Before anyone walks in they look you up — your hours, your menu, whether the order button works. We keep all of it shipshape, every week, for one flat price. You run the place. We look after the part people see before they ever walk in.
Have us look at your site01 / Always current
Season hours, holiday closures, a new menu, new stock, a phone number that changed. Tell us once and it lands everywhere your customers look.
02 / One flat price
From $199 a month. Hosting and your domain at our wholesale cost, itemised on your invoice, registered in your name.
03 / From here
Bradenton down to Englewood, by people who eat where you cook. One number, answered by whoever does the work.
Approach
We'd rather drive over than send you a form. We'll sit down, pull up your site, your Google listing, your socials — all of it, right there on the table — and tell you plainly what's wrong. Including the parts you could fix yourself this afternoon, for nothing.
That's the whelk's trick, more or less. It tastes the water to find a clam buried in the sand, wedges the lip of its own shell between the halves, and keeps at it until the thing gives. Patient, stubborn, gets in.
Then we stay. A whelk only grows at one edge, so nothing gets torn down and started over — the opposite of how most shops do it. Build the site, hand over the keys, move on. It's why half the restaurants on this coast still list last winter's hours.
Services
01
A clean four-page site — hours, what you sell, how to reach you, your story. Hosted, managed, and updated when you send us something rather than when we get around to it.
02
Nearly everyone who looks you up does it on a phone — half of them standing outside, deciding whether to come in. So the phone is the screen we build for first and the desktop second: your hours and your address near the top, type you can read one-handed, nothing three pinches deep. And we check it on real phones, not a shrunk-down browser window.
03
Whatever you already use — Toast, ChowNow, Shopify, Square, whoever — linked from your site, your Google listing and your Facebook and Instagram buttons, so nobody has to go looking for it.
04
A lot of the sites we open are quietly switched off — a box ticked in WordPress or Wix telling search engines to stay away, a sitemap nobody built, a menu or a product list that loads too late to be read. We fix all of it, and write your hours, address and prices in the format machines actually read. So when somebody asks Google — or ChatGPT, or Claude — for somewhere good to eat around here, or a gift shop that is actually open, you are in the pile they answer from. We cannot make them pick you. We can make sure nothing is stopping them.
05
Your domain registered to you from day one, at our wholesale rate with the saving shown on the invoice. And an email address to match — info@yourplace.com instead of a Gmail — pointed wherever you already read your mail. Small thing. People notice. Nothing is held hostage: if you ever leave, you take the lot.
06
Send four photos a month and we put them up. Move up a whorl and we make the posts — captions, graphics, stories. We never nag you for content; no photos just means no post.
Plans
Each whorl wraps the one before it and adds the next increment — never a jump, never a rebuild. Most places start at the first one and stay there happily. Setup is $250 if you already have a web presence to fix and migrate, or $500 if we are building from zero — month-to-month with a three-month start, or annual prepaid with setup included, billed automatically and itemized with no surprises.
Whorl I
You send the content. We keep every surface right.
$199 a month
Whorl II
We write and design the content. You approve it from your phone.
$399 restaurants$449 shops
Whorl III
We show up with a camera. Your brand is our job.
$899 a quarter$2,000 a month
Coverage
A menu that changes, hours that move with the season, and an order button that has to work at seven on a Friday.
Live music, trivia night, taproom hours. Posted once, showing on all five listings, taken down when it is over.
Early hours, sell-outs, holiday orders. The things people ring up to ask, answered before they ring.
Your catalogue stays on Shopify — we never touch it. We keep the storefront around it honest and the Pinterest moving.
Service area
We live in Sarasota and work up and down this coast.
The lightning whelk is Florida's state shell, and it coils the opposite way to almost every other sea snail on earth. It is a Gulf animal. So are we.
Contact
Twenty minutes, no pitch. Give us the name of your place and we will open your website, your Google listing and your socials while we talk — then tell you plainly what is broken, what it would cost to keep it fixed, and what you can go and fix yourself for free.
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