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What custom software costs for a mid-market company
What moves the price of a custom system: unknown scope, integrations, data migration, roles and what happens when it breaks. And how Polargate turns it into a fixed price.
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What moves the price of a custom system: unknown scope, integrations, data migration, roles and what happens when it breaks. And how Polargate turns it into a fixed price.
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What decides the price of a website in Spain in 2026: the four market tiers, what sits inside each one, what makes a quote climb, and the eight questions to ask before you sign.

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The four price bands for a business website in the Netherlands, what moves the number, the accessibility deadline, and fixed price versus hourly rate.

AI search
How a hotel gets recommended by ChatGPT: prerendered pages in every language, hotel and room schema, real reviews and consistent listings everywhere.

AI search
AI crawlers read raw HTML and never run JavaScript, so a React SPA serves them nothing. Measure it yourself with curl, then fix it with SSG, SSR or prerender.

AI search
A practical 2026 checklist for AI search visibility: which crawlers run JavaScript, robots.txt, answer-first structure, freshness and how to measure citations.

How we work
How Polargate delivers with AI agents: an agent triages each ticket and proposes a fix as a diff, audit agents refute each other, and a human merges.

Choosing a partner
A Discovery Sprint is two weeks of paid senior work ending in a decision pack: scope, architecture, risks and a fixed price. The pack is yours whatever you decide.

Choosing a partner
What sets an agency apart from a senior studio, and what is worth putting in writing in the contract.
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