THE GOLDEN THREADJeannie Duarte

A clear voice in a loud world.

I design and build the things a business runs on — the site, the systems underneath it, and the applications that make it work. The sign, the site, and the system, from one hand.

§ The short version

What I build.

Nobody stumbles onto your website anymore. Every visitor was sent — by a friend, a past customer, a truck they saw on the highway, or an assistant they asked. So the site has two jobs: be the complete, accurate record of what you do, and make sure that arrival becomes a conversation instead of a dead end.

The site

Fast, accessible, honestly findable, and legally covered — the same floor on every project, never sold back to you as an upgrade.

The systems

The data and architecture underneath: logins, bookings, live information, integrations that don’t fall over.

The service layer

The part that answers at 9 p.m. — follow-up, booking, and questions handled when you’re not there.

How it runs.

In turns, not a straight line — each one wider than the last, built on what the one before it settled.

The Nautilus Method, shown as a diagram of three movements: I. Orientation, II. Deepening, III. Expression.
The Nautilus Method, shown as a diagram of three movements: I. Orientation, II. Deepening, III. Expression.

It has a name and its own page — The Nautilus Method — and it’s a short read.

§ What it costs

Step one is $1,500. Every build starts there.

A finished site is quoted, not menu-priced — the honest number depends on what your business actually needs, and I don’t guess in public. So this page carries the only price you need on day one: the Concept Sprint.

It’s a working session, not a pitch. We put in writing what the site is actually for, I build a live concept you can click — not a mood board — and you leave with a fixed quote for the build. Nothing about the engagement is a surprise after that, because all of it is written down before you sign anything.

And whatever we build after that stands on the same foundation — speed, accessibility, security, legal basics, email that arrives, forms that reach you. Included with every site. Never a line item, never an upsell.

How pricing works — tiers, packages, consulting, care →

Not everything is a build. Audits, rescues, and second opinions on a site you already have run as consulting.

§ The proof

Thirty years, one line of work.

A case-management system I wrote has been in production since 2004. A cloud platform I built reaches foster families by text message every day. I carried a multi-tenant assessment platform through its entire lifecycle — including the wind-down, run with the same rigor as the launch.

Everything I do to make you easier to find is something I’d be comfortable explaining to your customers.

None of that is rounded up, and where I couldn’t verify a number about my own work, I took it off the page. The practice →

§ Start here

The first conversation is a conversation.

Not a pitch deck, not a proposal you have to decode. We talk about what you’re actually trying to decide, and whether I’m the right person for it — which sometimes I’m not, and I’ll tell you that too.

Start a conversation →