What does the 6 months actually look like? +
Week 1 you book a call and I get the basics: your business info, photos, service area, the demo you want to start from. About a week later you have a customized 6-8 page site live on your domain. From there, every month I'm doing two things: managing your Google Business Profile (posts, photos, review responses) and adding to or refining the website based on what's actually working. By month 6 the site looks meaningfully different from day one because we've built around the calls and searches that are actually coming in. Then it rolls to $350/mo for ongoing site and GBP management.
What happens after 6 months? Can I cancel? +
After month 6 the price drops to $350/mo and you're month-to-month from there. No contract, no cancellation fee. You can stop any time. The reason most contractors stay is the same reason they signed up: a Google Business Profile that nobody's touching loses ground to the ones that get worked on every week, and a static website that doesn't change starts feeling stale to Google after a few months. The $350 keeps both moving.
My process isn't really 5 phases. Can the page work for how my shop actually runs? +
Absolutely. The 5-phase structure is a starting point, not a requirement. Some remodelers run a 4-phase process, some run 7. Some call them stages, milestones, or chapters. Whatever language and structure your shop actually uses, that's what goes on the site. The point isn't to copy the demo's exact phases. It's to publish whatever your real process looks like in writing, with timelines and language, so the homeowner stops imagining the worst case. Tell me on the call how your jobs actually flow and we'll build the page around that.
I don't want to publish my budget tiers. Won't competitors undercut me? +
Counterintuitive answer: in remodeling, publishing budget ranges actually filters for the right customers and chases away the wrong ones. The customer who would have left for $5,000 cheaper was never going to be a great client. The customers who match your range and trust the number are the ones who become great projects and great referrals. If you really don't want to show specific numbers, we can use language like "typical projects start at $X" or "most kitchen reno budgets fall between $X and $Y." The more specific you can be, the better the leads get, but we can dial it to whatever you're comfortable with.
My portfolio photos are mostly cell phone shots, not staged. Will the site still look professional? +
Yes, with a few caveats. Phone photos in good natural light from a steady angle look great on the demo layouts. The project pages are designed to make decent shots look better than they are. What kills remodeler sites is mixed lighting, cluttered staging, and "before" photos that don't match the angle of the "after." I'll send you a one-page shot list before we start so your phone photos come out clean. If you want to step it up, a half-day photographer for your three best projects is the highest-ROI upgrade you can make and the cost is usually under $800. For whole-home renovations especially, professional photos pay for themselves on the first job they help close.
Can the site handle the design phase as part of the service, not a separate offering? +
Yes, and the Drafted demo is built specifically for design-build firms where the design phase is included in the project, not a separate sale. The homepage features the in-house designer, the process page walks through design as Phase 02, and the project pages show the drawings alongside the finished build. If your shop charges separately for design, the page can be reworked to show "Design Services" as a standalone offering that flows into a build contract. Tell me on the call how your shop monetizes the design phase (included, separate fee, refunded if they sign for the build) and I'll build the site to match.
What if I already have a domain and an old website? +
Easy. I'll build the new site on a staging URL so you can see it and approve it before anything changes on your live domain. Once you give the green light, I point your existing domain at the new site (takes about an hour) and the old site comes down at the same moment the new one goes up. No downtime. I also map the old page URLs to the new ones so any existing Google rankings carry over instead of disappearing. If you have project photos or testimonials on the old site you want to keep, send me what you want and I'll fold them into the new build.
Who hosts the site? Do I need to deal with that? +
I handle all the technical setup. I usually recommend Hostinger because it's cheap, fast, and the panel is straightforward (around $3-10/month depending on the plan). You can use whatever host you want though, the site is just static HTML files and runs anywhere. Your domain stays in your name and under your control. If you ever want to leave, the entire site is just files I can hand you in a zip. It'll work on any host on the planet, no rebuild needed. There's no proprietary platform, no Squarespace-style export hassle.