Small business owners get quoted between $1,500 and $8,000 for a five-page website, plus $40-$120 a month for hosting and ongoing maintenance. The work behind those quotes — design, copy, deployment, mobile-responsiveness, SEO basics — is mostly the same five pages with a different business name and a different color scheme. AI changes that math: the same five pages, generated from one sentence of business description, costs us about $1 in compute. We charge $99 a year so we can keep building and hosting it for you indefinitely.
The $99 covers everything: a custom domain (we register it for you), hosting on a global CDN, the visual editor for ongoing edits, AI rebuilds whenever your business changes, and free SSL. No setup fee. No platform percentage on sales. No upsells to a "Pro" tier. The same price every year.
We're not free, because free website builders (Wix free tier, Hocoos free, Carrd free) put their watermark on your site and lock you out of a custom domain. That's how a free site costs you customers: "poweredby-wix" in the footer signals "this business didn't invest in their web presence" to every prospective client. $99 a year is what it costs to look as serious as you actually are.
Three example sites our AI would generate. Yours uses your real business name, services, and contact info — generated from a single sentence.
All-in. Custom domain, hosting, SSL, editor, rebuilds, support. No setup fee, no transaction percentages, no Pro tier.
We register and renew your .com (or .ai, .co, .net, etc.) inside the $99. No "+$15/yr for a real domain" surprise.
Add a service or change direction next year? Hit Rebuild. The AI regenerates the site with the new info. No designer fees for V2.
Swap photos, edit copy, change colors. Drag, click, save. No code, no developer.
Service-area pages, schema markup, sub-1.5-second loads on mobile. The technical SEO basics that win local searches.
If you sell on your site we don't take a percentage. Stripe charges its standard 2.9% + 30¢ and that's the whole stack.
$99 per year. Custom domain, hosting, AI rebuilds, edits, and visual editor. No add-ons. Cancel any time.
Build my business site →No. $99 a year, every year. No introductory pricing, no auto-bump after year one. We can offer $99 because the AI handles the bulk of the work — the cost to generate, host, and serve a five-page site at typical small-business traffic is a few dollars in compute and hosting. We mark it up to $99 to cover support, the domain, and a small profit. That's it.
Yes. We register your .com (or .net, .co, .ai, .org, .biz, etc.) and renew it for as long as you stay subscribed. If you cancel, you can transfer the domain out to your own registrar — we don't hold it hostage.
Squarespace's basic plan is $16/month ($192/yr) and is template-driven, not AI-generated. Wix's similar plan is $17/month and shows ads on the free tier. Both make you design the site yourself by dragging blocks; we generate the site from a one-sentence business description. Both lock you to their domain unless you upgrade; we include the custom domain. The price-per-year is roughly half.
For local searches like "[your service] [your town]", yes — with two caveats. First, you need to claim and maintain your Google Business Profile (free, takes 10 minutes; we'll remind you). Second, ranking builds over weeks of indexing and review accumulation; expect 6-12 weeks to page-one for local search terms. The site's technical SEO (page speed, schema, mobile) is at the level you'd pay an agency for; the rest is consistent local-business hygiene.
One sentence is enough: "A family bakery in Charleston, SC — sourdough and pastry, weekend brunch". The AI fills in the rest — services, hours, location, design language — and you edit anything that's wrong in the visual editor. The whole onboarding chat takes 4-6 minutes if you go quickly.
Yes. The site is plain HTML/CSS/JS hosted on Cloudflare Pages. If you outgrow our service or want to move to a WordPress site later, we'll export the HTML and your domain transfers to whatever registrar you pick. We don't have a lock-in scheme.
The complete site. Live URL, all pages, your business name, services, contact info — exactly the site that will go to your custom domain when you subscribe. Try the editor, share the preview link with a colleague, take your time. The $99 is only when you say "yes, make this live on my domain".