Custom-built websites with a real AI chatbot trained on your business - hosted and maintained by the same local team that built them. Looking for cost? Head to the pricing page.
Everything on this page is included - the custom build, hosting, content, and the AI chatbot. There is no menu to configure and nothing to add on. You sign up, we build, you approve, it runs.
We build every site custom in PHP - from scratch, with Claude Code (Anthropic's AI development tool), never a template. No WordPress, no Wix, no Squarespace, no Webflow, no page builders, no licensed templates - and none of the plugin bloat that slows them all down.
A WordPress small-business site ships roughly 200,000 lines of code the day it launches - your business uses maybe 5%. The rest is plumbing for features you'll never use and Core Web Vitals overhead Google quietly penalizes you for.
No plugins to update. No theme conflicts. No "WordPress 7" coming to break everything you customized. Custom code only does what your business needs and only changes when we change it.
Templated sites are shaped like the template author thought a generic small business should look. Custom-coded sites are shaped like YOUR business - your services, your customer flow, your conversion goals.
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Every website we build comes with a custom AI chatbot, trained specifically on your business - your services, FAQs, hours, pricing, brand voice. There's no separate setup fee, no separate monthly fee. It's part of the build.
Services, FAQs, hours, pricing, the objections you hear most. We mine your intake forms + call logs during build.
Name, email, phone, what they need, lead-quality signal. Urgent inquiries text you immediately, not into a queue.
We review conversations monthly, update the knowledge base where the bot fumbled, and send you a top-themes report.
Most agencies sell SEO as a separate engagement on top of the build. We don't. All four layers ship with every site at launch.
Clean semantic HTML, heading hierarchy, titles + metas, canonical URLs, sitemap, robots.txt, internal-link architecture that flows PageRank to your money pages, full schema markup graph (LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, Review).
Answer Engine Optimization - FAQ schema on every page that supports it, structured Q&A content, conversational query targeting, speakable spec for voice assistants. Be the answer Siri or Alexa reads aloud.
Generative Engine Optimization - entity-rich content, brand-mention strategy, authoritative depth, structural cues that make ChatGPT / Perplexity / Google AI Overviews actually cite your site when synthesizing answers in your industry.
Core Web Vitals - LCP, CLS, INP - all hit 95-100 score on real-device testing before launch. We test on actual iOS and Android phones, not just Lighthouse desktop, plus WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility on top.
The Get Started form asks what you do and where you work - that's the whole intake. No discovery call required; everything else we research ourselves.
You pay the $749 setup at the published founding rate right at signup, agreement confirmed on the payment page - the $179/month is locked for life, with no hourly billing, no surprise add-ons, nothing to negotiate.
First round: full visual direction (colors, type, layout system). Second round: refined design ready for build approval.
The complete site - design, writing, chatbot, town pages - typically ready for your review in less than one week.
Multiple iOS + Android phones, multiple desktop browsers, accessibility audit, Lighthouse audit, schema validation against Google Rich Results Test.
DNS cutover, SSL setup, GA4 + Search Console wiring, 301 redirects from old URLs, monitoring goes live.
Bug fixes, content tweaks, any "wait, can we change…" requests at no extra charge.
Hosting, security, backups, chatbot tuning, and weekly content - the flat monthly covers ongoing everything from there on out.
Start My Website - 5-Minute Form
You approve every milestone before it's billed - and we're not done until you're happy with it.
Not a widget pasted on top of a contact form. A custom-trained large-language-model assistant that knows your business, talks in your voice, captures qualified leads around the clock, and gets smarter every month.
A chatbot embedded on a third-party WordPress / Wix / Squarespace site has to work around whatever the host is doing. Our quality bar is harder to maintain there.
When you change hours / add a service / change pricing on a site we don't control, coordinating chatbot updates eats the margin.
On its own, a chatbot like this can look overpriced next to single-purpose vendors. Bundled with the build, it ships to every client without an upsell decision.
Three brand-new articles every week - written specifically for your business, your trade, and your towns, each with its own custom image, published automatically. Not syndicated filler, not spun templates. 156 unique articles a year, and you never write a word.
Most business blogs die after four posts. This one publishes three times a week, every week, without you lifting a finger - and consistency is exactly what search and AI engines reward.
Typical content retainers run hundreds of dollars a month for two to four posts. The subscription ships twelve to thirteen a month - custom-written, custom-illustrated - inside the one flat price.
The same research that builds your site and trains your chatbot powers every article - your services, your service area, your voice. No briefing calls, no revision loops with a stranger.
No tiers, no picking, no upgrade ladder. Every Suncoast Local site runs on the same complete platform - the infrastructure floor below, plus the growth work that used to cost hundreds a month extra, all in one flat price on the pricing page.
156 unique articles a year - included
Every week, three brand-new articles are custom-written for YOUR website - about your trade and your towns, never syndicated filler - optimized for SEO, AEO, and GEO, each with its own custom image. Plus 10 dedicated town landing pages, deeply written, not thin boilerplate - and more towns can be added anytime for a nominal fee.
Included
Your own admin login. Change wording, swap photos, update services, hours, and FAQs the moment something changes - no ticket, no waiting on a monthly minutes allowance, no per-edit fees. And if you'd rather just email us the change, we'll do it for you.
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Quote forms, callback forms, and chatbot conversations all become leads: emailed to you the moment they arrive and stored in your own leads inbox, so a busy week never means a lost customer. Spam-filtered, so what reaches you is real.
Need something not listed here? Contact us for a custom quote.
Before you commit to any paid service, we'll audit your current site and send you a comprehensive PDF report. Free even if you never hire us. The same technical pass we run on every paying client.
These are "how do you actually do this?" questions. For "how much does it cost?" questions, head to the pricing page.
