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How Our Pricing Changed in 2026

Mac Goldman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The short version

In fall 2026 we retired our single flat page rate and replaced it with four self-selected service plans. If you are already a client, stop reading here if you like: your original rate stays on the pages we quoted, your agreement is unchanged, and nothing in this post moves your bill by a dollar. The rest of this page is the timeline and the reasoning, published because a pricing change you have to reverse-engineer from a diff of someone's website is the kind of thing we started this company to be the opposite of.

Where we started

TechTailors launched with one published number: $25 a page each month, everything included. I still like almost everything about that model. It was calculable in under a minute, it was the same for everyone, and it forced us to publish instead of quote. Our first clients signed on it, and they keep it; their plan even has its own name in our billing system, marked grandfathered, so nobody can "migrate" it by accident.

The flat rate had two honest flaws. The first was that it priced every client as if they wanted the same service. A five-page practice site that needs solid hosting and occasional updates paid the same rate as a regulated business that needs a configured and documented security baseline, signed vendor agreements, breach-readiness runbooks, faster support clocks, and an annual review that ends in an attestation letter a compliance officer can file. One number can't price both honestly.

The second flaw was simpler: the rate was too low for everyone. More on that below, because it's the part that surprises people.

What changed in fall 2026

The new model prices the service level, and you pick it yourself. Four plans: Smart Casual at $50 per billable page per month (from $250 a month), Professional at $75 (from $375), Black Tie at $100 (from $500), and White Tie at custom pricing, typically from $125 per page. Page-types still bill as one page for up to 25 pages, now from a published list of nine kinds, with each page-type's overview page billing as one more page, and your page count never decides your plan.

Professional and above carry the security baseline as a defined, documented deliverable, with a one-time setup fee by project band ($750, $1,000, or $1,500, half-waived with annual prepay) because configuring it is real work that happens once. The code buy-out became a published ladder: 2× your annual plan cost at signing on Smart Casual and 2.5× on Professional and Black Tie, dropping by 0.25× at every anniversary you stay, down to floors of 1.25× and 1.5×, so staying loyal makes leaving cheaper instead of harder. White Tie buy-outs are set in the custom agreement. Bank Pages retired as a product; pages you take offline simply sit in reserve under the reactivation policy. And the annual review now states, in writing, whether you should be paying us less, including recommending a downgrade when that is the truth.

Every number above is live on the pricing page, computable in the calculator, and compared against named competitors with dated sources in the what-a-website-costs series.

Why Smart Casual costs more than the old flat rate

If one flat rate made simple sites carry the cost of demanding ones, you might expect the simplest plan to get cheaper. It didn't, and you deserve the reason.

We bill by billable page, not by every page on your site. A page-type is a set of like pages, such as services, conditions, locations, projects, or blog posts. It counts as one page for up to 25 of them, and its overview page counts as one more. That rule is deliberately generous, and it means most sites bill as far fewer pages than they actually have. A 35-page clinic site bills as 12 pages: seven unique pages, a services page-type and a conditions page-type with one overview page each, and a legal page-type that holds its three policy pages. At $25, that came to about $9 a month for each page on the site.

Meanwhile, the work behind a site doesn't shrink with its billable count. Hosting and security, unlimited edits, the performance guarantee, support, and the annual review take about the same effort whether a site bills as 6 pages or 12. At $25, the five-page minimum was $125 a month, and that didn't cover the work every plan includes.

So the plans and the rate do two different jobs. The plans stop simple sites from paying for compliance work they don't need: Smart Casual carries none of the security-baseline work, which is why it's the lowest rate. The rate under every plan went up because the original number was too low for all of them. Even at $50, that 35-page clinic site pays about $17 a month for each page on it.

We're still calibrating

Per-page monthly pricing is unusual. None of the agencies we compare ourselves against publish it, so we set these rates from our own numbers rather than an industry template, and we expect the next several quotes to teach us something. If a rate proves wrong in either direction, we'll change it, date it, and explain it on this page. What doesn't change is a signed client's rate: the experiment never lands on your invoice.

If you're already a client

Your rate is the one in your agreement, on the pages we quoted, full stop. We did not raise it, we will not raise it by notice, and our billing system carries your plan under a separate grandfathered identifier so the new catalog cannot touch it. If we ever believe a current plan would serve you better, you will get that as a written proposal at your annual review, with the math shown, and it takes effect only if you sign it. That is the same standard we ask you to hold us to everywhere else: changes arrive as documents, not as surprises on an invoice.

Why publish the history at all

Because published pricing only means something if the changes are published too. Most of our industry quotes by sales call, where the price depends on the call and the history depends on nobody remembering. We would rather show what we charged first, what we charge now, why it moved, and who it cannot move for. If that transparency is the reason you pick us, it worked exactly as intended.

What a therapist website costs in 2026

Mac Goldman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT

The answer first

Therapy is the second vertical in this series where the incumbents publish their prices, and both deserve credit for it. From their own pages today, TherapySites runs $69 to $336 a month plus a $199 one-time design fee, and Brighter Vision starts at $99 a month with a $100 setup fee. A comparable site from TechTailors at the Professional plan, about 6 billable pages for a typical practice, is $450 a month: $8,150 in year one on monthly billing, or $5,875 with annual prepay, from a published rate card. That is more than the platforms charge, and for some practices they are the better call. The difference you are paying for is the same as in every post in this series. At month 13 you hold every account and a published path to the code, or you hold a subscription.

What the incumbents charge

Provider	Monthly	Setup	Notes	Source and date
TherapySites (Internet Brands)	$69 Core, $99 Advantage, $158 Premium, $207 Premium Plus, $266 Elite, $336 Elite Plus	$199 one-time design fee	Unlimited pages; secure email and forms from $15/mo, reputation from $40/mo, Google Ads from $600/mo, all add-ons	Primary: their pricing page, captured 2026-08-28
Brighter Vision	From $99/mo (Start); higher tiers reported at $125 to $349 (third-party figures)	$100 (waived in the current monthly promo)	Flourish tier bundles Hushmail HIPAA forms and email; otherwise HIPAA email from $14.99/mo; annual cancellation has a $100 fee	Primary: their pricing page for the $99 start and setup fee, captured 2026-08-28; tier figures per Choosing Therapy's review
Psychology Today profile	$29.95/mo directory listing	None	Not a website; listed because for some practices it is the honest alternative to one	Their published member rate, stated for context
Custom designers	Four-figure projects plus hosting	Project	The bespoke lane for group practices building a brand	No single source; varies by designer

Across this series, the two therapy platforms publish their prices while the legal and medical incumbents mostly do not. Small practices get clearer treatment here than law firms do. Read the notes column anyway; a $69 site with secure forms, reputation, and Google Ads attached lands well north of the sticker.

Reviewers are blunter about the product than we would be. Reframe Practice's guide writes that TherapySites templates look years out of date and that sites end up nearly identical to other practices in your area. TME Brand Marketing's review of both platforms describes highly templated results and slow support. At $69 that may be a trade worth making; just know you are making it.

