Websites for local businesses · Summerville, SC

A real website for your business, for a price you know up front.

We build websites for local businesses in Charleston, Summerville and Mount Pleasant. Fixed prices, no hourly billing, no surprise invoice at the end. And every site comes with something no other web company around here offers — each month we tell you what Google says about your business, and what ChatGPT says about it.

See the prices Look at our work
Sites start at
$799

Three pages, properly built, working on a phone.

Most people choose
$1,499

Adds online booking, which is the whole point for most local businesses.

Then, every month
$49

Hosting, unlimited edits, and both audits. Cancel any time.

What's actually different about us

Your customers have started asking AI instead of searching

When someone needs a dentist or a plumber, a growing number of them now type the question into ChatGPT, or read the AI answer sitting at the top of Google, and go with whichever name comes back. If your business isn't in that answer, you never find out. There's no report, no missed-call notification, nothing.

We measure it, every monthThe same questions a real customer would ask, put to Google's AI Mode, to ChatGPT and to Perplexity. We record who gets named and who doesn't, and we tell you where you stand.
Alongside an ordinary search auditWhere you rank, what moved, what's broken. The normal stuff still matters and we check that too.
Included, not an upsellBoth audits come with the $49 monthly plan. It isn't a separate product and there's no extra charge.
From our own testing this month
39local businesses we ran the full check on — law, dental, pest control, CPAs, chiropractic, veterinary
~1 in 3answers changed within a single day, with nothing altered at the business's end
5businesses named by none of the three engines, on any question, across 22 separate readings

That's our own work, not something we read in an article. It's also why we think a once-a-year check is useless and a monthly one isn't.  See what the monthly report looks like →

Pricing

Pick the smallest one that does the job

We'd rather sell you the cheaper site and keep you on the monthly plan for years than talk you into something you don't need. If you're not sure which fits, tell us what your business does and we'll say honestly.

Essential

Live in 1 week
$799

For a business whose customers just need to find you and get in touch.

  • Up to 3 pages
  • Built for phones first
  • Hours, phone and map up top
  • Tap-to-call
  • Contact form
  • Search basics done properly
  • Google Business Profile set up
  • 1 round of changes
  • First month of the plan free
Start an Essential site
Most popular

Professional

Live in 2 weeks
$1,499

For anyone who takes appointments — dentists, chiropractors, vets, salons, law firms, agents.

  • Everything in Essential
  • Online booking
  • Up to 7 pages
  • Up to 4 service pages
  • Staff and team profiles
  • Your Google reviews on the page
  • Photo gallery
  • Intake or quote forms
  • 2 rounds of changes
  • First 2 months of the plan free
Start a Professional site

Premium

Live in 3 weeks
$2,499

For multi-location businesses, and anyone who wants their words written rather than tidied.

  • Everything in Professional
  • We write your copy, from an interview
  • Up to 12 pages
  • Up to 8 service pages
  • A page for each location
  • Product showcase
  • Email list and lead capture
  • Google Business Profile tuned up
  • Blog or news section
  • 3 rounds of changes
  • First 3 months of the plan free
Start a Premium site

Bigger than Premium? Ask us for a quote. A large commercial site, a practice group with a dozen locations, or taking payment online won't fit a package, so tell us what you need and we'll scope it honestly rather than squeeze it into one. Whatever you choose, the price is fixed before we start, and the clock runs from the day you send your content rather than the day you sign.

Showcase discount: half off your first build if you're happy for us to show your finished site here and in our marketing. Rather not? You pay the normal price and get exactly the same site.

Our work

One example at each price, so you can see what your money buys

We're new. Rather than put someone else's work under our name, we invented three businesses and built each of them a site at a different price. Open them on your phone — that's where nearly all your customers will see the real thing.

Illustration of a barbershop storefront at dusk
Essential · $799

Ridgeway Barber Co.

Three pages. Someone on the sidewalk wants to know whether you're open and whether they can get a cut today — so that's the first thing on the screen, before anything else.

Open the example →
 Illustration of a bright dental practice reception
Professional · $1,499

Palmetto Family Dental

Booking front and centre, a page for each service, the dentists' own names and faces, and a new-patient form that doesn't ask for anything it doesn't need.

