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A small studio that takes the work other people have already given up on

Clownmind is a product and commerce engineering studio in Delhi. Senior-only delivery, written plans, code you own outright, and a strong preference for telling clients the inconvenient version.

  • Delhi
  • Senior-only delivery
  • You own the code
Why we exist

Most agency failures are honesty failures, not skill failures

We started Clownmind after watching the same project fail twice at two different agencies. Neither team lacked talent. Both had sold a scope nobody believed in, and both discovered the real problem in month four with no budget left to solve it.

So we built the studio around the opposite instinct. We charge for the assessment, we write the plan down, and we say when something should not be built. Roughly one client in five takes the framing document and does the work in-house. That is a good outcome, and it is the reason the other four trust the recommendation.

We stay deliberately small. There is a ceiling on how many projects run at once, because the thing clients actually buy is the attention of senior people, and that does not scale by hiring quickly.

Clownmind brand illustration: the studio mark surrounded by orbiting network nodes
How we operate

Six things we will not trade away

These are not values on a wall. Each one has cost us a project at least once.

We write the plan down

Every engagement produces a document a competitor could execute from. If our value depended on withholding information, it would not be worth much.

The people who pitch are the people who build

No second bench. The engineer in the framing week is the engineer writing the code in week nine, and they stay through launch.

We argue about scope early

Talking a client out of work is uncomfortable and occasionally expensive. It is also the fastest way to earn a second project.

Everything is handover-shaped

Your repository, your cloud accounts, your infrastructure. Documentation written as though we are leaving, because eventually we are.

Performance is a contract, not an aspiration

Budgets for page weight and interaction latency, enforced in CI. A pull request that breaks them fails, including ours.

You get told bad news early

Slippage surfaces in the week it happens, with options attached. Nobody has ever been happier to hear it a month later.

Studios

Three locations, one standard

Same pay bands, same review process, same right to say no to a piece of work. Every project runs with at least four hours of overlap with the client's day.

DelhiIndia

Head office — strategy, engineering and delivery

What working with us is like

  • A shared Slack channel, not a ticket queue.
  • A preview URL from day three of the build.
  • Two-week increments with something real at the end of each.
  • Written decisions, so nobody relies on remembering a call.
  • Direct access to the engineers, not through an account manager.
  • Bad news the week it happens, with options attached.
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How we work

Four steps, and you can stop after any one

Each step gives you something you own. Nothing is held back to make you pay for the next bit.

  1. 01

    Framing week

    A paid week where we map the constraints, the existing systems and what success has to look like in numbers. You keep the output whether or not we continue.

  2. 02

    Architecture & plan

    A written technical plan with the trade-offs made explicit, a milestone schedule, and a fixed budget band for the first release.

  3. 03

    Build in the open

    Two-week increments, a preview URL from day three, and a Slack channel where your team can see the work rather than wait for a demo.

  4. 04

    Launch & operate

    Load testing, runbooks and monitoring before go-live, then a support window while your team takes the wheel — or a retainer if you would rather we kept it.

Packages

Our Website Development Packages

Fixed-price builds for the websites businesses ask us for most — from a four-page static site to a fully custom Laravel store. Each package spells out what is included, links to live sites we have built at that level and demos you can click through, so you know exactly what you are paying for before work starts.

5-8 Pages

WordPress Dynamic Website

₹25,000+18% GST

Demo links

  • Normal theme
  • Up to 4 banners on the home page
  • Dynamic website
  • Up to 8 pages
  • Query form with 4 fields
  • Social media page linking
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10 Pages

Dynamic Website

₹40,000+18% GST

Demo links

  • Technology: HTML5, CSS3, Laravel, MySQL
  • Responsive design for mobile
  • Normal theme
  • Up to 4 banners on the home page
  • Dynamic website
  • Up to 10 pages
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15 Pages

Professional Website

₹49,999+18% GST

Demo links

  • Technology: HTML5, CSS3, Laravel, MySQL
  • Responsive design for mobile
  • Visually appealing theme
  • Up to 4 banners on the home page
  • Dynamic or static website
  • 15 pages
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Prices are in Indian rupees and exclude 18% GST. Domain, hosting, paid themes, plugins and app subscriptions are billed at cost. Somewhere between two packages, or need something that is not listed? Ask for a quote — it usually takes one call.

Come and argue with us about your architecture

Bring the version with the embarrassing parts. That is the one worth talking about.