What TechTailors charges for the same job

A typical practice site runs about 10 pages: home, about and approach, five specialty pages sharing one layout plus their overview page, rates and FAQ, contact. Under page-type pricing that is 6 billable pages at the Professional plan's $75/page/month: the specialties bill as one page and the overview as one more. That puts the practice one page above the plan's five-page floor of $375 a month.

Line item	Monthly billing	Annual prepay (10-for-12)
Build fee (published rate card: 5 pages × $250 + 1 page-type × $750, Blueprint credited in full)	$2,000	$1,000 (half waived)
Security-baseline setup (small band, one-time)	$750	$375 (half waived)
Monthly plan ($450 a month)	$5,400	$4,500
Year-one total	$8,150	$5,875

Plus the Cloudflare Business plan the baseline runs on: about $250 a month, roughly $200 on annual billing, billed by Cloudflare to your own account and listed here on purpose.

Why Professional for a therapy practice? Because the sensitive part of your work should never reach your marketing site in the first place, and the plan is that boundary as configuration. Contact forms collect name, contact, and appointment request only, with no symptom checkboxes and no "tell us what brings you in" free-text feeding a generic form store. Anything clinical goes to your EHR portal or a BAA-covered form tool under your own account. Booking and intake pages carry no third-party pixels, and you get a per-page script inventory to show an auditor. Breach readiness puts the 60-day notification clock in the runbook, and an annual review ends in a one-page attestation letter. Instead of a "HIPAA-compliant website" badge, we sell the documented boundary that makes the compliance question moot for the marketing surface. Compute your own numbers in the calculator.

What the premium buys

At $450 a month we cost more than the platforms in this table, and we would rather own that than obscure it: TechTailors is a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency. The extra money buys a site hand-coded for your practice alone, with a design nobody else in your city is running. That matters in a profession where the site's whole job is to feel like you before the first phone call. Performance is guaranteed in writing: if a page drops below 96 in any Lighthouse category and we don't restore it within 48 hours of your report, that page is free that month. The security work is graded A+ by three independent scanners you can re-run yourself, and our one public client is a healthcare practice with live scores.

It is fully managed, which for a solo practice means the site stops being a chore. For the life of your monthly plan we handle design, development, hosting, security, and maintenance, with unlimited content edits (fee changes, new specialties, a new headshot, done). Security patches land without a ticket, and technology upgrades are automatic at no extra cost. Every month we run a Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals health audit and email you the scores with a plain-language summary of what we worked on. The SLAs are published. We track our own misses and apply most credits without a claim. Every plan carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee with automatic credits, and hosted add-ons stack their own SLAs on top.

And the catalog grows with the practice: blogging on a CMS, e-commerce, digital advertising, CRO and A/B testing, analytics, site search, multi-language, and custom integrations. All of it sits on one published rate card, month-to-month after the first year, so going from solo to group never means shopping for a second vendor.

It also buys a real shot in local search. Every build, on every plan, includes on-page SEO, a managed Google Business Profile, name-address-phone (NAP) citations, LocalBusiness schema, sitemaps, and GEO/AEO work for AI-driven search. The founder who runs TechTailors came up through SEO. "Therapist near me" is a local fight, and a template shared with the practice down the street can't set you apart. When you outgrow referrals, SEO add-ons scale up; the foundation is in the $450.

And it buys a person. The one who built your site answers your messages on a published clock: 24 hours on Professional, nights and weekends included. Clients text us directly. Custom integrations run $250 one-time each: we wire in your scheduler or directory profiles once, instead of you renting connector tools monthly. Annual prepay is two months free and halves the build and setup fees, and the referral program earns you up to $10,000 in invoice credit.

The Blueprint is a fixed quote, and its deliverable is yours to keep even if you never sign. The build bills by milestone and is never prepaid. The 30-day guarantee is an exit, not a refund, from the remaining 11 months if the fit is wrong within 30 days of signing. The exit fee is zero, and offboarding is documented before you sign. The code buy-out is open from day one. You can have us build the site and buy out the code at Go Live for the at-signing cap, $13,500 on a site billed at $450 a month. If you stay managed instead, it falls to $8,100 after four anniversaries.

The annual review states, in writing, when you should be paying us less, including when the honest answer is a downgrade. And an eligible small practice may qualify for the federal ADA Section 44 credit of up to $5,000 a year for the accessibility work in every build (IRS Form 8826). The calculator estimates it, and your accountant confirms it.

Month 13: what you hold

Month 13 is the first renewal, the moment the difference shows. Every account is yours from day one, and the buy-out is available from Go Live onward.

At month 13	TechTailors	Typical therapy-web platform
Domain and DNS	Your registrar, your Cloudflare zone	Registration often included and vendor-managed; transfer-out policies vary
Hosting	Our Cloudflare account, until a buy-out moves the site to yours	The platform
Analytics history	Your accounts, exportable free	Platform dashboards
Content	Yours, exportable	Pre-written libraries are licensed; your own writing varies
The site code	Buy-out any time; the price drops at every anniversary you stay	Platform-resident; no ownership path
Cost to leave	Zero exit fee, documented offboarding	Rebuild; monthly terms at least make leaving quick

When each option is the right call

TherapySites at $69 is the honest budget answer, and we mean that without a wink: a solo practice whose leads come from Psychology Today and referrals is probably right to pay $69 there, keep the profile at $29.95, and spend the difference on the practice. Brighter Vision fits therapists who want a more designed site with the Hushmail HIPAA pieces bundled at the Flourish tier, and its published pricing and month-to-month terms are fair dealing. Custom designers make sense for group practices where brand is the growth strategy.

TechTailors is the right call when the practice is becoming a business: multiple clinicians, an insurance and out-of-network mix, and a site that has to rank and convert. That calls for a design that reads as you, a client-data boundary you can show in writing, and infrastructure you own at month 13 instead of rent at month 130.

Verify us

Our one public client site is a healthcare practice: goldmanchiropracticcenter.com is live, built to the same form-minimization and no-pixels rules described above. Its PageSpeed results are one click away, the same monthly test behind our Lighthouse guarantee. The full rescue story, with the before-and-after walkthrough, shows how that site got this way. Our own security posture is graded by three independent scanners at /security. Check us out before a single conversation: run your current site through the website health checker, price your practice in the calculator, or order the free Agency Audit. The full series runs the same math for law firms, CPAs, advisors, and medical practices.

Sources

TherapySites pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · Brighter Vision pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) and Choosing Therapy's Brighter Vision review (third-party, for the upper-tier figures) · Psychology Today's published member rate. Screenshots dated and stored in our repository.

Prices verified 2026-08-28; re-checked quarterly.

