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Websites for Local Businesses

Your website works
the night shift.

It's the only one on shift at 2 a.m. when someone wants a quote. We design, write, hand-code, and host sites with a clear path to a quote or booking on every page. Hosted by us, so a change is one call.

Talk About Your Website See the Live Work

No template. No page builder. Nothing to patch.

The Work

Real sites. Built for real local businesses.

Before you hire anyone to build your website, look at what they've already built. Two recent examples, shown exactly as they're live today. Hover over a screen to scroll the page; tap or click any screen to see it full size.

thereynoldsinstitute.com
Full home page of The Reynolds Institute website: editorial typography, warm interior photography, four service cards, founder essay, and consultation call to action Hover to scroll · click to enlarge
The Reynolds Institute home page on a phone

The Reynolds Institute

Psychology practice · Scottsdale, Arizona

A practice serving neurodivergent adults needed a site that felt like the practice itself: calm, credible, and nothing like a directory listing. Editorial typography, warm interior photography, and a clear path to booking on every page.

  • Four service lines, each with its own page and its own call to action
  • The founder's essay and philosophy given room to breathe, not buried under stock photos
  • Schema markup, sitemap, and search indexing handled at launch
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bbl.stratum137.com
Full home page of the Briggs Brothers Lighting website: interactive lighting visualizer over a desert home at dusk, residential and commercial service cards, and quote call to action Hover to scroll · click to enlarge
Briggs Brothers Lighting home page on a phone, with the lighting visualizer switches

Briggs Brothers Lighting

Landscape & holiday lighting contractor · Phoenix metro

A lighting contractor sells something you can't picture until it's installed. So the home page lets you install it: flip the switches and watch a home light up in seven colour schemes, at sunset or full night, before you ever ask for a quote.

  • Interactive lighting visualizer built from scratch — no plugin does this
  • Residential and commercial galleries, customer reviews, and a quote form
  • The owner's own drone footage, cut and compressed to load in a blink
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What You Get

A site designed around what your business actually does.

Hand-coded from a blank page

No WordPress, no page builder, no plugins to patch. Designed around your business and written in your voice, so it doesn't look like every other shop in town.

Mobile-first

Built for the phone in your customer's hand, with a clear path to a quote or booking on every page.

Readable by search and AI assistants

Schema markup, a sitemap, an llms.txt file, and search indexing set up at launch. Hand-coded, so it loads fast. The plumbing that lets search engines read your business.

Hosted and maintained by us

Your site runs on our servers. When something needs changing, there's one call to make.

Interactive when it sells

Visualizers, calculators, quote tools — built from scratch when showing beats telling.

Written, not just designed

We write the pages too, in the owner's voice, so you're not staring at a blank document.

The Site Is the Door. AI Is the Room.

The same team adds AI when it pays.

When you're ready, we connect lead capture to your follow-up as a Wedge Sprint: every inbound lead qualified, routed, and answered inside the hour, in your voice. Fixed scope, flat price, KPI agreed before you pay. One team, one call.

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How It Works

Three steps. One team the whole way.

01

One Call

You walk us through the business: what you sell, who buys it, and what a visitor should do next. We map what the site needs to do.

02

Designed, Written, Built

From a blank page, in your voice, hand-coded and mobile-first. You review working pages, not a slide deck.

03

Launched and Hosted

Schema, sitemap, and search indexing set up at launch. We host it, so any change after that is one call.

Pricing

Scoped flat. You know the number before we start.

$1,997 setup · $199/monthFound & Booked: the site, plus everything that gets you found and turns visits into calls.

Quoted before work starts, like everything we build. If a website isn't the thing your business needs right now, we'll tell you that too.

  • Design and copy, written in your voice
  • Hand-coded, mobile-first pages
  • Schema markup, sitemap, llms.txt, and search indexing at launch
  • Quote or booking form that lands in your inbox and on your phone
  • Google Business Profile set up or cleaned up
  • Hosting on our servers, covered by the monthly
  • One call for any change, covered by the monthly
Questions

Straight answers.

Is it WordPress or a site builder?

Neither. Every site is hand-coded from a blank page. No page builder, no plugins, nothing to patch.

Who hosts it, and what happens when I need a change?

We host it on our own servers. When something needs changing, you make one call.

Will Google and AI assistants be able to read it?

We set up schema markup, a sitemap, an llms.txt file, and search indexing at launch, and keep the pages fast. That's the plumbing search engines use to read your business. Nobody can honestly promise a ranking, and we won't.

Can you add AI to it later?

Yes, and it's the same team. Lead intake and follow-up run as a Wedge Sprint: fixed scope, flat price, with a KPI agreed before you pay.

Let's talk about your website.

Tell us what your business does and what your current site isn't doing. We'll tell you what we'd build, and what it costs, before any work starts.

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Or start with a $300 Strategy Session