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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
What's the catch?
Do I own the website?
What if I don't like the preview?
How is this cheaper than a normal agency?
Can I cancel later?
Does this apply to every kind of business?
Related
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