ThapaAbout
A lean studio, built for the AI era.
ThapaWeb is an independent web studio led by Ishan Thapa in West Covina, California — agency-grade output without agency overhead, and a direct line to the developer building your site.
Here's the honest version of how this studio works. Modern AI tooling changed what a lean, senior team can deliver: the repetitive parts of building a website — boilerplate, resizing, cross-browser fiddling — are largely automated now. What's left is the part that was always the real job: understanding what your business needs, making good decisions, and standing behind them.
Traditional agencies carry layers of account managers, meetings, and overhead — and bill you for all of it. ThapaWeb keeps the structure lean and moves the economics to you: low setup fees, honest monthly plans, and a direct line to the developer who actually builds and maintains your site. Nothing is outsourced to the cheapest bidder, and nothing ships without senior review.
The specialty on top of the builds is being found — classic SEO, and the newer work of making sites readable and citable by AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity (GEO/AEO). It's what I write about on the blog, it's tracked monthly for Visibility-plan clients, and this site itself is the working demo: prerendered HTML, full schema, llms.txt, sub-second loads — with the 3D and motion layered on top, never in the way.
At a glance
- Based in West Covina, CA — working remotely everywhere
- Every site: schema, llms.txt, prerendered HTML, monitored uptime
- Real projects: Bracevo, Draivik
- Stack: React, TypeScript, three.js, Firebase — chosen per project, not by habit
- Replies within one business day — usually faster
Principles
The rules this studio runs on.
Every price is published
Setup fees, monthly plans, the 12-month term — all on the pricing page before you ever email me. If a price would surprise you later, it's on the site now.
No fake anything
No stock-photo team page pretending I'm an agency. No invented testimonials. Demo builds are labeled as demos. The work page shows real projects or nothing.
AI does the labor, the studio owns the result
This studio builds with modern AI tooling and says so openly — it's why builds take days, not months. Every design and code decision still gets senior review, and the studio answers for it.
No is a service too
There are services this studio doesn't offer because they can't be done at the standard clients are promised. If a free website builder is honestly your best option, you'll be told that too.
Working together
What it's like as a client.
You always know the total
Written quote with exact scope before any work starts. Changes get re-quoted, in writing, before they happen.
Answers around the clock
Routine questions get handled instantly — the studio runs always-on support agents — and anything complex escalates straight to your developer. No account managers, no ticket queues.
Everything is monitored
Uptime checks run around the clock on every site I maintain. I get a text the moment something goes down — usually before you notice.
You own your stuff
Your domain is yours. Your content is yours. If we part ways, you get a full export. No hostage situations.
Talk to the person who'll build it.
No sales team, no handoffs. Describe what you need and I'll reply personally with a real number.