First Form Studio
$250 archetype site
Pick a finished site
One of the 22 finished sites, set up with your business’s name, words and photos.
- A complete one-page site
- Works on phones and desktops
- You own the site and the code
Alcor Industries · Austin, Texas
Websites for small businesses, done properly.
Pick one of our 22 finished sites and we'll set it up with your name, words and photos for $250. Or have us build yours from scratch. Either way you deal with the developer, and you see a written price before any work starts.
- Written price first
- You own the site and code
- No sales call needed
Archetypes · 22 finished sites
Pick a finished site. We make it yours for $250.
Each one is a complete one-page site for a made-up business, with its own look, type and motion. Choose the one closest to yours and we swap in your name, words and photos. Want your own logo and colors on it? That starts at $500.
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First Form Studio
Beginner ceramics studio
Client work
Keith Electric Company, Floresville.
A full WordPress site for a working electrical contractor. It covers their residential, commercial and industrial work, the area they serve and a gallery of jobs, and it has a work-order form that sends each request straight to the team.
- Work-order form with a requested date and time
- Tap-to-call on every screen
- Services, service area and gallery pages
- Their site and code, owned by them
keithelectriccompany.com
Prices
What it costs.
These are starting prices. Your written quote has the exact number, and nothing starts until you've agreed to it.
Ready-made One of our 22 finished sites
from $500 custom brand
Make one your own
An archetype’s layout and motion, redrawn around your logo, colors and type.
- Built around your logo and colors
- Priced on how much changes
- Same written-quote rule
Built from scratch Designed around your business
from $1k landing page
Base Package
For one offer or launch that needs a page of its own.
- One page designed to get calls or form fills
- Looks right on phones and desktops
- Analytics set up and ready to go live
from $5k core site + shop or intake
Silver Package
When one page isn’t enough.
- The main pages your customers look for
- A section you update yourself, like a project gallery or service list
- A shop, or a form that collects job requests
from $10k full content system
Gold Package
For a business with a lot to publish, where each service or product needs its own kind of page.
- Help choosing your brand’s colors and type
- Several custom sections you manage from the WordPress admin
- Pages that lay themselves out when you add a new service or product
from $2k
from $2k
AlcorWordPress
You’ve installed three plugins and none of them quite does the job. We write the one that does: an admin screen, a form, or a link to software you already use.
Ask about a plugin →from $200
Custom QR design
A QR code built around your logo and colors. Rather make it yourself? AlcorQR is free, below.
Ask about QR design →Our apps
We make our own software, too.
They run in your browser and your files stay on your device. Open one below, or use the desktop to try a few side by side.
Try three apps live on one page →
Free photo editor
AlcorPhoto
Layers, masks and adjustment layers, brushes, selections, filters, healing and free transform, with a full undo history. Open PSD files and export PNG, JPEG, WebP or SVG. Your images stay on your device, with no account.
Open the editor →About AlcorPhoto →
Free video editor
AlcorVideo
Edit on up to 12 video and 12 audio tracks with ripple, roll, slip and slide trims, keyframes, color grading with curves and LUTs, transitions and titles, then export MP4 or WebM. Your footage stays on your device.
Open the editor →About AlcorVideo →
Free music sketchpad
AlcorMusic
Write notes on a piano roll, check them on the score and play them back. When the idea's done, export MIDI, MusicXML or WAV.
Open the sketchpad →About AlcorMusic →
QR code designer
AlcorQR
Put your logo in the middle, pick the colors and the shape of the dots, and export PNG up to 4096px or SVG. The link or text you encode isn't sent anywhere.
Open the designer →About AlcorQR →
Money calculators
AlcorFinance
See what a sum could grow to in different assets, work out a loan payment with its full schedule, or find your break-even point. Share a scenario by link or download it as a CSV.
Open the calculators →
Conversation translator
AlcorTranslate
Two people type, or talk if the browser supports it, and each reads the other side in their own language. Translation happens on your computer, so your words aren't sent to us. It needs Chrome 138 or later on a desktop.
Open the translator →About AlcorTranslate →
Free CSV comparison
AlcorReconcile
Line up two CSV exports, like invoices and payments, and see what matches, what's different and what's missing. The files never leave your computer.
Open AlcorReconcile →
Public demo
AlcorERP
The AlcorERP demo lets you click through customers, orders, projects, inventory and accounting for a sample company. It's read-only, and there's no customer data in it.
Open the demo →The desktop
Or try a few side by side.
This is AlcorOS, the desktop we built to run our apps together. Pick one from the dock. Photo and Video open as the full editors.
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Pick an app from the dock.
Photo and Video open as the full editors. The others open with a short overview and a link to the app.
Everything runs in your browser. No account needed.
Choose Explore the desktop to start.
Who it's for
Not sure you need custom work?
These are the jobs we get asked about most. Each page shows what we’d build for that kind of business.
Small businessIf you retype the same customer details into three places every week, that's a job for software.
Professional servicesFor firms that collect client documents and answer status questions by email all day.
OperationsWhen orders or jobs live in a shared spreadsheet and one wrong edit breaks the formulas.
Growing companiesYou need an internal tool or a customer portal before you're ready to hire an engineer for it.
AI infrastructurePrivate AI setups that run on hardware you control.
About
A small shop. You talk to the person building it.
Alcor Industries is a software shop in Austin, Texas. We build WordPress sites, write plugins when the ready-made ones don’t fit, and make the apps above.
There’s no account manager in between. The person who quotes your job is the person who builds it, and the site and code belong to you when it’s done.
- 22finished sites, ready for your business
- 8of our own apps, free in your browser
- 1person to talk to, start to finish
The name comes from Alcor, the faint star beside Mizar in the handle of the Big Dipper. People once used it to test their eyesight.
How it works
How a project goes.
- Tell us what you needUse the form below or email alcor@alcor-industries.com. Say what the site should do and roughly when you need it.
- Get a written quoteOnce we understand the job, we send a written quote with the price and what’s included. No custom work starts before you have it.
- We build itWe build what the quote describes and let you know when it’s ready.
Common questions
Who builds my site?
You work directly with the developer building it, at Alcor Industries in Austin, Texas.
How much does it cost?
Landing pages start at $1,000, a core site with a shop or intake form at $5,000, and a full content system at $10,000. Online store work and custom plugins start at $2,000, and a custom QR design at $200. You get a written quote before any custom work starts.
Do I own what you build?
Yes. The code, plugin and site we deliver for your project belong to you.
I'm not technical. Is that a problem?
No. Describe what you need in your own words, and we'll ask about anything technical that affects the quote.
Can I see your work first?
Yes. Each of the 22 archetypes is a finished site you can click through, and the apps on this page run in your browser.
Can I use AlcorPhoto and AlcorVideo for paid work?
Yes. Both are free, including commercial use of what you make, and neither needs an account.
Get a quote
Tell us about the job.
A sentence or two is enough. Tell us what the site or tool should do and add a rough budget if you have one.
You can also email alcor@alcor-industries.com or call (830) 534-4148.