Ascend Creative Consulting / Web design + AI systems

Your website should make buying from you easy.

Most websites make people work too hard to buy from you. We build the website and the tools behind it, so the people who find you actually call, ask for a quote, or place an order instead of quietly leaving.

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Case study 01

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Empower Potential

Coaching site that books calls

Site

Lead

Route

Follow-up

Lead magnet -> qualified inquiry -> calendar

Websites: 200+; built across 13 years
Years: 13; real clients, real launches
SMB entry: $950; audit-to-launch path

01 / Proof of range

Web design with the AI systems behind it.

Thirteen years of building sites that sell, plus the AI behind them: capturing leads, sending them to the right place, and following up so none slip through.

Websites

000+

Built across 13 years, from local service brands to SaaS products.

Years

Enough launches to know what survives after the first version ships.

AI tools shipped

000

AI tools and automations we've actually built and run, not slideware.

How a visitor becomes a customerOffer to proof to follow-up

Clear offer

Real proof

Easy to act

Goes to you

We follow up

What makes it different

The site is step one.

Most websites lose the customers they worked to get. The real job is closing every gap between somebody noticing you and somebody booking: what you say, the proof, how they reach you, and what happens after. Nobody falls through.

Proof in numbers

Real businesses. Real numbers.

The site is step one. Here is what happens after the leaks get sealed.

3 to 13 bookings a month

A local caterer, 90 days after we launched their new site with SEO.

$30k to $230k a year

A van rental company we repositioned, with targeted follow-up and GEO, over one year.

+130% catering orders

A neighborhood cafe, plus 17,000 website views in the first 3 weeks.

7 new leads in 21 days

A South Florida real estate team, on a custom AI follow-up tool we built at a fraction of their old cost.

The work / First websites

Most of these had no website. We built their first one.

Search these businesses a year ago and you would have found a phone number, a Facebook page, maybe a food truck. No site. We built the whole front door, from zero.

Live site

Food truck + catering / Big Island, HI

Kimo and Melia's Hawaiian Grindz

Before

A food truck and catering, all word of mouth. No website.

After

Brand, menu, and catering bookings in one place. Now people can find them and book them.

See it live

Live site

BBQ + catering / Big Island, HI

Big Island Smokehouse

Before

Award-winning BBQ, a phone number, and word of mouth. No website.

After

A site that takes catering bookings while they run the smoker.

See it live

Live site

Shredding + custom CRM / Big Island, HI

DocuShred HI

Before

A new mission-driven service with no web presence at all.

After

Their first site plus a full custom CRM, built accessibility-first.

See it live

Live site

Cafe with a purpose / Hilo, HI

Tiki Turtle Cafe

Before

A vocational cafe training adults with disabilities. Not online.

After

A site that puts the food and the mission front and center.

See it live

If your business is hard to find online, that is the first thing we fix.

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02 / Two ways to start

Two ways to start. Pick what fits where you are.

Some owners already know it is time. Others want evidence first. Both lead to the same place: a real reply, a clear plan.

For owners who know it is time

Tell me what you need.

Four quick questions. I read every one. You get a real reply within two business hours with the right next move.

Start a projectWeb. AI. Or both.

For owners who want evidence first

Find the leak before you rebuild.

Paste a URL. We stream the scan, draw your architecture, and email a 4 page PDF report with three fixes. No email gate.

Run the scannerFree. Shareable. 90 seconds.

03 / Website packages

Pick the website that matches where your business is now.

Most owners land on the $3,800 Conversion Website. It is the one built to win business, not just look good. The $2,500 Sprint is for a clean first site. The $6,000 Growth System adds five more pages plus AI tools built for how you actually run. Every package says how many pages it includes, so you know exactly what you are buying. Not sure? Start with the $950 audit and we will tell you which one you actually need.

01 / Start here

fixed

Website Audit + Direction

For when you do not know what is wrong yet.

$950

Best if: You can feel the site is not pulling its weight, but nobody has told you plainly what is actually wrong with it.

You leave with a plain map of what is broken, what to fix first, and whether to rebuild or repair. The full fee credits toward a build started within 30 days.

What comes back

Conversion and positioning audit
Design direction
Prioritized action plan
Credited toward your build

Get the audit

02 / First site

from

Launch Site Sprint

For when you need a first website that looks legitimate.

$2,500

Includes 3 pages

Best if: You need a credible first website and a clear way to be contacted. You do not need AI, automation, or a full sales system yet.

You get a sharp three page presence that explains the business, looks legitimate, and gives people a clean way to reach you.

What comes back

3 pages: home, services, contact
Starter copy and design
Mobile polish
Contact path and analytics

Start simple

03 / Most owners pick this

from

Conversion Website

For when the site needs to help you close.

$3,800

Includes 10 pages

Best if: You already have referrals, traffic, ads, or a serious offer, but the website is not teaching, proving, and selling hard enough.

The site built to win business: sharper copy, service pages that answer doubts, and real proof placed where buyers hesitate.

What comes back

10 pages
Copy that sells
Service and proof pages
SEO fundamentals and conversion tracking

Build my conversion site

04 / Full system

from

Web + AI Growth System

For when leads keep slipping through the cracks.

$6,000

Includes 15 pages

Best if: Leads slip through the cracks and you are tracking follow-up in your head. You need the website connected to the business behind it.

