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The St. Louis agency
Months of handoffs- 90-minute discovery before a proposal
- Three-month build, junior team handoff
- $185/hour for every change after
- Looks like every other site they shipped
How It WorksThree options have failed
Three options have failed
Here is the fourth
Most web design is built around the agency's overhead, not the client's outcome. LocalCraft Digital is built the other way. A short or long intake, a finished site built on spec, then a decision. Here is the actual mechanic.
“This whole process has been effortless and Jake made the website pretty darn close to flawless on the first draft.”
Why this exists
Local business owners have three options. None of them work
Every local owner has tried option one or two, and considered option three. Here is what each one actually costs you.
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Wix or Squarespace
$30/mo forever- Four Sunday nights stitching a template
- Looks like 30,000 other businesses
- Platform fee for as long as the site exists
- You secretly avoid showing anyone the link
03
An Upwork freelancer
Deposit before delivery- Thirty proposals, one decent sample
- Deposit vanishes for ten days
- Second draft never arrives
- Six months later you restart the search
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The fourth option
Built to work, or I keep working- Short or long intake, no discovery process
- Site built on spec, live on your phone
- Pay only if you decide to keep it
- One human, in your town, who picks up
The process
Four steps. Two days. One decision
No invoice goes out until you see the finished work.
The risk is mine to carry, not yours.
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The intake
Answer a short intake or the full brand interview. What you do, who you serve, what makes your work worth choosing. No requirements documents. No 40-page form.
02
The build
I disappear for 48 hours. Custom design. Real copy. Real photos. Modern framework. Mobile-first. Local SEO and AEO baked in. No revisions because there's nothing to revise yet.
03
The reveal
I show you the finished site, live, on your phone. We walk every page. You note anything you want changed. The first round of adjustments happens that same day.
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The choice
Keep it or walk away. If you keep it, we connect your domain, migrate your email and Google listing, and the site is live by the end of the week. If you walk, you lost a quarter hour.
Why this is possible now
The build was never the bottleneck
LocalCraft brings design, copy, and development together in one 48-hour sprint, with a finished site to review before you pay.
What you're actually paying for6 layers of bloat
- Discovery calls
- Requirements documents
- Revision cycles
- Project management ceremony
- Strategy / design / copy / eng handoffs
- Payment before seeing the work
What an experienced builder has in 20264 sources of leverage
- Modern frameworks
- Performance-first infrastructure
- Current best practices on tap
- Decade of pattern recognition
You review the finished website first. Then we talk through your project price and the support you want after launch.
See it firstThen decide
After launch, Care is $197 a month with two total update hours per calendar month and quarterly optimization. Craft is $497 with four total requested-work hours and monthly optimization. Grow is $997 with eight total requested-work hours, monthly optimization and weekly original content. Unused hours do not roll over. Scheduled services and remedy work sit outside those hours. See what each one includes.
The guaranteeBuilt to work.
Built to work.
I keep working
until it does.
A LocalCraft site isn't built to just look good. It's built to turn visitors into calls and inquiries. If yours isn't doing its job, I keep refining and tuning it until it is. I don't hand off a site that just sits there, and I don't call it done until it's earning its place. That fixing work is mine, so it never comes out of your included hours on any monthly plan. The remedy is always more work, never a refund.
Built to convert
I keep working until it works
Care that never stops