Our work

What we built, and what an agency would charge for it.

Every project here is live and running a real business. We counted what’s inside each one, priced it at typical agency rates, and put it next to how long it actually took us.

Typical agency estimate for the same work$4.4M to $7.1Mabout 35,000 agency hours. We built it in 100 days.
Screens670
Automations built147
Integrations54
Lines of code1,025,502

Counted from 7 real codebases. We use the lower, conservative estimate and published 2026 US agency rates. How we counted.

Why we’re faster

Why it ships faster and costs less.

A senior lead plus an AI-powered workflow replaces the layers that make agency work slow and expensive. You get more custom software, sooner, for less of your budget.

Traditional agencyFrangoules
TimelineThree to nine months for a business web app, after weeks of sales and scoping.Working software in days, launches in weeks. A preview link you can click from week one.
Who you work withA salesperson, then a project manager, then whoever is free on the dev team.One senior lead from the first call to launch, with an AI-powered build workflow behind them.
What you pay forHours, layers and overhead: account management, handoffs, meetings about meetings.Outcomes. Fewer layers means more of your budget turns into working software.
How custom it isOften a template or platform, bent to fit your business.Built around how your business actually runs, by someone who runs businesses on it.
After launchA ticket queue and a new person who has never seen your code.The same lead, monthly improvements and 30 days of free fixes after launch.
“I paid an agency over $12,000 for a website. Then I started building our own: faster, fully custom and built around how we actually work. That is why this company exists.”
Austin Frangoules, founder

Project by project

What each build would have cost.

Real counts from the code behind each project, next to what a traditional agency would typically quote and how long it would take.

East Coast Mortgage live site

East Coast Mortgage

Live
Screens
92
Server functions
99
Data tables
154
Automations
33
Integrations
9
Lines of code
199,522
Typical agency53 to 74 weeks
FrangoulesRebuilt in 100 days

Typical agency estimate $730K to $1.2M

Started from an early prototype in 2025. About 82% of today’s portal code was written in the rebuild.

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Try the loan finder quiz or a calculator. The loan officer portal, AI assistant included, is private; the case study shows it.

Hoaly live site

Hoaly

Invite-only beta
Screens
117
Server functions
32
Data tables
97
Automations
28
Integrations
8
Lines of code
34,080
Typical agency49 to 69 weeks
FrangoulesBuilt in 23 days

Typical agency estimate $670K to $1.1M

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Open the sample association at hoaly.app/demo, no sign-up needed.

frangoules.com

Live
Screens
26
Server functions
43
Data tables
0
Automations
7
Integrations
3
Lines of code
34,833
Typical agency17 to 24 weeks
FrangoulesBuilt in 23 days

Typical agency estimate $200K to $320K

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The build log

80 things we’ve built and run.

Apps, sites, portals, AI and the automations behind them, across a mortgage company, a rental company and products of our own.

How we counted

The method, in short

We counted what exists in our own code: screens people use, server functions, database tables, scheduled automations and third-party services wired in. Tests, generated files and outside libraries are left out.

Then we priced it the way agencies estimate work: about 24 hours per screen, 10 per server function, 4 per data table, 12 per automation and 32 per integration, plus 30% for project management, design and testing. To stay conservative, small database functions are not counted as server functions. The total is multiplied by $125 to $200 an hour, in line with published 2026 US rates for mid-level to senior developers. Timelines assume a four-person team with 30 productive hours each per week, plus four weeks of sales and scoping.

Our time is calendar days from the first line of code. East Coast Mortgage started from an early prototype in 2025, so we count from its rebuild in July 2026. Livelihood is still in invite-only beta, so its time runs to the date of the count.

These are estimates of what a typical agency would quote, not quotes we received. Every project is different, and your real number comes after the consultation.

Rate and cost benchmarks: Keyhole Software, SolGuruz, SAM Solutions.

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