Path 1
Hire an agency
Cost
$3K–$10K
·
Reality
6 weeks
- Sales calls and proposals
- Opaque pricing
- You don't own the code
- Pay again for every change
Sitepilot · $49 one-time
No code · No agency · <1 hour
Before you pay thousands for a website — try this first.
Sitepilot is a $49 kit that turns one conversation with the right AI into a real, custom website — researched and built specifically for your business, your local market, and the neighborhoods you serve. No code. No design background. No agency invoice.
Sounds advanced? It is. Sounds complicated? It isn't. Every step is plain English — written for local business owners, not developers.
One-time paymentYou own everythingDirect support from Kyle
The Sitepilot kitEverything included
$49one-time
vs. agency$10,000+
What lands in your inbox
- The master prompt (5,723 words, 11 phases)
- Production-grade template (.zip)
- 8 industry archetype components
- Guest Pass — free trial week of the AI
- Curated links list (no more Googling)
- Lifetime kit updates as tools evolve
- Unlimited email support from Kyle
Stripe checkout · kit delivered in minutes
01The problem
Most local businesses are stuck on one of three paths. All three lose customers.
Path 2
Drag-and-drop builder
Cost
$200/yr
·
Reality
Forever
- Looks like every Squarespace site
- Hard to actually customize
- Locked into their platform
- Migration is painful
Path 3
Keep your old website
Cost
$0
·
Reality
Bleeding customers
- Built years ago — looks dated
- Doesn't load right on phones
- Customers click away
- You're losing business and don't know it
Sitepilot is the fourth path. It didn't exist 18 months ago.
02The solution
One conversation. less than one hour.
Sounds technical? It feels like texting a friend who happens to be a senior web designer. Plain English start to finish.
01
Copy
Quick Stripe checkout. You'll receive an email with every file and link in your inbox in under a minute.
02
Paste
Drop the master prompt into the desktop AI. Upload the template zip when prompted.
03
Build
The AI interviews you, researches your industry + local market, designs the plan, builds the site, and walks you through deploy.
It's not a template applied to your business. It's a research-driven custom build — the way an agency would do it, without the agency invoice.
03No templates. Ever.
Sitepilot doesn't use templates. Yours is built from scratch.
Every Sitepilot site is researched and designed from a blank canvas — based on your business, your audience, your local market, and the design references you actually like. Two buyers in the same industry will end up with completely different sites.
01
Industry research first
Before designing anything, the AI analyzes 8–12 top-performing sites in your industry. Identifies what's working in 2026, what to borrow, what to avoid.
02
Your local market — researched
It searches your city and your industry. Pulls your real competitors. Finds the neighborhood vocabulary locals actually use. Finds gaps you can claim.
03
Your real reviews — pulled in
It fetches your Google Business reviews and uses them — verbatim, attributed — as the testimonials section. Zero fabricated quotes, ever.
04
Every section earns its own design
Hard rule baked into the prompt: no two sections share the same layout, background, or typography. None of the 'same card grid repeated 5 times' that gives away an AI build.
This is what your $10,000 agency was selling you. Without the $10,000.
04What lands in your inbox
Five things. One email.
Everything you need to build a real, custom website — delivered the moment your payment clears.
The secret sauce
The Master Prompt
5,723 words · 11 phases · 7 appendices
This is the secret sauce — the same prompt I use to build sites for $497 Autopilot clients. Hundreds of hours of research, dozens of dead-end attempts, and every lesson learned from real builds with real businesses — distilled into one document you paste into the AI. You're not getting a generic template builder. You're getting the exact playbook that took a year to figure out.
- Adapts to your industry, your city, and the references you like
- Every section earns its own design — no AI-template tell
- Lifetime updates whenever the playbook improves
Bonus
Guest Pass
Free trial week of the AI
Don't have an AI subscription yet? The Guest Pass link in your kit gets you a free trial week — enough time to build the entire site without paying for the AI up front.
- First-time users only
- No credit card needed up front
Strongly recommend keeping the AI subscription after the trial. Honestly, it's the most powerful tool a business owner can use right now for the price — not just for website edits.
