The things people ask before hiring anyone.
Straight answers, including the ones that are awkward to give. If yours is not here, ask it — it will probably end up on this page.
How much does a small business website cost?
It depends on what the site has to do — a well-built brochure site for a local trade is a different job from a booking system with customer accounts. Build work is quoted per project after a conversation, rather than as a package price that would be wrong for most people. For clients we work with on an ongoing basis, that usually settles into a retainer once the build is done. Ask and you will get a real number for your project, not a range designed to get you on a call.
Do you work with businesses outside Conifer and Bailey?
Yes. We are based in the 285 corridor and know the local market well, but the work is remote-friendly and we build for businesses across Colorado and beyond. Being local mostly means you can text the person who built your site and meet in person when it helps.
How long does it take to build a website?
A focused small-business site is usually a few weeks from first conversation to launch. Apps and booking systems take longer because there is real logic to get right. The AI toolchain has genuinely compressed this — work that used to take a team a quarter now ships from a small shop in weeks.
What does it mean that the sites are AI-built?
It means we use Claude, Gemini and the rest of the modern toolchain as a force multiplier, not that a machine generates your site unattended. Every line is reviewed and every page is looked at before it ships. The benefit to you is speed and polish that used to require a five-person agency.
Can I update the website myself?
Yes, and for the things you will actually change often — hours, menus, events, photos — you get a straightforward way to do it. For anything structural, you text the person who built it and it gets handled.
Do you handle the domain and hosting too?
Yes — domain, hosting and the site itself from one shop, one invoice, one person to contact. That is deliberate: when a site goes down, the worst possible position is three vendors each pointing at the other two.
Will my site show up on Google?
Search is built in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards — structured data, clean semantics, real performance budgets, and the local signals that matter for a mountain-town business. Increasingly that also means being readable by AI assistants, which is a different job from ranking on a page of blue links, and we build for both.
What if I already have a website?
That is common and usually fine. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth rebuilding or whether the money is better spent on the layers underneath — hosting, search, or the software the business actually runs on.
Still wondering something?
Ask directly. You will get an answer from the person who does the work.