What a medical or dental practice website costs in 2026

Mac Goldman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

The answer first

The healthcare-website market's defining feature is that it does not publish prices. ProSites' pricing page lists four named plans and zero dollar amounts; Tebra's is a two-minute quote form. From third-party comparisons, the dental platforms run roughly $299 to $699 a month plus $500 to $2,000 in setup on 12-to-24-month contracts. Practice-OS bundles like Tebra quote $49 to $799 per provider per month across modules. A comparable site from TechTailors at the Professional plan, about 9 billable pages for a typical practice, is $675 a month: $11,600 in year one on monthly billing, or $8,500 with annual prepay. Those numbers come from a published rate card. In this vertical the bigger difference is where patient data is allowed to go.

What the incumbents charge

Provider	Monthly	Setup	Contract	Source and date
ProSites (Henry Schein One)	$299 to $599/mo (third-party figures)	$500 to $1,500 (third-party figures)	12 to 24 months reported; CRM extra at $99 to $199/mo	Their pricing page lists four plans and no prices (captured 2026-08-28); figures per FlashCrafter's dental cost comparison, captured 2026-08-28
Officite (Internet Brands)	$349 to $699/mo (third-party figures)	$1,000 to $2,000 (third-party figures)	12 months minimum reported	No published price; same third-party comparison, 2026-08-28
Tebra (Kareo + PatientPop)	Quote-only; modules reported at $49 to $799 per provider/mo	Onboarding varies by quote	Per-provider licensing; web presence lives in the "Patient Experience + Marketing" module	Their pricing page is a quote form with a feature matrix and no prices (captured 2026-08-28); module figures per Pabau's Tebra pricing analysis
Healthcare marketing agencies	$500 to $2,000/mo (third-party figures)	$5,000 to $15,000 one-time (third-party figures)	6 to 12 months typical	The custom lane for cosmetic, implant, and DSO work; ranges per the same dental cost comparison

One caution about the sourcing: the most detailed public numbers for ProSites and Officite come from a competitor's comparison page, because the platforms themselves publish nothing. We label that plainly and link it so you can judge it yourself. When a vendor's own pricing page cannot tell you a price, third-party figures and a sales call are all anyone has, and that is part of what you are buying into.

Weigh what "turnkey" means, too. ProSites' own pricing page advertises 150+ ready-made pages of dental content and a footer trusted-by count of 7,500+ practices. Publishing the same 150 pages as thousands of other practices is camouflage, and Google is good at ignoring camouflage.

What TechTailors charges for the same job

A typical practice site runs about 13 actual pages: home, about, a providers page, new-patient info, insurance and payment, patient forms, contact, and five service pages sharing one layout plus their overview page. Under page-type pricing that is 9 billable pages at the Professional plan's $75/page/month: the service pages bill as one page, and the overview as one more.

Line item	Monthly billing	Annual prepay (10-for-12)
Build fee (published rate card: 8 pages × $250 + 1 page-type × $750, Blueprint credited in full)	$2,750	$1,375 (half waived)
Security-baseline setup (small band, one-time)	$750	$375 (half waived)
Monthly plan ($675 a month)	$8,100	$6,750
Year-one total	$11,600	$8,500

Plus the Cloudflare Business plan the baseline runs on: about $250 a month, roughly $200 on annual billing, billed by Cloudflare to your own account. Listed here because it is your cost and your account, which is the point.

Now the part the platforms put in a badge. We will not sell you a "HIPAA-compliant website." For a marketing site that phrase is mostly a category error: compliance attaches to how PHI is handled, and the correct design is that PHI never touches the marketing site at all.

The Professional baseline is that boundary as configuration. Intake forms collect name, contact, and appointment request only, with no symptom checkboxes and no condition dropdowns. Anything health-adjacent goes to your EHR portal or a BAA-covered form tool under your own account. Booking and intake pages carry no third-party pixels, wherever the tracking-bulletin litigation lands. A per-page script inventory is the audit artifact. Breach readiness puts the Breach Notification Rule's 60-day clock at the top of the runbook and your privacy officer in the contact tree. An annual review ends in a one-page attestation letter. The configuration is aligned to the HIPAA Security Rule and documented, and the boundary is written down where your compliance officer can cite it. Compute your own numbers in the calculator.

What the premium buys

TechTailors is a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency. At $675 a month we cost more than the third-party ProSites figures and sit near the top of Officite's range. Your site is hand-coded for one practice, with no theme and none of the 150-page stock library: every service page is designed for you and carries your own words. Performance carries a written guarantee: if a page drops below 96 in any Lighthouse category and we don't restore it within 48 hours of your report, that page is free that month. Our one public client is a healthcare practice whose scores you can pull live. The security work is graded A+ by three independent scanners you can re-run yourself.

It is fully managed, so the front desk never has to think about it. For the life of your monthly plan we handle design, development, hosting, security, and maintenance, with unlimited content edits (new provider bios and hours changes included). Security patches land without a ticket, and technology upgrades are automatic at no extra cost. Every month we run a Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals health audit and email you the scores with a plain-language summary of what we worked on. The SLAs are published. We track our own misses and apply most credits to your next invoice without a claim. Every plan carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee with automatic credits, and hosted add-ons stack their own SLAs on top.

The catalog covers blogging on a CMS, e-commerce, digital advertising, CRO and A/B testing, analytics and ROI reporting, multi-language, site search, and custom integrations. All of it sits on the same published rate card and goes month-to-month after the first year, so adding a service never means adding a vendor.

Local search is the growth lever in this vertical, and it is where the platforms give the least. Every TechTailors build, on every plan, includes on-page SEO, a managed Google Business Profile, name-address-phone (NAP) citations, LocalBusiness schema, sitemaps, and GEO/AEO work for AI-driven search. The founder who runs the company came up through SEO. "Dentist near me" is won by a fast, original site with a managed profile. SEO add-ons exist for practices that want to press harder; the foundation ships with every build.

The service model is the opposite of a platform queue. The person who built your site answers when the front desk needs something changed, on a published clock: 24 hours on Professional, nights and weekends included. Clients text us directly. Custom integrations run $250 one-time per service: we wire your scheduler, reviews tool, or EHR portal link-outs together once, instead of you renting middleware monthly.

Discounts stack: annual prepay is two months free and halves the build and setup fees, bulk pricing takes up to $1,000 off per month as spend grows, and the referral program earns you up to $10,000 in invoice credit.

Compare the exit terms with the 12-to-24-month lock-ins above. Our Blueprint is a fixed quote whose deliverable is yours to keep whether or not you proceed. The build bills by milestone and is never prepaid. The 30-day guarantee is an exit, not a refund, from the remaining 11 months if the fit is wrong within 30 days of signing. The exit fee is zero, and offboarding is documented before you sign. The code buy-out is open from day one. At Go Live its price is the at-signing cap, $20,200 on a site billed at $675 a month. If we stay on as managers instead, it falls to $12,100 after four anniversaries.

