Converted warehouses and food trailers under string lights in an Austin district at humid dusk
Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos, TX

Web, app and AI automation development for Austin businesses

For a city that absorbed a decade of relocations and still runs on independent operators.

Austin's transformation is unusually well documented: Tesla's Gigafactory in Del Valle, Oracle's headquarters on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, Apple's north Austin campus and Samsung's semiconductor operations in Taylor pulled tens of thousands of technical workers into a city that a decade ago was mostly government, university and music. Round Rock has Dell. The result is a customer base with high incomes and near-zero tolerance for a business that can't be booked online.

Free quote for your Austin business

Fixed price in writing, within 24 hours.

Your details stay private. We never sell or share them.

A real quote in 24 hours — not a sales sequence.

Serving all of Austin–Round Rock–San MarcosWebsites from $169Apps from $1,049SEO from $299/moFixed price in writingYou own the code

The short answer

Who builds websites and apps for businesses in Austin?

Mana Studio builds websites, mobile apps, ecommerce stores, AI automation and SEO for Austin businesses, working remotely from India with published fixed prices — a landing page at $169, a full business website at $499, ecommerce from $1,249, app MVPs from $1,049 and local SEO at $299 a month. We are not based in Austin and we say so rather than renting a virtual address; what is local is the work — your Google Business Profile, the Austin search terms we target, the competitors we benchmark you against, and schema that tells Google exactly which parts of Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos you serve.

Doing business in Austin

What makes Austin its own market

The other half of Austin didn't change: an unusually dense independent business culture of restaurants, bars, studios, trainers, contractors and makers, much of it operating on Instagram and a phone number. That gap — high-expectation customers meeting businesses with no digital infrastructure — is the clearest opportunity in the Texas market right now, and it's why a properly built site moves the needle here faster than in a mature market.

What anchors the local economy

  • Tesla's Gigafactory Texas in Del Valle
  • Oracle's headquarters campus on Lady Bird Lake
  • Samsung's semiconductor plant in nearby Taylor
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • The Domain in north Austin as a second downtown
  • The South Congress and East Austin independent business districts

Business districts we work across

Downtown & Rainey StreetSouth Congress (SoCo)East AustinThe Domain & North AustinWestlake & Bee CaveRound RockCedar Park & LeanderSouth Lamar

Who we build for

Austin industries — and what each one usually needs first

We'll tell you honestly which of these applies to you, including when it's less than you came to buy.

Technology & startups

Marketing sites, MVPs, product design

Restaurants, bars & food trucks

Ordering, reservations, short-form video

Construction & home services

Quote funnels, scheduling, map-pack SEO

Health, fitness & wellness

Membership flows, class booking, retention automation

Real estate & property management

Listing sites, lead routing, tenant portals

Creative studios & music services

Portfolio sites, booking, e-commerce

The Austin problem

What's actually costing Austin businesses customers

Three things we see repeatedly in this market specifically — not a generic list.

A customer base that will not phone you

The people who moved here for Tesla, Oracle, Apple and Dell book everything online — dentist, trainer, contractor, table. A business whose only conversion path is a phone number during business hours is invisible to a large and growing share of Austin, and usually has no idea it's happening.

Agency pricing that followed the tech money in

Austin agency rates rose with the relocations and now sit close to coastal levels, which is brutal for an independent restaurant or a two-truck contractor. Published fixed pricing exists precisely for the businesses that market has priced out.

Instagram as the entire business infrastructure

An enormous number of Austin businesses run on a well-tended Instagram account and nothing else. It works until the algorithm shifts or the account gets locked, and it never captures the customer searching Google for your category at 11pm. The account should feed a site you own, not replace it.

What we'd do about it

Where the leverage is in Austin

The services that move the needle most in this market, and why.

Book, pay and confirm without a phone call

Websites from $169

Online booking and payment wired into whatever you already use, with automated confirmation and reminders — the baseline your newer customers assume exists.

Automation for teams that grew faster than their process

AI Automation from $499

Austin businesses tend to scale before they systemise. We audit where the manual hours actually go, then automate the two or three processes worth automating and say so when the rest aren't.

Targeting Austin's districts, not just Austin

SEO from $299

South Congress, East Austin, the Domain, Westlake, Round Rock and Cedar Park behave as separate markets with separate competition and separate intent.

Pricing in USD

What we build for Austin businesses

Published fixed prices — the number in the proposal is the number on the invoice. Click any service for the full package breakdown.

From

$169

Website Development

Fast, mobile-first websites built on Next.js — designed to rank on Google and turn visitors into booked calls.

  • Custom design — never a recycled template
  • Next.js build: 90+ PageSpeed, Core Web Vitals green
  • On-page SEO, schema markup and sitemap done at build time
  • Click-to-call, WhatsApp and booking-form wiring
Launch in 7–21 daysSee pricing

From

$1,049

App Development

iOS and Android apps from one React Native codebase — shipped to both stores, not left in a demo folder.

