rented template on someone else's account that they would have to move off later.
What I did
A build, then a handoff. I designed and built the site to show the motion work at full quality, then handed over the running site: the hosting and the database sit on the studio's own accounts from day one.
No retainer, and no monthly tether to me. The code lives in my GitHub, and I still ship the occasional security fix when one is due.
What changed
Delivered, and live as the studio's public portfolio, on hosting the client owns.
This is the clean version of a project: build it well, hand it over, and leave the client independent. Not every engagement should turn into a retainer, and this one was right to end at the handoff.
What's next
Nothing planned. The client runs it, and I step in only when a security fix is due. If you want a site built well and then handed to you, that is a shape I am happy to work in. Tell me what you need.
