Contractor website design, without the agency in the middle
Custom-built sites for the trades, sold across the country. You text any change and it is live within 4 hours. No call, no meeting, no ticket, no change order.
$750 to $2,500 to build, quoted in writing before work starts. $500 a month after that, month to month, cancel any month.
5 builds a month. That is the real number for one person, not a countdown.
Why this is different
The problem was never the design
Most contractors do not need a redesign. They need the price on the water heater page changed, and it has been three weeks.
That is what an agency retainer buys: a queue. Your $500 goes to an account manager who forwards your email to a developer who bills against a monthly hour bucket.
Here the $500 goes to one person who does the work. That is the whole reason 4 hours is possible and the reason capacity stops at 5 builds a month.
The second problem is the template. A drag-and-drop builder ships a page that loads a theme, a slider, six plugins and a chat widget before it shows your phone number.
Measured on 2026-08-08: a1septictanks.com, built here, scored 99 on Google Lighthouse with a 2.2s LCP. A live page-builder template scored 81 at 3.9s.
Both numbers were run on real headless Chrome, and the slower one is the median of three passes rather than the worst.
By trade
Pick your trade. The pages are different.
A roofing site and a pest control site have almost nothing in common past the header. Each of these is written for what that trade's customers actually search.
- Roofers7 core pages →
- Plumbers7 core pages →
- HVAC7 core pages →
- Electricians7 core pages →
- Landscapers7 core pages →
- Pest control7 core pages →
- Tree service7 core pages →
- Septic7 core pages →
Not on the list? Fencing, garage doors, paving, pools, concrete, junk removal, appliance repair — same build, same price. Text us the trade.
What the money buys
Everything below is included, both numbers
- Every page written for a search someone is already running, not a five-page brochure
- Hand-written code — no page builder, no theme, no plugin stack to keep patched
- Hosting, SSL and monitoring, with no separate hosting invoice
- Technical SEO done at build time: schema, sitemap, canonicals, clean headings
- AEO work, so ChatGPT and Perplexity can read and cite the site
- Photos compressed properly, which is usually the single biggest speed win
- Leads routed wherever you actually read them, including straight to your phone
- Unlimited minor edits by text, within 4 hours, for as long as you stay
How it goes
Four steps, and one of them is yours
01
You text the number
Your trade and the towns you cover. A price and a launch date come back the same day. If the month is full, you're told that.
02
You send photos and a service list
This is the slow part and it is on your end. Everything after it is on mine.
03
We build it
Two to three weeks for most builds. Hand-written code, not a page builder, which is why the scores come out where they do.
04
You text changes forever
Prices, hours, photos, a new service block. Live within 4 hours on a working day, included in the $500.
Proof you can open
16 live sites, every URL clickable
There is no logo bar on this site, and the one client review we have is printed in full with a name on it. The proof leaned on instead is the work itself: 16 production sites built in this studio, one carrying 4,420,000 pages, every one of them up right now. Open any of them and time the load yourself.
Every Lighthouse score quoted on this site was measured on a real browser and is listed with the URL it came from. Nothing here is a claim you have to take on trust.
See all 16, with the measured scores →Current offer
A custom site plus 3 months of getting found, for $1,000
One payment covers the build and the first 3 months of SEO and AI-search work. The same three months at the standard rate start at $2,250. After that it is the usual $500/month, cancel any month.
Bigger build than this? Text us instead.
Pricing
Here's the price. All of it.
Build
$750–$2,500one time
Most roofing and septic builds land between $1,200 and $1,800. You get the exact number by text before anything starts, and it doesn't move after that.
This range is quoted, not self-serve, because the price moves with your services and markets. Want to skip the quote and buy now instead? Order the $1,000 starter build — no call, checkout takes a form.
What you get
- A page for every service and every townSomebody searching “septic pumping” lands on your septic pumping page, not your homepage.
