WordPress · SEO · Publishing systems

Hire the person who has to live with the code.

I fix what’s broken, build what’s missing, and leave you a site your own team can run. Scope and price agreed in writing before anyone touches your install.

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Track record

850+
Clients since 2008
90+
Notable brands
$8M+
Client revenue influenced
248M+
Lifetime search impressions
7,500+
Sites running my plugins

Work delivered for, or alongside, teams at:

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Three ways to work together

Most people arrive with one of three problems.

So there are three ways in, each with a price you can budget against before we talk. Everything in the full directory below gets delivered through one of them.

Fix

Something’s broken

Your site works, mostly, but it’s slow, insecure, failing Core Web Vitals, or quietly losing checkouts. You want it diagnosed and fixed, not rebuilt.

From $500· 2 to 10 days · fixed price
  • Speed and Core Web Vitals remediation
  • Security hardening and malware cleanup
  • Zero-downtime migrations between hosts
  • WCAG 2.2 accessibility audit and fixes
  • Checkout, payment, and integration bugs
Describe the problem

You get before and after numbers, not a status update.

Build · most requested

Something’s missing

A new site, a replatform, a store, a course portal, or a plugin that doesn’t exist off the shelf. You want it built once, properly, by someone who’ll still answer the phone in month six.

From $2,500· 3 to 6 weeks · milestone billing
  • WordPress builds, block themes, custom blocks
  • Custom plugins and REST API integrations
  • WooCommerce, FluentCart, and Shopify stores
  • LMS and course platforms
  • Headless WordPress with React, Next.js, or Vue
Scope your build

You pay per milestone, so you’re never out a large sum on unfinished work.

Grow

Traffic and revenue are flat

The site is fine. It just isn’t compounding. You want rankings, AI-search citations, and conversions moving in the same direction, month over month.

From $1,500/mo· 3-month minimum
  • Technical SEO and content programs
  • GEO for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews
  • Conversion rate optimization
  • Analytics and tracking you can trust
  • Ongoing maintenance, updates, and monitoring
Get a growth plan

Reported against revenue, not impressions.

How this runs

You’ll know the price and the plan before I touch anything.

I lead discovery, architecture, and the senior implementation. When a build needs more hands than one person has, Gatilab picks up the scoped production work and the proposal says exactly which parts those are.

01

Call

Thirty minutes. You describe the problem, I tell you whether I’m the right person. If I’m not, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better.

You leave with: a rough range and a yes or no.

02

Written scope

A proposal that separates strategy, implementation, and support, with a fixed price against each and named ownership for every line.

You leave with: a document you can hold me to.

03

Build

Milestone billing, weekly written updates, and a staging URL you can watch from day one. No invoice arrives before the work it covers.

You leave with: working software, reviewed at each checkpoint.

04

Handover

Documentation, a recorded walkthrough for your team, and 30 days of post-launch fixes included. Maintenance after that is optional, never automatic.

You leave with: a site your own people can run.

Before you book

I’m a bad fit for plenty of projects.

Worth booking the call

  • You run a business on WordPress and downtime or slowness costs you money.
  • You’ve outgrown a page builder and need someone who writes actual code.
  • You’ve been burned by an agency and want one named person accountable.
  • You need a plugin or integration that nobody sells off the shelf.
  • You’re publishing seriously and need SEO, speed, and editorial workflow treated as one system.

Look elsewhere

  • Your budget is under $500. A good freelancer on a marketplace will serve you better than I will.
  • You want the cheapest quote. I’m rarely it, and I won’t compete on price.
  • You need a full-time developer. Hire one; I’ll help you write the job spec.
  • You want guaranteed rankings by a fixed date. Nobody can promise that honestly.
  • You want the work done but not the decisions made. This runs on your input.

Full directory

All 62 services.

Every one of these is delivered through Fix, Build, or Grow above. If you already know the name of the thing you need, start typing.

Common questions

Not answered here? Ask me directly and you’ll hear back within 24 hours.

What does this actually cost?

Projects run from $500 to $25,000+. A single performance fix or migration sits at the low end, a full build with a custom plugin at the high end, retainers in between. You get a fixed quote in writing after the discovery call, and it doesn’t move unless you change the scope.

How long will it take?

Most projects finish in two to six weeks. Isolated fixes are often same-day. Full builds run four to six weeks. You get a realistic date before we start, and a written update every week whether or not there’s good news.

Who is Gatilab, and who am I actually hiring?

You’re hiring me. I lead discovery, architecture, and senior implementation on every engagement. Gatilab is my company, and when a build needs more production hands than one person has, its team picks up the scoped parts. The proposal names which parts those are before you sign.

Do you work with clients outside India?

Most of my clients are. I work asynchronously across time zones with written updates and milestone checkpoints, so nothing waits on a shared working hour. Calls get scheduled in your morning or your evening, whichever you prefer.

What if I’m not happy with the work?

Payments are tied to milestones, so you’re never out a large sum on unfinished work. If a milestone doesn’t meet what we agreed in writing, it gets fixed before the next one starts and before it’s billed.

What happens after launch?

Thirty days of fixes are included. After that, monthly maintenance covering updates, security monitoring, backups, performance checks, and priority support is available. It’s optional. Most clients take it, and the ones who don’t still get their questions answered.

Hi, I’m Gaurav.

I started building on the web in 2008, at sixteen, and I’ve been on WordPress since 2009. Multiple plugins under my name, and enough migrations behind me to know which ones break what.

What I’m actually good at is the join: technical SEO, fast front-ends, and content strategy treated as one system instead of three vendors blaming each other.

More about me

Tell me what’s broken.

Thirty minutes, no pitch. You describe the problem, I tell you what it takes to fix it and roughly what it costs. If I’m the wrong person, I’ll say so on the call.

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