The annual review states, in writing, when you should be paying us less. And the accessibility work in every build can pay you back. An eligible small business may qualify for the federal ADA Section 44 credit of up to $5,000 a year (IRS Form 8826), which the calculator estimates. Confirm it with your accountant, because an estimate is not tax advice.

Month 13: what you hold

The accounts are yours from day one, and practices that want to buy out the code can do it at Go Live. Month 13 is where the comparison bites.

At month 13	TechTailors	Typical healthcare-web platform
Domain and DNS	Your registrar, your Cloudflare zone	Often vendor-managed; transfer varies
Hosting	Our Cloudflare account, until a buy-out moves the site to yours	The vendor's platform
Analytics history	Your accounts, exportable free	Vendor dashboards
Content	Yours, exportable	Stock dental/medical libraries are licensed, not yours
The site code	Buy-out any time; the price drops at every anniversary you stay	Platform-resident; no ownership path
Cost to leave	Zero exit fee, documented offboarding	Rebuild, mid-contract if the term says so

When each option is the right call

ProSites and Officite fit practices that want a dental-specific template with a large stock-content library and are comfortable signing a 12-to-24-month term after a sales call; if that is you, make the call and get the number in writing. Tebra is a practice operating system. If you are buying the EHR and billing stack anyway, the bundled web presence has real integration logic; evaluate it as software. Bundled newcomers competing on price and no-contract terms are worth a look for budget-first practices; whoever you pick, verify the BAA chain yourself rather than trusting a compliance badge. Agencies make sense for cosmetic, implant, and multi-location groups where the marketing budget is five figures.

TechTailors is the right call when you want a marketing site you control, with the PHI boundary engineered in and documented. That means accounts in your name, published pricing you did not have to sit through a demo to learn, a design no other practice shares, a script inventory your auditor can read, and a code buy-out whose price falls every year you stay.

Verify us

Our one public client site is a healthcare practice: goldmanchiropracticcenter.com is live, built to exactly the form-minimization and no-pixels rules described above. Its PageSpeed results are one click away, the same monthly test behind our Lighthouse guarantee. The full rescue story, with the before-and-after walkthrough, shows how that site got this way. Our own security posture is graded by three independent scanners at /security. Test us the way you would a lab, without a sales call: run your current site through the website health checker, price your practice in the calculator, or order the free Agency Audit. The full series runs the same math for law firms, CPAs, advisors, and therapists.

Sources

ProSites pricing page (captured 2026-08-28, no published prices) · Tebra pricing page (captured 2026-08-28, quote form, no published prices) · FlashCrafter's dental website cost comparison (third-party, for the ProSites, Officite, and agency ranges; a competitor's page, labeled as such) · Pabau's Tebra pricing analysis (third-party, for the per-provider module range). Screenshots dated and stored in our repository.

Prices verified 2026-08-28; re-checked quarterly.

What a financial advisor website costs in 2026

Mac Goldman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

The answer first

The advisor-website market grew up: two major vertical vendors now publish their prices. From their own pages, Snappy Kraken websites run $99 to $199 a month (setup $499 to $2,499) and FMG Suite runs $178 to $1,044 a month (setup $994 to $3,494). The broker-dealer enterprise lane is still quote-only. A comparable site from TechTailors at the Professional plan, about 7 billable pages for a typical advisory practice, is $525 a month: $9,800 in year one on monthly billing, or $7,000 with annual prepay, from a published rate card. The lasting difference is ownership: at month 13 you hold every account and a published path to the code; a platform leaves you a subscription.

What the incumbents charge

Provider	Monthly	Setup	Notes	Source and date
FMG Suite	$178 Essential, $418 Premium, $1,044 Do It For Me + Premium	$994 / $3,194 / $3,494	Website plus marketing platform with compliance workflow	Primary: their pricing page (updated June 2026), captured 2026-08-28
Snappy Kraken (Websites)	$99 Foundations (up to 20 basic pages), $199 Grow (custom design, unlimited pages), annual term	$499 / $2,499	A-la-carte website product; bundles $298 to $999/mo with setups to $2,998; Freedom360 done-for-you $899 to $999/mo	Primary: their pricing page, captured 2026-08-28
Broadridge / AdvisorStream lane	Enterprise-quoted	Quote-only	The broker-dealer-approved incumbent tier publishes no price	No published price; stated as such
Custom design agencies	Bespoke advisor builds run four to five figures up front (third-party figure)	Project	The non-platform alternative	Third-party: AltaStreet's 2026 advisor-website price guide

Read the setup column twice. A $418/month Premium plan with a $3,194 setup is an $8,210 first year before a single marketing add-on, and the site still lives on the platform.

The platform model has a second cost the price sheets skip: sameness. The templates and the pre-approved content library are the product, and they are sold to thousands of advisors at once, including the ones you compete with. Compliance-safe and identical is a hard combination to rank with, and it is an even harder one to be remembered by.

What TechTailors charges for the same job

A typical advisory site runs about 11 actual pages: home, five services sharing one layout plus their overview page, team, an about page with your philosophy, contact, disclosures. Under page-type pricing that is 7 billable pages at the Professional plan's $75/page/month: the services bill as one page, the overview as one more, and your disclosures as one. They're your legal page-type, which bills as one page however many legal pages you need. The privacy policy that comes with your security baseline is free.

Line item	Monthly billing	Annual prepay (10-for-12)
Build fee (published rate card: 5 pages × $250 + 2 page-types × $750, Blueprint credited in full)	$2,750	$1,375 (half waived)
Security-baseline setup (small band, one-time)	$750	$375 (half waived)
Monthly plan ($525 a month)	$6,300	$5,250
Year-one total	$9,800	$7,000

Plus the Cloudflare Business plan the baseline runs on, about $250 a month (roughly $200 on annual billing), billed by Cloudflare to your own account and listed here on purpose.

Why Professional? Because the SEC made the question concrete. The 2024 amendments to Regulation S-P require a written incident-response program with customer notification within 30 days. Both compliance dates, December 3, 2025 and June 3, 2026, have passed, so every covered adviser is inside the obligation window now. Your website is part of the covered surface. The Professional baseline gives its chapter real artifacts: encryption everywhere, multi-factor sign-in on every admin surface, access logs your examiner can ask about, a signed agreement from every vendor touching data, and a breach runbook with the 30-day timeline at the top. An annual review produces a one-page attestation letter your CCO can file. Compute your own numbers in the calculator.

What the premium buys

We sit above Snappy Kraken's website line on price. TechTailors is a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency, and the premium buys things a platform cannot sell. Your site is hand-coded for one practice, with no theme or shared library, so no other advisor runs your design. For an independent RIA whose brand is trust, that is the point. Performance is guaranteed in writing: if a page drops below 96 in any Lighthouse category and we don't restore it within 48 hours of your report, that page is free that month. The security work behind the Reg S-P artifacts is graded A+ by three independent scanners you can re-run yourself.

