A website that brings the calls in — and that you own outright.
Websites built for businesses that need calls, bookings, and walk-ins — fast, clear, and owned outright from day one. The domain, the email, the hosting: registered to the business, in accounts that answer to the owner, not the web guy. Change providers whenever; everything keeps working.
Most trade websites are owned by whoever built them.
It’s a common story: nobody is quite sure who holds the domain, who pays for the hosting, or how to get into any of it. That’s how a $1,200 website becomes a business that can’t move.
Hairbrain does it the other way round. Every account opens in the business’s name, on the business’s card, from day one. Working access is delegated for the job — and revocable at any time, no phone call required.
Not a promise in an email — a clause in the written agreement, signed before any work starts and readable before hiring anyone.
- DomainRegistered to your companyYour card · auto-renew onYours
- DNSYour accountI’m an administrator.Yours
- EmailYour accountYou’re the administrator.Yours
- Google listingYou, primary ownerI’m a manager.Yours
- Quote requestsStraight to your inboxI keep the count. Not the customers.Yours
- Site codeYours at final paymentHeld by me while the invoice is open. That’s the only thing I hold.Yours
- My accessDeveloper & admin, delegatedRevocable by you at any time, no notice needed.Mine
The ownership clause · signed before any work starts
“Agency shall not withhold, disable, or refuse to release Client’s preexisting domain registration, business email, or customer and lead data as leverage in any dispute, including a payment dispute.”
Three industries, three sites, one standard. Open them on your phone.
No wall of borrowed logos — these are working demonstration sites, built end to end to show the standard: budgets enforced on every build, pages that load fast on a jobsite connection. The businesses are fictional and labelled; the product is real. Poke around, load them on 4G, fill in a form.
Demo · fictional businessTrades
Basalt Peak Roofing
A roofing company site built like a good estimate: dense, ordered, nothing wasted. The whole page set a storm-season customer actually needs.
- Conversion architecture — diagnostic, materials, process, service area, estimate
- A page per service, projects with before/after
- Quote round-trip to a real inbox, honest failure to a phone number
Demo · fictional businessHospitality
Smokefern
A wood-fired restaurant set like a printed menu — editorial pacing, dot-leader menu typography, a reservation request a human answers.
- A second, unrelated visual world on the same engineering floor
- Menu, story, private dining, visit — hospitality information architecture
- Sticky mobile reserve path; the form fails honestly to the phone
Demo · fictional businessMed spa
Sereille Skin Studio
A consultation-first aesthetic practice — treatments filed by concern with honest session and downtime columns, and a written brief a patient can actually read.
- A third independent design system: porcelain, hairlines, chart margins
- Treatment index by concern; injectables deliberately not bookable from a menu
- Deep-linkable treatment brief; consultation request round-trip
Every site above is a fictional brand, designed and built end to end by Hairbrain Designs — same budgets, same audits, same ownership terms as a paid build.
When real businesses are on this page, it becomes their sites and their words. Not before.
Real prices. The whole number, up front.
Fixed price for the build, then a flat monthly fee to keep it running. No hourly surprises — nothing starts before a signed number.
Starter
$2,500 one-time
One trade, one service area, straightforward.
- Up to 5 pages
- Quote form and call buttons
- Google listing set up properly
- Analytics and Search Console
- Domain and email sorted out
Includes 6 months of management at $149/mo, then month to month.
Standard · most businesses
$4,500 one-time
Several services, several towns, wants to rank locally.
- Up to 10 pages
- A page per service and per town
- Copywriting included
- Local search setup
- Call tracking if you want it
- Redirects from the old site so Google rankings carry over
Includes 6 months of management at $149/mo, then month to month.
Custom
$9,000 +
Booking, payments, multiple locations, a system to plug into.
- Online booking or scheduling
- Payments through a hosted checkout
- Connects to your CRM
- Multiple locations
- Quoted after a blueprint
Management from $299/mo.
The monthly covers hosting, monitoring, security updates, backups, domain and certificate watching, and up to 30 minutes of text and photo changes. Bigger changes get quoted first. No “unlimited” anything — nobody can deliver it.
Five steps, no mysteries at any of them.
- 2 days
Free audit
A look at the site, the Google listing and the search picture — three specific things costing the business calls, in writing, inside two working days. No obligation, no scare tactics; a site that’s fine gets called fine.
- 1 week
Blueprint · $400
A paid working session: map the pages, sort the domain and email on the call, leave with a fixed quote. Going ahead credits the $400 against the build.
- 1 week
Pick a look, send over the goods
Choose from three finished designs, not sketches. Photos, license details and the service list are what hold jobs up — expect to be chased for them.
- 2–3 weeks
Build and review
Built on a private link: a week to pull it apart, a few days to confirm the fixes. Every claim about the business gets signed off before anything goes live.
- Launch day
Launch and keep running
The old site gets backed up, the domain moves carefully so email keeps working, and the first three days are watched. Then comes a written record of every account and who owns it.
Things I won’t do
Worth knowing before spending money — and worth asking whoever else is quoting.
Own your domain
It goes in the business’s name at the start. Not “temporarily” anyone else’s.
Promise you a Google ranking
Nobody controls Google. Anyone who guarantees position one is guessing or lying.
Make claims up about you
Years in business, licences, guarantees, reviews — every one confirmed in writing before it goes live.
Call every click a lead
Reports count quote requests and phone calls. Not page views dressed up as customers.
Lock you into a long contract
Three months on the monthly, then cancel whenever with 30 days’ notice.
Hold anything hostage
Part ways, and everything stays with the business while the access gets removed — per the agreement signed before work starts.
Find out what’s costing the business calls.
Drop in a website or business name and get back three specific problems, what each one is likely costing, and what fixing it involves — written by a person, about the actual site. Two working days.
- No phone button on mobile. Most visitors arrive on a phone and have to pinch-zoom to find the number.
- Contact form doesn’t deliver. A test submission goes in; nothing arrives.
- Google listing has no hours or service area. The listing isn’t appearing in map results for the next town over.
Every finding in a real audit is something actually checked, never a template.
One person. That’s the whole company.
Hairbrain is a one-person software shop building websites for owner-operated local businesses. The person who builds the site is the person who answers the form — send it and expect a reply the same business day. Introductions happen then.
No account manager, no team page with stock photos on it. That’s a limitation and it’s also the point: it is always clear exactly who is responsible for the site.