Nepal · Kathmandu
Kathmandu has more web agencies than any other city in Nepal, and more competition for the client's attention after launch. Arcetis builds for both.
In Kathmandu's crowded market, the build itself is rarely the hard part, dozens of agencies can hand over a working WordPress or custom site. What is harder is launching into a market where your competitor is also running Google Ads the same week. Arcetis builds the site and, because we are a verified Google Partner managing $270K+ in ad spend, we also know what has to be true on the page for that traffic to convert.
Kathmandu is the one market in Nepal where "we built you a website" is not enough on its own. It has the largest concentration of businesses, the largest concentration of web agencies, and the most paid-search competition of any city in the country. A restaurant in Thamel or a clinic in Baneshwor is bidding against ten competitors for the same Google Ads auction the week their new site goes live.
Arcetis is based in Pokhara, but Kathmandu Valley has been served remotely with the same process we use for local clients since we started taking on client work in 2019: a discovery call, a scoped proposal, builds and reviews over video calls and shared documents, and handover that gives the client their own domain, hosting, and CMS logins. Distance has not been the obstacle people sometimes assume. Most of the build and review cycle for a Kathmandu client looks identical to a Pokhara one.
A website for a Kathmandu business has to do more than look right, it has to load fast on a mid-range Android phone over Ncell or NTC data, rank for terms competitors are also paying to appear for, and give Google Ads a landing page that actually converts instead of just looking like a brochure. We build with that constraint in mind from the first wireframe, not bolted on afterward as "SEO optimization."
We also build in whichever stack actually fits: WordPress for content-heavy sites that a marketing team needs to update themselves, Shopify for e-commerce, or a custom React build when the business needs something a template cannot do, such as a booking system, a CRM-linked dashboard, or an AI-assisted tool. The hospital management system we built on React, TanStack, and Convex came out of exactly this kind of custom need.
Practically, not much. Kathmandu clients get the same proposal process, the same project timeline, and the same team of 15 that Pokhara clients get. Video calls replace in-person meetings, and shared staging links replace walking over to look at a screen. What does not change is ownership: every Kathmandu client keeps their own domain registrar login, hosting account, and CMS access from day one, so there is no dependency on us staying involved after launch.
Where it helps, rather than hurts, is cost. Pokhara's overhead is lower than Kathmandu's, which keeps engagement pricing sharper without cutting the scope of the build. The same site built in Kathmandu by a Kathmandu-based team often costs more for comparable work.
Yes. The entire process runs on calls, shared documents, and staging links rather than in-person meetings, which is how most serious web projects run even between agencies and clients in the same city. We have served Kathmandu Valley clients with this remote process since 2019.
Whichever fits the business. Content-heavy sites usually go on WordPress, stores go on Shopify since we are a verified Shopify Partner, and anything requiring custom logic, such as bookings, dashboards, or CRM integration, gets built as a custom application.
It depends on scope: a focused brochure or landing site can launch in a few weeks, while a custom platform with integrations takes longer. We give a specific timeline in the proposal after a discovery call, not a generic estimate upfront.
Yes. You keep your domain registrar login, hosting account, and CMS or code repository access from day one. There is no lock-in that requires us to stay involved after handover.