  • One React Native codebase → iOS + Android
  • Backend API, database and admin dashboard
  • Stripe / in-app purchase payments
  • Push notifications and deep links
MVP in 6–10 weeksSee pricing

From

$29

AI Videos

Scroll-stopping ads, reels and product videos produced with AI — no film crew, no studio day, no $5,000 invoice.

  • AI-generated ad creatives and product videos
  • Reels & Shorts cut for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
  • AI avatar spokespeople and voiceover in English
  • Captions, hooks and thumbnails included
First cut in 48 hoursSee pricing

From

$299

SEO

Get found by US customers who are already searching for exactly what you sell — locally and nationally.

  • Technical SEO audit and hands-on fixes
  • Google Business Profile optimisation for the map pack
  • Keyword research aimed at buyers, not browsers
  • On-page optimisation and content that ranks
Map-pack wins in 30–90 daysSee pricing

From

$499

AI Automation

We find the manual work eating your team's week and automate it — quoting, invoicing, onboarding, reporting, data entry. Built on your existing tools, not a platform you have to migrate to.

  • A mapped audit of where your hours actually go
  • Automations built on the tools you already pay for
  • AI steps for the judgement work rules can't handle
  • Error alerts to a human when something looks wrong
Live in 2–5 weeksSee pricing

From

$399

Workflow Automation

The repetitive steps between your apps, handled automatically — quotes to invoices, forms to CRM, orders to fulfilment, approvals to payment.

  • A written map of the process before we build it
  • Automated handoffs between your existing tools
  • Conditional logic for the exceptions
  • Approval steps wherever a human should decide
First workflow live in 10 daysSee pricing

From

$899

AI Agents

Custom AI agents that do real work inside your business — reading documents, researching leads, drafting replies, updating records — with guardrails and a human check where it matters.

  • An agent scoped to one job it can do reliably
  • Connected to your real tools and data
  • Guardrails on what it may and may not do
  • Human approval before anything irreversible
First agent live in 3 weeksSee pricing

From

$699

AI Voice Agents

An AI receptionist that answers every call, books appointments straight into your calendar, and texts you the ones that need a human. No more missed calls after hours.

  • A natural-sounding agent trained on your business
  • Books directly into your real calendar
  • Answers your actual FAQs, hours and pricing
  • Warm transfer to a human when asked
Answering calls in 2–3 weeksSee pricing

From

$299

AI Chatbots

A chatbot that actually knows your business — trained on your documents, pricing and policies — answering support questions and capturing leads instead of frustrating people.

  • Trained on your real documents and pages
  • Says 'I don't know' instead of inventing answers
  • Captures the lead before the visitor leaves
  • Hands off to your team with the full transcript
Live in 7–14 daysSee pricing
Pay byWire / ACH transferCredit card (Stripe)PayPalZelleWise— invoiced in USD

A typical project

What a typical Austin project looks like

A three-location fitness studio: one site with district pages for South Lamar, East Austin and the Domain, class booking wired into their existing scheduler, membership sign-up and payment, automated retention emails, and monthly short-form video for paid social.

An illustrative scope, not a named client — real shipped work is linked below and you can open any of it.

Our Work

Real client work you can open right now

Live sites and products we've actually shipped. We'd rather you judged the work than the pitch.

Rami Silks — built by Mana Studio
E-commerce

Rami Silks

Full-stack e-commerce platform for traditional Indian clothing with AWS integration and advanced analytics

Next.jsNode.jsMongoDBAWS S3
Dwaraka Packers & Movers – Sirisilla — built by Mana Studio
Logistics website

Dwaraka Packers & Movers – Sirisilla

After the successful launch of the first website, the client partnered with Mana Studio again to develop a dedicated website for their Sirisilla branch.

Next.jsReact.jsJavaScript (ES6+)HTML5
Dwaraka Packers and Movers — built by Mana Studio
logistics website

Dwaraka Packers and Movers

A modern, SEO-optimized website designed and developed by Mana Studio for a professional packers and movers company. From UI/UX design to full-stack development, we built a fast, mobile-friendly, and conversion-focused website that helps generate leads, build customer trust, and strengthen the brand's online presence.

Next.js React.js JavaScript (ES6+) HTML5 CSS3
Sri Laxmi Carz — built by Mana Studio
Automotive PWA

Sri Laxmi Carz

Pre-owned car dealership platform for a trusted dealer in Warangal — live inventory browsing, certified listings, and an installable PWA with offline access and instant new-arrival notifications

Next.jsPWASEOPush Notifications
Sarkari Job Samachar — built by Mana Studio
Job Portal

Sarkari Job Samachar

Comprehensive job portal for government job seekers with real-time updates and notifications

Next.jsAppwriteSEOContent Management
AlgoEdge — built by Mana Studio
Algo Trading

AlgoEdge

Automated PNL reporting platform for Tradetron Creators — real-time MTM tracking, drawdown alerts, and Telegram summaries

Tradetron APITelegram Bot

Search intent

What Austin businesses and their customers search

The terms this page targets, published rather than hidden.

