(Des Moines, Iowa)
A Des Moines studio doing national work.
Bridgewood Creative is headquartered here. Most of our clients are not, which is the point: the standard is set by B2B software companies around the country, and Des Moines businesses get the same bar without paying coastal agency rates.
(Why local, and when it does not matter)
What a Des Moines address actually changes.
Plenty of agencies list Des Moines on a page of cities they serve. We are the studio that is here. In practice that buys you three real things and not much else, so here they are without the varnish.
You can get in a room. At the start of a brand project, or when a site needs to represent a business nobody can describe in a brief, sitting down together is faster than a call. Most clients do it once and never need to again.
There is no time zone tax. A question at 9am gets an answer at 9am, not after lunch.
We are accountable in a small market. Doing poor work for a company fifteen minutes away is a bad business decision in a way it is not for an agency three time zones out.
Everything else runs the way it runs for a client in Denver or Boston. That is deliberate. The remote process is what keeps most requests turning around in about a day, and we are not going to slow it down to look more local.
(The bar)
The work that sets the standard.
Our day to day is B2B software: venture-backed companies where the website has to carry a sales argument, not just look tidy. That is the bar a Des Moines project gets held to.
120+
Projects shipped
24h
Avg. turnaround
98%
Clients who stay
$40k
Saved/yr vs hiring
(What it costs)
The rate is on the page.
Ask four Des Moines agencies what a website costs and you will get four discovery calls. We publish the number instead, for the same reason we publish the process: a price you receive after a call has been set with knowledge of your budget. A price on a page has not.
It is one flat monthly rate for unlimited design and development requests, worked through one at a time. No change orders, no scoping calls before something gets made, and no contract. Pause or cancel in any month.
(Unlimited Design & Dev)
$3,699/month
Send as many design and development requests as you like. We work through them one at a time, most delivered in about 24 hours.
Start here(What we make)
Brand, web, app and marketing, one team.
(A good fit)
When this works
- Work keeps arriving and a project quote never covers it.
- You need brand, site and product interface to look like one company.
- You have been burned by a build that looked finished and could not be edited.
- You want a predictable line item instead of a scoping call every time.
(Probably not)
When it does not
- You want one brochure site and nothing after it. Hire a project shop.
- You need someone in your standups every morning. Hire in house.
- You are rebranding a company with deep equity in its existing identity and want a studio doing nothing else for three months.
- The budget is a few thousand dollars, total. We are not the cheapest option in town and do not pretend to be.
(FAQ)
Des Moines questions.
Serving Des Moines and West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Waukee, Clive, Johnston.
Are you actually based in Des Moines?
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Yes. Des Moines is where the studio is, not a service area we list. That matters mainly for the boring reasons: same time zone, same working hours, and we can sit down together when a project warrants it.
What does a website cost in Des Moines?
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Local agencies mostly quote per project after a discovery call, which is why the range you will find quoted around town runs from a few thousand to well over twenty. We do not work that way. The rate is $3,699/month, published on the pricing page, and it covers unlimited design and development requests rather than a fixed scope.
Why would a Des Moines business hire you over a national agency?
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Honestly, sometimes you should not. If you need a one-off brochure site and never want to think about it again, a project shop is a better fit. The subscription earns its keep when work keeps arriving: new pages, new campaigns, product UI, a rebrand that unfolds over months.
Do you only work with Iowa companies?
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No, and most of our clients are not. The work runs with B2B software companies around the country. Being in Des Moines shapes how we operate rather than who we take on.
How fast does work come back?
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Most requests land in about 24 hours. Larger builds are broken into pieces so something arrives every day rather than everything arriving at the end.
Can we meet in person?
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Yes, and some local clients do at the start of a project. After that almost everything runs the same way it runs for a client in another state, because that is what keeps turnaround fast.
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