What you get
Services
Fixed price tiers designed around where a biotech company is in its life. Every tier includes science accurate copy, custom design, and mobile responsive build. None of them involve explaining what a PCR is.
CodonForge offers fixed-price biotech website design packages: the Homepage Sprint ($1,500 for a single rebuilt homepage), Launch ($5,000 for pre-seed teams), Platform ($10,000 for Seed-stage companies), and Series A ($20,000+ for full-scope positioning). Every engagement includes science-accurate copywriting by a PhD biotechnologist, custom design, and a mobile-responsive build that reads clearly on a phone in a conference hallway.
Start here: the one page that actually gets read
For a company at this stage the homepage is the page an investor or a partner actually opens. The other pages mostly exist to make the site feel complete.
The Sprint rebuilds that page. Copy written from your award abstract and existing material, a custom hero graphic rather than stock photography, and two rounds of revisions. Deployed to your domain or the files handed over, whichever you prefer.
What's included
Credited in full. Go on to Launch, Platform or Series A within 60 days and the $1,500 comes off the price.
Pre-seed biotech website design for newly incorporated teams
You have closed your first check or just incorporated. Your investors expect a site. Your recruits will look it up before saying yes. You need to look credible before you have a product, a paper trail, or a team photo.
Launch gets you a polished one to three page site with a home page that describes what the company does without dumbing it down, a contact form, and a clean enough design that a Series A investor who lands on it does not immediately click away.
What's included
Not included: interactive data visualizations, pipeline tables, team pages with individual bios, and investor-ready content systems. Those are Platform tier. Launch is speed and credibility, not depth.
Life sciences web design for Seed-stage companies raising their next round
You have money in the bank and you are building the narrative for your next round, for key scientific hires, and for potential partners and collaborators. A home page with a paragraph about "next-generation solutions" is not going to do it.
Platform is a full custom five to seven page site. The technology page explains your actual mechanism, not a cartoon version of it. The pipeline page has real assay or program data. The team page is investor-ready. The home page can survive being read by a scientist with domain expertise.
What's included
The VeriDx demonstration build is Platform tier. It shows what the interactive melt-curve visualization looks like, what a well-structured pipeline page looks like, and how technical mechanism writing reads when the person writing it understands the science.
Series A life science web design for companies that need to control their story
You are past proof-of-concept. The science is real, the data is real, and the people reading your site will check both. The site needs to do serious work: keep investors informed, attract serious scientific hires, and position you clearly against a field that is also maturing.
This tier starts with a messaging and positioning engagement. Before any design, we work out what the site should say, who it is talking to in each section, and how your technology is distinct from the competition. The build follows from that foundation.
What's included
Scope determines final cost. The $20,000 floor covers the messaging work and a full Platform-plus build. Companies with more complex needs, larger content systems, or integration requirements will have a higher final number. It gets worked out on the first call.
After launch
Monthly care plan
Biotech moves fast. A pipeline milestone, a new raise, a Nature paper, a key hire. Your site needs to keep up, and you do not want to chase down a freelancer every time you have an update.
The monthly care plan gives you a dedicated slot each month for content updates, copy additions, new pages as needed, and technical maintenance. Site updates turn around in 24 to 48 hours. The price scales with volume. Most clients on care plans spend between $500 and $1,500 per month.
Care plans are available to CodonForge-built sites only. They start after launch, cancel anytime, and do not require a long-term commitment.
Common questions
Biotech web design, answered
How much does a biotech website cost?
CodonForge packages run from $1,500 for the Homepage Sprint, $5,000 for Launch, $10,000 for Platform, and from $20,000 for Series A and beyond. What moves the price is scope, not hourly rate: how many pages carry real science, whether mechanism-of-action figures need to be drawn from scratch, and how much pipeline or assay data has to be made legible.
Should I use a biotech website builder or hire an agency?
A website builder such as WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or HubSpot is the right call when you need something live this week and the science can be summarised in a few paragraphs. It stops being the right call once mechanism-of-action figures, clinical pipeline tables or assay data have to be accurate as well as attractive, because the cost moves from the build to the hours you spend correcting someone else's understanding of your biology.
How long does a biotech website take to build?
The Homepage Sprint is measured in days. Launch and Platform builds typically run three to six weeks, most of which is spent on the science rather than the layout. Series A builds take longer because more stakeholders have to sign off on claims.
Do you work with pre-seed and SBIR or NIH grant funded startups?
Yes. Pre-seed and grant-funded companies are a large share of the work. Non-dilutive funding from an SBIR or NIH award often arrives before a company has any web presence at all, and the Homepage Sprint exists for exactly that moment. Note that CodonForge builds the website; it does not write or advise on the grant application itself.
Can you build a site without exposing unpublished data or IP?
Yes. Launching while in stealth is a normal constraint. The approach is to state the problem, the mechanism class and the stage of validation precisely enough to be credible, without disclosing anything that is unpublished or patent-sensitive.
Do you only design, or do you build the site as well?
Design and build together. Every package ships a working, deployed site rather than a set of mockups handed off to a separate developer.
Ready to start?
Tell me about your platform
Describe the science and what you need. The first call takes about thirty minutes.