It is fully managed end to end: design, development, hosting, security, and maintenance are ours to worry about, with unlimited content edits for the life of your monthly plan and automatic technology upgrades at no extra cost. Disclosure page updates and ADV season edits are covered work, not change orders. Every month we run a Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals health audit and email you the scores with a plain-language summary of what we worked on, a paper trail your compliance file will appreciate. The SLAs are published, we track our own misses and apply most credits without a claim, and every plan carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee with automatic credits (hosted add-ons stack their own SLAs on top).

The catalog also runs far past the website: blogging on a CMS, e-commerce, digital advertising, CRO and A/B testing, analytics and ROI reporting, multi-language, site search, and custom integrations. All of it sits on one published rate card, month-to-month after the first year, so the practice never outgrows the vendor.

The search story is the quiet advantage. Every build includes on-page SEO, a managed Google Business Profile, NAP citations, LocalBusiness schema, sitemaps, and GEO/AEO work for AI-driven search. TechTailors is founder-led by someone who came up through SEO. "Financial advisor near me" is a local fight, and a fast, original site with a managed profile wins it against the thousandth copy of a pre-approved template. SEO add-ons exist for advisors who want to press harder; the foundation is never extra.

The person who built your site answers your messages on a published clock: 24 hours on Professional, nights and weekends included. Clients text us directly instead of opening tickets. Custom integrations, at $250 one-time apiece, can wire your scheduler, CRM, and archiving tools together once, in place of middleware you rent monthly. Discounts stack. Annual prepay is two months free and halves the build and setup fees, and bulk pricing takes up to $1,000 off per month as spend grows. The referral program earns you up to $10,000 in invoice credit.

You would tell a client to read the exit terms first, so here are ours. The Blueprint is a fixed quote whose deliverable is yours to keep either way, and the build bills by milestone, never prepaid. The 30-day guarantee is an exit, not a refund, from the remaining 11 months if the fit is wrong within 30 days of signing. Exit fee: zero. Offboarding: documented before you sign. The code buy-out is open from day one. Build-and-buy-out at Go Live is a standard engagement, priced at the at-signing cap ($15,700 on a site billed at $525 a month). For practices that stay managed, the cap falls to $9,400 after four anniversaries, so staying makes leaving cheaper. The annual review states, in writing, when you should be paying us less, which is the fiduciary standard applied to ourselves.

If your firm qualifies as an eligible small business, the accessibility work in every build may qualify for the federal ADA Section 44 credit of up to $5,000 a year (IRS Form 8826). The calculator estimates it, and the estimate is not tax advice.

Month 13: what you hold

The table is a snapshot at month 13, the first renewal. The accounts are yours from day one, and the buy-out can be exercised at Go Live.

At month 13	TechTailors	Typical advisor platform
Domain and DNS	Your registrar, your Cloudflare zone	Often platform-managed; transfer varies
Hosting	Our Cloudflare account, until a buy-out moves the site to yours	The platform
Analytics history	Your accounts, exportable free	Platform dashboards
Content	Yours, exportable	Library content is licensed; your own writing varies
The site code	Buy-out any time; the price drops at every anniversary you stay	Platform-resident; no ownership path
Cost to leave	Zero exit fee, documented offboarding	Rebuild, plus whatever the setup fee bought stays behind

When each option is the right call

Snappy Kraken at $99 is the honest budget answer for a solo advisor who wants a compliant template presence and marketing automation from one login. FMG Suite fits practices that want the full marketing machine with compliance review workflow built in; that workflow is the product, and it is real. The broker-dealer lane is not a choice when your BD mandates an approved-vendor list: use the approved vendor, and we will say exactly that on a call, because FINRA-style review integration is what those platforms sell and we do not. Custom agencies make sense when brand is the strategy and the budget is five figures. TechTailors is the right call for independent RIAs who control their vendor choices. Choose it if you want Reg S-P artifacts instead of assurances, a design no other advisor is running, SEO built in, performance that holds a public guarantee, and accounts in your name from day one.

Verify us

Our one public client site is live and testable: goldmanchiropracticcenter.com, with its PageSpeed results one click away, the same monthly test behind our Lighthouse guarantee. The full rescue story, with the before-and-after walkthrough, shows how that site got this way. Our own security posture is graded by three independent scanners at /security. Diligence us the way you would any holding, no sales call required: run your current site through the website health checker, price your practice in the calculator, or order the free Agency Audit. The full series runs the same math for law firms, CPAs, medical practices, and therapists.

Sources

FMG Suite pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · Snappy Kraken pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · AltaStreet 2026 advisor website price guide (third-party, for the custom-agency range) · Broadridge/AdvisorStream publish no pricing, stated as such. Screenshots dated and stored in our repository.

Prices verified 2026-08-28; re-checked quarterly.

What a CPA firm website costs in 2026

Mac Goldman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

The answer first

Accounting is the rare vertical where the website vendors publish their prices. In 2026 the template platforms run $85.50 to $166.50 a month (Build Your Firm, CPA Site Solutions), and the platform-plus-AI tier runs $150 to $500 (CountingWorks PRO). A basic website costs $6,500 to $15,000 on average (WebFX's 2026 web design pricing guide). A comparable site from TechTailors at the Professional plan, about 7 billable pages for a typical firm, is $525 a month: $9,300 in year one on monthly billing, or $6,750 with annual prepay, from a published rate card. The difference that lasts: at month 13 you own every account and can buy out the code. On the platforms, you own a subscription.

What the incumbents charge

Provider	Monthly	Setup	Contract	Notes	Source and date
CPA Site Solutions	$90.00 Silver, $111.00 Gold, $137.00 Platinum, $166.50 Diamond	$0 ($99 on Diamond)	None; cancel anytime	"Additional HTTPS Website Security" is a $9.99/mo add-on; unlimited portal storage is $250/mo below Diamond	Primary: their pricing page, captured 2026-08-28
Build Your Firm	From $85.50/mo (Essential); from $108.00/mo (niche or custom)	$0 Essential; one-time fee on niche/custom	None	SSL and SEO included; content library and newsletter	Primary: their website-types page, captured 2026-08-28
CountingWorks PRO	$150 Starter, $200 Grow, $300 Premier, $500 Premier Plus (10% annual discount)	None listed	Monthly or annual	A client-journey platform with AI credits; the website is one component	Primary: their pricing page, captured 2026-08-28
WebFX (general agency, reference)	From $8,000/month (its own web design services)	Not published	Varies	Its 2026 guide puts an average basic website at $6,500–$15,000, and most businesses' yearly web design spend at $501–$5,000	Primary: WebFX's 2026 web design pricing guide, re-checked 2026-09-30; also in our benchmark library

Credit where due: this vertical mostly does publish its numbers, which is more than the legal-website market manages. Read the fine print anyway. When HTTPS hardening is a $9.99 add-on and unlimited portal storage is $250 a month below the top tier, the sticker is only the start of the math.

