Questions we hear before every job.

Yes — fully. When you make the final payment, the code, copy, design, and assets belong to you. We'll hand off the files and transfer hosting access whenever you ask.

No platform lock-in, no monthly license fee to keep the site online. If you ever want to switch providers, you can walk out the door with everything.

We'll help you move. Domain, hosting, analytics — whatever you need transferred. Our standard hosting plan is month-to-month with 30 days' notice. No cancellation fee, no hostage situation.

Some clients stay for the care plan because small edits come back in 48 hours. Some take the site and host it themselves. Both are fine.

Short answer: usually it's cheaper and faster to rebuild. Platform builders lock up the code, limit what you can change, and load slowly — the problems you're feeling are usually the platform, not the design.

We'll redirect your old URLs so you don't lose Google rankings, copy over the content worth keeping, and point your existing domain at the new site. From your customer's side, it looks like the same website — just faster and better.

We redirect old URLs to the new ones (301 redirects), keep your existing page titles and descriptions where they're working, and submit a new sitemap to Google on launch day. Sites we've migrated have kept or improved their rankings within 30 days.

We don't promise specific rank changes — anyone who does is bluffing. But technically, migration is a well-understood problem and we do it cleanly.

$1,500 flat for a 3–5 page site. That's the build. Hosting is optional — $50/month for us to host, monitor, and patch the site (think of it like insurance). Skip it and self-host; the site is yours either way. Bigger projects (more pages, photo shoots, complex migrations) get quoted in writing before we start. Full breakdown on the pricing page.

What you won't see: surprise change orders or "phase two" upsells. One price, one scope, one site.

Yes, assuming you get us feedback promptly. Two days on design, five days on build. The clock starts the day after the scoping call, when the deposit clears and we have your assets.

If we're waiting on content, photos, or approvals for more than a few days, it extends. Most clients hit the seven-day window because they want to be done with it as badly as we do.

Optional, $50/month, month-to-month. It's basically insurance for your site. Covers hosting on Vercel, SSL, automated backups, uptime monitoring, security patches, and domain-renewal handling. Every quarter we run a health check — broken links, form tests, page-speed audit, image review — and keep an eye on your Google Business Profile and search indexing. Hosting clients also jump the queue for any paid change requests. Cancel anytime with 30 days' notice.

If you'd rather host yourself on Vercel or Netlify, you can. We'll get you set up and you're on your own from there — the site is yours.

Before launch: every project includes two rounds of revisions on the design and two on the build. Most clients don't need both.

After launch: corrections and edits start at $100 each, quoted before we start. New pages or larger design changes run $75–$150+ depending on scope. We quote in writing before touching anything.

The person building your site. When you call or email, it goes to the designer-developer working on your project. No account managers, no ticket queues, no voicemail tree.

This is the bet the whole studio is built on: skip the layer cake and pass the savings along as faster responses and a site that actually sounds like your business.

Yes. Before anyone writes a word, you fill a short intake form and we do a 30-minute call walking through it — including how you'd describe a typical job from first phone call to driveway exit. That conversation becomes the copy. You review and tweak from a near-final draft, never a blank page.

If you have existing copy you like, we'll use it. If you hate writing, that's what we're here for.

Your own jobsite photos (even phone photos) work best — nothing sells a trade business like real work. We'll help you pick the strong ones, clean them up, and lay them out so they look professional.

If you don't have usable photos, we can sub in licensed stock for launch and swap them for real photos later. For clients in the LA area, we can also arrange a half-day photoshoot at cost.

Yes — mobile-first, not an afterthought. Over 60% of local trade searches happen on a phone. Every site we build is designed on mobile first and tested on real devices before launch.

We'll walk you through setting up or claiming your Google Business Profile on our scoping call — it's included, not a separate line item. We'll also give you a review request template that has worked for other clients.

We don't manage your reviews or pretend to run paid ads. Those are specializations. We do the website well and tell you honestly what we don't do.

If you're on a care plan: call, text, or email and we fix it — no ticket, no charge. If you're not on a care plan: same response, billed at our standard hourly rate. We don't leave broken sites broken.

In practice, static sites on Vercel almost never break. The site just sits there and works for years.

No. You have our direct email and phone number. Even without a care plan, we answer reasonable questions after launch — that's basic professional courtesy and it costs us nothing to be a human being about it.

Yes. New service page, seasonal promotion, whole new section — we quote it up front, build it in days, and ship. Because the site is custom-built to match the original design system, it still looks like the same site a year later, not a Frankenstein of bolted-on templates.