- Written for you, not filled in by youWritten for you off one 30-minute call. You approve it before it ships.
- A quote form that is four fieldsName, phone, address, what’s wrong. Every extra field costs you leads.
- Your Google reviews on the pageReal star rating, updating itself. Not a screenshot from 2019.
- Schema and AEO structure built inHours, service area and answers in the format Google and AI actually read.
- Live in a weekYou see it on a staging link first. Nothing goes public without your say.
What moves the price
- How many services you sell. A tree service with 4 services is cheaper than an HVAC company with 14.
- How many markets you want to rank in. 3 is a smaller build than 25.
- Whether you need photos shot or you already have them.
- Whether you're moving an old site over or starting clean.
The Cycle — $500/month
That's $6,000 a year. One roof is $12,000, and after materials and labor one extra job still covers it. Everything after that is yours.
What's in it
- Unlimited edits by textEvery one live within 4 hours on a business day. No ticket, no call.
- A new page whenever you add a service or a townWritten, built and indexed. Not a bullet added to an existing page.
- SEO for the markets you actually sell intoTargeted where your buyers are, not a national keyword report you will never read.
- AEO — getting named when someone asks AI for your tradeMeasured with aivisibilitymetrics.com, a tool we built, so you see whether it moved.
- Hosting, SSL, backups, uptime monitoringIf it goes down at 2 AM, we find out before you do.
- One short note a month, in plain EnglishWhat moved, what changed, what's next. No 40-page dashboard export.
Cancel any month, no notice and no exit fee. The site is yours either way — it moves to your own hosting account and the files are handed over. Nothing gets held hostage or shut off.
5 builds a month, and that's the cap. Not a countdown timer — it's how many one builder can do properly. When a month is full you get the next open date instead of being stacked up.
Text your trade and your towns — quoted the same dayFAQ
The questions you're already asking
What does it cost?
The build is $750 to $2,500, one time, quoted in writing before any work starts. After launch it's $500 a month for SEO, AEO, hosting and unlimited edits. No setup fee, no ad spend markup, no annual jump.
What's the process, and how long does it take?
Five stages: quote, a 30-minute kickoff call, copy and structure for your approval, the build, then launch. Two to three weeks from kickoff for most projects. You approve everything on a private staging link before anything goes public.
What do you need from me?
One 30-minute call, your service list, your service area, and photos of your trucks and crews if you have them. That's it. The copy is written for you and sent back for approval — you don't fill in a template.
Who owns the site?
You do, from day one. Your domain, your content, your photos, your code. Ask and the files and hosting are handed over inside a week. Ownership doesn't depend on staying a client.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. The $500 is month to month. Cancel in any month with no fee, no exit call and no 30-day notice letter. If the work stops earning you calls, you shouldn't be paying for it.
What counts as a minor change?
Prices, hours, phone numbers, photos, staff, offers, text on any page, a new service block. Anything short of a brand-new page or a new feature. Larger work is quoted before it's touched.
Who am I actually working with?
One builder, on purpose. The person who writes the copy, builds the pages and answers your text is the same person — that's why an edit ships in four hours instead of going through an account manager. Capacity is five builds a month, which is why the number is published.
What if I need to talk to someone?
Call the number on this page. Text is the default because it's faster for 95% of changes, not because there's nobody to reach. Kickoff is a scheduled call, and reviews happen on the phone whenever you want.
What happens if I stop paying?
The site stays yours. It's moved to your own hosting account and the files are handed over. SEO work, edits and monitoring stop. Nothing is held hostage, switched off, or ransomed back.
Order your site
No call, no quote, no proposal.
$1,000 covers the build and the first 3 months. Pay, fill in one form, and it's booked against this month's capacity. Bigger job than that? Text your trade and towns and we'll quote it by hand.
You own the site from day one. The monthly cancels any month.
Or text us — bigger job, or a question first.Or call the same number and talk it through.No discovery call. No calendar link. No sales pipeline.