Northstar Express

Your website.
Without the
website builder.

Photo

A phone photograph of a sourdough loaf on a cooling rack, slightly over-warm, the kind a customer would upload

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Notes

bakery, main stsourdough, rollscookies tooopen 7 till gone

Hours

tue–sat 7 to 2ishclosed sun + mon

The Rim Country Bakehouse sample site: a dark sourdough photograph under the headline “Bread worth getting up for”, with two buttons beneath

Shown: an Express build for a fictional bakery.

Send us your business info, logo and photos. We turn it into a finished one-page website.

$149one paymentfirst 10 Express customers

The whole idea

Send us the mess.
We turn it into the website.

This went in

Notes

white sourdough, long fermentmix day before, bake a.m., cool on rackdark crust, open crumbbaked every day we're open

Photo

An uncropped phone photograph of sliced sourdough on a white plate, the one the finished site crops

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Prices

sourdough $9 a loafwhole loaves onlycall ahead + we'll hold one

This came out

The finished services section: under the heading "What Rim Country Bakehouse does", a cropped photograph of sliced sourdough beside "Sourdough", a description of a long-fermented white loaf, three bullet points, "$9 a loaf" and a "Call the bakery" link
The finished services section on a phone: the cropped sliced-sourdough photograph above "Sourdough", its description, three bullet points, "$9 a loaf" and a "Call the bakery" link

Rough notes and a phone photo from our fictional sample bakery became a services section. Every fact on the right is on the left — we tidy the wording, we never add to it.

The finished product

See the whole site.

Rim Country Bakehouse is a fictional bakery, built with the same form and the same checks as your site — so you can see the finished product before you buy.

The Rim Country Bakehouse sample site on a desktop screen: a dark sourdough photograph under the headline "Bread worth getting up for", then three short promises and the services headingThe Rim Country Bakehouse sample site on a phone: a sourdough photograph under the headline "Bread worth getting up for", with "Call the bakery" and "Ask us a question" buttons
Open the live sample (opens in a new tab)

Opens in a new tab. The photos are licensed stock; yours would be your own. Real customer sites will appear here as owners give permission.

How it works

You don't build anything.

  1. Pay.

    $149, once, on Stripe's checkout page.

  2. Send us the business.

    One form: logo, photos, hours, services. Rough notes are fine.

  3. We build it.

    Usually within a few days. Every fact is checked against what you sent.

  4. Review it.

    A private link. You confirm every fact and send one round of changes.

  5. Go live.

    Point your domain at it. Done.

Why $149

It costs less because the job is narrow.

What keeps it cheaper

  • One page, not ten.
  • One form, not weeks of meetings.
  • The same process, every time.
  • One round of changes, stated up front.

What doesn't get cut

  • A person checks every fact.
  • We build it. You never open a builder.
  • Nothing gets invented.
  • You approve it before it goes live.

What's included

Here's what $149 gets you.

  • A one-page website
  • Built for phones first
  • Your logo, colors and photos
  • Copy written from your answers
  • A working contact form
  • The search basics set up
  • A private preview before it goes live
  • One round of changes
  • A person checks it before you see it
  • Written instructions for your domain

If it's on this list, it's in the $149.

Other ways to get a website

Who does the work?

DIY builder

They give you the tools.

You build it.

Template

They give you a starting point.

You finish it.

Agency

They build it.

You buy a bigger custom project.

Express

You send the business.

We send back the website.

The limits

What Express isn't.

  • An online storecarts, checkouts, accounts
  • A booking systemanything that takes appointments
  • A multi-page siteExpress is one page
  • Custom softwarelogins, dashboards, integrations
  • Photographywe use the photos you send
  • Unlimited revisionsone round is included

Need one of these? Ask — we'll quote it separately.

Questions

The things people ask first.

What do I need to have ready?

Your logo if you have one, a few photos of your own work, and honest answers about what you do, where you do it and how people reach you.

Rough notes are fine. Turning them into clean sentences is our job.

Is this just a template with my logo on it?

The way we build is shared — that's what makes $149 possible. What's on the page is yours: your words, photos, colors and services. We don't reuse another business's look.

Do I need a domain already?

No, but you'll need one before the site can go live at your own address, and you buy it yourself. We don't register domains and we never take ownership of yours. You get written steps for connecting it.

What if I don't like the first version?

Tell us what to change and we'll change it — one full round is included.

Change your mind before we send your preview and you get a full refund. The details are on the refunds page.

Will this get me to the top of Google?

We won't promise that, and nobody honestly can. We set up the basics every site should have — a real title, a description, a share preview — and build a page that loads quickly and works on a phone. Rankings depend on your competitors, your reviews and a lot nobody controls.

What happens after it's live?

The site is yours. It sits at your web address and you don't have to pay us anything more to keep it there.

If you'd rather not deal with it afterward, Northstar Care is an optional $19 a month: we help with your domain, make small changes and fix anything that stops working. Growing past one page is a separate conversation and a separate price.

Do I have to pay every month?

No. Express is $149, paid once, and the website is yours. Northstar Care is an optional $19 a month for owners who want us to keep handling the site after launch. It's offered once, at the end of the intake form, after you've paid for Express. Skip it and nothing changes; add it and you can cancel any time.

Why only the first 10, and why $149?

$149 is a pilot price while we learn what this really costs us to do well. Ten orders is enough to learn that. There's no countdown — after ten, the price gets reviewed.

Where do you work?

Northstar is based in Payson, Arizona, but Express isn't limited to Arizona. Everything happens through a form and a link, so it works just as well for a business in another state.

Optional, after it's live

Want us to keep handling it?

Northstar Care is for owners who'd rather not deal with the website once it's built.

It's offered once, at the end of the intake form, after you've paid for Express. Skip it and nothing changes: the website is yours either way.

$19a monthOptional

  • Help pointing your domain at your website
  • Up to 6 small changes every 12 months, like new hours or a new photo
  • If something on the site we built stops working, we fix it
  • You never have to learn how to edit a website

Anything bigger than a small change is quoted separately, like a redesign, a new page, an online store, a booking system or custom software. Care doesn't include running ads, and it can't promise search rankings. You buy and own your domain. Care helps you connect it; it doesn't buy or renew it.

Ready when you are

Send the mess.
Get the website.

The form opens right after you pay. Have your logo and a few photos handy.

$149one paymentfirst 10 Express customers

$149First 10 customers

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