SHT-01Guides
The questions people ask before they buy.
Each page answers one question in its first sixty words, then shows the arithmetic. Written by the founder, dated, and kept current.
Orium Studios publishes direct answers to the money questions a small-business owner asks before buying software: what a custom CRM costs and why agency quotes run to six figures, whether to build or buy, how long a build takes, who owns the code, what an AI phone agent costs and what it should never be allowed to do, and when a spreadsheet is still the right tool. Every figure is either the studio's published ladder or a market range with its source named.
SHT-02Guides
How Much Does a Website Cost for a Small Business in Florida? (2026)
Freelancer, agency, DIY builder and a fixed-price build, side by side, with what each one leaves out.
How much does a custom CRM actually cost?
The commonly quoted range describes a different kind of company building a different kind of system. Here is the arithmetic underneath it.
What does an AI agent cost, and what should it be allowed to do?
Two separate numbers: what it costs to build, and what it costs to keep answering. Most quotes only mention the first.
Should you build a custom CRM or buy one?
Start from buy. Make the build argue its way in. Here is the argument it has to win, and the cases where it genuinely does.
How long does it take to build a custom CRM?
The schedule is not decided by how fast anyone types. It is decided by how quickly questions get answered and what state your data is in.
Who owns the code and the database when someone builds your system?
The answer that matters is not in the contract's intellectual property clause. It is in what stops working the day you stop paying.
AI voice agent, answering service, or voicemail?
All three answer the phone. They differ in what exists five minutes after the caller hangs up, and that is the only part worth choosing on.
Do you need a CRM or a better website first?
One of these sends more people into a leak. Which one depends on a number you can count this afternoon.
Moving a business off spreadsheets: what actually has to happen
Nobody has ever been stopped by the number of rows. What stops migrations is that half the columns mean something only one person knows.
What a contractor's CRM has to model that generic software does not
A sales CRM models a deal moving toward a signature. A contractor's job carries on for weeks after the signature, and that is where the money is decided.
What does business automation actually cost?
Three layers: the build, the services it runs on, and keeping it working. A quote that shows only the first is not cheaper, it is shorter.
SHT-03Issued for construction
Not sure which one you are?
The free audit is a recorded walkthrough of where the business leaks leads, sent the same day. It says whether you need a site, a system, or neither yet.