Sites built to rank
and to book.
Custom-coded sites for Chicago and Midwest businesses. Fast, mobile-first, on-page SEO baked in from day one. Launches in three weeks.
Custom design
No templates. Every page is designed from scratch to match your brand and convert your specific audience.
Mobile-first build
Coded to perform on phones first — where most of your traffic lands. Desktop is the bonus, not the baseline.
SEO baked in
Semantic HTML, fast load times, structured data, and meta setup done right from the first commit.
Booking & contact flows
Forms, calendars, and intake flows that push leads directly into your inbox or CRM — no extra setup.
CMS integration
Want to update your own content? We wire up a headless CMS so your team can publish without touching code.
Performance optimized
Sub-second loads, optimized images, and clean code that scores well on Core Web Vitals out of the gate.
Design first, then build.
We start with a kickoff call to understand your business, your customers, and what a conversion actually looks like for you. From there we design in Figma — you review and approve before we write a single line of code. Builds typically ship in three weeks. No month-long discovery phases, no strategy decks.
Everything is hand-coded. No WordPress, no Webflow, no page builders. That means no plugin vulnerabilities, no bloated runtimes, and no platform lock-in.
- Design mockups for review before a single line of code
- Fully custom-coded site (no page builders)
- Hosting setup and domain configuration
- Google Analytics 4 + Search Console
- One month of post-launch edits included
The difference between a website that generates leads and one that doesn't.
Most business websites fail at the most basic job: turning visitors into customers. They're slow, hard to navigate on mobile, buried in Google search results, and built on templated platforms that look like thousands of other sites. That's not a design problem — it's an engineering problem. The performance of your website directly affects how many customers find you and how many of those convert.
We build on Astro, Next.js, and custom stacks depending on what your project actually needs. No WordPress. No page builders. Every site is hand-coded, which means no bloated plugins, no security vulnerabilities from unmaintained dependencies, and no slow load times from a CMS fighting itself to render a page. Our sites routinely score 95+ on Google PageSpeed Insights — which matters both for SEO and for the conversion rate difference between a 1-second load and a 4-second load.
Every project starts with a design phase. You see exactly what you're getting before a single line of code is written. We don't hand you a completed site and ask if you like it — we review designs page by page, incorporate your feedback, and only move to development once the design is signed off. From kickoff to launch is typically three weeks for most sites.
Common questions
Everything you need to know before getting started.
Most sites — 5 to 10 pages, custom design, standard integrations — launch in 3 weeks from kickoff. Larger projects with complex booking systems, client portals, or e-commerce take 4–8 weeks. We give you a specific timeline before we start, and we stick to it.
No. We build on modern frameworks — Astro, Next.js, SvelteKit — that are faster, more secure, and easier to maintain than WordPress. If you have a specific reason you need WordPress, we can discuss it, but for most business sites a modern static or server-rendered site is a better choice in every dimension.
We build SEO fundamentals into every site from day one: semantic HTML structure, optimized title tags and meta descriptions, structured data markup, fast load times, and mobile-first design. We're not an SEO agency (though we offer SEO as a separate service), but the sites we build are set up to rank from launch — not retrofitted for SEO later.
Yes. We set up hosting, configure the domain, handle SSL, and connect Google Analytics 4 and Search Console. You own everything — the domain, the hosting account, the code. We hand it all over at launch.
Yes. If you want to manage your own content, we integrate a headless CMS (like Sanity or Contentful) so your team can update text, images, and blog posts without touching code. If you'd rather we handle updates, we offer a retainer for ongoing edits and additions.
Ready to build your site?
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with a plan and a timeline — no pitch deck, no runaround.