For agencies and freelancers
Your Tuesday stops being other people's opening hours.
Give clients room to update. Keep the safeguards you are responsible for.
Clients get to change their own facts and ask for real work — a section, a programme, a rewrite — on the site you built. You keep the credentials, the implementation, the design decisions and the relationship. What you stop doing is retyping a sentence for eighty dollars.
Partner pricing · client-paid or agency-paid · no white-label required
Read this before the pitch
What leaves
The low-margin ticket. Hours, a price, a photo, a date, a staff name, a typo. Work that is underpriced at any price, and the reason maintenance retainers feel like a favour to one side and a tax to the other.
What stays yours
Design and implementation. The credentials. The Charter. Anything structural. New sections and new pages. The Blueprints you write for recurring work — they remain agency assets even if the client's subscription moves.
What becomes sellable
Oversight, with something to show for it: bounds you set, a history you can read, restore you can perform, approval on anything sensitive. Whether that is easier to sell than a typing retainer is your judgement to make, not our claim.
Evidence, honestly
Rather than a wall of logos: pick one of your own clients, and we will walk you through the same site connected, bounded and handed over — the Charter we would write, the changes their staff would make unaided, and what the audit trail looks like a month in. We will also put you on a call with a studio already running it.
We say the same thing on the owner-facing page as here: the cost is the loop, not the person at either end of it. Your client can read that page and will not find you accused in it.
Check the owner pageYour control surface
Where a client has several hands, someone has to say which hand does what.
This matters least for a one-person business and most for a clinic with a receptionist, a franchise with fifty managers, or an association with volunteers. Paths, named operations, roles, and what needs your approval — written in language the client can read, because they see it in the panel. It takes about ten minutes and you rarely open it again.
Anything outside it is not refused into silence. The request is routed to you with the change already drafted, so approving it is one read and one click.
| Text, hours, dates, photos | /src/pages/*.jsx · content only | Owner may |
|---|---|---|
| Exhibition entries and artist blurbs | /src/data/exhibitions.json | Owner may |
| Prices and contract wording | /src/pages/gastutstallare.jsx | Your approval |
| Navigation, layout, components | /src/components/** · denied | You only |
| Deploy, DNS, dependencies | outside all named operations | Never |
Across the portfolio
Every client change, on one page, with the way back beside it.
| Site | Last change | By | Restore | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| konstartgalleri.se | Opening hours 11–18, 14–23 Aug | Jan Ö. | Files + deploy | Verified 2h |
| konstartgalleri.se | Weekly price 2 000 → 1 500 kr | Jan Ö. · requested | Files + deploy | Approve |
| tandlakarnorr.se | Closed 21–25 July notice removed | Receptionen | Files only | Verified 1d |
| bageriet-lundby.se | Lunch menu, week 34 | Studio · run 12 | Files, no DB | Needs review |
| stenungsundsteater.se | Autumn programme, 9 dates | Studio · approved | Files + DB | Verified 3d |
Restore coverage, per connection
You are the one who gets called at eleven. So here is what we can actually put back.
Undo is offered only where the connection has a verified return path, and the coverage is stated before publishing rather than explained afterwards. Where the database is not covered, operations that would need it are not offered at all.
| Connection | Files | Database | Cache flush |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connector plugin | Covered | Covered | Yes |
| SFTP / SSH, static | Covered | Not applicable | Deploy hook |
| WordPress REST only | Covered | Files only | With the plugin |
| Generic path | Best effort | No | No |
On REST-only connections the panel says which parts of a change are restorable before it is published. Installing the connector closes that gap, and it is the fastest thing you can do for a client site.
Terms an agency asks about first
Are you taking my client?
No, and the structure is the answer rather than the promise. The workspace belongs to the site. You can hold the subscription and bill it on, or the client can pay us directly after your introduction and you take a recurring share. Either way you appear in the product as the responsible party, and your Blueprints stay yours.
What if we part ways?
The client keeps their site and their history; you keep your Blueprints. If you deactivate a site the service pauses rather than deleting anything, and the client can take over the subscription. Nobody is held in place by the tool — which is the only version of this that a client should accept.
Blueprints for recurring work
A menu, a programme, an exhibition list, a property sheet: define the fields, which of them are facts, the layout contracts and the approval rule once, then instantiate it per client. Owned by whoever wrote it. Shared by permission, not by copy.
Where it will disappoint you
WordPress and static sites are first class. Wix, Squarespace and Shopify are not, and we are not pretending otherwise — a locked platform gets the generic path, which is best effort, write-limited and always backed up first. We are also not a redesign, a CMS replacement or 24/7 phone support. Better you read that here than discover it in month two.
Start with the client who sends you the most one-line emails.
DESIGN PARTNER COHORT · 2026