The best-looking business in town gets the call.

You can — plenty do. But a builder gives you the same template your competitor has, loads slower than Google likes, and quietly eats your evenings. Our job is the design taste, the writing, the speed, and the Google plumbing you'd otherwise learn the hard way. You're not paying for software; you're paying to look like the best in town without becoming a part-time web designer.

Open it on your phone right now. If it loads slow, looks dated, or your phone number isn't one tap away, it's costing you calls every week — you just never see the ones that didn't come. Send us the link; we'll tell you honestly whether it needs a rebuild or just a tune-up. Sometimes the answer is “keep it.”

Fourteen days for most projects, and you'll see the design by day five. The only thing that ever slows it down is waiting on photos or approvals — and we'll chase those with you.

Yes. Anything you'd change regularly — hours, prices, photos, the menu — is set up so you can edit it without breaking anything. Most owners end up texting us instead: on a care plan, small edits are included and usually done the same day.

Then you don't pay. The design preview comes before the invoice, on purpose — you can ask for one at corpsights.com/preview without speaking to anybody. Once we start you get the revision rounds set out in your agreement, and we don't nickel-and-dime a reasonable extra change — “I can't put my finger on it, but no” is a valid note.

Your domain, your content, your photos and your customer data are yours from day one, and the domain is registered in your name — nobody can hold your web address hostage, ever. The design and code of the site itself stay ours while you're on a plan, and you hold a full licence to use it as your own business's site for as long as the plan is paid — the way a franchisee uses the brand's system while they're in the network. Cancel at any point and it's your call: hand it back and owe nothing further, or buy it out and own it permanently. The buyout starts at $12,000 once your three-month minimum is up, and comes down by $400 for every further month you stay, never going below $2,400. Or skip all of that and buy it outright up front, and it's yours the day it launches.

Fair question to ask a small team. Three protections: your domain, content and data are yours outright and the site is yours to buy out at a published price that only ever goes down (from $12,000, falling $400 for every month you stay), the site is built on boring, portable technology any developer can pick up, and you get a handover document with every login and instruction in plain English. No hostages.

Because a website on its own stopped being enough a while ago. A site nobody finds is a business card in a drawer — it looks lovely and does nothing. The monthly plans exist so somebody is actually working on getting you found every month: your Google profile, your reviews, new search content, and a report showing the traffic and calls it produced. You can absolutely just buy the site outright for $24,000 if you'd rather, and some people do. We'd just rather earn it every month than take a check and vanish.

Agreed — it's a lot for a website, and we wouldn't charge it for one. That's a local SEO retainer with a hand-built site included free, and a studio doing work at this standard runs $1,500 to $8,000 a month. Cheaper shops exist; they run templates and offshore the build, and it shows on a phone in about two seconds. What you're buying is the work that makes the phone ring: managing your Google Business Profile, ranking you in the map pack, writing new search content every month, steadily building real reviews, and a monthly report showing your traffic, your calls, and where each one came from. If it isn't working after three months, fire us — after that you're month to month and nothing holds you.

Then Essential at $1,497 a month is your plan. Custom site, built free, hosted and secured, up to 6 content changes a month, and your Google profile set up properly. No SEO retainer, no monthly content, no upsell calls. Plenty of businesses genuinely only need to look professional and load fast, and that's a completely respectable place to sit.

Three months, then you're free. That's it — long enough that we're not building sites for people who vanish in week two, short enough that you're never trapped. Most agencies want twelve or twenty-four; we'd rather keep you because the work is good. Your price is also locked for as long as you stay, so it never quietly creeps up on you.

Because at $500 nobody is building you anything. That price buys a template with your logo dropped into it, usually assembled offshore by someone who will never speak to you, and you can tell within two seconds of opening it on a phone. Every site we ship is drawn and written and built by hand, in-house, and then kept working every month afterwards. If a template is genuinely all you need, take the $500 one — we'd rather you did that than pay us and resent it. But you asked what the difference is, and the difference is that one of them is a product and the other is somebody's actual attention.