These are the Austin searches this page is built and optimised for. The service-plus-city terms carry the commercial intent; the district-level ones convert best of all, because they match how people here actually describe where they are.

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The guarantees

What every project comes with

A fraction of US agency rates

Same senior engineers, without the $150/hour Manhattan overhead. Fixed quotes in USD, agreed before we start.

We work your hours

Daily overlap with US Eastern, Central and Pacific. Calls at 9am your time, not 9am ours.

Fluent English, direct access

You talk to the people building it — no account manager relay, no translation gap.

NDA signed before you share anything

Send yours or use ours, signed same-day at no cost. Your idea, code and data stay yours.

Fixed price, in writing

A dated proposal with scope, milestones and the final number. No hourly meter, no surprise invoices.

You own everything, always

Code, designs, hosting, domains and logins handed over in full. Nothing is locked to us.

How it works

From first message to launch

01

Free 30-minute call

Tell us what you need. We ask the questions that actually change the price, and tell you honestly if we're the wrong fit.

02

Fixed proposal in 24 hours

Scope, milestones, timeline and the exact USD number — in writing, before you pay anything.

03

NDA + 40% to start

We sign the NDA, take 40% upfront and assign your team. The rest is tied to milestones you approve.

04

Weekly demos, live preview link

A working link you can open any time, plus a weekly call. You see progress, not status reports.

05

Launch and full handover

We deploy, monitor, and hand over every login. Then we stick around — most clients stay on a retainer.

FAQ

Austin — your questions answered

The local questions first, then the ones we get from everywhere.

Everyone in Austin says I need to be on Instagram. Do I still need a website?+
Yes, and the two do different jobs. Instagram reaches people who already follow you or get served your content; it cannot capture the person searching "best sports physio near me" at eleven at night, and it doesn't rank in Google or the map pack. It's also rented ground — accounts get locked and reach gets throttled without warning. The pattern that works in Austin is a fast site you own doing the search and booking work, with Instagram feeding it.
Is Austin more competitive for SEO than it used to be?+
Considerably, and it's still uneven. Categories that serve the tech relocations — fitness, dining, home services, aesthetics — got much harder because national brands moved in. Categories that didn't are still remarkably winnable. We'd look at your actual competitors' sites before quoting, and if your category is already saturated we'll say so rather than sell you a retainer that won't move.
Should I target Austin, Round Rock and Cedar Park separately?+
If you serve them, yes. Round Rock has Dell and a large independent population that thinks of itself as Round Rock, not Austin, and Cedar Park and Leander are the same. They're separate cities with separate search volume, and an Austin page won't rank for them. That said — only build the pages for areas you'll genuinely travel to. Pages for places you don't serve generate leads you have to turn down and can read as doorway content.
We're a startup. Do you build MVPs or just marketing sites?+
Both, and they're quoted differently. Marketing sites are a fixed-price package. MVPs are scoped from a conversation about what actually needs to exist to test the hypothesis — and we'll argue for cutting features, because most MVP briefs we see would take a year and the point is to learn in eight weeks. You own the repository from the first commit.
Are you actually based in Austin?+
No — and we say so on the page rather than renting a virtual office address to imply otherwise. Our team is in Hyderabad and Warangal, India, and we work with Austin businesses remotely: video calls, WhatsApp, and a live preview link you can open at any point during the build. What is genuinely local is the work itself — your Google Business Profile, the Austin search terms we target, the competitors we benchmark you against, and the schema that tells Google exactly which area you serve.
How do I pay you from TX?+
Wire or ACH, Zelle, credit card through Stripe, PayPal or Wise — invoiced in USD, with a proper invoice for your accountant. Payment is milestone-based: 40% to begin, the remainder as you approve deliverables. There is no retainer and no minimum contract on the build work.
What are your hours compared to Austin?+
India runs 9.5 to 13.5 hours ahead depending on your time zone and the season, which works in your favour more than against it: work happens while you sleep, and you review it in the morning. Calls are scheduled for your evening, which is our morning. Anything urgent gets a WhatsApp reply the same day.
What if the project goes wrong?+
You own the code, the domain, the hosting account and every asset from the first day — not at handover, from the beginning. If you stop working with us, everything is already yours and there is nothing to extract. The price is fixed in writing before work starts, so the number in the proposal is the number on the invoice. Websites start at $169.
Free consultation

Let's get your Austin business found

One free call. We'll tell you which Austin terms are actually winnable for you — including when the honest answer is that your category is already saturated and your money is better spent elsewhere.

Prefer to talk now? +91 86885 48048 — we call US numbers back same day.