Init CatalystIt all starts with init
Gold light streaks, dark center

Bespoke web design agency Talk business, not tech.

Init Catalyst is a small business of four people, run by founder Ivailo Hristov. We talk about your site the way we talk about our own business: what it costs, when it's done and who answers when something breaks.

  1. The founder
  2. The standard
  3. The doubts
  4. The checks
Ivailo Hristov, Init Catalyst founder
Ivailo HristovFounder, Init Catalyst

Seven years of this before the name existed.

I built custom software inside someone else's company for seven years. For three of those I led the team that did it, across more than a hundred client projects.

Init Catalyst is the same work, now with a team of my own. I set the direction on every project, and the team designs, builds and tests it with me. We answer any message within 2 working hours.

Take none of this on trust. Our work has its own page on this site. Five minutes there tells you more than anything I can write in this paragraph.

Building it right is the selfish choice. Bet on that over a promise.

What you get from our bespoke web design agency

A launch date in writing

90+ on Google's speed test

We get shit done

Better here than mid-build.

The trust question

We're a new agency and the name means nothing yet

The first call costs nothing, and so does the first page we design. Open it, sit with it, then decide.

Checking in

See how it's going without having to ask

The link goes up in the first week and stays up until launch. Open it any time, or send it to someone whose opinion counts.

When we slip up

We own our mistakes

Every fault gets written up, because a cause nobody wrote down comes back. The fix is on us either way.

On the AI question

The code is ours to answer for

AI saves the typing on the parts that repeat. The code that ships is ours, and it's built to be handed over.

The last thing we do is try to break it.

On every screen

  • Every page opened in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge

    The same page in each one

  • Every page pulled from a small phone up to a wide desktop

    Readable and tappable at each width

  • The site driven by keyboard alone

    Every link, field, and menu is reachable

Every path a customer takes

  • Every link on the site, followed one by one

    Each opens the page it names

  • Every form sent from the page it sits on

    The message lands in your inbox

  • Checkout run end to end on a live card, then refunded

    The order, the receipt, and the payout line up

  • Payments, booking, and mail wired to your own accounts

    The logins come to you at launch

Found and measured

  • Speed measured on a mid-range phone over mobile data

    90+ on Google PageSpeed

  • Titles, descriptions, and the preview a shared link shows

    Each page reads right in search and in a message

  • The block that kept the build out of Google

    Lifted, sitemap filed at Search Console

  • Analytics, and the goals sitting on your forms

    A test visit and a test form submission both land

We hand over the finished list and the link, then wait for your word before it goes live.

Sofia, Bulgaria at sunset

Here for the long run.

Dive in

See how we work, and what we have built.

Our ProcessHow a project goes from first call to launch.
Our WorkWhat each site had to do, what we built, and how fast it loads today.

Guides for small business owners

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See the homepage before you pay.

Tell us on the call what the site has to do. The finished homepage is on your phone within 5 working days. If you don't like it, the week is on us.

Prefer to write first? build@initcatalyst.com We reply within 2 working hours.