The Template (.zip)
Production-grade Next.js + Tailwind
This is the fancy stuff. You don't need to understand what's in here. You just need to know you're getting the same toolkit the premier web developers in the world use to ship sites for Apple, Linear, Cal.com, and Vercel — pre-configured, pre-wired, and ready for the AI to work in.
- 8 industry archetypes (emergency, booking, portfolio, menu, etc.)
- shadcn UI primitives (button, card, input, dialog)
- Premium libraries pre-wired (motion, lucide, sonner)
The Links
Everything you'll need, one place
A curated link list so you're not hunting through Google for signup pages or DNS guides.
- Desktop AI download
- GitHub + GitHub Desktop signup
- Vercel deploy signup
- Domain registrar recommendations
Direct support from Kyle
No bots · No upsells · No time limit
We have full investment in making sure you're empowered to launch your own site. Stuck on something? Email kyle@cbusdigital.com and Kyle reads every message himself — replies within 24 hours, usually same day.
05Inside your AI conversation
From “what does your business do?” to a live website.
Five steps, end to end. Each one in plain English — written for business owners, not developers.
- 01
Tell it about your business
Answer a friendly interview about your services, audience, hours, and what you want the site to do. Drop in your current site URL if you have one. Drop in your Google Business profile so your real reviews get pulled in automatically.
- 02
Research happens in the background
The AI analyzes the top sites in your industry, finds your local competitors, learns the neighborhood vocabulary, and identifies gaps you can claim. You get a clear summary before any design starts.
- 03
Custom design plan, then build
Palette, typography, sections — proposed and explained in plain English. You approve, iterate, approve. The AI builds the site live in front of you — you watch the pages take shape one by one.
- 04
Publish your site
Free GitHub + Vercel setup, walked through click by click. Your site goes live at a real URL.
- 05
Connect your domain, come back anytime
Optional custom domain (yourbusiness.com) walked through. Every decision is logged so future edits — adding services, new pages for new locations, content updates — feel like resuming a conversation.
<1 hour total · pause anywhere · resume next session
06Sections matched to your business
Eight archetypes.
Mixed and matched to fit your business.
Don't worry — you don't need to know what any of these are. The AI picks the right ones for your business based on your interview, then explains in plain English why it picked them. Sophisticated under the hood, simple on your end.
EmergencyCTA
Speed of response sells
Plumbers, HVAC, electricians, locksmiths, towing, water damage, roofing
BookingEmbed
Appointments are the action
Salons, dental, spa, fitness, therapists, consultants, tutors
PortfolioGrid
Visual proof sells
Contractors, photographers, designers, landscapers, painters
MenuSection
What you offer + price
Restaurants, cafés, bars, caterers, food trucks, bakers
ServiceAreaMap
Geography matters
Any local service with a defined service radius
BeforeAfter
Transformation is the result
Renovation, fitness, dental, salon, lawn care, cleaning
PricingTable
Transparent packages
Subscriptions, package-based services, retainers
ProcessSteps
How it works sells
Custom builders, consultants, agencies, financial planners
Don't see your industry listed?
These are patterns, not requirements. Sitepilot works for accountants, attorneys, therapists, pet sitters, music teachers, wedding photographers, dog trainers, mobile mechanics, tutors, bookkeepers, financial advisors, and any other service or local business. If you have customers, services, and a story — the AI figures out which patterns fit and builds for you.
07Pre-installed in the kit
The libraries the best agencies use. Already wired in.
The toolkit behind sites like Vercel, Linear, and Cal.com isn't a secret — it's just rare to find pre-configured. Sitepilot ships with all of it, so the AI can reach for whichever library makes your section better.
package.json · pre-installed7 libraries
motion
v12.x
Scroll-triggered reveals, stagger animations, signature visual moments. Powers the lightning bolt on this site.
⚠ Not in most $49 kits — buyers don't know to ask for it.
lucide-react
v0.460.x
The icon system Vercel, Linear, and Cal.com use. Consistent stroke weight, real SVGs, no emoji shortcuts.
