A one-person studio in New Zealand building the technical work small teams can't staff for.
I build websites consider it handld.
Remote · nationwide
Fixed price · quoted up front
One person.
The whole stack.
Handld is a one-person studio in New Zealand. I came up through contract work — placed with businesses that needed the technical thing done and done fast — and started Handld to do it directly, without the agency markup.
Most small businesses can't justify hiring a developer, an automation specialist and an AI person. So they don't, and the work doesn't get done. I'm all three, on one invoice, for the length of one project. When it's built, it's yours — documented, explained, and running.
Whatever the job needs.
I build the technical things small businesses can't hire a whole team for. One person, the whole stack — from the website out front to the automations behind it.
The tools you already pay for.
If it has an API, it can be joined up. If it doesn't, there's usually still a way.
Stop after two.
You'll know the price and the timeline before you commit to anything. The first two steps cost you nothing but the time on the call.
Twenty minutes, free
Tell me what's eating your time. If it's not worth building, I'll say so.
I write the plan down
Plain English: what gets built, what it costs, how long it takes.
Days, not months
Tested against your real data. Nothing goes live until you've watched it work.
It runs, I keep it running
Systems change and businesses grow. I fix things before you notice them.
In hours.
A few of the jobs I've delivered. Names withheld where clients preferred it.
Quote to invoice for a trades business — one entry now carries all the way through.
Supplier invoices in thirty formats, read and posted automatically. Humans check exceptions only.
Website enquiries used to sit for days. Now qualified, assigned and answered in minutes.
Tell me what's
eating your week.