One studio for the whole job.
Websites, AI, apps and 3D, designed, built and looked after, plus everything in between. You deal with one person for all of it. Pick a service below to see exactly what is in it.
Tea Break Studio is Nick, one person, working from Beachlands in east Auckland with businesses anywhere in New Zealand. Published prices start at NZ$150, and care plans start at NZ$69 a month. All prices are in New Zealand dollars, with no GST added. Tea Break Studio is not registered for GST, so no GST is charged on any price, quote or invoice. Email nick@teabreakstudio.com or call 021 217 1760.
Eleven services. Pick one.
Each one stands on its own, and they all fit together. Pick the ones you need.
A site that explains what you do and gets people in touch.
From a single page to a full site. We write it with you, design it around the questions your customers ask, and build it to work on a phone first. You get a site you can update yourself, on a domain you own.
What is included
AI on a job you can name, not AI for the sake of it.
Everyone is being told to use AI, and almost nobody is told which part of their own work it would help. So this starts with a paid session and a written plan that names the jobs worth handing over and the ones that are not, and then we build the ones you pick. An assistant on your site that answers from your own content, AI inside a job you already do by hand, or two tools you already pay for talking to each other. The AI we have shipped so far is in our own products rather than in a client's business, and you should hear that from us before you pay for it rather than after. What we will not do is promise you a percentage saved or hours back, because nobody can know that before the work is mapped.
What is included
An app your customers or your staff actually open.
Built once, on web technology, running on both iPhone and Android from one codebase. It either installs straight to the home screen from your website, or it gets submitted as a real app to the App Store and Google Play. That covers what most small businesses need an app for: bookings, ordering, customer accounts, loyalty, a catalogue, a staff or field tool, and forms that still work out of signal. What it does not cover is a product written from scratch in Swift and Kotlin, or anything leaning hard on the phone itself: real-time video, Bluetooth pairing, all-day location tracking, a game engine, augmented reality, or a health or finance app with a compliance regime attached. If that is what you need, we say so on the first call and try to point you at a specialist.
What is included
Two apps. Both mine.
The app offer is new here, so this is the honest version. These two are my own products rather than client work, and neither is in the App Store yet. Both are live, and you can open either one right now and have a look.
Harbour ThoughtsToday
Harbour ThoughtsPrivate journal
SnaggedLocal jobs
Harbour Thoughts
A journal and reflection app whose AI runs on the phone itself once the model has been downloaded. No account is needed, and journal entries stay on the device. Built as an Android app and as an installable web app you can add to a home screen.
harbour-thoughts.vercel.appSnagged
A free job board for the Pohutukawa Coast. Free to post, with a free sign-in: a local business answers seven questions, and a person reads the job before it goes up. Built end to end here, and running.
snagged.co.nzBetter proof than either of them is your own app. The design and prototype package puts it on your phone before you commit to a build, and it comes off the price of the build if you go ahead.
A product people can see before it exists.
Some products do not exist yet, some are too big to photograph, and some just need a launch film. We model and render products in Blender, build real-time 3D for the web, and cut short films and looping reels for ads and social, all in the studio. Each one has a published price, from a single render to the extras, and the 3D page lists them all.
What is included
A store that takes payment, ships orders and does not need babysitting.
Products, variants, shipping, payments and GST set up properly from day one, on a platform you can keep running yourself, without us.
What is included
Updates, backups, security and small changes, every month.
Website management for people who never want to think about the website again. We keep it updated, watch it, back it up, and make the small changes you ask for. Works with sites we built and sites we did not.
What is included
Pages written to answer what your customers ask.
Search engine optimisation and copywriting, done together, because one without the other does not work. We find the questions people type, write pages that answer them properly, and set the site up so search engines can read it.
What is included
A logo, colours and type that feel like you and work everywhere.
Not a brand bible you will never open. A logo that still reads at the size of a favicon, a colour set that passes contrast, and type that works on the van, the invoice and the website.
What is included
Fast hosting, a certificate that never lapses, and a site that loads in the car park.
Basic hosting setup is part of every site we build. This service is for sites we did not build, or for a move. We set it up on hosting that suits the site, keep the security certificate renewed, and make the pages load quickly on a phone with one bar of signal.
What is included
So you know what the site does for you.
How many people visited, where they came from, which pages they read, and how many phoned, emailed or bought. Basic tracking is part of every site we build. This service is for sites we did not build, or for deeper tracking. Set up once, explained in plain English, and reported without the jargon.
What is included
Enquiry forms that land, and the follow-up that happens on its own.
A contact form that goes to spam is worse than no form. We make sure enquiries arrive, bookings and quote requests go to the right place, and the routine replies send themselves.
What is included
Wanted something different?
If none of these is the shape of the thing, or the budget is nowhere near these numbers, tell me what you are actually after. A website, an app, AI, 3D, or something I have not listed. I will say honestly what is possible for what you can spend, and if I am the wrong person for it I will say that too. A conversation first, with no quote attached to it.
Build, launch, then care. The care part does not stop.
A build is a project with an end date. A care plan is a relationship that carries on for as long as you want it to.
Build
The project. Brief, words, design, build and testing, with a fixed quote up front.
- Website design and build, or an online store
- Branding, if you need it
- Search and content written in
- Email and forms wired up
Launch
Go-live day, done carefully. Nothing goes live until the checklist is clear.
- Hosting, domain and certificate set up in your name
- Analytics and search tools connected
- Forms and checkout tested one last time
- Handover guide and a walkthrough
Care
Month after month. Your site stays updated, backed up, watched and current.
- Updates, security and backups
- Uptime monitoring
- Small changes each month
- A plain-English note each month
What is not included.
Three things that sit outside every service above, so there are no surprises later.
No ranking guarantees
Nobody can promise a position in search results. We do the work that helps, show you the numbers, and tell you honestly what is and is not moving.
Ad spend
We set up the tracking and the pixels, and can write the landing page. The advertising budget itself is paid by you, to the ad platform, from your own account.
Photography and stock licences
We build with the photos you already have. A photographer or stock image licences are quoted separately and paid for in your name, so the pictures are yours.
Tell us about the business. We will suggest the mix.
Two sentences is plenty. We reply in writing with what we would do, in what order, and roughly what it costs.