⚠ Why your bargain templates always have ugly icons.
shadcn/ui primitives
vlatest
Industry-standard component primitives — buttons, inputs, dialogs that look like Vercel/Linear's. Pre-installed: button, card, input, textarea, label.
⚠ Wiring these up from scratch is a weekend project.
tailwindcss-animate
v1.0.x
Pre-built animation utilities for Tailwind. Subtle reveals on cards without writing custom keyframes.
⚠ Most starters force you to invent your own animation system.
sonner
v2.x
The toast / notification library every premium SaaS uses. Wired into the contact form for submit confirmations.
⚠ Building custom toasts is a real time sink.
@vercel/analytics
v1.x
Privacy-friendly analytics, free, no GDPR cookie banner needed. Already wired into the root layout.
⚠ Google Analytics + GDPR consent banner is a multi-hour setup.
next/font
vbuilt-in
Variable font self-hosting with zero layout shift. Sub-pixel-perfect type rendering, automatically optimized.
⚠ The default Google Fonts approach silently hurts performance.
08Scale & integrate
Built to grow with your business.
Local SEO multiplier
Launch a page for every neighborhood you serve.
Plumber serving 12 Columbus neighborhoods? Spin up a dedicated page for each: Clintonville, German Village, Worthington, Dublin, Powell, Bexley, and beyond. Same site, same AI conversation — just say “add a new location page for X” and it's done.
Each page ranks separately in Google for its own neighborhood. Local-SEO compounding without the agency upcharge.
/clintonville
/german-village
/worthington
/dublin
/powell
/bexley
Stack integration
Wire in the tools you already use.
Your site doesn't live alone — it connects to the tools that actually run your business. The AI knows how to wire in your CRM, calendar, payment, analytics, and tracking pixels so every form submission, booking, and click flows to the right place.
- CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Close, Go High Level)
- Calendar / booking (Calendly, Square, Acuity, Resy)
- Payment (Stripe, Square)
- Analytics (Google Analytics, Vercel, Plausible)
- Email (Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Resend)
- Reviews (Google Business, Yelp, Trustpilot)
- Tracking pixels (Meta, Google Ads, TikTok)
- Chat / SMS (Intercom, Drift, Twilio)
Tell the AI which tools you use in your interview. It handles the wiring — you keep doing business.
09What this would cost you elsewhere
The agency invoice you're not getting.
Estimated agency invoice
Custom small-business website
Itemized
Custom website design (5–7 pages)
$3,500
Industry research + competitive positioning
$500
Local SEO + neighborhood research
$500
Real Google reviews integrated
$250
Modern stack setup (Next.js + Tailwind + Vercel)
$750
Mobile responsive QA
$500
GitHub + version control setup
$250
Custom domain + DNS configuration
$250
Multi-location / multi-neighborhood pages
$500+
Tool + CRM integrations
$500
Lifetime kit updates as tools evolve
Priceless
Agency total
$7,500+
Your price today
Sitepilot kit
$49
You save $7,451 and you do it this weekend.
10Sitepilot vs everything else
The other options on the table. Honestly compared.
| Capability | Sitepilot $49 | Squarespace $200/yr | Webflow $300/yr+ | Agency $3K–$10K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $49 one-time | $200/yr | $300/yr+ | $3K–$10K |
| Time to live | <1 hr | Days | Days–weeks | 6+ weeks |
| Custom-designed for you | — | |||
| Industry-specific research | — | |||
| Local market research | — | |||
| Real Google reviews pulled in | — | |||
| Multi-location landing pages | — | — | $$$ | |
| Tool / CRM integrations | — | — | $$$ | |
| You own the code | — | — | ||
| Lifetime kit updates | ||||
| Direct creator support | — |
11Don't want to build it yourself?
Skip the <1-hour build. We'll build it for you.
If your time is better spent running your business than learning a new tool — that's exactly what Autopilot is for.
── No-risk preview
Fill out the quick form below and I'll send you a free, fully-built demo site for your business to review before you pay a dollar. If you like it, we go live. If not, no worries — the demo is yours to keep.
The done-for-you path · Autopilot
You send the details.
We send back a live website.
