+675%
From 4 leads/mo to 31 leads/mo
Conversion-first rebuild + SEO for an Austin general contractor. Same ad budget, measured as form + call leads, 90 days pre vs post launch.
Hammond Build Co.GC · Austin, TX
Q3 2026: 3 of 8 build slots open
Construction websites that win the next job. Pay only when satisfied.
Pixel Studio is a construction-only web studio in Austin, Texas building conversion-first websites, SEO and AI-search visibility, client portals, and booking systems for contractors across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Every build starts at $0 upfront, includes lifetime free hosting, and you own every line of code.
30 minutes. You leave with a teardown of your current site and the 3 fixes we'd make first, yours to keep, even if we never work together.
Updated August 2026 · Austin, TX · Serving the US, UK, Canada and Australia
Most agencies build websites. We build signed contracts.
Your website is losing bids you never hear about. A homeowner compares three contractors at 9pm; the slow site with no proof gets skipped, silently. Here is where the typical agency build loses that job, line by line.
Typical agency 7 of 7 broken
Sound familiar?
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Half the fee upfront, before you've seen a pixel✕
Monthly hosting bill, locked behind their CMS✕
WordPress + 47 plugins that break monthly✕
"Designer" who's never been on a jobsite✕
Generic SEO. Invisible to AI search✕
You don't own the code. Or the data.✕
"Conversion" never defined, never measuredPixel Studio 7 of 7 ours
Every clause is a contract.
✓
01$0 mobilization. Pay on satisfaction or walk.✓
02Lifetime free hosting. Your only bill: the domain.✓
03Hand-coded. No plugin stack to break.✓
04Built by a founder who priced jobs for contractors✓
05Schema + llms.txt, built to earn AI-search citations✓
06Every line of code is yours at delivery.✓
07A 90-day target in writing (Site & Spec and up)How you pay
Billed like a draw schedule. Signed off like a punch list.
You'd never pay a sub 50% before they show up. We don't ask you to either. The whole engagement bills the way you already bill your own clients: inspected work, approved draws, retainage held until the job is right.
01
$0 mobilization
No deposit, no retainer. Discovery, strategy, and the 2-page brief cost you nothing, and the brief is yours to keep either way.
02
Draw-schedule billing
Milestones tied to deliverables: discovery, strategy, design, build, launch. Each draw is billed only after you inspect and approve the work, like a pay app.
03
Punch-list sign-off
Final payment isn't due until the finished site is live in front of you and you sign off. Walk at any milestone and keep everything made so far, at no charge.
04
The Pay-On-Proof Guarantee
On Site & Spec and Headquarters: we agree on one number in writing. Miss it at day 90, we keep working free. Still short at day 180, we refund and you keep the site.
You hold the retainage on us.
Track record: 2 walk-aways in 24 builds. Both kept the work.
See the full process →
What we build
One studio. The whole construction stack.
Five services, one vertical. Pick the one that matches the job in front of you, or book the call and we'll tell you which one you actually need.
Explore every service →● Most-picked service
01 · Flagship
Conversion-first websites
Turn searches into signed contracts. Hand-coded, 98+ Lighthouse, built around how your buyer actually hires.
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02
SEO + AI search
Rank on Google. Get named when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini who to hire.
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03
Custom CRMs & portals
Run every job in one branded hub: selections, approvals, updates, payments.
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04
B2B e-commerce
Sell to contractors: pricing tiers, bulk ordering, quote carts, net-30.
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Booking + AI receptionist
Book jobs while you sleep. 24/7 quote intake, no missed 9pm calls.
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How we build
Six steps. About 24 days to launch.
The same process every Pixel Studio build follows. Every cell below has a fixed deliverable, a day count, and a clear exit criterion. If we miss a milestone by more than a week, the next phase is on us.
01Day 0 · free
Discovery call
30 minutes. We learn your business; you learn whether we're a fit. No pitch deck.
02Days 1-3 · free
Strategy & brief
2-page brief: positioning, conversion math, site map. Yours to keep, even if you walk.
You're here
03Days 4-10
Design in your brand
Hi-fi design in your voice and palette. Two rounds. We work until it lands.
04Days 10-22
Build & harden
Hand-coded. 98+ Lighthouse. AI-search schema baked in. MVP review at day 14.
05Days 22-24
Launch on your domain
Migration, redirects, analytics, AI-search setup. Hosted on us, fully owned by you.
06Day 25+
Sign off, then pay
Punch-list sign-off on the live site. Then, and only then, you pay. Your support window starts.
Your project today
50%
Day 12 of 24 · Build phase
Walk-away right
Exit at any cell and keep everything made so far: the strategy brief, the designs, the code, at no charge. Two clients have walked in 24 builds. Both kept the work.
Selected work
Numbers that survive a screenshot.
Three recent builds, each measured against the client's own analytics baseline. Hammond has the full write-up; the Northline and ToolStack summaries live on the case studies page.
$280K
Replumbed online intake for a multi-shop plumbing co.
AI receptionist + booking flow captured $280K of after-hours quote requests in six months.
Northline PlumbingTrade · 4 locations
2.1×
B2B store, contractor pricing tiers, net-30 invoicing.
A regional tools distributor went from $11K average orders to $23K average orders after the rebuild.
ToolStack SupplyDistributor · OK + TX
Why Pixel Studio
Construction insiders who ship code.
