Websites that survive owner vetting

BoxBuild doesn’t publish pricing, because that would mean guessing before understanding your business. Every build is scoped to the engagement: what the growth system needs to include, how many verticals and markets it serves, and what already exists. Scope is what drives cost — positioning work, page depth, integrations, content. You get a specific number in the first conversation, openly, before you commit to anything.

For a custom build done properly, plan on roughly two to four months from kickoff to launch. Discovery and positioning come first, then architecture, design, copy, build, and testing. The most common delay isn’t the agency; it’s gathering project photography, safety documentation, and team content from a busy firm. We structure collection early so your site doesn’t stall waiting on a hard-drive archaeology project.

The buyer. Owners, developers, and procurement teams vet contractors like an investment: vertical experience, project scale, safety record, team depth, delivery method. A construction website has to survive that vetting, which is why project pages organized by vertical, capability detail, and proof matter more than clever animations. Generic agencies build brochures. Construction buyers are reading your site the way they read a qualifications package.

Yes, but rarely the way people imagine. Few owners find a GC cold on Google and award a project the same week. What happens constantly is silent vetting: you get referred or invited to bid, and the decision-makers check your site before the first call. A weak site costs you shortlist spots you never hear about. The website’s job is to confirm the referral, then convert research into a conversation.

At minimum: project portfolio organized by vertical and delivery method, capability statements, safety information, leadership and team depth, your preconstruction process, and clear paths to contact. Add market and vertical pages if you pursue specific project types. Every element should answer a question a selection committee actually asks. What you can cut: stock photos of handshakes and filler copy about commitment to excellence.

For firms pursuing serious commercial work, we recommend a custom build on modern infrastructure over plugin-dependent WordPress. Plugins are the leading attack surface and maintenance burden on contractor sites. BoxBuild builds on a no-plugin architecture with Cloudflare at the edge, the application and database on Railway, and media on Supabase, with TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest. Your buyers’ IT teams notice these things.