You get the conversion site at 15 pages, six AI tools scoped to your actual operation, and two of them built into the project.

What comes back

15 pages
Everything in the Conversion Website
6 AI tools scoped to your operation
2 of them built and running

Map the system

What happens if you need more

You do not get surprised. You get a number.

Every package includes a set number of pages. Need more pages, or another AI tool? We quote it before we build it, never after. Same craft, more of it. No surprise invoice.

$200

Per extra unique page

Its own layout, its own copy, its own proof. Built from scratch.

$75

Per extra template page

A service, location, or staff page off a layout we already built. Cheaper, because it is less work.

$1,500

Per extra AI tool

The Growth System scopes 6 and builds 2. Want one of the other 4 later? That is the price, and it is on your handoff sheet.

20+

Pages becomes a custom build

Past 20 pages it is a different project, so we scope and price it as one.

Beyond the packages / Enterprise + SaaS

Building something bigger? We scope it custom.

For SaaS products, customer portals, multi-location sites, and systems too big for a fixed package. We scope the build to what you actually need, then price it. No template, no padded estimate.

See custom builds Tell us what you are building

What it costs

Custom

Let us scope it. Pricing follows the architecture, integrations, and build surface, not a fixed template.

Typical fits

SaaS MVPs, customer portals, multi-location sites, internal tools, and AI-heavy operations.

$2,500Launch Site Sprint

When you need to look legitimate.

Best for newer businesses, simple local offers, referrals, and owners who need a clean three page site people can trust before they overinvest. Home, services, contact. No AI integration or backend build here.

$3,800Conversion Website

When the site needs to help close.

Best for businesses with traffic, referrals, ads, high-ticket services, multiple services, or buyers who need proof before they act. Ten pages. Nothing running in the background: if you want tools that keep working after launch, that is the Growth System.

Clear choice

Each package exists for a different stage, so owners do not have to guess what to buy.

Real payback

The work has to connect to money, time, or trust before the build makes sense.

Web first

The site earns trust first. Then AI turns that demand into cleaner intake, routing, follow-up, quotes, reviews, and operations.

After launch / Care plans

The site is yours. The upkeep is optional.

Three plans, and each one is the last plus a named thing. Care keeps the site safe and current. Visibility adds the work of getting found. Intelligence keeps your AI tools correct as the business changes. Cancel any time and you keep the website.

See what each plan does How the AI partner works

What it costs

Care
The site stays alive.
$49/mo
Visibility
The site keeps getting found.
$149/mo
Intelligence
The system keeps running.
$200/mo

First 90 days of Intelligence included with every Web + AI build. API and SMS usage is billed separately at cost, never marked up.

04 / Website + AI systems

The website sells. The system follows through.

A website people trust, plus the AI behind it that answers leads, follows up, asks for reviews, and chases quotes, so nothing falls through.

Build layer / Trust layer

The site makes the business feel worth choosing.

Clearer about why you and not the other guy, how it looks, the signals that say you are legit, where the proof sits, and how the page flows that make the business feel credible before the visitor ever calls.

Position

The visitor knows who this is for, what is offered, and why it matters.

Feel

The site looks like it matches the price you charge, so buyers take you seriously.

Proof

Reviews, examples, outcomes, and credentials appear where doubt naturally shows up.

A site people trust, with the systems running behind it.View work

What can sit behind the site

Specific tools that handle leads, follow-up, reviews, quotes, and admin work for you.

Missed-call recovery

Text the lead, capture the need, and route the callback before they move to the next competitor.

Qualified intake

Turn forms into useful context: budget, urgency, service fit, location, and the right next step.

CRM replacement or cleanup

Build the simple backend view most owners wanted before they bought an oversized CRM.

Quote follow-up

Keep proposals from dying quietly with reminders, summaries, objection handling, and handoff notes.

Review engine

Ask at the right moment, with the right context, after the work is done and trust is highest.

AI-assisted operations

Summarize calls, draft replies, route requests, and protect human judgment where mistakes are expensive.

AI systems / The ROI

The systems don’t just look smart. They put money back.

We’ve shipped 130 of these behind our websites. Here is what a handful of them put back on the table, in real dollars, real hours, real booked work.

$4,900/mo

in no-shows recovered

Diane's Salon / Honolulu, HI

Booking + reminder flow that cut the empty chairs

70+hrs

of chase work gone each season

Maria's CPA / Austin, TX

Document-chase workflow, 240 clients handled quietly

4 min

to quote, down from 90

Marcus's Roofing / Houston, TX

AI quote bot, estimate sent before he leaves the driveway

58%

of leads now book, up from 31%

Priya's Immigration Law / Miami, FL

Sixty-second intake reply, day or night

62%

rebooking rate, up from 41%

South Florida med spa / Boca Raton, FL

Treatment-aware rebooking nudge at the right interval

90 min/day

back in the owner’s day

5-location service operator / Texas

One morning console instead of three tabs and a notepad

Every one of these sits behind a website we built. The site brings them in. The system makes sure none of them slip away.

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05 / Where leads slip away

Stop losing the leads your site brings in.

The website is the storefront. The backend is the handoff. The real win is when a small business stops leaking trust, leads, bookings, and follow-up between the two.

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