Affordable websites for Atlanta businesses. For the ones that don’t have a website, and the ones that need a better one.
Walkthrough $350 · Websites from $4,500 · The plan is yours to keep either way.
01 · The stakes
Here is exactly how it happens. It happened today.
Yours was hard to find, or there was nothing to find. You never see it happen. No missed call. No empty chair. Just a customer who spent their money three blocks away.
1 in 4
About one in four independent businesses in metro Atlanta have no working website of their own.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
02 · Asking AI
Here is what changed, in plain words.
They ask their phone.
The AI reads websites.
It answers with one name.
They walk in.
Somebody needs what you sell. They used to type it into Google and read a page of results. Now a lot of them just ask. They ask ChatGPT. They ask Siri. They ask the AI sitting on top of Google.
The AI does not hand back a page of results. It hands back an answer. One name. Maybe two.
To pick those names, the AI reads websites. It is looking for five plain facts:
If the AI can’t find those on a website you own, it can’t recommend you. It recommends the business down the street instead. There is no page two. There is one answer. You are in it, or you are not.
Your city, then the first letters of your business. The public map is part of what the assistants read. It already holds four answers about your door.
Not on the map under that name. That is an answer too. Take the check anyway.
From OpenStreetMap, which anyone can edit and which runs behind. If your door is wrong there, fix it at openstreetmap.org. It’s what the assistants read.
The good news: it’s the same fix as being found by Google, done properly. That’s part of every plan I write, and this site practices it. A plain summary of the whole thing sits at curbtoclick.com/llms.txt.
03 · What you get
So here is what you get. The middle one is the one nobody else will hand you.
Not a form. Not a call on a screen. I drive to your door, stand where your customer stands, and start from what they see.
It is written down and it is yours, and it stays yours if you never hire me. That is the part that costs me something. It is also the part you should ask every other quote for.
The version of your business that lives online finally matches the one on your street. You send the link on purpose.
04 · About
I drive out and stand where your customers stand. I tell you what’s costing you business. Then I build you the website you deserve.
You’ve been busy running the actual business, which is the correct thing to have been busy doing. And somebody probably already took your money for this. A cousin who moved away. An agency that said “brand pillars” a lot. You’re not behind. You’re careful, and you’ve earned it.
No agency · No template · No “brand pillars”
One campaign put a student on the front page of The New York Times.
I was the student. Twenty-three videos, a camera, no budget, one reader in mind. SportsCenter had it in three days. Nobody bought that attention. The idea earned it, and that is the part I do.
A print shop that didn’t exist changed a governor’s mind.
For one week a sign shop I invented sold Georgians the discrimination signs a new bill would make legal. Then it told them what they had been shopping for. The governor vetoed the bill. A website and a story did that, for a shop that did not exist. Think what they can do for one that does.
Where the work has run
Coverage of work made at agencies and on my own over twenty years. Not clients of Curb to Click.
05 · The plan
I come to your business. An hour, in person. I see what a customer sees. The sign, the parking, the door, the room. Then I pull up what the internet says about the same place while I’m standing in it. Including what the AI assistants say when somebody asks them where to go.
A written assessment. What’s working, what’s costing you customers, what’s worth fixing and what isn’t, in priority order, with real numbers attached. You keep it either way. Take it to someone cheaper if you want.
I build the website your business deserves. A real one, on a domain you own, that says what you sell and gets you found. Built from scratch or rebuilt. Then whatever the plan said mattered next. You stop apologizing for your website.
06 · Prices
Three ways in. No packages, no tiers, no call to find out.
$350
An hour on site, plus the written plan. Yours to keep. It comes off the build if you go ahead.
from$4,500
Built from scratch or rebuilt. On a domain you own. Found by search and by the AI people ask instead. The photographs are in the price: you, your work and your place, shot in a morning. The plan prices your exact build first.
from$4,500
The Walkthrough and the Website together, for less than separately. The $350 comes off.
Prices come from a market check, not a gut feeling. The Walkthrough costs about what a home inspection does in Atlanta, and it works the same way. Somebody comes out. You keep the report.
07 · Questions
I come to your business for an hour. I see what a customer sees: the sign, the parking, the door, the room. Then I pull up what the internet says about the same place while I’m standing in it, including what the AI assistants say. You get a written plan within two days.
What’s working. What’s costing you customers. What’s worth fixing and what isn’t, in priority order, with prices. It’s yours to keep, whether or not you hire me. See it blank.
The Walkthrough is $350, about what a home inspection costs in Atlanta. Websites start at $4,500, and the photographs are in that price. If you go ahead, the $350 comes off the build.
Yes. This is for businesses with no website and for businesses with one that could be better. The Walkthrough tells you whether to fix yours or replace it, and what each would cost.
No. The plan is yours. Take it to your cousin, to an agency, or to nobody.
Atlanta and the metro. I drive out. If you’re further than that, ask me anyway and I’ll tell you straight. Atlanta, city by city, with the count.
Only if it can read you. AI tools like ChatGPT answer with one or two names, not a page of results. They pick those names by reading websites. So your site has to say, in plain words, what you sell, where you are, when you’re open, on a domain you own. That goes into every plan and every build, and this site does it too.
No. Your website is built from scratch, or rebuilt, on a domain you own. No agency, no template, no brand pillars.
Take the Curb Check. Ten questions, a minute, free. Nothing you answer leaves the page.
Tell me where to stand. The form goes to the host and then to me. I write back with a day and a time.
Start with the Curb Check. Ten questions that tell you whether your business is being found online, and what to fix first. A minute to answer. Free, no email required, nothing you answer leaves the page.
08 · The click
That happens on every street in this city, every day. So I start where your customer starts. At the curb.
From the curb to the click.
The headline is a question. The business is solid and the website is an outline, which is the whole case. You answer it in your head before you read another word.
One button. One label. Everywhere. A second wording reads as a second offer, and a second offer reads as doubt.
Something has to move in the first frame. This moves with real numbers, from a count I did myself.
Four lines, one idea each, in the order it happens. The green follows you down them. It is a light, not a decoration.
Two hundred and two businesses checked by hand. It is on this page because I would not trust a site that quoted somebody else’s number.
Five facts on a site you own. That is the whole of being found now. Everything else is detail.
The plan is what I do. This is what you keep. Most sites only ever say the first, and the second is the one you are deciding about.
Names, not logos. I do not draw other people’s marks. Set big enough, a name is a mark.
Three steps, drawn in the same hand as About, and only one of them lit at a time. You are never asked to hold all three in your head.
Prices on the page. If you have to ask, somebody has already quoted you something worse.
Every answer here comes from a decision already made. None of them is a maybe.
The phone from About, on its own. This is what a stranger’s phone shows of a good shop that isn’t online. The check is for the owner who wants to see that before anyone comes.
The green stops here because this is where it was going.
Bricolage Grotesque, one cut, twenty-two kilobytes. A gothic for sentences. A mono for numbers. A marker for the painted words. Five files. Your site would get the same care.