NEW Booking our first 10 customers — see your finished site before you pay a cent.
⚡ Live in 5 business days 🤖 Built for AI search

A real website for your trade business. $499.

Built by hand, mobile-first, and made to do one job: turn the people who search for you into people who call you.

✓You see the finished site before you pay anything
✓One flat price — no monthly fee required, ever
✓You own it. Your domain, your site, no hostage situation
✓No sales call. Answer 6 questions by email and we build it
Everyday Low Price
Agencies charge $3,500 – $8,000
$499
ONE TIME • NOT A MONTHLY FEE

  • Up to 5 pages, written for you
  • Works perfectly on phones
  • Tap-to-call & quote request form
  • Your real Google reviews, live
  • Found on Google and readable by AI
  • First year of hosting included
Get Started
Nothing up front. We build it, you look at it, and you only pay if you want to keep it.
Why We're Different

Same website. A fraction of the price.

We're not cheaper because we cut corners. We're cheaper because we don't have an office, a sales team, or a client dinner budget.

A Web Agency
$3,500–$8,000
Plus $75–$200/mo, on a contract
  • Discovery call, then a proposal, then another call
  • 6 to 12 weeks before it's live
  • They keep the login
  • Every small edit is billable
★ TradeSites Co.
$499
One time. Optional $29/mo if you want us to keep it up.
  • Six questions by email — no calls
  • Live in 5 business days
  • You own the domain and the site
  • See it finished before you pay
Do It Yourself
$30–$60/mo
Forever — plus your evenings and weekends
  • Costs more than us by month 14
  • Looks like a template, because it is
  • Usually never gets finished
  • Stop paying and it disappears
See It Before You Buy It

This is the quality you get for $499.

Three real sites we built. Click any one and use it like a customer would — tap the phone number, open the form, shrink the window down to phone size.

vanceandsonsplumbing.com

Plumbing

Emergency-first layout. The phone number never leaves the screen, and the estimate form sits right in the hero.

Open the live demo →
northwindheatingair.com

Heating & Air

Seasonal promo bar, online booking, and a maintenance-plan section that sells the recurring revenue for you.

Open the live demo →
cedarandstoneland.com

Landscaping

Portfolio-led, because this trade sells with pictures. Includes a working Instant Answer assistant — try the chat button.

Open the live demo →

Plumbers, HVAC, electricians, roofers, landscapers, concrete, painting, pest control, cleaning, towing, tree service, handyman — if people find you on Google, we build for you.

All Of It, In The $499

There is no "basic" package.

Everything below comes standard. We don't hold the important parts back so we can sell them to you later.

📱

Built for phones first

Most of your customers are standing in a flooded basement holding a phone. That's the screen we design for.

☎

Tap-to-call everywhere

A call button that follows them down the page. It is the single biggest thing most trade sites are missing.

📝

Quote request form

Lands in your email the second they hit send — on your phone, wherever you are. No portal to log into.

★

Your Google reviews, live

Pulled automatically from your real listing. New review shows up on your site by itself.

🔍

Google setup done right

Titles, descriptions, local business markup and sitemap — submitted for you, not left as homework.

🤖

Readable by AI assistants

Structured data, an llms.txt file and an AI-friendly robots.txt, so ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude can actually find and cite you.

✍

All the writing

We write every word from your answers. You never stare at a blank page.

🗺

Service area pages

The towns you actually serve, each one a page Google can find.

⚡

Loads in under 2 seconds

No bloated builder. Hand-built pages that open before your customer gets impatient.

🔒

SSL & hosting, year one

Secure padlock, fast hosting, included. $29/mo after year one only if you want us to keep hosting it.

🔄

Two rounds of changes

Tell us what to fix, twice, free. Most people use one.

💼

You own everything

Domain in your name, files handed to you on request. Walk away any time and take it with you.

💬

A human who answers

Email us and a person replies. Not a ticket number.

Add up what an agency charges for that list and you get $3,500 to $8,000.
We built the process to run lean, so you keep the difference.
Included As Standard

Your customers stopped Googling.
They're asking now.

