WEBSITES BUILT & MANAGED MONTHLY
A website is a job,
not a project.
I design and build fast, modern websites for small businesses — then stay on as the back office: hosting, updates, security, search optimization, and a monthly report with real numbers. You run the business. I run the website.
By application · Quality projects only · A small number of builds each quarter
Founder of Cautellus and a portfolio of sites I build, run, and rank myself · Based in Missouri, working everywhere
A WEBSITE IS A JOB
The launch is the
easy part.
Most small-business websites get built, paid for, and then never touched again. Here's what happens next:
Websites rot.
Software ages, dependencies break, certificates lapse, forms quietly stop sending. An unmaintained site doesn't fail loudly. It drifts — slower, staler, easier to hack — until the day it matters and it doesn't work.
Google doesn't owe you traffic.
Getting indexed, staying indexed, and ranking for the searches that bring customers is ongoing work: structure, content, signals, fixes. It is not a feature you buy at launch. It's a job somebody has to keep doing.
The person who built it is gone.
The agency moved on. The freelancer stopped answering. Now a password nobody has guards a site nobody can edit. Sound familiar? It's the most common story in small business web work.
Most business sites are built once and touched never. The difference between an asset and a liability is whoever runs the back office.
PACKAGES
One build.
Then a back office.
THE BUILD
from $1,500 one-time
A custom website, done right the first time.
- · Designed and built for your business — fast, modern, mobile-first
- · Every page customers actually search for, not just a brochure
- · SEO-ready from day one: clean structure, schema, sitemap, Search Console set up
- · AEO built in — readable and quotable by AI answer engines
- · You own everything: domain in your name, your content, your code
- · Most builds go live inside three weeks
by application · quoted after review
CARE
$99/mo · cancel anytime
For a site that should keep working without becoming your hobby.
- · Managed hosting, SSL, and domain configuration
- · Software and security updates, tested and applied
- · Uptime and performance monitoring
- · Small content changes handled within two business days
- · The monthly report: what happened, what changed, what's next
GROWTH
$249/mo · cancel anytime
Everything in Care, plus the part that compounds.
- · Everything in Care
- · An ongoing SEO and AEO program: indexing, structure, fixes, signals
- · Fresh content published monthly, written for the searches that matter
- · Deeper reporting: indexing status, rankings, and real query data
- · A quarterly check-in on what's working and what's next
You own the domain, the content, and the code. Cancel anytime and take everything with you.
THE BORING PROMISES
you own everything
Domain registered in your name, content yours, full site export whenever you ask.
cancel anytime
Memberships are month-to-month. The runbook's last page is how to leave.
real numbers
Reports use indexing, traffic, and query data from Google's own tools. No vanity charts.
no surprise bills
Flat monthly price. Anything outside scope gets quoted before it happens, not after.
SEARCH + AEO
Found by Google.
Cited by AI.
Search changed. Customers still Google you — and now they also ask an AI assistant who to call. Most small-business sites are built for neither.
SEO — THE SEARCH YOU KNOW
Clean structure, fast pages, the right schema, and content aimed at queries with intent. This is craft, not tricks, and it's the default on every build and every Growth month.
AEO — THE SEARCH THAT'S COMING
Answer Engine Optimization: structuring your site so AI assistants can read it, trust it, and cite your business when someone asks for a recommendation. It's early, the bar is low, and being early is the whole advantage. I've already shipped it on my own properties.
HEAVIER MACHINERY
When you need more
than a website.
Some businesses win by being found a thousand different ways. I build that machinery too — fixed scope, fixed price, quoted after a call.
PROGRAMMATIC SEO & DIRECTORIES
from $2,500
Hundreds or thousands of pages, generated from structured data, each one built to rank. I run a 5,700-listing national directory on exactly this system.
Read the case study → [TODO CASE STUDY URL]CUSTOM WEB APPS & INTEGRATIONS
Booking flows, member areas, calculators, dashboards — the tools your website should have had. Scoped and quoted after application review.
PROOF
I don't sell anything
I don't run.
CAUTELLUS
I founded Cautellus, an AI scam-detection platform with a live Chrome extension. Its site went up in January 2026; within months, it was indexed by Google with AEO live. That's the playbook your membership runs on — practiced first on my own property.
THE DIRECTORY
One of my own properties: a programmatic directory built and operated with the same systems I sell. Case study → [TODO CASE STUDY URL]
THE OPERATOR
I don't run an agency with a sales team. I run a portfolio of my own sites — building, hosting, ranking, and reporting on them every single month. Your membership gets the same back office my own businesses depend on.
FOR
Owners of small and local businesses — services, shops, studios, practices — who want a website that's launched and looked after. Especially you, if your current site hasn't been touched since the day it went live.
NOT FOR
- · Anyone who wants page one of Google guaranteed by Friday. Nobody honest sells that, including me.
- · DIY-ers who enjoy updating plugins on a Saturday. Genuinely — carry on, you don't need me.
- · Large e-commerce catalogs and enterprise platforms. Wrong tool, wrong shop; I'll say so on the call and point you somewhere better.
FAQ
Common questions.
What does "managed website" actually mean?+
Hosting, updates, security, monitoring, edits, and optimization — handled, every month, by the same person who built the site. You get a one-page report instead of a to-do list.
What's AEO?+
Answer Engine Optimization — making your site readable and quotable by AI assistants, the way SEO makes it findable on Google. A growing share of customers now ask an AI for a recommendation instead of searching. Structured data, clear answers, clean markup: that's the work, and it ships with every build.
Do I own my website?+
Yes — completely. The domain is registered in your name, the content is yours, and you can request a full export anytime. I'm staff, not a landlord.
What happens if I cancel?+
You take everything. I hand over a full export of your site and content within 30 days, your domain was always yours, and I'll quote migration help if you want it. The runbook's last page is literally instructions for leaving.
Can you take over a website someone else built?+
Usually. I'll audit it first — some sites are worth rescuing, some are cheaper to rebuild, and I'll tell you which one yours is, with numbers, before you spend anything.
How fast can we launch?+
Most builds go from application acceptance to live inside three weeks, assuming your content shows up on time. The membership starts the day the site does.
What's in the monthly report?+
Indexing status, traffic and query data from Google's own tools, what changed on the site, and what's planned next. One page, plain English, no vanity charts.
Do you guarantee rankings?+
No — and run from anyone who does. Google's algorithm isn't for sale. What I guarantee is the work: clean builds, real optimization, honest reporting. My own sites' numbers are the best evidence the work works.
Do you use AI?+
In my own back office, yes — automation is how one person manages many sites well, and it's why the monthly price stays reasonable. Everything that ships to your site is reviewed by me. You're hiring judgment; the robots just carry boxes.
One website.
Actually looked after.
Builds are by application. Tell me about your business, what you're trying to build, and what the work needs to do. If it's a fit, you'll hear back within a few business days.