Asked before the build
Straight answers.
The questions every owner asks, answered the way we answer them on WhatsApp — no hedging.
Is it really $1,500, or is that the “starting at” trick?
The quote builder on the pricing page gives you the real band in ten seconds, and the written quote before work starts is flat: price, pages, date. $1,500 covers a genuine 5–7 page custom build. The only thing that moves the number is scope you ask for, in writing.
How can a custom site take only five days?
Because the engineering is done — one hundred builds hardened the pipeline, the accessibility harness, and the components. Your week is spent on the only parts that should be custom: identity, copy, and the one tool your customers need. Fast is practice, not shortcuts.
Do I actually own the site?
Outright, on final payment — files, design, copy. Leave the Care Plan whenever; the working site leaves with you, no export fee, no hostage hosting. It’s in the terms because it’s the point.
What’s the Care Plan and do I need it?
$99/month: hosting, any edit live within 48 business hours (or that month is free), quarterly accessibility re-verification with the report, monthly backups kept for a year. You don’t need it — the build price never depends on it — but most owners would rather text us a menu change than remember a password.
Why do you talk about ADA so much?
Because website accessibility demand letters against small businesses are a real industry in Texas, and they overwhelmingly target sites with zero accessibility effort. Every site we ship is WCAG 2.2 AA verified with the statement pages done — protection that costs almost nothing on day one and plenty on day four hundred.
Can you do my site in Spanish and English?
Fully bilingual, one toggle, the entire site — not a translate widget bolted on. +$450 flat, and our demo catalog includes fully bilingual builds that show exactly how it works.
What do you need from me?
Thirty minutes of conversation, your logo if you have one (we can work without), photos if you have good ones, and honest answers about what you refuse to do in your business — refusals make the best copy.
What if I already have a website?
Then you have content and a track record, which speeds things up. We rebuild, redirect every old URL properly, and your Google standing carries over instead of resetting.
Do you do e-commerce or bookings?
Light commerce (menus, preorders, deposits) and appointment-first builds, yes. A 500-SKU store needs different machinery — we’ll say so in the first call and point you somewhere honest.
Who actually builds it?
A small Houston studio running an AI-accelerated pipeline with human design judgment on every decision. That combination is the whole reason agency-grade work ships at flat main-street prices. You talk to a person, and the person answers fast.
What’s AI search optimization and do I need it?
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews now answer “best ___ near me” directly — and they recommend businesses whose sites they can parse. Every Spring build ships AI-readable by default; for existing sites we offer a $250 readiness audit, credited if we do the fixes.
Can you handle my social media and ads too?
Yes — social management from $299/month and Google Ads setup with a landing page from $500. One studio on your website, brand, and marketing means nothing drifts apart.
One we didn’t answer?
Ask it on WhatsApp — answered same day, by the person who’d build your site.