Before you reach out

Are We A Good Fit?

chadworks is for you if:

  • You want what you want, and you'd rather pay to have it built right than negotiate it down to almost right.
  • You see your project as an integral part of your initiative, not just the brochure for it.
  • You're building something you intend to keep for a long time.

Probably not if:

  • You're on a strict, low budget. In the Venn diagram of good, fast, and cheap, I'm fast and good.
  • You want a template with your logo dropped in. Plenty of builders do that, but I'm not one of them.
  • You're building this as a hobby, not a business, product or organization.

Every site is starting to look the same

More websites are being made right now than at any point in history, and they are all converging on one layout. The same hero image, the same row of cards, the same photograph of a team that does not work there, the same sentence about passion and excellence. A lot of this is auto-generated by AI, which is exactly why the converging is speeding up: the tools learn from the average of everything already published, so the average is what they hand back.

I am not against the tools. I use them every day, and they changed what one person can finish in an afternoon. What I don't do is leave the taste to the tools. Something trained on the middle of the road will give you the middle of the road, confidently, and it will look finished enough that you might not know what you're leaving on the table: distinguished design.

We are a good fit if you believe there's more to the web than social media.

Many businesses rent their digital presence via social media. The audience is owned by the platform, not the business. The audience is reachable only via an algorithm that isn't published, and requires adherence to a system akin to that of a lottery or slot machine. A feed is a place you pass through, and it is built to be exactly that. What I build instead are digital destinations, somewhere worth going to on purpose, that belongs to you, that you control entirely: the system and the audience.

The decision to build your own sovereign property off-social media, off YouTube—off any centralized platform carries weight, and financial requirements. The starting price for any chadworks project is $3,200 but easily cracks $5,000 and $10,000. See my website package calculator for more info on scoping your project.

If what you want is a placeholder to point a bio link at, my rates are too high and you should not pay them. If what you want is a wholly owned digital destination that attracts and maintains an audience or presents your product or service in a distinguishable manner, we are a good fit.

The kind of digital destination I mean.

The first one is this website you are reading. I built it page by page to convey my vision for chadworks. Have you seen any other web design website that looks like this? It's unlikely. If you have, please send it to me.

None of these started as something anybody could have bought off a shelf. Each one started as somebody describing a thing that did not exist yet, and the build worked backward from there. If you have that idea, whether it's for your business, your community or the globe, I want to work with you.

Tell me about your project.

Send me a message about your business, project or initiative. There are no dumb ideas and no stupid questions. Tell me your vision, big or small.

Based in Greater Philadelphia, PA.