Most construction marketing agencies have never read a pay app. Before Pixel Studio, founder Yahya Malik ran pre-construction estimating and quantity takeoffs for US contractors. He priced the kind of jobs your website is supposed to win.
That background shows up in the numbers: across the 12 builds with clean analytics baselines, our sites average a 3.4× lead lift in the first 90 days.
"Contractors don't need a prettier website. They need the next job. So everything we build is scoped, measured, and signed off like the work you already do," says Yahya Malik, founder of Pixel Studio.
Built in-house
No outsourced dev shops. No mystery contractors.
Vertical only
Construction. That's it. Every build sharpens the playbook.
Client since 2024
"They asked me about sequencing on a remodel in the discovery call. Right then I knew this was different. Three months later, 31 leads a month. We had four."
Pricing
The number you owe today: $0.
Three fixed packages. No hourly billing, no monthly retainer. The price you see is what you pay after the finished site is in front of you and you sign off.
Foundation
Single-page launch site for shops getting their first real web presence.
$0
Today$750 on satisfaction
- ✓Single-page conversion site
- ✓Mobile-first, 98+ Lighthouse
- ✓Local SEO baseline
- ✓Lifetime free hosting
- ✓30 days of post-launch support
★ Most picked
Site & Spec
The full multi-page site, built for conversion and AI search, with the guarantee.
$0
Today$1,500 on satisfaction
- ✓Full multi-page site
- ✓AI-search schema + llms.txt
- ✓Booking flow + lead routing
- ✓Lifetime free hosting
- ✓90 days of support + quarterly review (year 1)
- ✓Pay-On-Proof Guarantee
Headquarters
Site + custom CRM, portal, store, or AI receptionist. One signed scope.
$0
Today$3,500 on satisfaction
- ✓Everything in Site & Spec
- ✓Custom CRM or client portal
- ✓B2B e-commerce (if applicable)
- ✓AI receptionist + 24/7 intake
- ✓180 days of priority support
- ✓Pay-On-Proof Guarantee
Full package breakdown, where the money goes, and the payback math: see the pricing page →
The offer
What you'd pay an agency. What we charge instead.
Itemized at agency rates. The number at the bottom is what Site & Spec costs, due on satisfaction, and only if you sign off. You hold the retainage on us.
Site & Spec and Headquarters carry the Pay-On-Proof Guarantee: one number agreed in writing during discovery. Miss it at day 90 and we keep working at no charge. Still short at day 180 and we refund what you paid, and you keep the site, the code, the content, and the hosting.
Book my teardown call →30 minutes. You leave with a teardown of your current site and the 3 fixes we'd make first, yours to keep, even if we never work together.
Q3 2026: 3 of 8 build slots open
$0 today
PIXEL STUDIO, VALUE STACK
Conversion-first marketing site$6,500
Custom branded design (no templates)$2,000
AI-search SEO program$1,800
Booking flow + lead routing$1,200
Lifetime hosting (CDN, SSL, backups)$2,400
90-day post-launch support$900
Analytics + AI-search setup$450
2-page strategy brief (yours to keep)$280
Quarterly performance review (year 1)$600
Migration, redirects, DNS setup$300
Subtotal · agency rate$16,430
YOU PAY ON SATISFACTION$1,500
Common questions
Everything we get asked on the discovery call.
"$0 upfront, pay on satisfaction" means no deposit, no retainer, and no invoice until you approve the work. We bill in milestone draws, like a pay app, and the final payment is due only after the live site is in front of you and you sign off. Two clients have walked in 24 builds. Both kept everything we made.
There is no catch on free hosting: marketing-site hosting (CDN, SSL, backups, monitoring) runs on Pixel-managed infrastructure, free for the life of the site under fair use. Your only recurring cost is your domain, about $15 a year, paid to your registrar in your name. Portal, store, and AI-receptionist infrastructure is billed at raw provider cost, with receipts.
You own the code, the content, and the design assets in full. Everything transfers at delivery in a clean Git repo, with no proprietary CMS and no lock-in. Fire us the day after launch and the site keeps working, on any host you choose.
AI search is already sending contractors work: when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google's AI Overviews who to hire, one company gets named in the answer. Every build ships the schema, llms.txt, and direct-answer content that earn those citations. Citations typically start appearing 6-10 weeks after launch.
A standard build runs about 24 days from kickoff to launch: strategy by day 3, design through day 10, build and hardening through day 22, then launch on your domain. You review an MVP at day 14. Headquarters builds with portals or stores are scoped individually, typically 4-8 weeks.
A Pixel Studio website costs $750 (Foundation, single page), $1,500 (Site & Spec, full multi-page site), or $3,500 (Headquarters, site plus portal, store, or AI receptionist). Every package is $0 today: you pay once, on satisfaction, with lifetime free hosting included. No hourly billing, no monthly retainer.
If you're not satisfied, you don't pay. You can exit at any milestone and keep everything made to that point, the brief, the designs, the code, at no charge. On Site & Spec and Headquarters, the Pay-On-Proof Guarantee goes further: miss the written 90-day target and we work free, still short at day 180 and we refund while you keep the site.
One more decision
The next site you build should be the last one you replace.
Book the free 30-minute call. You leave with a teardown of your current site and the 3 fixes we'd make first, yours to keep, even if we never work together. No pitch deck. No pressure. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you who is.
We reply within 4 business hours. A human, not an autoresponder.