The model · ₹0 upfront

We build the whole website first. You decide afterwards.

Every other agency asks you to buy a promise. Auren shows you the finished thing on a live URL and lets you judge it before any money moves. If it isn't good, you walk.

What is Design First, Pay Later?

Design First, Pay Later is Auren's engagement model: the complete website is designed, built and deployed to a live URL within 48 hours at zero upfront cost, and the client pays only if they decide to keep it.

It inverts how web design is normally sold. Conventionally you pay a deposit against a proposal, wait weeks, review wireframes, and discover what you actually bought at the end — by which point the money is spent and switching is expensive. Under Design First, Pay Later there is one 30-minute discovery call, then Auren builds. Forty-eight hours later you get a real, working website on a real URL — not a mockup, not a Figma file, not a watermarked comp. You open it on your phone. If it works, a flat monthly subscription starts, covering hosting, your custom domain, unlimited edits, SEO refinement and priority support. If it doesn't, you walk away and owe nothing. Month-to-month, no contract, no cancellation fee.

Upfront cost
₹0
Time to live preview
48 hours
Commitment
Month-to-month
Cancellation fee
None

Why work this way?

Because the normal model asks the client to carry all the risk. You pay a deposit before you have seen anything, based on a portfolio of work done for other people, and you find out whether it was a good decision after the money is gone. If the result disappoints, your realistic options are to accept it or to pay twice.

Design First, Pay Later moves that risk onto Auren. We spend 48 hours building something real before we are owed anything. That is a genuine cost to us on every project that doesn't convert, and it only makes commercial sense if the work is good often enough — which is exactly the incentive a client should want their agency to have.

The second reason is that it removes the worst part of buying design: arguing about something that doesn't exist yet. Nobody can meaningfully evaluate a wireframe. Everybody can evaluate a website on their own phone.

The honest catches

Auren picks the projects. Building for free costs real time, so not every enquiry gets a free build. The discovery call is partly Auren deciding whether this is a fit. If it isn't, you'll be told on the call rather than strung along.

48 hours is the standard, not a universal promise. Heavy e-commerce, large multi-location sites and complex integrations take 72 to 96 hours. You are told which applies to you before the clock starts, not after.

It is a subscription, not a one-time purchase. The flat monthly fee covers hosting, the domain, unlimited edits and ongoing SEO. If you stop paying, the site stops being hosted and maintained by Auren. That is the trade for ₹0 upfront and unlimited ongoing work — and it is stated plainly here rather than buried in a contract, because there is no contract.

The free build is the real site. It is not a stripped demo that gets unlocked on payment. What you see on the staging URL is what goes live.

What the monthly subscription covers

One flat fee. No tiers, no per-edit charges, no annual renewal invoice.

Custom domain

Registered and pointed for you. Nothing to configure and no separate registrar bill.

Premium hosting

Fast, monitored hosting included. No cPanel, no renewal invoice, nothing for you to manage.

Unlimited edits

Text, images, prices, new sections, seasonal changes. Send them over; no per-change fee.

Ongoing SEO refinement

Schema, metadata, internal linking and Core Web Vitals maintained as the site grows.

Priority support

A direct line, not a ticket queue. Urgent changes get handled the same day.

Cancel any month

No lock-in, no notice period, no exit fee. Leave whenever you want to.

How the process works

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    A 30-minute call to understand your brand, your customers and what the site actually has to do. No deck, no pitch.

  2. 02

    We build it. For free.

    Within 48 hours you get a live staging URL with the real, working website on it. Not a Figma file, not a watermarked mockup — the actual site, on a real domain, on your phone.

  3. 03

    You decide

    If it works, you start the subscription and we point it at your domain. If it doesn't, you walk away and pay nothing. We carry the risk, not you.

  4. 04

    Unlimited edits, forever

    New photos, new sections, price changes, seasonal updates, SEO work. One flat monthly fee, month-to-month, cancel whenever. We're your design team, not a one-off vendor.

Design First, Pay Later — questions

Is the free website preview genuinely free?

Yes. Auren builds the complete website and puts it on a live URL before any money changes hands. If you decide not to keep it, you owe nothing and there is no invoice. Auren carries the cost of builds that don't convert.

What's the catch?

Three honest ones. Auren chooses which projects get a free build, so not every enquiry qualifies. It's a monthly subscription rather than a one-time purchase, so if you stop paying, Auren stops hosting and maintaining the site. And 48 hours is the standard turnaround — complex builds take 72 to 96 hours, which you're told before the clock starts.

Do I own the website?

The domain is yours. The build is maintained by Auren under the subscription, in the same way hosted website platforms work. If ownership and self-hosting matter to you, raise it on the discovery call and you'll get a straight answer about what's possible.

What if I don't like the preview?

You walk away. No charge, no invoice, no follow-up sales pressure. That's the whole point of the model — you get to see the actual work before deciding.

How is this cheaper than a normal agency?

It isn't necessarily cheaper in total; it's structured differently. Instead of ₹25,000–₹1,50,000 upfront plus separate hosting and per-change fees, you pay ₹0 upfront and a flat monthly fee that includes everything. The real difference is that you only ever pay for something you've already seen.

Can I cancel later?

Any month. No lock-in, no notice period, no cancellation fee.

Does this apply to every kind of business?

The model applies to every project Auren takes on. Whether Auren takes on your project is decided on the discovery call — that's the filter that makes free builds sustainable.

The only way to find out is to see it.

One 30-minute call. A real website on a real URL in 48 hours. Then you decide — not before.

Auren · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · @auren.online