cold-pitch web studio · west michigan · open for clients

Your website is fine. Actually, it's costing you money.

We're a brand-new West Michigan studio with a simple pitch: we find a local business whose website is quietly costing them customers, and build them a better one — free. You see it, you love it, you pay. You don't, you keep the mockup and we buy you a coffee.

bluedoorbarbers.net · circa 2003
visitor #00047

WELCOME
to Blue Door
Barber Shop!!

★ ★ ★ Walk-ins welcome! ★ ★ ★
🚧 under construction 🚧
⚠ 6.4s load · no mobile · no booking
bluedoor.shop · live demo
SINCE 1978 · GRAND RAPIDS

Old-school cuts.
New-school booking.

Book a chair →
✓ 0.6s · online booking · SEO-ready
BEFORE AFTER
3live spec demos — free to claim
72hrbuild time per demo
day 01we just opened the doors
$0risk · demo is free
Tin Can Bar Logan's Alley Social House now booking clients 72-hour free demos founding-client pricing // 3 live demos · more each week
free site audit · live

type your url.
we'll roast it in 10 seconds.

Before we pitch you, we audit you. Page speed, SEO, mobile, accessibility. The receipts are public. Good sites get a fist bump. Bad ones get a rebuild offer.

We'll grade performance, SEO, mobile UX, and conversion paths. If your site scores under 70, we build you a free demo within 72 hours.

  • → We never spam. We audit, we email once, we move on.
  • → Your data stays on our laptop.
  • pssst — this is how we'll find our first few clients.
rapids-audit — zsh — 92×24
bluedoorbarbers.net
SCANNING
domainbluedoorbarbers.net
status· no live site
last indexed— never
businessBlue Door Barbershop · GR
opportunity· high
they have a google listing, 4.7★, 120+ reviews — but no site.
we can fix that.
Blue Door Barbershop Fraunces · Archivo
classic cut
The Regular
$28 · 30 min
cut + shave
Full Service
$48 · 45 min
kids under 12
Little Ones
$20 · 20 min
bluedoor.shop · live
how this works

four steps. zero BS.

Most agencies wait for leads. We find you — research local businesses online, audit your current site, and build you something better before we ever reach out.

STEP_01

we find you

We research, we audit, we evaluate. Everything online — no drive-bys, no lists, no spam, no bots. Just manual, deliberate outreach to businesses we genuinely want to work with.

takes ~3 days
STEP_02

we build it

48–72 hours of real work. Real code, real content, hosted on a private preview URL.

takes 72 hours
STEP_03

we show up

15-minute meeting at your place or ours. We walk through the demo. No slides, no pressure.

takes 15 min
STEP_04

you pick

Ship it live or walk away. No retainer, no contract, no guilt. Either way we learned something, and you keep the mockup.

takes your call
spec demos · live · free to claim

we built these. for bars that haven't called us yet.

Three real Grand Rapids bars. We studied their current sites, rebuilt them top to bottom, and shipped the demos to public URLs. Click through — they're live right now. If you own one of these, come say hi. It's yours.

tincanbar.grandtechsystems.com
demo live
hover to preview →

Tin Can Bar ↗

4-location craft-can chain · GR + Lansing
180+ can menu
logans.grandtechsystems.com
demo live
hover to preview →

Logan's Alley ↗

heritage hill neighborhood bar · est. 2000
cask countdown
socialhouse.grandtechsystems.com
demo live
hover to preview →

Social House ↗

3 kitchens · GR, Saranac, Duke's
multi-location

More coming. We're building one new spec demo per week until someone hires us.

pricing · founding-client rates

flat fee. ship fast.

Pick a box. Pay once. Own the whole thing. No month-to-month lock-in, no "strategy retainer," no mystery invoices. The prices below are our founding-client rates — locked in for the first 5 projects, then they go up.

Starter

$500–900 one-time
  • Up to 5 pages
  • Domain included
  • Contact form included
  • Mobile-first, accessible
  • Local SEO basics
  • 1 week max delivery
start here →

Signature

$1.5k–2.5k one-time
  • Everything in Growth
  • Multi-location / custom integrations
  • E-commerce or booking systems
  • Custom interactive elements
  • Dedicated design + build
  • 2–3 week delivery
let's talk →
optional · ongoing support

keep it fresh. or don't.

Totally optional. If you'd rather update the site yourself, the CMS is all yours. If you'd rather us handle edits, pick a tier.

Light

$50/mo
  • Up to 2 content edits / month
  • Hosting + SSL maintained
  • Uptime monitoring
  • 48hr response
add on →

Steady

$100/mo
  • Up to 5 content edits / month
  • Everything in Light
  • Monthly analytics check-in
  • 24hr response
add on →

Full Service

$200/mo
  • Unlimited small edits
  • Everything in Steady
  • Priority build queue
  • Same-day response
add on →
the honest part · founder note

we don't have testimonials yet. here's why you should still call.

01

We're new, so we're hungry. You'll get obsessive attention instead of being account #47. The spec demos you see are what we do on a Tuesday — imagine what we'll do when you're actually paying us.

why new is goodsmaller roster · direct line to the builder
02

Founding-client pricing is a real discount — about 30% under our published rates — in exchange for a case study and a testimonial once we ship. We eat the risk. You get a bargain.

founding pricing5 slots · first-come · locked in for a year
03

The demo is genuinely free. Worst case you get a free site mockup and we get portfolio fodder. Best case we build something together. Either way, nothing weird.

no-catch demo72 hours · keep it regardless
faq

the obvious questions.

The things everyone asks on the first call. Short answers, no fluff.

wait — actually free?+
Yep. We're new and we'd rather show real work than talk about it. You get a real demo. We get a real shot. If it clicks, you pay. If not, you keep the mockup.
what if I hate the demo?+
Keep the mockup, owe nothing, we go away. Seriously. We'd rather have an honest "no" than an awkward "maybe."
who owns the code + domain?+
You do. Fully. You can host it wherever, move it whenever, and fire us any time. No handcuffs.
do you work outside West Michigan?+
West Michigan is our home turf — Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Allegan. But honestly, we'll work with anyone, anywhere. Local just means we can deliver a demo in person with donuts.
how long until my site is live?+
Starter: 1 week max. Growth: 1–2 weeks. Signature: 2–3 weeks. Complex Signature builds may run longer — we'll tell you up front.
what if I already have a developer?+
Cool. We'll hand off clean code + docs, or we'll stay out of your way. We're not precious about it.
5 founding slots · west michigan + beyond · now booking

we'll build you a site. for free.
you only pay if you love it.

Tell us your business name. We'll have a working demo on your desk in 72 hours. No deck, no sales call, no obligation. We're betting on ourselves — you just show up.

get my free demo book a 15-min call
or: (616) 555-0142 · hey@rapidsdigital.com