About
A studio in the craft sense. A factory in the production sense.
The market splits between cheap-and-amateur and expensive-and-slow, and the middle goes unserved almost everywhere — expert work, fairly priced, and truly owned. Devrail Studio exists to fill that middle. What follows is exactly how, and exactly what every client gets.
What makes us different
Built to a standard.
The through-line is expertise: every commitment exists to deliver a standard of work most clients have never been able to buy at a fair price.
Expert-grade quality inspection
We call it the Devrail Quality Inspection: every site is checked against a 250-checkpoint standard before it ships — covering speed, accessibility, SEO, security, privacy compliance, and ease of use. Most clients have never had their site held to a bar like this. Expertise is not a claim we make; it is a process the work passes through.
Real ownership, no lock-in
Three formats let clients choose how they want to engage. Every account — domain, workspace, hosting, analytics — is registered in the client's name from day one. We share credentials at handover; we don't transfer accounts. The client always has an exit path.
- Managed — we host and maintain, monthly retainer
- Owned — exported to the client's own GitHub and Vercel, one-time fee, clean exit
- Hybrid — we host for speed, client owns the domain (the recommended default)
Studio rigour
Every build moves through the same set of inspected steps, each with a clear bar it has to meet. Nothing moves to the next step until it's met — so nothing ships half-finished.
Built to fit the client's market
The studio builds in the payment rail, compliance regime, or language a client's market needs — only when asked. The default build is market-neutral; we never ship a payment rail, a compliance regime, or a language a client did not ask for. And the hard parts are done for real: M-Pesa via IntaSend, KDPA compliance and Swahili; so too Stripe, GDPR and EUR.
Transparent every step
Pricing is calculated from real line items, not guessed in a meeting, and shown before you commit. Preview deployments let you see and comment on the actual site as it's built.
Proof at handover
When a quote is signed, we run our inspection on your existing site and capture a baseline. At handover, we deliver the comparison — for example, Lighthouse 47 → 94, accessibility violations 31 → 0, schema coverage 0% → 100%. Concrete proof of expertise delivered, every time.
Our promises
What every client gets.
Non-negotiable. They appear in the contract, and again at handover.
- Expertise
- Every site built and inspected to a 250-checkpoint standard, by the same system every time
- Quality
- Lighthouse mobile score ≥ 80 on every site
- Accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA floor on every site
- Pricing
- Calculated from line items, shown before commit, in the client's currency
- Delivery
- A timeline scoped to the build and committed at quote — no open-ended drift
- Ownership
- Three formats; every account in the client's name
- Handover
- Structured package + signed acceptance
- Warranty
- 30-day bug-fix window after launch
- Support clarity
- Boundaries explicit at handover, no surprises
The Devrail ecosystem
A studio inside Devrail.
Devrail Studio is one studio inside Devrail — built and run by the same engineering practice, to the same standard.
That matters because the standard your site is inspected against is the same one used to build and inspect real software — not a checklist invented for marketing. The studio turns that same discipline on your website: engineering rigour, applied to the one surface most businesses settle for less on.
Want to see how we build?
The process, the content modes, and the three ways you can own your site — start to finish.