"Who's a good plumber near me?" is being typed into ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers — and those tools read a website completely differently than a person does. Most trade sites are invisible to them. Yours won't be.

🏷

Structured data

Your services, service area, hours, phone and prices written in schema.org markup — the format AI models actually parse instead of guessing at.

📄

An llms.txt file

A plain-language summary of your business placed where AI crawlers look for it. Emerging standard, almost nobody has it yet.

🤝

AI crawlers welcomed

Most sites quietly block them by default. Yours explicitly invites GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended in.

💬

Answers, not brochure copy

Real questions answered in plain sentences on the page — because that's the text an assistant can lift and quote back to a customer.

ChatGPTGoogle GeminiPerplexityClaudeGoogle AI OverviewsCopilot
The honest limit: nobody can promise an AI will recommend you, and anyone who says they can is selling something. What we can do is make sure you're readable, quotable and unambiguous to every one of these systems — because a business a machine can't read will never be the answer it gives. This site you're on right now is built exactly this way. Ask an AI about us and find out.
Optional Add-On

The Instant Answer Assistant

Half the people who visit your site at 9pm have one question, and if nobody answers it, they call the next guy. This answers them in a second — and if they still want a human, it takes their name and number and texts it to you.

  • Answers your most common questions instantly, 24/7
  • Captures the lead when you're on a job or asleep
  • Emails you the moment someone leaves details
  • Works on every page, on any phone
Being straight with you: this is not an AI that improvises. Every answer is a sentence you wrote, that we load in for you. That's deliberate — it means it can never invent a price, promise a warranty you don't offer, or say something you'd have to walk back. Your words, delivered instantly.

👈 Try it right now — the green button in the corner of this page is the real thing.

$99
one-time setup
FREE with the Care Plan
  • ✓ Up to 15 questions & answers
  • ✓ After-hours lead capture
  • ✓ Text + email alerts
  • ✓ We write the answers from your notes
Add It On
Add-Ons

Want more? Here's exactly what it costs.

Every price is on this page. You will never get a mystery invoice or a "let's hop on a call to discuss pricing."

Extra page

$49

Another service page, a project gallery, an About page — whatever you need beyond the first five.

Online booking

$149

Customers pick a time slot on your calendar. You get the confirmation; they stop playing phone tag.

Instant Answer Assistant

$99

The 24/7 question-answering and lead-capture widget. Free with the Care Plan.

Before & after gallery

$99

Slider galleries that sell the work for you. Built for landscaping, roofing, remodel and detailing.

Google Business setup

$79

We claim, fill out and optimize your Google Business Profile — the thing that actually gets you found locally.

Logo design

$129

Three original concepts, unlimited tweaks on the one you pick, all the files. No stock clip art.

Online payments

$149

Take deposits and pay invoices on your site by card. Money lands in your account, not ours.

Extra service-area pages

$39 ea

Each town gets its own page so you show up when someone in that town searches.

Rush delivery

$149

Live in 48 hours instead of 5 days. We move you to the front of the build queue.

Optional — Never Required

The Care Plan, if you'd rather not think about it

Your site works fine without this. But if you'd rather text us "change my hours" than log into anything, this is what that costs.

  • Hosting, SSL and daily backups
  • Unlimited small edits — hours, prices, phone, photos
  • Instant Answer Assistant included free
  • Security updates and uptime monitoring
  • A monthly note telling you how many people called from the site
  • Cancel any time. We hand you your files and part as friends.
$29
per month
FIRST YEAR OF HOSTING IS ALREADY FREE
Add the Care Plan

No contract. No cancellation fee. Genuinely optional.

How It Works

Four steps. About 15 minutes of your time, total.

You run a business. You should not have to become a project manager to get a website.

1

You answer 6 questions

Business name, what you do, where you work, your phone, your hours, and anything you want said. By email or text — whichever you'll actually do.

~10 minutes
2

We build the whole thing

Writing, layout, photos, forms, Google setup. Nothing else needed from you, and nobody to chase.

