Alchema Interactive
Let them feel it before they get there.
People make up their minds on their phones, long before they walk in your door. I build websites, kiosks and exhibits that let them feel your place first, then get out of the way so they can book, buy or come see you. Websites from $900, priced up front.
Alchema Interactive is an independent digital studio run by Chris Yates in Paris, Texas. We design and build custom websites, web apps, and kiosk and touchscreen interfaces for clients across the United States. Your web presence should match your product quality.
Call 1-903-416-0327, answered day or night by our assistant, or email chris@alchemainteractive.com.
What we build, and what it costs
Prices are published up front, and they are set by what the site has to do for you rather than by how many pages it has. These are build prices; hosting and care are separate and start when the site goes live.
Websites
- One Page Site, $900, about a week. For a business that just needs to be found. One page that scrolls, covering what you do, where you are and how to reach you, with photos of your work, a contact form, a tap-to-call button, and your Google listing set up so you show up in local searches and on maps.
- Small Business Site, $2,500, two to three weeks. For a business that wants the website to bring in work. A separate page for each service you offer, so each one can show up in Google on its own, plus a gallery of your past jobs, your reviews, and a question-and-answer form that collects what you need to know before you can quote a job.
- Site With Your Own Dashboard, $5,000, about four weeks. For a business that wants to make changes without calling anybody. A private page only you can log into, where you add photos, write posts and add case studies yourself, plus a pricing tool built around your real numbers and every message from your site collected in one place.
- Site With Customer Logins, $8,000, about six weeks. For a business whose customers need their own accounts. Each customer signs in with their own password and sees only what belongs to them, and you manage all of it from your dashboard.
Screens in public places
- Trade Show Kiosk, $5,000, about four weeks. A touchscreen for your booth or showroom that people walk up to and understand without being shown how, collecting visitor information so you leave the show with real leads. It runs in full screen on a tablet you already own. The screen is not included: you supply the tablet or touchscreen, and what you are buying is the interface that runs on it.
- Interactive Exhibit, $12,000 and up, eight to ten weeks. For a screen the public uses, in a museum, visitor center or learning space. Built around your subject, usable by anyone including visitors who need larger text or who cannot use a touchscreen the usual way, and built to survive daily public use. The hardware is not included: you supply the screen, the mount and the housing, and what you are buying is the interface that runs on them. The starting price also covers one screen.
Payment is 50% to begin and 50% on launch.
After launch
Hosting and care are not part of the build price. From the day a site goes live the client chooses one of two things. Keeping a site hosted, backed up and looked after costs $20 a month for a One Page Site, $40 for a Small Business Site, $65 for a Site With Your Own Dashboard or a Trade Show Kiosk, and $105 for a Site With Customer Logins. Those are monthly figures, billed once a year. Support for an Interactive Exhibit is agreed with the project.
A One Page Site or a Small Business Site is plain files, so this is optional: your IT person can upload them to any host you like, at no charge, and the files are yours. A site with a dashboard or customer logins has a database behind it and somebody has to be responsible for it, so either we look after it or we move everything into your company’s name and write down how it works, for a one-time $500.
Touchscreen kiosks for trade shows and showrooms
A stand-alone touchscreen interface people walk up to and understand without being shown how. It runs in a browser on a tablet you already own, in kiosk mode: no app store, no software to roll out, no devices to manage. Alchema builds the interface, not the hardware; the screen and anything it stands on are yours to supply. It touches none of your systems and needs no credentials, so it is not waiting behind anybody’s security review. A price, a product or a correction can be updated from a desk while the screen is still on the show floor.
How we work
Turnaround is one to six weeks for most website projects, and eight to ten weeks for an interactive exhibit. We build new experiences rather than integrations into systems you already run. You own the finished work once the final invoice is paid. Nothing is signed or charged on this website — a price and a scope are agreed in writing first.
Common questions
- What does it cost?
- Websites run from $900 for a One Page Site to $8,000 for a site where your own customers have logins, priced by what the site has to do rather than how many pages it has. A Trade Show Kiosk is $5,000 and an Interactive Exhibit starts at $12,000. On both of those Alchema builds the interface and you supply the screen. Those are build prices; hosting and care are separate, from $20 a month.
- How long does it take?
- A One Page Site is about a week, a Small Business Site two to three weeks, a Site With Your Own Dashboard about four weeks, and a Site With Customer Logins about six weeks. A Trade Show Kiosk is about four weeks and an Interactive Exhibit is eight to ten weeks. These are honest timelines rather than best cases.
- What do you need from me?
- Your content, any brand assets you already have, and timely feedback. The content is the one that usually slips.
- I do not have a logo or brand imagery. Is that a problem?
- No. Starting with nothing means the look is built for the job rather than inherited from something that no longer fits.
- How does payment work?
- Half up front, half on launch.
- Can you work with the systems we already use?
- Usually not, and it is better to say so early. We build new experiences rather than integrations into existing systems.
- We have a hard deadline. Can you move faster?
- Sometimes. Tell us the date in your first message rather than after we have started.
Get in touch
The Get Quote button on this site asks two questions and gives you a real price without anybody having to be available. You can also call 1-903-416-0327 or email chris@alchemainteractive.com. Existing clients sign in at the client portal.