There is also a sameness problem the price sheets never mention. These platforms sell the same templates and the same pre-written content library to thousands of firms; Build Your Firm and CPA Site Solutions both advertise the library as a feature. Google has no reason to rank the four-hundredth copy of the same tax-tips page, so the cheap sticker often buys an invisible site, and invisibility is the most expensive feature in this table.

What TechTailors charges for the same job

A typical firm site runs about 11 actual pages: home, five services sharing one layout plus their overview page, team, about, contact, a resources page. Under page-type pricing that is 7 billable pages at the Professional plan's $75/page/month: the services bill as one page, and the overview as one more.

Line item	Monthly billing	Annual prepay (10-for-12)
Build fee (published rate card: 6 pages × $250 + 1 page-type × $750, Blueprint credited in full)	$2,250	$1,125 (half waived)
Security-baseline setup (small band, one-time)	$750	$375 (half waived)
Monthly plan ($525 a month)	$6,300	$5,250
Year-one total	$9,300	$6,750

Plus the Cloudflare Business plan the baseline runs on: about $250 a month, roughly $200 on annual billing, billed by Cloudflare to your own account. We list it because hiding a cost you pay is how "as low as" pricing works.

Why Professional and not the cheaper plan? The FTC's Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314) treats tax preparers as financial institutions, and IRS Publications 4557 and 5708 expect a Written Information Security Plan behind that. Your website is part of the covered surface. The Professional plan's security baseline is the website chapter of that WISP as configuration: encryption everywhere, multi-factor sign-in on every admin surface, intake forms that collect name, contact, and topic and never a tax document, a signed agreement from every vendor touching data, and breach-notification readiness with the FTC's timeline in the runbook. An annual review produces a one-page attestation letter your WISP file and your insurer can both cite. Elsewhere, HTTPS hardening is a $9.99 add-on; here it's part of the plan. Compute your own numbers in the calculator.

What the premium buys

TechTailors is a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency, priced above the template vendors on purpose. The extra money buys a site hand-coded for your firm, with no theme, page builder, or plugin CMS to patch. It is designed once, for you, rather than adapted from a library your competitors also rent. Performance carries a written guarantee: if a page drops below 96 in any Lighthouse category and we don't restore it within 48 hours of your report, that page is free that month. The security work is graded A+ by three independent scanners, and you can re-run every scan yourself.

The monthly plan is fully managed, priced so you never think about the site between tax seasons. Unlimited content edits and maintenance run for the life of your monthly plan. Security patches land without you asking, and technology upgrades are automatic at no extra cost, so your site never ages out into a rebuild quote. Every month we run a Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals health audit and email you the scores with a plain-language summary of what we worked on, so the invoice always has a story attached. The SLAs are published with credits we track ourselves, and every plan carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee that credits automatically (hosted add-ons stack their own SLAs on top).

The catalog is deeper than a website shop's, too: blogging on a CMS, e-commerce, digital advertising, CRO and A/B testing, analytics and ROI reporting, multi-language, site search, and custom integrations all live on the same published rate card, month-to-month after the first year. A firm that starts with seven billable pages never needs a second vendor to grow.

Search is where the gap pays for itself. Every build includes on-page SEO, a managed Google Business Profile, NAP citations, LocalBusiness schema, sitemaps, and GEO/AEO work for AI-driven search. TechTailors is founder-led by someone who came up through SEO. The local map pack for "CPA near me" is the kind of fight a fast, original site wins against the four-hundredth template. When a firm wants to press harder, SEO add-ons bolt on; the foundation never costs extra.

The service is personal because the company is: the person who built your site answers when you need something, on a published response clock: 24 hours on Professional, nights and weekends included. Clients text us directly. Custom integrations run $250 one-time per service, which can retire a recurring middleware subscription in one invoice. Intake-to-portal automation is a natural first project. Discounts stack, too. Annual prepay is two months free and halves the build and setup fees, and a bulk discount takes up to $1,000 off per month as spend grows. The referral program earns you up to $10,000 in invoice credit.

We also price the exits. The Blueprint is a fixed quote, and its deliverable is yours to keep even if you never sign. The build bills by milestone, so you never prepay work. And the 30-day guarantee is an exit, not a refund, from the remaining 11 months if the fit is wrong within 30 days of signing. The exit fee is zero, and offboarding is documented before you sign. The code buy-out is open from day one. Have us build the site and buy out the code at Go Live for the at-signing cap ($15,700 on a site billed at $525 a month), or stay managed and watch it fall to $9,400 after four anniversaries. Both paths are standard. The annual review states, in writing, when you should be paying us less; ask a template vendor for that sentence.

Because every build holds WCAG accessibility standards, an eligible small business may qualify for the federal ADA Section 44 credit of up to $5,000 a year (IRS Form 8826). The calculator estimates it, and you, of all people, know an estimate is not tax advice.

Month 13: what you hold

Month 13 is only the comparison point. Every account is yours from day one, and the buy-out can be exercised at Go Live as easily as at year four.

At month 13	TechTailors	Typical accounting-web platform
Domain and DNS	Your registrar, your Cloudflare zone	Vendor-managed domain optional at ~$30/yr; transfer varies
Hosting	Our Cloudflare account, until a buy-out moves the site to yours	The vendor's platform
Analytics history	Your accounts, exportable free	Vendor dashboards
Content	Yours, exportable	Template content is licensed, not yours; your own writing varies
The site code	Buy-out any time; the price drops at every anniversary you stay	Template platform; no ownership path
Cost to leave	Zero exit fee, documented offboarding	Rebuild; month-to-month vendors at least let you go quickly

When each option is the right call

Build Your Firm at $85.50 is the honest budget answer for a solo practitioner or EA whose clients come from referrals and who wants a credible, maintained presence with no ownership ambitions. CPA Site Solutions fits firms that want the content library, portal, and newsletter machine in one monthly plan and accept the add-on math. CountingWorks PRO is a practice-growth platform more than a website; evaluate it as software for your client journey, with the site as one feature. WebFX and general agencies make sense at multi-partner scale where the marketing budget is five figures a month. TechTailors is the right call when the Safeguards Rule is real for you, or when your insurer asks questions a template vendor cannot answer in writing. It also fits if you want an asset that competes: a design no other firm runs, SEO included with the build, owned accounts, a documented baseline with an annual attestation, and a code buy-out whose price falls every year you stay.

Verify us

Our one public client site is live and testable: goldmanchiropracticcenter.com, with its PageSpeed results one click away, the same monthly test behind our Lighthouse guarantee. The full rescue story, with the before-and-after walkthrough, shows how that site got this way. Our own security posture is graded by three independent scanners at /security. Want to test us without a sales call? Run your current site through the website health checker, price your firm in the calculator, or order the free Agency Audit. The full series runs the same math for law firms, advisors, medical practices, and therapists.