Autopilot uses the exact same research-driven Sitepilot process — but Kyle does the work instead of you. You answer a few questions, send your assets, and days (not weeks) later your custom site is live. No <1-hour build session. No homework. No tools to learn.
- Same custom research + design process
- Same premium libraries pre-wired
- Same neighborhood-by-neighborhood local SEO
- Same CRM + tool integrations
- Plus unlimited edits at $49/mo (cancel anytime)
✓ Free demo site before any payment · ✓ See the work first
Autopilot pricing
$497one-time build
+ $49/mo hosting + unlimited edits
Pick your path
→Want to build it yourself? Sitepilot · $49
→Want it built for you? Autopilot · $497
→Need something custom? Talk to us
12Questions before you buy
Things people ask. Honest answers.
What exactly do I receive when I buy?+
An email lands in your inbox within minutes containing five things: (1) the master prompt to paste into the desktop AI, (2) the Sitepilot template files as a .zip, (3) a curated link list (AI Desktop, GitHub, Vercel, domain options), (4) a Guest Pass link for a free trial week of the AI, and (5) a direct support line to Kyle.
Can this be used for any business, regardless of where I'm located?+
Yes — Sitepilot works for any local or service business, anywhere in the world. Our home base is Columbus, but the AI's research process adapts to your city, your industry, and your local market. A salon in Tampa, a consultant in Edinburgh, a contractor in Sydney — same kit, same quality, same hyper-local results.
What if my business isn't a typical service business?+
Sitepilot works for accountants, attorneys, therapists, pet sitters, music teachers, photographers, dog trainers, tutors, mobile mechanics, bookkeepers, fitness coaches, mobile detailers, and pretty much any local or service business. If you have customers, services, and a story, the AI figures out which patterns fit and builds for you.
What's the actual total cost?+
$49 once for the Sitepilot kit. That's it to get started — the Guest Pass in your kit covers your first week of Claude free, so you can build the entire site without paying for anything else up front. No GitHub fees, no Vercel hosting fees, no other recurring costs. A custom domain is optional (~$12/yr at any registrar). For ongoing edits after week one, a $20/mo Claude subscription is highly recommended — honestly the most powerful tool a business owner can have right now for the price — but not required to get started.
Do I need any tech background?+
No. The master prompt assumes you've never written code, never used a Terminal, never touched GitHub. The AI walks you through every step in plain English. If you can sign up for a website and click through an installer, you can do this.
What about the Guest Pass — what's the catch?+
It's a free trial week from Claude. The link in your kit applies the Guest Pass to your account automatically. After the week, you choose whether to keep the Claude subscription going — strongly recommended, it's the most powerful tool a business owner can have right now for the price, and you'll want it for future website edits anyway.
How long does the build actually take?+
Under an hour of focused work, end to end. You can pause anywhere and resume next session — your progress saves automatically. Most buyers do it in one sitting on a quiet weekend.
Can I edit my site later without going back to the AI?+
Yes — the site is your code in your GitHub repo on your Vercel account. You can edit it however you like, including with a different AI, or by paying a developer. Most buyers prefer to come back to the AI when they want to edit, because it remembers the decisions from the build (saved in CLAUDE.md) and matches the existing style.
What if I get stuck mid-build?+
Email kyle@cbusdigital.com with the step you're on and a screenshot. Kyle reads every support email himself and replies within 24 hours, usually same day. No time limit on support — even if you come back six months later with a question.
Why isn't this just $497 like your Autopilot service?+
Autopilot is for business owners who'd rather not spend the time and not have to worry about it — Kyle handles everything, you focus on running your business, the site shows up live in your inbox days (not weeks) later. Sitepilot is for owners who can carve out under an hour and want to save the $468. The question isn't which is better — it's whether your time is worth more or less than the difference.
Ready when you are
Stop putting it off.
Build the site this weekend.
A real, modern, custom website — live by Sunday night. Or by Tuesday after work. Or whenever you have under an hour.
One-time paymentLifetime kit updatesFree week of AI includedUnlimited support from Kyle
Questions before you buy? kyle@cbusdigital.com