Straight answers on websites, SEO and AI search for the trades.
Cost guides, honest comparisons, and playbooks you can run without hiring us. Every post answers a question a real contractor asked on a real call. Written by Yahya Malik, who ran pre-construction estimating for US contractors before he built this studio.
How much does a contractor website cost in 2026?
Real numbers for DIY builders, freelancers, generalist agencies, and construction-niche studios. What drives the price up, what you get at each level, and a plain framework for what you should actually pay.
Every entry.
Four posts, each one useful on its own. We publish when we have something worth your time, not on a content calendar.
AI SEO for contractors: how to get recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
A practical AEO/GEO playbook: direct-answer content, schema, entity signals, and how to measure whether AI assistants are actually sending you work. Runnable in-house.
The best website builders for construction companies, honestly compared
Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, generalist agencies, and construction-niche studios compared on cost, speed, SEO, and ownership. Including when the DIY builder is genuinely the right call.
Who owns your website? The contractor's guide to code ownership, hosting traps and lock-in
What ownership really means: code, content, domain, and hosting. The lock-in traps some agencies use, and the exact questions to ask before you sign anything.
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Read the case study behind the advice.
Hammond Build Co. went from 4 to 31 qualified leads a month within 90 days of launch, on the same ad budget. The write-up shows the math, not a brag reel.