Sources

CPA Site Solutions pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · Build Your Firm accounting-website-types page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · CountingWorks PRO pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · WebFX web design pricing guide (primary, re-checked 2026-09-30; also in our benchmark library). Screenshots dated and stored in our repository.

Prices verified 2026-08-28 (WebFX re-checked 2026-09-30); re-checked quarterly.

What a law firm website costs in 2026

Mac Goldman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT

The answer first

A small law firm's website in 2026 costs anywhere from $82.50 a month on Justia Elevate (the published floor, paid annually) to $2,000 to $10,000 a month at legal marketing agencies. Most of the platform vendors in between decline to publish a price at all. A comparable site from TechTailors at the Professional plan, about 9 billable pages for a typical firm, is $675 a month: $11,600 in year one on monthly billing, or $8,500 with annual prepay, every number from a published rate card. The difference that outlasts year one is ownership. At month 13 a TechTailors client holds every account, all their data, and a published price to buy out the code; most incumbent clients hold none of that.

What the incumbents charge

Provider	Monthly	Contract	Who owns the site	Source and date
Justia Elevate	From $82.50/mo (paid annually)	Annual	Subscription on Justia's WordPress platform	Primary: Justia's own price calculator, captured 2026-08-28
LawLytics	About $150/mo on annual billing (third-party figure)	Monthly or annual	Subscription platform	LawLytics publishes no price (its pricing page is a demo video, captured 2026-08-28); figure per Lawyerist's review
FindLaw	$250 to $5,000/mo reported; about $500/mo for basic five-page sites in client accounts (third-party figures)	Three-year lock-ins reported	Departing clients report losing the site, call-tracking numbers, chat, and some content	No published price; OnTheMap's contract review, Ziegler, Majux, 2026-08-28
Scorpion	$2,000 to $10,000/mo reported; sites $1,000 to $20,000 (third-party figures)	Rigid terms reported; proprietary CMS	Limited control of a proprietary design	No published price; Lawyerist (2.9/5), JurisDigital, OnTheMap, 2026-08-28
Mockingbird	$2,000 to $5,000/mo; bespoke sites $15,000 to $30,000 (third-party figures)	3 to 6 months, then monthly	Agency-built	No published price; Lawyerist's review, 2026-08-28

Most of these vendors publish no price, and "call for a quote" means the price depends on the call. The ownership column is where the cheap options get expensive: a $500/month FindLaw site that cannot leave with you is a rebuild waiting to be paid for twice.

The published floor has its own fine print. On Justia's free and lower directory tiers, your own profile can carry ads for competing attorneys; removing them is part of what the paid placements sell, per Lawyerist's Justia review and Grow Law's guide. And every platform on this list works both sides of the street: the same vendor, templates, and SEO playbook are for sale to the firm across town, which is a strange foundation for outranking it.

What TechTailors charges for the same job

A typical small-firm site runs about 13 actual pages: home, about, an attorneys page, reviews, an FAQ, a free-consultation page, contact, and five practice-area pages sharing one layout plus their overview page. Under page-type pricing that is 9 billable pages at the Professional plan's $75/page/month: the practice areas bill as one page, and the overview as one more.

Line item	Monthly billing	Annual prepay (10-for-12)
Build fee (published rate card: 8 pages × $250 + 1 page-type × $750, Blueprint credited in full)	$2,750	$1,375 (half waived)
Security-baseline setup (small band, one-time)	$750	$375 (half waived)
Monthly plan ($675 a month)	$8,100	$6,750
Year-one total	$11,600	$8,500

Plus the Cloudflare Business plan the baseline runs on: about $250 a month, roughly $200 on annual billing, billed by Cloudflare to your own account. We list it because it is your cost, and because the account being yours is the point.

Professional fits this profession: ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) and Formal Opinions 477R and 483 put written duties on how client information is handled. The plan's security baseline is those duties as configuration: encryption everywhere, multi-factor sign-in on every admin surface, intake forms that collect only what they must (no "describe your case" box feeding a generic form store), and tracking scripts kept off intake pages. An annual review ends in a one-page attestation letter you can hand your malpractice carrier. Compute your own numbers in the calculator.

What the premium buys

We are a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency, and in most of this table we cost more than the platforms. Every site is hand-coded, with no theme, page builder, or plugin-stack CMS. The design is built for one firm, yours, rather than adapted from a library that a thousand other firms are running. The performance is guaranteed in writing: if a page drops below 96 in any Google Lighthouse category and we don't restore it within 48 hours of your report, that page is free that month. The security posture is graded A+ by three independent scanners you can re-run yourself.

It is also fully managed, which is where the hassle math lives. We handle design, development, hosting, security, and maintenance for the life of your monthly plan, with unlimited content edits and automatic technology upgrades at no extra cost. The site never quietly ages into a rebuild the way a three-year FindLaw contract does. Every month we run a Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals health audit, the same methodology as our public website health checker, and email you the scores with a plain-language summary of what we worked on. The SLAs are published. We track our own misses, and most credits land on your next invoice without you filing anything. Every plan carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee with automatic credits (hosted add-ons stack their own SLAs on top).

When the firm grows, the roof grows with it: blogging on a CMS, e-commerce, digital advertising, CRO and A/B testing, analytics and ROI reporting, multi-language, site search, and custom integrations all run on the same published rate card, month-to-month after the first year. Scaling never means hiring a second vendor.

Every build ships with on-page SEO, a managed Google Business Profile, NAP citations, LocalBusiness schema, sitemaps, and GEO/AEO work for AI-driven search. None of it is sold back to you as a tier. TechTailors is founder-led by someone who came up through SEO, and the technical scores above are half the ranking story. A platform selling the same templates and the same playbook to competing firms in the same city cannot take your side.

Service is personal on purpose. The person who builds your site is the person who answers when something breaks, on a published response clock: 24 hours on Professional, nights and weekends included. Clients text us directly. Custom integrations run $250 one-time per service, which can replace recurring middleware subscriptions outright. And the discounts stack. Annual prepay is two months free and halves the build and setup fees, and a bulk discount takes up to $1,000 off per month as your spend grows. The referral program earns you up to $10,000 in invoice credit.

The risk sits with us. The Blueprint is a fixed quote whose deliverable is yours to keep whether or not you proceed. You never prepay the build, because milestones bill as stages complete. And the 30-day guarantee is an exit, not a refund: wrong fit within 30 days of signing, and you walk from the remaining 11 months with no further payment.

Leaving is priced too. The exit fee is zero, and offboarding is documented before you sign. The buy-out is open from day one. Want us to build the site and let you buy out the code at Go Live? The at-signing cap is that price. At $675 a month the code caps at $20,200 at signing and falls to $12,100 after four anniversaries if you stay managed instead. Even our annual review is built to argue against us; it states, in writing, when you should be paying us less.

One more number your accountant will like: if your firm qualifies as an eligible small business, the accessibility work in every build may qualify for the federal ADA Section 44 credit of up to $5,000 a year (IRS Form 8826). The calculator estimates it, and that estimate is not tax advice.

