Mobile-first sites built from scratch for Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park businesses. Custom-coded, not a template or a drag-and-drop builder. Lighthouse 90+ on launch, with pricing shown below.
Raleigh ranks #4 among U.S. metros for small-business growth. The buyers expect software that loads like it.
Why custom beats a template for a Triangle business
A WordPress theme costs $80 and takes a weekend. The reason people stop using it is not aesthetic. It is performance, plugins, and the slow accumulation of debt every theme creates. By year two, the site is bloated, slow on mobile, and one plugin update away from a white screen.
Custom static-first sites ship in similar timelines, run twice as fast on mobile, and scale predictably. There are fewer moving parts, and the code is yours. Hosting, SSL, backups, and monitoring are bundled into the retainer, instead of the plugin, theme, and security renewals that stack up on managed WordPress hosts like WP Engine or Kinsta.
The Triangle adds a second reason. Raleigh ranks #4 among U.S. metros for small-business growth, with 76,570 tech workers across Raleigh and Durham and an Apple campus headed for RTP. RTP and Glenwood South B2B SaaS founders spend their day inside software built by serious engineers; a template marketing site reads as a tell the moment a prospect compares it to the tools they use at work. Restaurants competing on the Five Points and Village District corridors face the same problem from a different angle: the reservation flow and menu speed are the first thing a diner judges, before the food.
Industries we build for in the Triangle
Home Services
Roofing, HVAC, plumbing, landscape across North Raleigh, Wake Forest, Cary, Apex.
Restaurants & Hospitality
Five Points, Cameron Village, Waverly Place, Brightleaf menu and reservation sites.
Professional Services
Triangle Bar Association firms, medical and dental practices, financial advisors.
B2B SaaS & Tech
RTP and Glenwood South product marketing sites, headless React builds.
UNC, Duke, and NCSU-adjacent programs, foundations, donor flows.
Six steps from first call to launch and care
Discovery
Free 30-minute call over video. We learn your business, audit the existing site, and write a one-page brief.
Strategy & Scope
Sitemap, content outline, design direction, and a fixed price quote with timeline. You see the brief before any design starts.
Design
Figma mockups for the home and 2 to 4 key pages. You review on a shared link. Two rounds of revisions before moving to build.
Build
Weekly demos on a staging URL. Animations, integrations, and content go in here, and you review it as it is built.
QA & Launch
Mobile testing, Lighthouse, schema validation, redirect mapping. Anything that breaks is caught on staging before launch.
Care
Managed hosting and a maintenance retainer. We monitor, update, and improve the site after go-live.
Build plus retainer
Every engagement is a one-time build plus a month-to-month retainer, quoted as two line items. These are the same Anchor, Growth, and Scale tiers as the main pricing page, cancel anytime with 30 days notice.
ANCHOR
$1,500per month
plus $5,000 to $7,500 one-time build
For a single-location service business that needs a site that works and someone watching it.
8 pages, custom-designed and mobile-first
Passes Core Web Vitals at launch
Lead capture wired into your CRM
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, uptime alerts
30 minutes of content updates every month
1-hour response on production outages
GROWTH
Recommended
$3,200per month
plus $7,500 to $15,000 one-time build
For a multi-location or growing business that wants search rankings and traffic climbing month over month.
Everything in Anchor
16 pages plus the local SEO foundation
15 to 20 keywords tracked weekly
Geo-grid map scans every month
1 to 2 pages optimized every month
AI search visibility checked monthly
Quarterly strategy call
SCALE
$6,500per month
plus $15,000+ one-time build
For a $1M+ revenue business that wants a marketing department: ads, automation, dashboards, and strategy.
Everything in Growth
30 pages plus CRM and automation setup
Meta and Google Ads management
Custom dashboard, new widgets quarterly
Monthly strategy call and quarterly business review
The questions Triangle prospects ask before the first call.
How much does a website cost?
Pricing is the same and matches the main pricing page: a one-time build plus a month-to-month retainer, quoted as two line items. Anchor is a $5,000 to $7,500 build with a $1,500 monthly retainer. Growth is a $7,500 to $15,000 build with $3,200 a month. Scale is a $15,000 and up build with $6,500 a month. Retainers are month to month, cancel anytime with 30 days notice. Most Triangle web-design agencies hide their numbers; these are on the pricing page.
You're in Florida. How does a Triangle project work?
Aegis runs from Jupiter, Florida and serves the Triangle remotely. Discovery is over video, the build happens on a shared staging URL, and you get one senior contact from kickoff through launch. The Triangle line is (919) 791-7062.
How long does a website project take?
Single-page sites ship in 2 to 3 weeks. Multi-page builds ship in 4 to 8 weeks. Larger builds with custom integrations run 8 to 14 weeks. Every engagement has a written timeline with weekly demos.
Do you build on WordPress, Shopify, or custom code?
Mostly custom static-first builds for marketing sites, hosted on a global edge platform. Shopify when the client needs the storefront. WordPress only on legacy retainers. Most Triangle agencies default to WordPress because the team is staffed for it; we default to React or Astro because it loads faster and ages better.
Will my site be mobile-friendly and pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes. Mobile-first is the default starting point. Every site ships with a Lighthouse score of 90+ across all four audit categories before go-live. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are part of the launch checklist.
Do you do SEO during the build?
Yes. Schema markup, meta tags, sitemap, robots.txt, semantic HTML, and image alt text are baked in. Local schema is configured for the primary Triangle service area at launch. Ongoing SEO is the retainer, covered under NC Triangle Local SEO.
Do you offer hosting and ongoing maintenance?
Yes, both are part of the monthly retainer. Managed hosting on a global edge platform with 99.9% uptime, SSL, daily backups, and uptime monitoring is included, along with content updates, security patches, and small feature additions. Retainer pricing is on the pricing page.
Can you redesign my existing Triangle business site?
Yes. About 60% of work is redesigns, not greenfield builds. Redesigns include a content audit, redirect map (so existing search rankings hold), and a parallel staging environment so the live site stays up until launch. Most Triangle redesign requests land around year three of a WordPress site, when plugin debt has caught up with page speed.
Do you work with specific Triangle industries?
Most clients are home services, restaurants and hospitality, professional services (legal, medical, financial), B2B SaaS and tech, real estate, and education-adjacent nonprofits. The build process is the same across verticals; industry shows up in content strategy and integrations.
Anchor, Growth, and Scale pricing is a one-time build plus a monthly retainer, laid out in full on the pricing page. Triangle businesses get the (919) 791-7062 line.
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