Columbus, Ohio · Working nationwide
We hand-code custom sites for small and mid-sized businesses, keep them running after launch, and do the SEO that puts them in front of people actually looking to buy.
Services
Not a menu of forty deliverables. Three services that cover what a small business actually needs from a website.
Custom-designed and hand-coded from scratch. No themes, no page builders, no plugin sprawl. Semantic markup, mobile-first, and fast on the cheapest phone your customer owns.
Launch is the start, not the finish. We handle content changes, updates, hosting questions, uptime monitoring, and the small fixes that otherwise sit on your to-do list for six months.
Technical SEO, local SEO, and answer engine optimization — the work that gets you cited by ChatGPT and Google's AI overviews, not just ranked on page one.
You talk to the people building your site. Scope and price are agreed in writing before anything starts, and you own everything at the end.
Process
Four stages from first email to launch. Most small business sites take two to five weeks, and the main variable is how fast you get us content and approvals — not the build.
A 30-minute call. We research your business and competitors first, so you get real insight on the call.
Deliverables, timeline, and a fixed price in writing. Nothing starts until you approve it, and nothing outside it gets billed.
You see the design before a line of production code is written. Then we hand-code it, with SEO and accessibility built into version one.
We make, launch, and manage your website from the jump. And will change anything the second you ask!
Why us
Because you get the team, not a junior assigned to your account. A Columbus agency will quote you more and route you through a project manager who forwards your emails to the person we'd have you talking to directly.
Not a ticket queue. Most replies land same day, one business day at the outside — and it's the same three people every time.
We don't guarantee rankings, upsell retainers you don't need, or invoice for anything that wasn't quoted first.
Sub-second loads are the baseline, which is both a ranking factor and a conversion one.
CWO took a site we'd been putting off for years and just handled it. Every question answered same day.
Clients
We take who we believe in helping. Read the rest of what clients say, and the actual problem we were hired to solve.
FAQ
We do three things: build custom hand-coded websites, manage and update them after launch, and run SEO so the site gets found. One team, one point of contact, no account managers in between.
Pricing scales to the needs of the business rather than being sold as one fixed package. A simple brochure site for a local shop costs far less than a multi-section site with ongoing SEO. Every quote is given up front in writing after a free 30-minute call.
Most small business websites go from kickoff to launch in two to five days. The main variable is how quickly you return content, photos, and approvals — not the build itself.
No. Every site is coded from scratch. That avoids plugin bloat, improves load speed, and gives full control over the markup that search engines and AI systems read.
You do, however, we handle the domain, site, and other online services for you so its a full hands off experience.
No, and no firm honestly can. Search engines control their own ranking systems. We commit to sound technical implementation, white-hat practices, and transparent reporting instead.
Yes. We're based in Columbus and work with clients in all 50 states over Zoom and phone. Local clients can meet in person; everyone else gets the same process remotely.
You can view the site and request changes at any time. Managed clients get content updates, fixes, uptime monitoring, and a free portal login showing live traffic and keyword positions.