Websites for local businesses
A website that says only true things about your business.
No stock photos of someone else's premises. No reviews you never received. No fake address quietly published to Google. Just your work, described accurately, on a site built to get you the phone call.
Work
Three builds you can open right now
These are demonstrations, not clients — the businesses are not real and the phone numbers cannot ring. Everything else about them is.
Personal training
Northgate Strength
A five-step intake that qualifies the lead before the first call.
In-home care
Alderwood Home Care
Written for the adult child doing the research, not the person receiving care.
HVAC
Cascade Heating & Air
Phone-first: the main button dials, because a dead furnace does not fill in forms.
What you get
One site, built properly, that you own
Not a subscription, not a page builder, not a template with your logo dropped on it.
The site itself
One page that does the selling, plus an enquiry flow that qualifies.
Your services, how you work, the questions people actually ask before booking, and two ways to get in touch — a phone number that is one tap on a mobile, and a short set of questions that reaches you with the detail you would otherwise spend the first call collecting.
Best for a business that gets work by phone and referral, and needs the website to stop losing the ones who check first.
The things nobody quotes for
Speed, accessibility, and a privacy notice that is actually true.
Every colour is checked against contrast standards by an automated test rather than someone's eye. Every page is prerendered, so it loads instantly and costs almost nothing to host. The privacy page describes what the code genuinely does, line by line — most do not, and most are copied from a site with a different data flow entirely.
Best appreciated later, when it turns out to matter.
Handover, and changing it yourself
Every account is in your name, and you edit the site without me.
The domain, the hosting and the email all sit in accounts you own, on your card, and I remove myself from them when the work is done. Enquiries go to your inbox and are stored nowhere else. You get a login to change your own prices, hours, services and text whenever you want, free — no ticket, no waiting on me, no monthly fee for the privilege.
Best for anyone who has been held hostage by a previous web company.
How it works
Four steps, and you see a price before any of them
The slow part is getting your words and photos together. Everything after that is quick, because the hard decisions were made once and are already made.
A conversation
Twenty minutes on what you do, who you want more of, and what your current site is or is not doing. Free, and it ends with a fixed price or an honest no.
Your words
One request for everything at once — services, prices if you publish them, the five questions you get asked most, and photos. This is the part that takes time, and it is the part only you can do.
The build
Half a day of work once your content is in hand, because the difficult decisions were made once and do not get remade. You see one link and one question: is anything here factually wrong?
Live
Domain, email, and a real test enquiry sent end to end before anyone else sees it. Then it is yours.
About
Why the honesty thing is the whole pitch
Most websites sold to local businesses contain something invented. A stock photo of a workshop that is not theirs. A review nobody wrote. An address the business does not occupy, published as structured data so it turns up in a map listing and sends someone to the wrong street. None of it is malicious — it is just what filling a template looks like when the client has not sent their photos yet.
The problem is that the invented parts are the parts a customer checks. A site built this way says nothing that cannot be verified, leaves a section empty rather than filling it with fiction, and refuses to publish a business record until every field in it is real. That is a smaller claim than most agencies make, and it is one of the few worth making, because it is the only one you can hold me to.
FAQ
What people ask first
What does it cost?
Most builds land between $1,500 and $3,500, as one fixed price agreed before any work starts — there is no monthly fee to me. You will also pay about $20 a month directly to the hosting provider, on your own card, because the account is yours rather than mine. The exact number comes after the first conversation, once I know what you actually need, and it does not change afterwards.
How long does it take?
The build is about half a day. Getting your content together usually takes a week or two, and that is the honest bottleneck — nobody can write your FAQ for you, because the answers have to be yours. If you have your words and photos ready, it is quick.
Do I own it?
Completely, and more than most people mean by that. The domain is registered in your name, the hosting account is yours and on your card, the enquiry inbox is yours, and the code is yours. I am a guest in all of them while I build, and I remove myself when I hand over. There is no subscription that switches the site off if you stop paying, because there is no subscription.
Can you make my existing site better instead?
Sometimes, and I will tell you honestly which is cheaper. If the current site is on a platform that fights back, rebuilding is usually less work than fixing. If it is basically sound and the copy is the problem, that is a much smaller job and I will quote it as one.
What if I need changes later?
Most of them you make yourself, free, whenever you like — prices, opening hours, a service you have added, a paragraph you want reworded. You get a login and a plain form; press save and the site updates itself. A few things stay with me on purpose: your business name, the privacy page, and the settings that decide how you appear in Google, because those are the ones where a wrong value causes a problem you would not see. Ask and I will change them. Anything bigger — a new page, a new section — I quote before I start it.
Tell me what your business does
Twenty minutes, no charge, and it ends with a fixed price or an honest no. I would rather tell you this is not worth doing than take the work.
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