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Custom websites for small businesses, designed for one business at a time, fast on a phone, and launched properly.

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Three businesses. Three different sites.

A roofer, an electrician and a deck builder do not need the same website. Each of these concept sites was designed from the trade up, not poured into a template.

Simple on the surface. Rigorous underneath.

Under every page there is a grid, a type scale and a list of checks that run before anyone sees it.

  • Laid out and checked at six screen widths, from 320 to 1440 pixels
  • Usable with a keyboard and a screen reader
  • Colour contrast measured, not guessed
  • A complete version for people who turn motion off
  • Speed measured on a phone before launch

Work

Each site below was designed for one kind of business. Open any of them: they are complete, working sites.

Every site here is a concept built by CAI to show what each tier produces. The businesses are fictional, and each site says so on its own pages. They are complete, working sites: every page, form, menu and layout is real.

Two websites. One price each.

Paid once, on the same fast, accessible foundation. No monthly fee is attached to the website itself; management is optional, from $20 a month.

Standard Website

$600one time

A custom website designed for your business, built properly and launched. The three sites shown above are all Standard work.

  • A custom design, not a template with your logo dropped in
  • The pages your business actually needs
  • Designed for phones first, then tablet, laptop and desktop
  • Professional typography, layout and visual presentation
  • Tasteful motion and transitions
  • Contact or estimate form, designed and validated
  • On-page SEO foundation: titles, descriptions, structure, sitemap
  • Accessibility work: contrast, keyboard use, screen reader structure
  • Performance optimisation: fast on a phone, on a normal connection
  • Deployment and launch setup
Choose Standard

Premium Website

$1,200one time

Everything in Standard, built into a personalized, art-directed experience around the one thing your business is best at showing.

  • Everything included in the Standard Website
  • Art direction created for your business, not adapted from a layout
  • Real-time 3D where it genuinely serves the business: a product to turn, a space to explore, a build to take apart
  • Cinematic, choreographed scrolling where sections hand off to each other
  • Advanced transitions and a signature interaction your visitors control
  • Designed fallbacks for older phones, reduced motion and browsers without 3D

If 3D would not help your customers, we will say so and put that budget into art direction and motion instead.

Choose Premium

Outside the fixed price

  • Unlimited pages or unlimited revisions
  • Ecommerce and online payments
  • Customer logins, accounts or portals
  • Booking systems and major third party integrations
  • Custom backend software

None of these are refused. They are simply not inside a fixed price, so they get scoped and quoted on their own before any work starts.

Keeping it running, if you want that

Both plans are optional. You can take the website on its own. Managed Plus covers routine small content work, not unlimited development: anything larger is quoted separately before it starts.

Managed Website Care

$20per month

Keeps the site you paid for online, secure and working.

Included

  • Hosting and deployment management
  • SSL and HTTPS management
  • DNS technical management
  • Basic uptime and technical monitoring
  • Keeping the deployed site operational
  • Basic technical support
  • Recovery and redeployment assistance where appropriate

Not included

  • Content changes and edits, which are covered by Managed Plus
  • New pages, new features or redesign work

Managed Plus

$50per month

Everything in Managed Website Care, plus a reasonable amount of routine small content work each month.

Included

  • Everything in Managed Website Care
  • Text edits
  • Image replacements
  • Contact information changes
  • Ordinary small content updates

Not included

  • Unlimited redesigns
  • Major new pages or major new features
  • Ecommerce systems
  • Customer portals
  • Backend systems
  • Major integrations
  • Unlimited development work

Customers on a plan reach us at support@caicreations.com.

You own your domain. We handle the technical side.

The domain stays in your name

Your domain is registered to you, in your own account. It is the one part of this that should never sit with a contractor, because it is how you keep control of your own address.

We configure it

DNS records, connecting the domain to the site, SSL and HTTPS, and the deployment records. You do not need to understand any of that, and you do not need to do it yourself.

It is billed at cost

Domain registration and renewal are separate from the website price and from the management plans, and are charged at what the registrar actually charges. There is no markup on it.

How it runs

Seven steps from the first questions to a site that is live and yours.

  1. Intake

    A short set of questions about the business, the services, the service area and what you want the site to do. Nothing is invented: if we do not have it, it does not go on the site.

  2. Content and assets

    Your logo if you have one, your photos, and any genuine reviews you already hold. Where you have no photography we use properly licensed images and say so.

  3. Design and build

    The site is designed and built against your trade and your customers, not against a template.

  4. Quality checks

    Responsive layout at phone, tablet, laptop and desktop widths, accessibility, performance, and every link and form tested.

  5. Your review

    You see it, you tell us what is wrong, and the agreed corrections get made.

  6. Domain and launch

    Domain and DNS configured, the form pointed at a real inbox you confirm, a final check, and the site goes live.

  7. Handoff

    You get the site, the access, and a plain explanation of what you own. A management plan is optional from here.

Questions worth asking

What do you need from me to start?

Your business name and contact details, what you do and where you do it, and somewhere for enquiries to arrive. Photos and a logo help but are not required to begin. The intake is a short set of questions, not a homework assignment.

How many pages do I get?

The pages your business reasonably needs. For most trades that is a home page, services, some form of work or gallery, an about page and a contact or estimate page. The Standard examples above are six to seven pages each. It is not an unlimited page count, and if you need something much larger it gets quoted on its own.

What is the difference between Standard and Premium?

The same foundation underneath: responsive, accessible, fast, properly built. Standard is a custom, professionally designed site. Premium turns it into an experience built around what you sell, with art direction made for you, choreographed scrolling, and real-time 3D where it actually helps a customer understand your product or space.

Do I have to take a management plan?

No. The website is a one time price and both plans are optional. The plans exist because most small businesses do not want to think about hosting, certificates or DNS again, and because text on a website goes out of date.

Who owns the domain?

You do, in your own account and your own name. We configure the technical side of it. Registration and renewal are billed separately at what the registrar charges.

I already have a website. Can you work from it?

Yes. Existing copy, photography and the pages that are doing real work can carry over. The existing address can be kept so the site does not lose whatever search visibility it already has.

Will this put me at the top of Google?

No one can promise that, and anyone who does is selling you something. What is included is the on-page foundation that search engines actually need: correct titles and descriptions, sensible structure, a sitemap, fast loading and a site that works on a phone. That is the part anyone can actually control.

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Tell us what the business does and what you need. If a website is not the right spend for you right now, we will say so.

Standard Website
$600
Premium Website
$1,200
Managed Website Care
$20/mo
Managed Plus
$50/mo
Domain and unusual third-party costs
at cost

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The trade, roughly where you work, and whether you have a website now.