The on-ramp
A website you own from day one.
Up to eight pages, designed, written and built for you. Pay once to build it and a small yearly fee to keep it fast, secure and online. No contract, no surprises.
- Live in 2 weeks
- Billed yearly, not monthly
- Cancel any time
- Your domain, your files
What $249 buys
Everything a small business site actually needs
- A real website, not a template you fill in
- Home, About, Services, Contact, and up to four more of your choosing. We handle the images, the layout and the build. Send your text, or just tell us about the business and we will write the first draft for you to correct.
- Built to be quick
- Your site loads fast on a phone on a bad signal, which is where most of your customers actually are. Speed is the whole reason we are called what we are called.
- Nothing to break in
- No login page, no plugins and no database — so there is very little for anyone to attack. Fewer moving parts is the best security there is.
- Right on every screen
- Phone, tablet, laptop, the big monitor in the office. Built once, works everywhere, checked on all of them before it goes live.
- Email on your domain
- hello@yourbusiness.com forwards straight to the inbox you already use. No new password, no new app to check.
- Two rounds of changes
- You see it, you mark up what you want different, we fix it. Twice, before launch, included — not billed by the hour.
How it goes
Live in two weeks
The clock starts when we have what we need from you, and it pauses whenever we are waiting on you. We are not going to hold you to a deadline you do not control.
You see a design first
Before any code is written we send a full design in Figma, and you approve it. On a monthly plan we do this before you sign anything, free and with no obligation — reviewing it commits you to nothing.
Tell us about the business
A short form right after you pay — what you do, who you serve, your hours, your logo and any photos. Fifteen minutes, and you can come back to it.
You watch it get built
A private staging link, so you see the real site taking shape rather than a picture of one. When our own quality check is done we formally hand it to you for yours.
You mark it up, twice
Tell us what is wrong and we fix it — twice over, before launch. Every round is included and none of it is billed by the hour.
It goes live
We point your domain, switch on the certificate and set up email forwarding. You get the analytics link and we start watching that it stays up.
We build on best-in-class free tools and we do not mark them up. Every account we create is in your name with us added as a helper — so if you ever leave, nothing is held hostage and nothing needs untangling.
Build your site
Pick what you need.
See the price.
Your site is already in. Decide whether you want changes looked after, add anything extra, and pay. The total updates as you go and nothing is hidden until checkout.
Your site
Changes after launch
Add features Optional
Booking, a chat line to your phone, a quote form, testimonials, your Google listing. One-off prices, and all of them can be added later too.
Who is it for?
Ramp or Kickstart
Buy the site, or subscribe to it
These are the two ways in, and they cost about the same in year one. The difference is ownership and whether anyone is working on it after launch — so here is the whole thing side by side.
Ramp
Buy the site
Kickstart
Subscribe to it
The first-year figures are close on purpose — this is not a cheap option and an expensive one. Ramp is for a business that wants to own a site and not think about it again. Kickstart is for one that would rather have somebody to send changes to every month. Pick on that, not on the number.
Straight answers
The questions everybody asks
Because a website is a running thing, not a finished thing. The yearly fee covers the hosting it lives on, the security certificate, the backups and the monitoring that tells us it is up. If it ever goes down, we find out before you do.
If a payment is more than 30 days overdue, the site is replaced with a simple holding page until it is brought up to date. Nothing is deleted — it comes straight back the day you are settled up.
Then you leave. Your domain is in your name and we release it, and we export every page as files and hand them to you. You bought the site — you keep it. There is no contract and no notice period.
Your call. Either you register it yourself and we connect it, or we register it for you and the renewal is covered by your yearly fee. Either way it is in your name and you can take it with you.
Forwarding is included — mail to your domain lands in whatever inbox you already use, at no extra cost. Proper mailboxes are available on the monthly plans.
Add the care plan at $99 a quarter, which covers four changes a quarter done within two business days. Without it, changes are still possible at an hourly rate in the standard queue. You can add it any time.
One page is one screen of content with its own web address. A long page with several sections down it is still one page. Ramp covers up to eight, and if the business genuinely needs a ninth we build it rather than invoice for it.
We build it so it can be found: clean structure, fast loading, the right markup, and your Google Business Profile set up if you add that. But nobody can promise you a position in Google, and we are not going to be the ones who pretend to. If you want someone actively working on your visibility every month, that is what the monthly plans are for.
Because with a builder you design it yourself, maintain it yourself and fix it yourself when something breaks. This is a site built for you and looked after for you, for $399 a year.
The tool is free, and the account is in your name so you can check. The $99 is for installing it properly: set to your hours, connected to your phone and tested end to end. Not for the software.
We are building out the portfolio, so the first 25 sites get their first year of upkeep for $199 instead of $399, as long as that year is paid up front. From year two it is the standard $399, and we tell you before that happens. Once the 25th build is signed the offer closes to new customers, and anyone already on it keeps it.
Worth reading first
Read this before you buy a website from anyone
Complete guides, not teasers. If you follow one and never call us, it worked.
- I get all my work from word of mouth. Do I need a website? Maybe not. If you are at capacity, hiring nobody and taking no new customers, a website is not urgent and anyone telling you otherwise is selling. 9 min read
- What a website actually costs, and what you are paying for A small-business website in the Chicago area runs from about $200 for a simple built-once site to $15,000 or more for a custom build with integrations. 11 min read
- How long a website actually takes, and what makes it late A five-page small-business website takes two to four weeks. A custom fifteen-page site with original copy and photography takes six to twelve. 9 min read
Ready when you are.
Or if you would rather talk it through first, that is fine too — calls are answered and routed, and anything real reaches us the same day.