Your nephew can build the website.
Getting found is the part he can’t do.
AI builders got very good at the looking part. So did your nephew, and he’ll do it cheaper than we will. That isn’t the argument. The argument is that a site nobody finds is a brochure in a drawer. We only build for trades, so we know which parts decide that.
- HVAC
- Plumbing
- Auto repair
- Roofing
- Flooring
- Electrical
- Windows & doors
- Landscaping
- Painting
- Renovations
- Duct cleaning
- Garage doors
Two different things get sold as the same purchase.
One of them is a good-looking page. The other one is the reason the phone rings. You’re buying the second one.
Looks great. Nobody arrives.
Every month it costs you again, and it’s still not in the search where your customers are standing.
This is the expensive part.
Schema, service areas, crawlable pages, speed, the structure an answer engine will quote. None of it shows up in a screenshot. All of it decides whether the money came back.
I already have a website.
Then we start from it. We take your content, keep what’s working, and rebuild around it, so you’re not retyping your own services at midnight. You’ll see the old one and the new one side by side before anything changes.
Most of our builds start this way.
I get all my work by word of mouth.
Good. That’s the best kind, and nothing here replaces it. But a referral still looks you up before they call, usually on a phone, often standing in a driveway. What they find in those ten seconds decides whether the call happens.
Word of mouth still ends in a search.
You have four options. Here they are.
We’re not the cheapest and won’t pretend to be. We think we’re the only one still working for you in a year.
Swipe the table sideways →
| Comparison | DIY AI builder | A freelancer or your nephew | A local agency | FrontSail Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $20-40/mo, forever | $300-1,500 once, usually | $3,000-8,000, plus monthly | $590 USD once |
| Looks good | Yes, genuinely | Usually | Yes | Yes, and unlike any other site we built |
| Built to rank locally | Generic template SEO | Depends entirely on the person | Usually, for a monthly fee | Every page, from the first build |
| Quotable by AI search | Not considered | Almost never | Rarely. It’s new. | Designed for it |
| Hosting and speed | Shared, slow, their brand in the URL | Wherever they put it | Usually WordPress on shared hosting | AWS infrastructure, included. Fast everywhere. |
| Stays secure | SSL included, while you subscribe | Until the certificate he set up expires | Depends on plugins staying patched | HTTPS with certificates that renew themselves, and no plugins to hack |
| Who fixes it at 9pm | You do | He is at his day job | A ticket queue | We do it for you |
| Cost after 12 months | $240-480 and still yours to run | Whatever the next favour costs | $4,000+ | $590 USD. That’s the whole number. |
See your site before you pay for it.
Business name, trade, city. We build a real mockup with your services, your area and your city in the search, then send it over. It’s free and there’s nothing to cancel.
- 01You tell us three things. About sixty seconds.
- 02We build it. Minutes, not months.
- 03You look, and tell us what’s wrong. Same day.
- 04Only then does the $590 come up.