Your reviewsneed a home.
We're Hayden Pugh and Trint Saunders, and we're starting Mortise Labs in High Point. We're building free websites for our first five local businesses, then a founding rate for the next twenty, because right now honest results and testimonials matter more to us than full price.
Local websites · High Point, NC
- Live in 10 days
- You own it
- Built in High Point
What it usually costs vs. what we charge.
Typical freelancer
$1,500–5,000for a professional small-business site
Small local agency
$3,000–8,000same kind of site, agency overhead
Founding client · first 5
Freein return for a testimonial and two introductions. After that, $120 and up (see the ladder below).
Market ranges: Formgrid, "How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost in 2026".
One clean page that works.
- Your services, prices if you want them, hours and a map
- A tap-to-call button and directions for phones
- Your best Google reviews on the page
- Two rounds of edits before launch
- The domain is registered in your name. If we ever part ways, you keep everything.
Every dollar, up front.
| Item | Year 1 | After |
|---|---|---|
| Website buildDesign, writing, setup, launch. Paid to: Mortise Labs. Founding price by client number below. | $0–600 | $0 |
| Domain (yourbusiness.com)About $11 a year at cost through Cloudflare. Paid to: The registrar, in your name. | ~$11 | ~$11/yr |
| HostingCloudflare's free plan, the same one this site runs on. Free. | $0 | $0 |
| Care plan (optional)Edits, new photos, hours changes, keeping it running. Paid to: Mortise Labs. | $40/mo | $40/mo |
| Priority care (optional, instead of the care plan)Same-business-day edits Mon–Fri, a monthly Google Business Profile update and post, a monthly speed and search check, and you're first in line. Up to 4 hours a month; limited to 3 businesses. Paid to: Mortise Labs. | $300/mo | $300/mo |
| Total without a care plan | ~$11–611 | ~$11/yr |
Domain price: CostGoat .com price comparison ($10.46 a year at Cloudflare, rising to $11.17 on Nov 1, 2026).
| Founding ladder | Build price |
|---|---|
| Clients 1–5 | Free |
| Clients 6–10 | $120 |
| Clients 11–15 | $240 |
| Clients 16–20 | $360 |
| Clients 21–25 | $480 |
| After that | $600 |
Paid spots: $100 to start, the rest only after you approve the finished site.
How people find you now.
Sources: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (97%, 45%); BrightLocal 2026 local search study via Digital Applied (52%, 72%).
When does it pay for itself?
Put in your own numbers. This uses the full $600 price and is math, not a promise: nobody can guarantee how many customers a website brings.
What we ask in return.
- A short written testimonial we can put on our site, with your name and business
- Permission to show your site as an example of our work
- Honest feedback on what we could do better
- Free spots only: introductions to two business owners you know who might need a site
Our site will say founding clients received a free or discounted site. Google reviews are always optional and never tied to the price; Google's rules don't allow that, and we'd rather earn them.
How it works.
See your sample
We'll show you a quick draft of your site. No charge to look.
Send your content
Photos, services and hours. We write the rest. Paid spots: $100 to start.
Live in 10 days
Two rounds of edits, then it's on your domain.
Approve, then launch
Free spots pay nothing. Paid spots pay the rest only after you approve the finished site.
Hayden: (910) 880-1196 · hayden@pughsystems.com
Trint: (336) 553-8227 · trintsaunders3@gmail.com