A visual website builder with hosting built in.
Pick a template, make it yours, and publish to a real address. Your first site is free.
Browns Digital Studio
Sites that feel calm.
Design your website on a real canvas and publish it in a click. When you need more than a website, our team builds it with you.
The Studio builder, editing a site made from the Tableside template.
Two ways to work with us
Build it yourself. Or have us build it.
Software shaped around how your business already works.
Ordering, portals, staff tools and integrations. We scope it with you, ship it in working pieces, and look after it once it's live.
Inside Studio
Everything between “new site” and “we're live.”
Know it's ready before anyone else sees it.
Studio audits every page for missing titles and descriptions, dead links, leftover template copy and colour contrast, then gives you a score and a list of fixes.
Staging first. Live when you say.
Every change goes to a private preview address before it reaches your real one.
Invite your team. Keep control.
Give each person a role. Only owners and admins can manage the domain or invite others.
Your first site is free.
One site, the full builder and hosting on a brownsdigital.app address. Upgrade when you need more.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll point you to Studio, or scope something custom with you.
Systems
When a website isn't enough.
We build the software your business runs on, shaped around how your team already works.
What we build
The tools behind the website.
Studio is for the site. Systems is for the work the site cannot do: taking an order, routing a request, or giving each person the right screen.
Ordering and bookings
A storefront, a pickup flow, or a booking calendar, with the payment step included rather than bolted on later.
Client and staff portals
A sign-in for customers and a different one for staff. Each role sees only what they need to do their part.
Operations and intake
Forms, queues, and a dashboard so the day's work is not sitting in a spreadsheet or a chat thread.
Workflows and approvals
A request moves to the right person, and there is a record of who did what and when.
Integrations
Payments, SMS, and the other services you already pay for, connected so staff are not copying data between them.
Hosting and care
We run what we build, watch it, and keep improving it after the first version is in use.
In practice
How a system actually gets built.
A scope you can agree to.
We sit with the people who do the work and write down who touches what. You see the screens, the first piece we will ship, and a price in rand before any of it is built.
Something you can use early.
The first piece is working software, not a slide. Your team uses it while the next piece is still being made, so the later work follows how you actually operate.
We stay with it.
Hosting, monitoring, and the small improvements that show up once real orders, bookings, or requests start coming through. You are not handed a folder and left with it.
We will say so.
If what you need is a website you can edit yourself, that is Studio, and your first site is free. Systems is for the software around the work.
1working piece first, so the rest is shaped by real use
4steps, from the first conversation to something live
Ra written price in rand. We are not VAT-registered, so no VAT is added
Uswe host it and keep improving it after it is live
How we work
Four steps, in plain language.
01
Discover
We sit with your team and learn how the work really happens today.
02
Design
You see the screens and agree the scope before we write the code.
03
Build
We deliver in working pieces you can use as each one lands.
04
Run
We host it, watch it and keep making it better.
Tell us how your business works.
We'll come back with a clear scope, a plan for the first working piece, and an honest price.
Studio
Design it. Check it. Publish it.
A visual website builder with hosting built in. No code to manage and nothing to install.
42blocks in the library, from heroes to pricing tables
35templates to start from, or a blank canvas
6breakpoints to check, from 1920 down to 480 pixels
R0for your first site, including hosting
Templates
Start from something good.
Pick from 35 templates across hospitality, health, trades, retail, portfolios and more. Every one comes with its pages, a shared header and footer, and your brand colour already applied.
Design system
Change it once. It changes everywhere.
Your colour, type, corners, spacing and shadows are set in one place. Studio tells you how much of the site a change will touch before you make it.
- Accent colour across every page
- Type pairing, scale and weight
- Sharp, soft or round corners
Site health
A real audit, not a checklist.
Studio checks every page for search titles and descriptions, broken and placeholder links, untouched template copy, missing share images and the contrast of your colours. You get a score out of 100 and a fix for each finding.
Publishing
Preview it properly, then go live.
Publish to staging as often as you like and share the link for feedback. When it's right, one click ships that exact version to your live address.
- A brownsdigital.app address on every plan
- Your own domain with SSL on Architect
- Revisions to roll back to
Cowork
Bring in your team without handing over the keys.
Invite people by email or link and give each one a role: admin, developer, editor or designer. Editors can change the layout and text but can't publish, and only owners and admins can manage the domain or invite others.
And the rest
The details we sweat.
Multi-page sites
Add pages and the header and footer stay in sync.
SEO per page
Titles, descriptions and share images for every page.
Undo history
Step back through every change, or jump to any point.
Live edit
Edit text directly on the rendered page.
Custom CSS
For the last detail, on Build and above.
Secure by default
Published sites ship with a strict content security policy.
Start with one free site.
The full builder and hosting, free for as long as you like.
Coming soon to Gauteng
Claron.
Indoor maps for shopping centres. Search for a shop or a product and get a walking route to the door.
Concept drawing. Claron is in development.
Find it without asking.
Search by shop name or by what you need, like “running shoes”, and follow the route. Free to use.
One map, everywhere.
The same map on the web, as an installable app, on in-centre kiosks, and embedded in your Studio site.
Put your centre on the map.
We're starting in Gauteng. Tell us about your centre and we'll be in touch.
Pricing
Free to start.
Every plan includes the full builder and hosting. Pay for more sites, more people and your own domain only when you need them.
Prices in South African rand. Checkout via Paystack. Cancel anytime from My Account. We are not registered for VAT, so no VAT is added.
Compare plans
What's in each plan.
| Free | Build | Forge | Architect | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sites | 1 | 1 | 3 | Unlimited |
| Visual builder and hosting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| brownsdigital.app address | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site health checks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom CSS | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monthly credits | — | 250 | 750 | 2,500 |
| Collaborators | — | — | Up to 3 | Unlimited |
| Custom domain with SSL | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Priority support | — | — | — | ✓ |
Questions
Good to know.
Is the free plan really free?
Yes. One site with the full builder, hosted on a brownsdigital.app address, for as long as you like.
Which plan do I need for my own domain?
Connecting your own domain, with SSL set up for you, is part of the Architect plan.
Why is checkout in rand?
We're a South African company, so payments are processed in ZAR through Paystack. If you pay with a foreign card, your bank handles the conversion.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel from My Account whenever you like.
Need something a plan can't do?
Our team builds custom systems, from ordering platforms to staff portals.
Team
The people behind Browns Digital
01
Robert Brown
Founder & CEO
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Direction and development across Studio, Systems, and everything we ship.
02
Lwazi Vilakazi
Co-founder & COO
“The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.”
Day-to-day operations and marketing.
Want to build with us?
Whether you need a site in Studio or a system shaped to your process — write to us. We read every message.
Join the community.
Try new Studio features early and talk to other builders on our Discord.
Contact
Let's talk.
Tell us a little about what you need. A person will read it and reply.