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STARTING WELL · · 3 min read

Five things to have ready before anyone builds your site

Pull these five together in the truck between jobs. Then every agency that emails you gets the same clear answers, and you can compare what comes back.

A tradesperson in a parked pickup truck with a phone and a notepad, a toolbox on the passenger seat, in late afternoon light.

Pull this list together in the truck between jobs. Do it once and every agency that emails you gets the same clear answers, including us.

What holds a build up is rarely hard. A logo file sitting on an old laptop. A login under an email nobody checks anymore. Each one has to be found before the work can move, so find them first.

Hands holding a phone over a workbench, taking a photo of a repaired cabinet door, with a drill and screws nearby in warm daylight.
Phone pictures are fine. A handful of honest ones beat a stock photo of a stranger’s kitchen.

The five things

  1. Your domain login. The account where your web address is registered, plus the email and password that open it. Write down which company it is with. If you can’t find it, that is the first job.
  2. One sentence on what you do and where. “Handyman, small home repairs, north side of town” beats a paragraph. If you serve more than one town, name them.
  3. The questions customers ask you every week. Hours, the areas you cover, the jobs you won’t take, how they book. These become your pages, and the answers your AI desk gives at 2 a.m.
  4. Photos of your real work. Phone pictures are fine. Finished jobs, a before and after, the van out front. A handful of honest ones beat a stock photo of a stranger’s kitchen.
  5. How you want people to reach you. Call, text, a booking form, email. Pick the one you actually answer. If it’s text, say which number.

Put all five in one note on your phone. Update it when your hours change. The answers go out the same every time, to whoever asks.

Ask one question back

With the list ready, nobody waits on you. You can send the same note to every agency in your inbox and compare what comes back side by side.

Then ask each of them where the domain and the logins will live when the job is done. If the answer is vague, keep looking.

Our answer is short.

Your domain stays in your name. The logins are yours on day one.

Our AI team builds from what you tell us, so the sharper your list, the closer the first version lands. Open the demo for your kind of business on your phone and see what your answers turn into.