Every build includes: site: static & fast · chatbot: configured · missed-call text-back: available · custom workflows: quoted

If your website was an employee, would you keep it?

Craftvane builds a site that works, then wires up the automation that keeps working after the visit ends: a chatbot that answers real questions, a text sent the moment a call is missed, and reminders that go out without anyone remembering to send them. Past that, if there is a repetitive job eating your week, that gets built too.

Website build
$1,500–$3,000 one‑time
Automation retainer
$200–$350/mo
Contract
Month to month

The usual gaps

Three things most small-business sites get wrong

01

No way to catch a missed call. The phone rings once, nobody picks up, the caller moves to the next business on the list.

02

Nobody answers a question at 9pm. Someone lands on the site after hours with one question, gets no answer, closes the tab.

03

Reviews pile up unrequested. Happy customers leave without being asked, so the newest review on the page is a year old.

What you get

The site, then the tools underneath it

Module 01

The site

A static, fast-loading website built for your business, not a template with your logo dropped in.

  • Built and hosted on Netlify: no plugins, no update nagging, near-instant load times
  • Mobile-first, built to convert a visit into a call or a form fill
  • Structured for Google and AI search, not just a pretty homepage

Module 02

The automation

Switched on after the site ships, priced as one monthly retainer, no per-tool subscriptions to juggle.

  • A chatbot that answers the questions people actually ask, day or night
  • Missed-call text-back so a missed call still gets a reply
  • Review requests and appointment reminders sent without anyone remembering to

Two you can open right now

Real builds, and I'll tell you exactly what each one is.

One is live and in daily use, and it is in-house work at the company I work for, not a client engagement. The other is a finished rebuild for a San Jose business that has not launched it. Both open in a browser, and the work page says which is which before you click.

Craftvane is new, so instead of a client list there are two sites you can open right now and judge yourself: a live San Jose remodeling contractor, and a finished rebuild for a water damage company. See the work.

The guarantee

You don't pay the balance until you approve the site.

Hiring one person to build your website carries an obvious risk: you pay, and what shows up is not what you had in mind. So the money is structured so that cannot happen. A deposit starts the work. The balance is due only after you have seen the finished site and told me it's right. If you look at it and it is not what we agreed, I fix it, and you still have not paid the balance.

No annual contract on the build. The retainer, if you take it, is month to month, and cancelling it does not cost you the website. The site is yours once it is paid for, either way.

No platform markup. No contract lock-in.

Website build: $1,500–$3,000 one-time, scoped to your site Automation retainer: $200–$350/mo, month to month
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And the third thing

The repetitive job you do every week

The site and the automation are the same shape for every business, which is why they have prices on them. Custom AI workflows are not, so they are scoped and quoted per job. The most common one is email.

Most requested

Email replies, drafted for you

Most of your inbox is the same eight questions. This writes the answers, in your voice, using your real prices and hours.

  • It drafts. You send. Nothing reaches a customer until a person reads it and hits send
  • Anything it is unsure about gets flagged instead of guessed
  • Works with the Gmail or Outlook account you already have

Or something else

Whatever you keep doing by hand

Rule-shaped, repetitive, and eating hours is the test. If it fails that test I will tell you not to build it.

  • Getting numbers out of PDFs that arrive every month
  • Sorting and routing what comes in, so the urgent thing is not buried
  • A recurring report that currently costs someone an afternoon

How these get scoped and priced

Service areas

Santa Clara County, from San Jose

Each of these is a real page about what changes in that market, not the same paragraph with the town swapped. If you are somewhere else in the county, ask: it is all a short drive.

Or just ask

Tell me what you need. Reply within one business day.

A sentence is enough. If a website is the wrong answer for your business right now, I will tell you that instead of quoting you for one. If you would rather talk, call 415-879-5541.

Not ready for a quote? Start with the free audit.

Type your address and about 19 checks run against your real site in seconds, right on the page, with nothing held back for an email. Your Lighthouse score and a comparison against up to three competitors you name follow by email, no call required, and you keep the findings either way.

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