$2,400one time
Everything in, whatever your business is. No smaller version to be talked into and no bigger one to be upsold.
50% to start, 50% before it goes live.
Websites built to last.
I build your homepage before you pay anything. If you like it, it is $2,400 — once, not monthly — and the domain, the hosting and every account end up in your name.
See your site firstNo cost to look. Nothing to sign.
- Fast on phones and desktops
- You own every account
- Free hosting, in your name
- One person, who answers
The difference
This is what most people are working with.
A lot of local businesses are still running a site built before phones mattered. It is not costing them the customers who call anyway — it is costing them the ones who quietly go somewhere else.
No viewport tag, so the phone shrinks the desktop layout to a third of its size. The number is text, not a link. Nothing is tappable.
Built for the screen it is actually read on. The number is a button, the services are reachable, and the reviews are on the page.
Both are the same demo build. Harbor Plumbing is not a real company — the “before” shows the faults I find on real sites, not any particular one.
Why this matters
Three numbers, and where they come from.
96%
of consumers read online reviews of local businesses at least occasionally.
Your rating is being read whether or not it is on your site. It may as well be on your site.
BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2025 · 1,026 US adults
76%
of people who search on a phone for something nearby visit a related business within a day.
Someone searching your trade in your town is not browsing. They are deciding today.
Think with Google, mobile search behaviour, 2016 · US smartphone users
2.5s
slower — the median load time of mobile sessions that bounced, versus those that did not.
The visitors a slow site loses are the ones who never tell you they were there.
Google / SOASTA research, via Think with Google, 2016 · machine-learning analysis of mobile sessions
These are industry-wide findings, not a forecast for your business. Nobody can honestly tell you how many more calls a new website will bring you — anyone who puts a number on that is guessing. They are simply the reason I build the way I do.
How it works
Backwards from how this usually goes.
Most of the risk in hiring someone to build a website is that you pay first and find out afterwards. This runs the other way round.
I build it first
Before I contact anyone I build their homepage for real — their services, their reviews, their photos. Not a template with their name dropped in.
You look at it
I send you a link. Open it on your phone, show it to whoever you show things to. There is nothing to sign and nothing to pay to look.
You decide
If it is not for you, say so and that is genuinely the end of it. If it is, we agree the price up front and I finish it.
You own it
The domain, the hosting account, the form, the analytics — all created in your name, on your email. I hand over the logins and walk away.
What you own
Everything. That is the whole point.
A website you cannot log into is not yours, whatever the invoice says. Every account gets created in your name, on your email, and I hand you the keys at the end.
It is also why the hosting is free rather than cheap: the site is static HTML on infrastructure that costs nothing at your traffic. There is no margin for me to protect by keeping it.
- You see the site before you pay anything
- Hosting is free, forever — not free for a year
- The domain stays in your name
- Every account is yours: host, domain, form, analytics
- Plain HTML at the end — any web person you hire later can edit it
What it costs
One price, fixed.
Fixed price, quoted before I start. Not an estimate, not an hourly rate.
- Built for the phone in their hand — and just as sharp on a desktop
- Your services, your area, your reviews, your hours
- Tap-to-call on every screen
- A contact form that reaches your inbox
- The code Google reads to get your hours, address and service area right
+$800 if you trade from more than one location, or your work splits into enough separate jobs to need a page each. Most businesses are neither. It is the only variation, and you will know before I start.
What that looks like in three years.
This
$2,400
paid once
- Hosting stays $0 a month, forever
- The domain is registered in your name
- You hold every login
- Nothing to cancel, because nothing is running
After 3 years you have paid $2,400.
A monthly plan
$5,400
at $150 a month
- Setup is often charged on top of this
- The site is switched off when you stop paying
- The domain often sits in their account, not yours
- Three years in, you own nothing
After 3 years you have paid $5,400, and it stops the month you do.
Plans in this market run roughly $50–$200 a month. At the very cheapest end, 3 years of payments comes to $1,800 — less than I charge. You would still own nothing at the end of them, and the site would still go dark the month you stopped.
There is no monthly plan.
Most shops sell you a $50–200/month “website plan”. Stop paying and the site goes dark, because it was never yours. I would rather charge once, hand you the keys, and have you not need me again.
The obvious question
Where is the catch?
You should be asking. Someone you have never met offering to build your website before you pay is the exact shape of a scam, and telling you it is not one proves nothing. So here is how each part actually works — check any of it.
Why would you build it before I pay?
Because cold-calling does not work and I would rather show you than tell you. Building a homepage costs me an afternoon. Enough people say yes to make that worth doing, and the ones who say no cost me an afternoon — which is cheaper than a sales team.
How is the hosting free forever?
Because there is nothing to run. Your site is plain files — no database, no server, nothing to keep switched on. Cloudflare serves files like that free, with no bandwidth limit, on an account in your name. I am not absorbing a cost to be generous; at this size there genuinely is not one.
What do you get out of it?
The one payment. There is no commission on your domain, no kickback from the host, no cut of anything, and nothing of yours gets sold or shared. If you never speak to me again after launch, I have still been paid what I quoted.
What if I say no?
Then it ends there. You owe nothing, there is nothing to cancel, and I do not follow up. The preview comes down after a while and that is the end of it.
And the things I will not do.
- No contract to sign, and nothing that auto-renews
- No monthly fee, now or later
- I never ask for your passwords — not your bank, not your email, not anything
- Nothing you send me is sold, shared, or added to a list
- No upsells after launch, and no charge for a typo
- No lock-in — the files are yours and any web person can edit them
Straight answers
The questions you are actually asking.
Can I see examples of your work?
Yes — there are demo builds on the Work page, and they are labelled as demos rather than dressed up as clients. There is a better test available though: ask, and I will build your homepage. Then you are looking at your own business on your own phone instead of somebody else’s, and you have not paid anything to do it.
Why is this cheaper than the agency that quoted me?
No office, no account manager, no sales team, and no monthly hosting bill to resell you. One person doing the work, on infrastructure that genuinely is free at your size.
What happens if you disappear?
You keep everything, and nothing breaks. The domain is registered in your name, the hosting is your account on your email, and the site is plain HTML sitting inside it. Any web person you hire can pick it up — there is no framework to learn and nothing to log into that belongs to me.
Do I have to pay to see it?
No. The homepage gets built before I contact you at all. Looking costs nothing, there is nothing to sign, and “no thanks” ends it with no hard feelings.
Can I change it later, or do I have to come back to you?
Either. It is plain HTML with no build step, so whoever you like can edit it. Ask me and I will do it; hand it to someone else and they will not have to unpick anything.
What happens to my current contact form?
It gets replaced, and there is nothing for you to dig out. Old forms are almost always a script on your current host or a plugin inside something like WordPress, and neither travels — but neither holds anything worth taking either. Your new one is registered on your own email and lands in the inbox you already read. No mail settings to copy, and I never need a password to your email. There is a longer answer on the how it works page.
What do you need from me?
Photos taken on your own phone — the full-size originals, not ones sent through a messaging app — your service list, and half an hour to talk. If you have a logo file, the original of that too.
Want to see yours?
Tell me the business and I will build the homepage and send you a link. No cost, no meeting, no obligation to like it.