About Dev Wise Studio
The developer who
never stopped being one.
Meet Tom Storms.
Tom started out at IBM Australia, then spent years building websites through leading Brisbane marketing agencies, working across clients big and small. During COVID he made Dev Wise Studio his full-time focus. 20+ years in the craft, and still the one doing the work.
We're a small Brisbane-based studio, not an agency with layers. The person who talks to you is the person who does the work. We work with a trusted network of designers and developers when a project calls for it, but the accountability stays in one place.
Tom Storms
Founder & Principal Developer
Brisbane, Australia
How we help
Three ways to work with us.
Care Plan
Your site kept up to date, backed up and secure, whatever it’s built on, with someone to call when it matters.
From $150 a month
- Platform, plugin and server updates
- Daily backups with tested restores
- Security monitoring and hardening
- Fixes when something breaks
- Light content changes
Technical Lead
Fractional leadWe own your technical decisions and systems, and work with your vendors. A senior lead without the hire.
From $3k a month
- Care Plan included
- Technical decisions and roadmap
- Systems, hosting and vendor management
- Reviews of agency and freelancer work
- A regular check-in with clear priorities
Project Work
Defined pieces of work with a clear scope, a written Project Estimate and a proper handover.
Estimated per project
- New builds and rebuilds
- Platform and hosting migrations
- Automation and integrations
- AI tooling where it earns its place
- Fixing what someone else left behind
Prices are a guide. We confirm yours after a Health Check or a Project Estimate. All prices in AUD, excluding GST.
How we work
We talk before we sell.
Templates have their place. Custom builds have theirs. We'll work out what actually fits before we quote, and we'll tell you if you don't need us.
Honest pricing.
Tell us roughly what you've got to spend and we'll be straight about what's realistic in it. We price to the actual work. No padding, no mystery line items.
No buzzwords. No surprise invoices.
We'll talk tech when it's useful and plain when it isn't. What we won't do is dress up simple things in agency-speak or send you bills you weren't expecting.
The same people, year after year.
Most agencies churn developers. Some of our clients have had the same person on their site for a decade. That continuity is the relationship we're after.
We're honest about fit.
If a project's going to be a nightmare for either of us, we'll say so. We'd rather lose the work than do it badly. But the right challenge, like tech that's new to us or a request out of left field, is exactly what we're up for. We just won't pretend to know what we don't yet.
No vendor lock-in.
Custom builds, owned by you. The code, the data, the keys, the docs: yours. No platform tax. No "you can't take this elsewhere."
Design is a partnership.
We work with designers: yours, ours, or our network. Bringing good design to life is what we do best. Pretending to be designers isn't.
Delivering results:
who we've built for
Businesses we've worked with:
... and agencies who bring us in:
Our results in numbers
20+
Years in the craft
Tom's experience building for the web, from IBM to agency floors.
10+
Years, one client
Our longest-running client relationship, and still counting.
0
Account managers
The person who talks to you is the person who builds your site.
Limited availability
Start a conversation.
No pitch and no pressure. Tell us what you’re running and what’s worrying you. We keep a small client list so we can be there when you need us. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.