5 business days
3

You look at it

We send a private link to your finished site. Click around. Tell us anything you want changed. Still haven't paid a cent.

~5 minutes
4

You say go

Happy with it? Pay the $499 and we put it live on your domain that day. Not happy? Walk away and owe nothing.

Same day
One Honest Thing

We're new, and we're not going to fake it.

You have seen a hundred sites with "500+ happy clients" and five-star reviews from people with stock-photo faces. We don't have those yet, and we're not going to invent them.

What we have is the work itself — three real sites up above that you can click through this second and judge for yourself — and a deal that puts every bit of the risk on us: you see your finished site before you pay us anything.

If it isn't better than what you have now, don't buy it. That's the whole pitch.

— TradeSites Co.
Questions

The things everybody asks

How is this only $499?
Because we don't have an office, a sales team, or account managers. Our process is tight and we build a lot of sites for the same kinds of businesses, so we're not reinventing the wheel every time. You're paying for the website, not for somebody's overhead.
Do I really not pay anything up front?
Correct. We build your complete site and send you a private link. You look at it, you ask for changes, and only when you're happy do you pay the $499. If you don't like it, you don't pay and we both move on with no hard feelings.
Is there a monthly fee?
Not a required one. Your first year of hosting is included in the $499. After that it's $29/month if you want us to keep hosting and maintaining it — or you can take the files and host it wherever you like for a few dollars a month. Your call, and we'll tell you honestly which makes more sense for you.
What if I already have a website?
Then we'll tell you honestly whether replacing it is worth $499. Sometimes the answer is no — sometimes yours just needs a click-to-call button and better wording, and we'll say so. We'd rather tell you the truth than take money for something you don't need.
Do I need my own domain name?
If you have one, we'll use it. If you don't, we'll help you register one in your name for about $12/year, paid directly to the registrar. It stays yours no matter what happens with us.
What if I don't have any photos?
Very common, and not a problem. We use professional stock imagery for the trade until you get us real ones — and honestly, a few phone photos of your truck, your crew and a finished job beat stock every time. Send them whenever; we'll swap them in free.
Will I be able to change things myself?
Yes. We hand you a simple editor for text, photos, hours and prices, plus a short video showing you how. Or email us and we'll do it — free on the Care Plan, and $49 for anything larger without it.
Will this actually get me on Google?
Here's the honest version. We do everything right at setup: your pages are structured properly, your business info is marked up so Google understands it, your service areas each get a page, and your site is submitted to Google. That's the foundation, and most trade sites don't have it. But nobody can promise a #1 ranking, and anyone who does is selling you something. The single biggest local ranking factor is your Google Business Profile — which is why we offer to set that up too, for $79.
Will AI assistants like ChatGPT recommend my business?
Nobody can promise that, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. Here's what we actually do: we describe your business in schema.org structured data so machines read facts instead of guessing, we answer real customer questions in plain sentences an assistant can quote, we add an llms.txt summary file, and we set your robots.txt to explicitly welcome AI crawlers — which most sites block by accident. That's the difference between being readable and being invisible. A business an AI can't read is never the answer it gives. It's included at no extra cost, because we think in two years it stops being optional.
How long does it really take?
Five business days from the day you send your answers. Rush delivery is 48 hours for $149. The clock starts when we get your six answers, not when you first email us — so the fastest thing you can do is answer them.
What do you need from me?
Six answers, once. Your business name and phone number, what services you offer, the towns you serve, your hours, whether you're licensed and insured, and anything you want customers to know. That's it. No calls, no meetings, no weekly check-ins.

Start your site

Pick what you want, answer six questions, and we build it. You see the finished site before you pay anything.

What you want

Today: $499 You pay nothing now. You pay only if you keep the finished site.

How we reach you
The six questions about 10 minutes

No card needed. No calls. We email you a private link in five business days.

Rather just email? info@tradesitesco.com

TradeSites AssistantAnswers instantly • 24/7
This is the $99 add-on, running live. Every answer is pre-written — nothing is generated.