Custom code, not templates
Every line is written for your business. No bloat, no plugins to break, no WordPress vulnerabilities. The result is a site that loads in under a second and scores 100 on Lighthouse.
Sarasota · Bradenton · Venice · Lakewood Ranch
Custom-built websites for Suncoast small business.
No templates. No page builders. No WordPress plugins. Every site is custom-built for speed, search visibility, and the AI search era - and backed by a Suncoast-based team that actually picks up the phone.
- Branded PDF in 48 hours
- No credit card
- No obligation
- Sarasota-based team
Why Suncoast Local
A different kind of local web agency.
Most agencies sell you a template with their logo on the invoice. We build every site from scratch in custom PHP - the same way the world's best web teams do - and the difference shows up in every Lighthouse audit and every Google ranking.
Get found in AI search
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google's AI Overview for a business like yours in your town, you're the one it names. We build the schema and entity structure that makes that happen - while most local sites stay invisible to these tools.
Local roots, real accountability
Senior, hands-on attention from kickoff through year-three retainer. No account-manager middle layer, no offshore handoffs, no game of telephone between strategy and delivery. Same Suncoast team, start to finish.
What We Do
Everything a Suncoast small business needs online.
Website as a Service - Everything Included
Your complete website, run for you: custom design (a $9,000 value, included), managed hosting, AI chatbot, 3 new custom-written blog articles a week, 10 local landing pages, and lead capture. One flat founding rate, locked for life, published buyout schedule, cancel anytime.
$179/mo3 Blog Articles a Week - Included
Custom-written for your business and your towns - never syndicated - each post optimized for SEO, AEO, and GEO with its own custom image. 156 unique articles a year, published for you automatically.
IncludedFree Website Audit
A comprehensive PDF audit of your current site - speed, SEO, schema, Google Business Profile, and AI-search readiness - with a prioritized fix list. Genuinely free, even if you never hire us.
Free
Free for you
Two playbooks. Both free. No fluff.
The same audits and frameworks we run on every Suncoast Local prospect's site - written so you can run them yourself in about an hour each. Hand to your developer, your marketing person, or just work through them yourself.
Free PDF · 13 pages · 15 min read
The 27-Point Local SEO Audit
Find $10,000+ of lost annual revenue hiding in your website - in 60 minutes, on your own, no paid tools required.
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Free PDF · 11 pages · 12 min read
The AI Search Survival Guide
How to make sure your business shows up in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity - before your competitors figure it out.
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How It Works
From signup to launch in less than a week.
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Free audit
We start with a free website audit covering speed, SEO, schema, GBP, and AI visibility. You get a prioritized PDF report whether or not you hire us.
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Sign up & we design
Get started online in five minutes - no sales call. We research your business and your towns, then design and write your complete site: a custom design, never a template.
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Approve, launch, relax
Custom-built build, full QA on real devices, deployed with proper redirects and analytics. You approve it before launch, then one flat $179/month covers everything - including three new blog articles a week.
Recent Work
Local business sites, built end to end.
Real local-service companies on the Suncoast, built on our custom-PHP stack - never a template. Each is a complete marketing site built to get found and get calls: an owner-editable content system, local-SEO town pages, an AI chatbot, and a self-writing blog. We design, build, host, and maintain every one - the same way we'd build yours.
Pool Care - Local Service
Longboat Key Pool Service ↗
White-glove pool care for Longboat Key's waterfront estates - a full marketing site with data-driven barrier-island town pages, an AI chatbot, a self-writing blog, and an owner-editable CMS. Built to win the island's most discerning homeowners.
Lawn Care - Local Service
Manatee Lawn Care ↗
A full marketing site for a lawn & landscape company in Manatee County - an owner-editable content system, local-SEO town pages, an AI chatbot, and a self-writing blog. Built to book more yards from local search.
Tree Service - Local Service
Eagle Eye Tree & Land Services ↗
Tree trimming, removals, stump grinding & mangrove work across Sarasota & Charlotte County - an owner-editable marketing site with local-SEO community pages, an AI chatbot grounded in the service list, and a self-writing blog. Built for fast estimates and storm-season demand.
Service Areas
Proudly serving the Suncoast.
Local-first means we know your market. Click your city for SEO and web design specific to where your customers are searching.
Frequently Asked
Common questions, honest answers.
One published price at our Founding Client rate: $749 one-time setup plus $179 per month, locked for life (future price $1,999 + $249/mo), everything included - the custom hand-coded PHP build (a $9,000 value), hosting, AI chatbot, weekly SEO content, 10 town pages, and lead capture. No templates, no page builders, no tiers - and sites typically go live in less than one week.
WordPress and templated builders are fast to deploy but slow to load, hard to secure, and impossible to truly optimize. Custom-built sites ship a fraction of the code, score perfect on Core Web Vitals, are far less vulnerable to plugin exploits, and can be tuned exactly to your business. The difference shows up in Google rankings and in conversions.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is structuring your content so voice assistants and search snippets read your answers aloud - it requires FAQ schema, speakable markup, and clear Q-and-A structure. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is making your business visible in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, which requires entity-rich schema and authoritative content. Both are built into every site we ship.
We focus on the Suncoast region - Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice, Lakewood Ranch, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, and Port Charlotte - because local market knowledge matters for local SEO. We can take on clients elsewhere on a case-by-case basis when the fit is right.
A standard small business site is typically ready for your review in less than one week from signup, and it goes live the moment you approve it - the pace of feedback is the only real variable.
Nothing extra to buy - it is all in the subscription. Your $179/month covers hosting, daily backups, security and uptime monitoring, ongoing chatbot tuning, three new blog articles a week - custom-written for your site, SEO/AEO/GEO-optimized, each with its own image (156 a year) - and your own admin login to edit anything yourself. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice, and a published buyout schedule means you can take the site with you whenever you want.