You keep what gets built
Hosting and service accounts go in your name wherever it is practical, and you receive the project files and everything the agreement lists. If you ever move the work elsewhere, nothing has been set up to make that painful.
About House of Crimson
Who you’re actually hiring.
The House of Crimson LLC is one person and a registered company, based in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and working remotely with customers across the United States. No account managers, no handoffs to a team you never meet.
The founder
The person you speak with is the person doing the work.
I am Isaiah Ratliff, and House of Crimson is me. I build websites and custom software for small businesses, and I pick up projects that stalled, including the growing number that started as a prompt and ran out of road.
If you send an inquiry, I read it. If we agree on the work, I do it. If something breaks afterward, you are writing to the person who wrote the thing that broke. That is unusual enough now that it is worth saying plainly.
I choose technology to suit the job, explain what changed in language you can repeat to someone else, and try to leave every project in a state where somebody other than me could pick it up. Ongoing support is available afterward, with its own agreed scope.
What this means for you
Four things you can hold us to.
These are not values on a wall. Each one shows up in the written scope of every project.
Repair before rebuild
If what you already have can be saved, we say so, even when rebuilding it would be the easier sell. A rebuild is a recommendation you get a reason for, never the default answer.
AI-assisted code is just code
We build with these tools too. How a project started makes no difference to how it gets reviewed, and nobody here is going to make you feel foolish for reaching the end of what prompting could do.
A scope you can actually read
Price, what you receive, what is excluded, the access needed, payment terms, and the expected schedule. Written in plain language and agreed before any work begins.
Where the work happens
Based in Cape Girardeau. Small on purpose.
A one-person shop cannot take on everything, and that is the trade. What it can do is give a project undivided attention and say no when no is the right answer. If your work needs a department, you will hear that. If it needs someone who will read your code before quoting you, this is that.
Start here
What do you need looked at?
Send the idea, the problem, the half-finished project, or the site that needs looking after. You get questions or a next step back.