A small shop that builds websites for tradesmen.
Plumbers, electricians, roofers, HVAC techs, foundation crews, landscapers — every shop deserves a real website. Most don't have one. Send us a short form, and three days later a finished site lands in your inbox. Keep it for $199 a month, or send it back. First month is on us.
It is a quiet truth in this country that the websites belonging to the people who fix our houses are, almost without exception, not very good. They take eight seconds to load. They sit on page four of Google when a neighbor goes looking for a leaky pipe. They were built once, by somebody's nephew, in a single afternoon four years ago, and have not been touched since. The contact form, if it works at all, sends emails to an address belonging to a man who left the trade in 2019.
Meanwhile, the shop keeps running. The truck goes out every morning. Calls come in the old ways — by reputation, by yard sign, by the same six customers who have used the same plumber for fifteen years. A new website is on the list of things to do, but somewhere far below "fix the water heater on Tuesday."
Torch is a small shop that has spent a year solving this. We build full, hand-tuned websites for trade businesses, on a flat monthly fee, in three days, without ever asking the owner to sit through a single meeting. We do this because we believe a good trade shop should not lose work to a slick stranger from out of town with a faster website. That is all.
— From the editors, with sincerity
A short intake form. Business name, what you do, the towns you serve. About four minutes. Phone optional.
Real copy, in your trade's words. Layout tuned for your service area. Photos sourced or restored. Forms wired, mobile checked.
A live URL in your inbox. Open it from the truck, the kitchen, wherever. Reply with anything you want changed — we'll have it fixed before supper.
Like it? We move your domain over, the first month is free. Don't like it? We part on good terms — no charge, no chase, no awkwardness.
I sent the form Tuesday morning, between jobs. By Thursday lunch the website was up. Real pages for every town we cover. Real photos of my truck. A click-to-call button right at the top, like they suggested. First booked call came in the next week, off a search for water heater repair in Round Rock. I haven't logged into the website once. Couldn't tell you the password if you asked.”
— First month on the house if you sign within 7 days of preview. —
Fine. We rebuild it. The old one stays live until you approve the new preview. We move the domain on a date you pick, and you don't touch a thing — no downtime, no scramble, no awkward call to the person who built it the first time.
No. The whole thing runs in email. We have built finished sites for shops we've never spoken to once. If you want a call, you can ask — but the default is async, because that's what actually works for someone who runs a truck.
Reply with what's off. We rebuild. There's no “round 2” cap and no revision countdown. If after all that you still don't like it, you don't pay a cent. We delete the build, send a clean goodbye, and that's it.
Copy is written by us, reviewed against your trade's vocabulary. Layout is hand-tuned. There are no template-swap tells. If a customer can spot it was built by a stranger, we did the job wrong.
You do. The domain stays in your name. The content stays yours. If you cancel, we export the whole thing as a static archive and hand it over. No hostage software, no platform you can't leave.
Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, foundation, pool service, pest control, landscaping, tree work, handyman, locksmiths, garage doors. If you fix something on someone's property, we'll build for it.
One short form. No call. A finished preview, on a working URL, in your inbox in three days. First month on the house if you sign within seven days. After that, $199 a month, flat. Cancel anytime, by email.
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