For new website owners · Web Launch Academy

Own your website.
Don't rent it.

Squarespace and Wix charge you forever and you own nothing. We build you a real website — your code, your GitHub, your domain — that you edit in plain English through Mission Control. A $100 refundable deposit is all you put down — the balance waits until you've test-driven the finished site for a full day.

$0
At risk — deposit's refundable
1 day
To test before you pay
100%
Code you own
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The Mission Control portal — chat on the left, a live preview of your real site on the right

Chat with the very best — Claude — to maintain, optimize, and add to your website. No installs, no code editor, no constant updates or patches to keep up with. Mission Control makes it intuitive, workable, and allows your website to grow with your needs.

Your Mission Control portal — where you build and run your site after launch.

// The math they don't show you

Website builders are rent.
This you buy once and own.

Typical web builders run about $30/month — FOREVER. Three years in you've already forked over more than $1,000, you don't own anything — and you never will. On the other hand, a custom developer build runs $5,000–$15,000 — great, you own your website… but how do you change it?

With WLA Mission Control, you're spoiled for choice — and you get all the choices at once. How? It starts with a custom site that you own, built with Claude pre-connected to all the necessary services for you. Then you decide: build the rest yourself with Claude as your personal Mission Control assistant, or save your most valuable asset — your time — and have us do it for you. A price that works for you, complete customization, and you're in control the whole way through. Prefer to spread it out? A handful of payments, then $0 forever — never a subscription. Stop compromising. Build Once, Own Forever.

// Packages

Two ways to launch.
Both end in ownership.

Every package includes your own GitHub repository, Vercel hosting, custom domain with SSL, an email-capture form with its own Airtable database, and Mission Control access — so you make changes in plain English, no developer required. And for your first 30 days, you get free use of Claude — the best AI in the business — as your personal on-site assistant inside Mission Control.

Founding-client rate — prices climb quickly as our client list grows. Today's quote is honored for 30 days.

Build it yourself

Launch Kit

$799one-time · or 6 × $159/mo — a car payment, and then it stops

We set up the professional foundation — repo, hosting, domain, SSL, database, deployment — and you build the site yourself by talking to Claude, the best AI in the business, free for 30 days. A developer would charge $5k+ for the same foundation. You own it outright.

  • 30 days of free Claude — your personal on-site assistant; build and revise by chat
  • Your GitHub repo, Vercel hosting, custom domain + SSL
  • Responsive starter page with email-capture form + Airtable database table
  • Automatic deployments — edit, preview, publish
  • Health Score tool tracks your site's progress
  • Own the code outright — no monthly bill after launch
Build Your Launch Kit →
★ Built for you, battle-tested

Full Launch

$2,397one-time · or 12 × $239/mo — a car payment, then you own the site outright

We start it, finish it — and that's just the beginning. We generate a custom end-to-end checklist (100+ items on complex builds) that fits your custom-built website, manually test it button-by-button through every website health metric (90+ Lighthouse across the board), and finally walk you through the finished site together — a guided test-drive, up to a full day — before you pay the balance. A fraction of what a custom developer charges, and you own it the same way.

  • Everything in Launch Kit — we build it for you, plus:
  • Up to 5 content sections built for you — About, Services, FAQ, Testimonials…
  • Manually tested against our full checklist, delivered with the results
  • Every health milestone hit — watch the score in your portal
  • Guided test-drive before you pay the balance — we walk through every page and feature together, up to a full day
  • Your first 90 days include a personal developer — bug fixes free, bundled alterations at 80% off (alongside your free Claude)
  • One year of bug fixes — if it breaks, we fix it free
  • Email, handled — receipts, confirmations & newsletter broadcasts (Resend)
  • Images & branding pack — custom logo, AI images, your photos formatted
  • Build-process recordings + a guidance video call
Build Your Full Launch →

The Triple-Lock Guarantee

  • Try-It-First — a $100 refundable deposit starts your build; you pay the balance only after you've test-driven the finished site.
  • 90+ or we fix it free — we don't call it done until it hits every health milestone.
  • Own-it-or-it's-free — your $100 deposit is refundable any time, even after launch, and becomes $100 of Mission Control credit — plus a one-time $50 welcome credit ($150 total) — when you go live. Either way, the code is yours.

Don't take our word for it — we're independently ranked among the top-scoring sites.

Prefer to spread it out? Pick a payment plan right in the builder — a handful of payments, then it's yours with $0/month after. Paying in full is always cheapest — add-ons stay at base price — and everything is yours immediately: code, repo, accounts, transferred the day you pay. On a plan, that transfer happens at your final payment; either way your site stays live the whole time and is never taken down over a late payment. See the Try-It-First Guarantee.

// Grow as you go

Start small.
Add only what you need.

Every build starts with the baseline — a welcome page and one Airtable database table — and you check the extras you want in the builder. Your price adds up live, so there are no surprise invoices. Pages and content aren't sold as add-ons at all: you create those yourself in Mission Control by chatting with Claude — free in your first 30 days. Paid add-ons are the connections that take real backend setup. On Full Launch, every add-on is installed, configured, and manually battle-tested before it ships.

Popular add-ons

  • Complete booking system — tables or appointments, booked right on your site, with confirmations & reminders
  • Live Google rating — your real stars & review count, always current, straight from your Google listing
  • Edit-it-yourself page — change your own text & photos from your phone, live in seconds
  • Payments — Square, or Stripe for subscriptions (pick one)
  • Customer logins + admin dashboard (Supabase)
  • Email, handled — receipts, confirmations & newsletter in one setup (Resend)
  • Login with Google · automated background tasks
  • Images & branding pack — custom logo, AI images, your photos formatted & resized
  • Pages, sections & extra tables — you make those yourself with Claude, free for your first 30 days (and cheap after)

Build it your way

Pick a tier, start from the essentials, and add exactly what you need — the total updates as you go. A $100 refundable deposit starts the build; you pay the rest only after your test-drive.

Open the builder →
// Ready?

See it working.
Then decide.

Configure your site in a couple of minutes. A $100 refundable deposit starts the build — and you pay the rest only after the finished site has survived your own full-day test run.