Straight answers, no sales pitch

Everything you
want to ask.

AI, domains, hosting, servers, cost. Real questions service business owners ask before they launch. Plain answers, no jargon.

Launching with AI
// what AI can and cannot do for your site

Yes. AI can write the full code for a clean, fast, professional website in minutes. Open the demos on this site. Every one was built this way. For a service business that needs to look trustworthy and be easy to reach, AI does the job well.

Where AI needs a human is direction. It builds what you tell it. Give it weak answers and you get a weak site. That is the whole reason this process makes you answer eight specific questions first. Good inputs, good site.

No. You never touch code. With the $99 kit you copy a prompt, paste it into an AI, and save the file it hands back. With the $999 option you do not even do that. You answer questions and the site shows up done.

The prompt you get works in the major chat AIs that can write code, like Claude or ChatGPT. The directions tell you exactly where to paste it. You do not need a paid plan to get a usable result, though paid versions tend to produce cleaner output.

No, if the inputs are yours. The prompt builds around your business name, your services, your area, and the tone you pick. Look at the four demos. Same process, four different looks. Yours is built from your answers, not a template everyone shares.

Domains
// your web address

A domain is your web address, like yourbusiness.com. Yes, you need one. It is how people look you up, and it makes you look real. Without it you are stuck with a long, ugly link nobody remembers.

You buy it from a registrar. Cloudflare and Namecheap are both solid and cheap. A normal .com runs about $10 to $15 a year. That is the real ongoing cost of having a website. Small.

Buy the domain in your own name and account, not someone else's. It is yours. You always want to own it.

Short, clear, and easy to say out loud. Your business name is usually best. If that is taken, add your city or trade, like greenvilleelectric.com. Stick with .com when you can. People trust it and type it by habit.

Yes. Whatever you already own, we point your new site to it. If you went the $999 route, we handle the connection for you. If you did it yourself, the directions walk you through it.

Hosting & servers
// where the site actually lives

No. Not the kind you are picturing. You are not buying a machine or paying a monthly server bill. Your site is a simple file that sits on Cloudflare's network for free. No server to manage, nothing to break at 2am.

It is a free hosting service. You drag your website file into it and Cloudflare puts it online, fast, everywhere, with security built in. For a site like this, the free plan is genuinely all you need. No monthly fee.

The short version: save the file as index.html, log into Cloudflare, go to Workers and Pages, create a Pages project, and drag your file in. Then connect your domain. The $99 kit gives you each step with the buttons named. It takes about ten minutes.

If that still sounds like too much, that is what the $999 option is for. We do all of it.

Yes. Cloudflare runs a huge piece of the internet. Your site gets the same security and uptime the big sites use, including the lock icon (HTTPS) that tells customers it is safe. There is no software running that can crash, because it is just a file being served.

A simple site like this rarely breaks, because there are no moving parts. If something does go sideways, you still have the original file and can re-upload it in minutes. And you can always send it to us for a fix.

Cost & time
// what you actually pay and how long it takes

Two parts. One, the build: $99 to do it yourself or $999 to have us do it. That is once, not monthly. Two, the domain: about $10 to $15 a year. Hosting on Cloudflare is free. So a do-it-yourself site is roughly $99 plus $12 a year. That is it.

Agencies charge for hours. AI removes most of the hours. We are not cutting corners, we are skipping the slow, expensive middle. The site you get is the kind agencies charged thousands for. The tools changed. The price should too.

Do it yourself and you can be live the same evening. Hand it to us and we deliver inside 48 hours. Either way, no months of back and forth.

No monthly fee from us. Your only recurring cost is the domain, about $12 a year, paid to the registrar. No subscriptions, no surprise renewals.

$99 per change, anytime. New phone number, new service, new photos, whatever. Send your work order number and what you want different and we turn it around fast.

Showing up on Google
// honest answers about search

Straight answer: nobody can promise you a ranking, and we won't either. What we build is a real, professional site with the basics done right, your services and city named clearly, and the behind-the-scenes data search engines look for. That's the foundation. Where you land on Google depends on a lot we don't control, and any company that guarantees you the top spot is not being honest with you.

It makes your business real. It's the place you send a customer who asks, the link a happy client shares, the thing a referral checks before they call. It's how you look as legit as you already are. People who already heard your name find a real business when they look you up, instead of nothing.

Set up a free Google Business Profile. It is what puts you on the map and in the local results when someone nearby searches your trade. Your website and your profile work together. We can point you in the right direction.

No. For a service business, a clear site that says what you do, where, and how to reach you does the heavy lifting. You are not trying to be a media company. You are trying to look real and have somewhere to send people.

Working with us
// the simple stuff

Chance Craven. Twenty years in brand and crisis communication, much of it around first responders and the trades. Not an agency, not a web guy. Someone who learned how to do this with AI and decided to hand it to the people who serve others. Read the full story on the My Story page.

Your answers to the eight questions, your logo if you have one, and a few photos of your work or your team. That is enough to build the whole thing. No logo or photos? We work with what you have.

Answer the eight questions on the build page. At the end you choose your path. That is the whole front door.

Email hello@outpostsites.ai. Real person, real answer.

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