Questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Everything people ask before hiring chadworks, grouped so you can jump to what you came for: working together, what it costs, how the site gets built, and getting found in search and AI.
01
Working together
What it's actually like to hire chadworks, before you send the first email.
Chad Lewine, the person you email. There is no team behind a curtain and no account manager translating your notes to someone offshore. The same person who answers the first message designs the site and writes the code, which is the whole point of hiring one experienced builder instead of an agency.
Yes. The work is remote, and clients sit across the country and beyond, from Brooklyn to North Alabama. chadworks is based in Pennsylvania, but where you are has never decided whether the work fits.
It depends on the scope, and you get a real timeline with your quote rather than a guess here. A focused site moves faster than a full build with deep structure and visibility work. What does not change is that you stay in the loop the whole way, with no long silences where you wonder what is happening.
A conversation. Tell me the business, what you want the site to do, and where it is stuck today. From there you get a straight answer on whether it is a fit and what it would take. The contact page is the fastest way to start.
02
What it costs
The money questions, answered the same way they are on the rates page: plainly.
Work bills at $315 an hour. The smallest engagement is $3,200, and most websites land near $6,200. Those are the real numbers, scoped to what you actually want before any work begins. The rates page lays out the full breakdown, with the math showing.
Deliberately. The rate reflects twenty years of doing this and a result you can point to, not a number set to undercut the next bid. If the lowest price is the thing that decides it, there are cheaper builders who will be glad to help, and that is an honest answer rather than a sales dodge.
Only if you want one. WordPress maintenance runs $550 every 6 months for clients who want the site cared for: updates, backups, and a human watching for quiet breakage. A custom-coded static site needs far less upkeep, which is part of why it costs less to own over the years.
Monthly website financing is not something chadworks offers anymore. Projects are typically split into milestones instead, so you pay against work that has been delivered rather than all at once up front.
03
How the site gets built
The build choices behind the site, and what stays yours when it ships.
It depends on who needs to edit the site and how much it changes. A custom-coded static site is the fastest and most durable route. WordPress makes sense when a non-technical team needs to publish often. You get a straight recommendation for your situation, not a default pushed on everyone.
Completely, from day one. Code, hosting, domain, and every account are in your name. Nothing is held hostage and there is no platform lock-in designed to keep you paying. If you ever move on, you take all of it with you.
That is the priority, not an afterthought. A custom-coded static build is the fastest route there is, and chadworks.co is one of them, doing its own job in public. Speed is also a visibility advantage now, because clean, fast pages are easier for both search engines and AI assistants to read.
Yes, and a common reason people reach out. Moving to a clean, custom build is usually faster and easier for AI tools to read. On WordPress and want off? The leave WordPress page walks through exactly what the move looks like.
04
Getting found in search and AI
How a business shows up in Google, in AI assistants, and in the answers people actually read.
It is the work chadworks leads with, and there is real precedent for it. A Pennsylvania criminal-defense firm now appears in Google's AI Overview for its practice area, and a Brooklyn psychologist is named by AI assistants in his market. The AI visibility page lays out the full approach.
No. Classic SEO is the foundation that AI visibility is built on, because the assistants pull from the same search index and the same structured pages. A site that ranks on page one is a site the AI answers are more likely to cite. The two reinforce each other rather than replace each other.
A one-time, documented read on where a business stands in AI answers, classic search, structured data, and its profiles, scored so you can see exactly what is working and what is not. It comes as a flat quote with no retainer inside. The AI visibility audit page shows what gets checked.
chadworks has access to OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising beta and can set it up and manage it. The honest part: OpenAI requires a minimum spend of $25 a day, billed by OpenAI directly, on top of the management. Whether it is worth it depends on the business, and the digital marketing page gives you a straight read.
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