01 Pricing
$295 to get your business online. $20 a month to keep it there.
One plan, one price, and the whole first year written out below. No proposal process, no discovery fee, and nothing that only becomes clear once you have signed.
Launch
$295 to build and launch
then $20/month for care, support and hosting
| Build and launch — 12-month agreement | $295 |
|---|---|
| Care and support — $20 × 12 | $240 |
| Domain registration and management | included |
| First year, all in | $535 |
Every year after that is $240 — the same $20 a month — plus the domain renewal at cost, usually around $20. There is no second build fee, ever.
Text only — I answer texts faster than calls.
02 The comparison
The same website, priced two ways.
These are published 2026 ranges for the industry, not quotes from any particular firm. They are what a small business is typically asked to pay for work of this kind.
| What you are buying | Typically | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Build and launch 1 | $8,000 – $15,000 | $295 |
| Care, hosting and support 1 | $3,600 – $12,720 / year | $240 / year |
| Agency build, quoted range 2 | $5,000 – $30,000 | $295 |
| First year, all in 1 | $11,600 – $27,720 | $535 |
Against the cheapest published first year, this is about a tenth of the price — and one person, not a team of six.
- Digital Applied — Website Development Cost 2026 — Small-business brochure sites at $3,000–$8,000 with a freelancer and $8,000–$15,000 with a boutique agency; annual ongoing cost of $3,600–$12,720. Cites the Clutch 2026 survey, in which 61% of small-business buyers spent under $10,000 on their most recent website.
- Leadpages — 2026 Website Design Price Guide — $500–$5,000 one-time for a freelance designer; $5,000–$30,000 and up for an agency build.
03 What you get
Everything below is in the price.
- A complete website, designed for your business and written with you
- Built to load fast on a phone with two bars of signal
- A contact, quote or booking form wired to your inbox
- Your domain registered and managed for the first year
- HTTPS, daily backups, and the server kept patched
- Small changes — hours, prices, staff, photos — whenever you need them
- Found by Google: sitemap, structured data, and the local listing basics
- One person to text when something looks wrong
And what is not
- Advertising budget, if you choose to run ads
- Professional photography or video, though I will happily shoot the basics
- Payment processing fees, if you sell online
- Domain renewal after the first year — roughly $20, billed at cost
Said here so it is never a surprise on an invoice.
04 Before you ask
The questions that come next.
- What happens after the first year?
- The $20 a month continues if you want it to, and covers hosting, backups, security updates and small changes. There is no second build fee and no renewal contract. The domain renews at cost, usually around $20 a year.
- What if I want to leave?
- You give me a month's notice and I hand over everything: the domain, the hosting login, the code and the backups. No exit fee, no data to extract, no held credentials. The one-year agreement covers the build, not your freedom to walk away from it.
- How can it be this much cheaper than an agency?
- Two reasons. There is one person instead of a team of six, so you are not paying for account management, project management and handoffs between them. And I use AI to do the mechanical half of the work — scaffolding, tests, the tedious refactors — so a build that would have taken weeks takes days. The judgment is still mine; the typing is not.
- What is not included?
- Advertising budget, professional photography or video, payment processing fees if you sell online, and the domain renewal after year one at roughly $20. Everything else that keeps the site up and current is in the monthly fee.
The rest are answered on the main page, or by text.