Month 13: what you hold

Month 13 is only the comparison point (the first renewal). The accounts are yours from day one, and the buy-out is available whenever you want it, Go Live included.

At month 13	TechTailors	Typical legal-web incumbent
Domain and DNS	Your registrar, your Cloudflare zone	Often vendor-managed; transfer varies
Hosting	Our Cloudflare account, until a buy-out moves the site to yours	The vendor's platform
Analytics history	Your accounts, exportable free	Vendor dashboards, commonly left behind
Content you wrote	Yours, exportable	Usually yours in principle; tooling varies
The site code	Buy-out any time; the price drops at every anniversary you stay	Proprietary platform; typically no ownership path
Cost to leave	Zero exit fee, documented offboarding	Rebuild from scratch; FindLaw departures report worse

When each option is the right call

Justia Elevate is the honest budget answer. A solo attorney who wants a credible presence at the lowest published price, with no ambition to own the infrastructure, is well served at $82.50 a month, and we will say so on a call. LawLytics fits lawyers who want to write their own content inside a lawyer-specific platform and accept platform residency. Scorpion and Mockingbird are marketing engagements more than websites; if you are buying a $5,000/month lead machine, evaluate them as advertising vendors. FindLaw is the one we struggle to recommend at any price, given the contract-length and exit reporting above. Read the sourced reviews and their comment threads before signing anything for three years. TechTailors is the right call when the site should be an asset and a weapon: owned accounts, a published security baseline with an annual attestation, performance that holds a public guarantee, design built for your firm alone, SEO that ships with the build, and a code buy-out whose price falls every year you stay.

Verify us

Our one public client site is a chiropractic practice, not a law firm, and we would rather show it than hide it: goldmanchiropracticcenter.com is live, and its PageSpeed results are one click away. That is the same test we run monthly under the Lighthouse guarantee: if a page drops below 96 in any category and we don't restore it within 48 hours of your report, it is free that month. The full rescue story, with the before-and-after walkthrough, shows how that site got this way. Our own site's security posture is graded by three independent scanners at /security. You can pressure-test us in under five minutes, without a sales call. Run your current site through the website health checker, price your firm in the calculator, or order the free Agency Audit and we will grade what you have now. The full series runs the same math for CPAs, advisors, medical practices, and therapists.

Sources

Justia Elevate price calculator (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · LawLytics demo/pricing page (captured 2026-08-28, no published price) and Lawyerist's LawLytics review · OnTheMap's FindLaw contract review, Justin Ziegler's cost review, and Majux's FindLaw analysis · Lawyerist's Scorpion review, JurisDigital's Scorpion guide, OnTheMap's Scorpion review · Lawyerist's Mockingbird review. Screenshots dated and stored in our repository.

Prices verified 2026-08-28; re-checked quarterly.

Why We Hand-Code Every Site

Mac Goldman — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT

The Template Trap

Templates promise speed. Pick a theme, swap the logo, launch by Friday. And sure, it works. Until the client asks for something the template didn't anticipate.

At TechTailors, every site is hand-coded from scratch. Not because we enjoy suffering, but because every business has unique needs that deserve unique solutions.

Performance You Can Measure

A hand-coded Astro site on Cloudflare's edge starts answering in milliseconds: Google's PageSpeed test clocks our own server at about 10 ms. Templates carry the weight of features you'll never use: carousels nobody clicks, libraries that add 200KB to parse a date.

We ship only what matters: semantic HTML, scoped CSS, progressive enhancement. Your visitors notice the difference even if they can't name it.

Run a Lighthouse audit on any TechTailors site. We hold a perfect 100 across all four categories: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.

Ownership From Day One

When we write every line, there's no black box. Buy out the code and it's yours to keep, with no reverse-engineering, no vendor lock-in and no dependence on a theme marketplace that might disappear. Leave without a buy-out and your accounts, content and data still go with you.

That's the hand-coded difference: faster sites, cleaner code, and genuine ownership.

What Data Ownership Actually Means

Mac Goldman — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT

The Ownership Problem

Most agencies say you own your data. Few make it easy to prove. Try exporting your analytics history from a proprietary dashboard, or migrating your CMS content when the contract ends. Suddenly ownership feels theoretical.

At TechTailors, data ownership is structural: baked into the architecture, not bolted on as an afterthought.

How We Build for Portability

Every TechTailors site uses open standards and open-source tools:

EmDash for content management: your posts, pages, and media live in a database in your own Cloudflare account
Cloudinary for asset delivery: your images and videos are in your account, with your API keys
Cloudflare for your domain: your DNS, your security settings, your analytics (the site itself runs on our Cloudflare account until a buy-out)
Supabase for application data: PostgreSQL under the hood, exportable with a single command

None of these lock you to TechTailors. If you leave, we hand over every credential and every export. Your accounts and data were always yours. The code works differently: it's licensed to you during your monthly plan, and the buy-out below gets you a perpetual license to keep it.

The Buy-Out Option

For clients who want to go fully independent, we offer a lump-sum buy-out. One payment gets you a perpetual, non-exclusive license to the code. We hand the complete source, with its infrastructure configuration and operational documentation, to your team or your next agency.

Every TechTailors contract includes an offboarding clause. We don't just promise portability. We contractually guarantee it.

Ownership isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Edge-First Architecture Explained

Mac Goldman — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT

What Is Edge-First?

Traditional web hosting works like this: your site lives on a server in Virginia (or Frankfurt, or Singapore). When someone in Tokyo requests a page, the request crosses the Pacific, hits your server, builds the response, and travels back. Even with a fast server, physics adds latency.

Edge-first flips the model. Your site is deployed to every Cloudflare data center, over 300 locations worldwide. When that visitor in Tokyo makes a request, the response comes from a server a few milliseconds away.

Static Doesn't Mean Simple

TechTailors sites are statically generated with Astro. Every page is pre-built at deploy time into plain HTML, CSS, and minimal JavaScript. No server-side rendering on each request. No database queries at runtime.

But static doesn't mean limited. Dynamic features (contact forms, search, e-commerce) run as Cloudflare Workers at the edge. Same speed, full capability.

Astro's island architecture ships zero JavaScript by default. Interactive pieces load on demand, and plain links and forms work before any JavaScript arrives.

The Performance Stack

Here's what keeps it fast:

Astro: Zero-JS by default. Only ships JavaScript when islands of interactivity need it.
Cloudflare Workers: every page served from a Cloudflare data center near your visitor, fresh on every deploy.
Cloudinary: Images transformed and cached at delivery, not at request time.
Typesense: on sites with search, a dedicated cluster for each client.

Cloudinary and Cloudflare work hand in hand: Cloudinary handles the image transforms, Cloudflare caches the result at 300+ global PoPs. The first visitor triggers the transform; every visitor after gets a cache HIT.

Speed isn't an optimization. It's the architecture.