Hot Takes · Apr 29, 2026 · 4 min read

    AN AGENCY QUOTED THIS CONTRACTOR $10K. WE BUILT IT FOR $500.

    He's a Polk County contractor. Solid work, twenty years in the trades, the kind of guy who answers his phone on the first ring. He'd been running the whole operation off Facebook and a dead WordPress site.

    An agency quoted him $10,000 to fix it. He laughed and walked out.

    We built it for $500. One page. Real domain. Branded email. Hosted for a year. Google Business claimed and optimised. The site looks like the business he actually runs — not the side hustle his old site made him look like.

    Sixty days later he was at 80+ leads a week. Not vanity metrics. Quoted-and-booked leads.

    The math agencies don't want you to do: $10,000 vs $500 isn't 'cheaper version of the same thing.' It's the same thing. Agencies still bill like it's 2018. We build like it's 2026, and the savings go to you instead of an account manager nobody asked for.

    If your site is dead and you've been ignoring it because the quotes are insulting, this is the answer.

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    Adrian — founder

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