How long does it actually take?
Two to three days for a one-page site, and usually inside a week for the full site. If you're in a genuine hurry, say so — the delay is usually waiting on content from you, not build time.
Do I own it, or am I renting it from you?
You own it. The domain is registered in your name, the files are yours, and you get the login details. If you decide next year that you'd rather someone else looked after it, you hand them the keys and nothing of yours is trapped with me. Rented websites you can never leave are a common trick and not one I'm interested in.
What if I don't like it?
Then you don't pay. I build the first version before taking any money precisely so this is a real answer and not a policy. Tell me what's wrong and I'll fix it; tell me it's not for you and I'll delete it. No invoice either way.
Do you use AI to build these?
Yes, and that's the honest reason it's $500–$750 instead of $3,000. I use AI tools to do the repetitive parts fast. I make the design decisions, I review every line that ships, I test it on a real phone, and I'm the person you call when something's wrong. If anyone tells you they don't use these tools in 2026, check whether they're charging you for the difference.
One page or the full site — which do I need?
For a local business, a visitor wants four things — what you do, whether you're any good, where you are, and how to reach you. If that's your whole story, one page answers all four without a click, and Tier 1 at $500 is the honest recommendation. The full site earns its extra $250 when there's more to show: a gallery of work, a long list of services, published prices, a story worth a page of its own. Tell me about your business and I'll tell you which one I'd build — a $500 site that fits beats a $750 site that rattles.
Can you fix my existing site instead?
Sometimes, and when a repair is the right call I'll quote one, priced by what's actually wrong — which is why there's no fixed number printed here. Fair warning, though: I'll often recommend rebuilding instead, because untangling an old theme with a decade of add-ons usually costs more of my time than starting clean, and you end up with something slower. And if your current site is close to fine, I'll say so rather than sell you anything at all.
Will this get me to the top of Google?
I'm not going to promise that, and anyone who does is guessing. What I can tell you is what the site does: it loads fast, it works on phones, and your business details are marked up so Google can read them — all three of which Google measures. Rankings depend on your competitors, your reviews and your location, none of which I control.
Who am I actually dealing with?
Rova. I run this on my own — no team, no sales department. The person who answers the phone is the person who builds the site. Waystone Web Studio is new, which is a fair thing to weigh up; it's also why I build first and invoice second, so the risk of finding out sits with me rather than you.
The shortest answer is a preview.
Send me your details and I'll build a real version of your site — live, on a link, free to look at. Every question above gets easier once the thing exists.