Yes - no separate setup fee, no separate monthly fee. The chatbot is trained on the same business research we do for the rest of the site (services, FAQs, hours, pricing, tone) and goes live the day the site launches. Ongoing tuning is included in your subscription. We bundle it because the marginal cost to us is low and the conversion lift for a small-business site that has one is substantial.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is about being the answer when a voice assistant or AI chatbot responds to a question - driven by FAQ schema, structured Q&A content, conversational query targeting. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is about showing up in ChatGPT / Perplexity / Google AI Overviews when they synthesize an answer - driven by entity-rich schema, linked-graph @id references, brand mention strategy, authoritative content depth. Both are layered on every build; neither is an add-on you have to ask for.
No. We custom-build every site in custom PHP from scratch. No plugins to update at 2am, no template you share with 50,000 other small businesses, no platform fee creep. If you have a strong reason to be on one of those platforms, we're honestly not the right fit and we'll say so. See our /compare pages for what each platform is actually good at.
A standard small business site is typically ready for your review in less than one week from signup - we research, design, and write the whole thing, and the biggest variable is simply how fast feedback comes back. It goes live the moment you approve it.
Start with the free audit. We run the same technical pass we run on every paying client and send you a PDF report covering speed, schema, mobile, SEO, GBP health, AI-search readiness, and a prioritized fix list. Free even if you never hire us - half the value is just knowing what's actually going on under the hood.
The subscription simply keeps running - there is nothing extra to pick or pay for. We host the site on our managed infrastructure, monitor it 24/7, run daily backups, tune the chatbot based on what your customers are actually asking, and publish three new custom-written, SEO/AEO/GEO-optimized blog articles for you every week - each with its own custom image. You get your own admin login to edit anything yourself. We don't hand the site off and disappear; the same local people who built it are still your contact.
No - that is the point. One subscription, one price, everything included, and nothing is ever added to your bill. If you need something genuinely outside what is listed on this page, contact us and we will give you a written custom quote first.
We work with businesses across the country (and have) - websites and chatbots work the same wherever you are. The only thing that's genuinely "local" is the local-search layer (town pages, local schema, "near me" visibility), which matters most when you serve a defined geographic area. If you're an e-commerce business or pure-online service, that piece matters less, and that's fine.
For a Sarasota home-service business, Suncoast Local is one flat price: $749 setup + $179/month (Founding Client rate, locked for life), with the complete custom build (a $9,000 value, most home-service businesses need 8-15 pages and get them) included in the subscription. Hosting, the AI chatbot, weekly SEO content, and 10 town pages are all in that price (more towns can be added for a nominal fee). Genuinely custom extras - an online booking integration, an estimate/quote calculator - are quoted individually in writing. The published buyout schedule on /pricing means you can own the site outright whenever you want.
A restaurant site runs on the same subscription as every other business: $749 setup + $179/month (Founding Client rate) with the full custom build included - menu pages, photo galleries, and a custom AI chatbot trained on your menu, hours, dietary options, and reservation policies, which captures after-hours inquiries and answers "what time do you open?"-style questions while you're closed. If you need a direct reservation or online-ordering integration beyond the standard platform, contact us for a written custom quote.
Usually yes - but the right answer depends on the site. Wix and Squarespace ship limited control over the technical foundations that AI search engines look at: entity-rich JSON-LD schema, linked-graph @id references, server-rendered authoritative content depth, FAQ and HowTo markup with proper structure. You can sometimes bolt on partial AI-search readiness via apps, but you'll be working against the platform. A custom-built site built AEO/GEO-first from day one is meaningfully more visible in AI answers - and the early-mover advantage on those platforms is real. Start with our free audit; we'll tell you honestly whether a rebuild is justified for your specific situation.
Yes. Medical practices, dental offices, law firms, accounting / financial advisors, and similar professional services are a substantial share of the work. The custom-coded approach is particularly well-suited here because HIPAA-aware hosting setup, ADA accessibility compliance, careful contact-form handling for protected data, and conservative copy review are easier on a custom-built foundation than on a plugin-driven WordPress site. Schema markup includes the correct Person, MedicalBusiness, LegalService, or AccountingService types where applicable. We do not handle full HIPAA-grade EHR integrations - that's specialty work - but everything required for a marketing site for a regulated practice is in scope.
One plan at the Founding Client rate: $749 one-time setup + $179/month locked for life (future price $1,999 + $249/mo), everything included - the custom build (a $9,000 value we absorb), hosting, security, the AI chatbot, weekly SEO content, local pages, and lead capture. There is no separate "SEO retainer" or "chatbot subscription" on top. Want out? Cancel with 30 days notice, or use the published buyout schedule on /pricing to take the whole site with you - it drops to a $99 transfer fee after four years. That's the whole structure: one setup fee, one monthly, published exit price. No hidden line items, no surprise upsells. (Need something not listed? Contact us for a custom quote.)
Most sites are ready for review in less than one week from signup - design, custom development, content, and the AI chatbot included - and launch the moment you approve. Because there's no theme or plugin stack to fight, our builds rarely slip the way template projects do.
WordPress assembles your site from a theme, a page builder, and a stack of plugins - quick to launch, but you inherit constant updates, security patching, and plugin bloat that slows pages down. Custom code means every line exists for a reason: faster loads, fewer attack surfaces, no license fees, and no fighting a builder when you want changes. We wrote a full side-by-side: custom PHP vs WordPress.
It depends on what's actually broken - and you shouldn't have to guess. If your site loads fast and looks credible but nobody finds it, that's a search-visibility problem. If visitors arrive and leave without calling, that's a design and messaging problem. Our free website audit measures both - speed, search visibility, content, and AI-readiness - and tells you which one actually moves the needle, no sales pitch attached.