Open the example →
 Illustration of a calm med spa treatment room
Premium · $2,499

Verdant Aesthetics

Two locations, prices published on the page instead of quoted once you're in the chair, the products they carry on display, and every word written rather than borrowed.

Open the example →

All three businesses are invented, and each page says so at the top. The pictures on them are illustrations standing in for the photographs a real client would send us. This site, the one you're reading, was built by the same two people.

After it's live

Somebody has to look after it

A website isn't finished when it launches. Hours change, staff come and go, prices go up, and search engines quietly change their minds about you. This is the part most people skip, and it's why so many small business sites are three years out of date.

$49/month

Free with every build — one month with Essential, two with Professional, three with Premium. Cancel any time with 30 days' notice.

  • Hosting, security certificate, daily backups
  • Maintenance, security and software updates, with your site monitored around the clock
  • Unlimited edits — hours, phone numbers, prices, promos, staff, wording
  • Edits made within 2 business days — you just email us
  • Monthly AI visibility audit — Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity
  • Monthly Google search audit — where you rank and what moved
  • One short report in plain English, and we make the fixes for you
  • Rebuild credit — $20 for every month on the plan, toward your next redesign
  • No contract, no cancellation fee

Unlimited means everyday edits to what's already on your site. A new page or a new feature is a separate, fixed-price job, and we'll always tell you the price before we start — never a surprise bill.

How it goes

What actually happens

First, a callTwenty minutes. What your business does, who your customers are, what you want the site to make happen. No pitch.
You send contentPhotos, your service list, hours, whatever you already have. The clock starts here, not when you sign.
We buildYou see it on a private link partway through, not at the end. Changes are easier before it's finished.
It goes liveWe point your domain, check every page on a real phone, and set up the monthly plan. Then it's yours.

One week for Essential, two for Professional, three for Premium — counted from the day your content arrives, not the day you sign. Premium is longer because we interview you and write the copy, and that needs a round of your time as well as ours. If we're going to miss a date you'll hear it from us before you have to ask.

No surprises

What's in the price, and what isn't

In the price

  • Design and build, start to finish
  • Setting it up on fast, secure hosting
  • Making it work properly on phones
  • Search basics — titles, descriptions, image text
  • Your Google Business Profile
  • Pointing your domain at the new site
  • Testing on real phones before launch
  • Rounds of changes, as listed per package

Not in the price

  • Your domain name — about $15 a year, and you own it, always
  • Logo design — we can quote that separately
  • Professional photography
  • Written copy, except on Premium and Custom
  • Edits after launch — unlimited on the monthly plan
  • Taking payments online — quoted separately
  • Sales tax setup or advice — your accountant's call, not ours
Before you ask

The questions we actually get

Why is this cheaper than the quotes I've had?

Two people, no office, no account manager, and we've built the pieces we use over and over. We're also early and we want the work — we'd rather have twenty happy customers on the monthly plan than six expensive ones. The honest version: the build roughly pays for itself, and the monthly plan is what makes this a business.

I already have a website. Is it worth replacing?

Sometimes not, and we'll say so. Send us the address and we'll look at it properly rather than guess. If the site is basically fine and the real problem is that nobody can find you, replacing it won't fix that — and we'd rather tell you than sell you something.

Do I own the site?

Yes. The domain is registered in your name from the start, and if you ever leave we hand over the files. Nothing is held hostage.

What if I want to sell things online?

We'd scope that separately rather than fit it into a package. A shop isn't a website with a cart bolted on — there's sales tax, shipping, refunds and a support burden that never really ends, and we won't put a fixed price on one before seeing what's involved. If you only want people to see what you carry and what it costs, the product showcase in Premium does exactly that with no checkout, and it turns out to be what most people wanted.

Can you work with the booking system I already use?

Usually. Tell us what you're on and we'll check before you commit to anything.

What happens if I stop the monthly plan?

The site stays yours and we'll help you move it. You lose the hosting, the edits, the two audits and any rebuild credit. No fee, no fuss, and 30 days' notice is all we ask.

Who actually builds the site?

The two of us. Vexen is Trevor Atkins and Ellie Rogers, here in Summerville — no subcontractors, no offshore team, and no account manager between you and whoever is doing the work. More about us.

Get started

Twenty minutes, no pitch

Tell us what your business does and what you'd want a website to actually make happen. If we're not the right fit we'll say so rather than quote you anyway.

Email hello@vexen.net