How much does a website cost?

Custom websites are fixed-price: $1,500 (Starter, up to 5 pages), $2,500 (Pro, with a CMS and Stripe), or $4,500+ (Scale, a full app with accounts, database, and admin). You see a live preview before you pay a dollar, and the price is quoted up front — no hourly billing.

Do you do SEO and Google Maps?

Yes. Our Local SEO + Google Maps service gets you showing up when customers search “[your trade] near me” — a full Google Business Profile build-out, local schema, posts, and a review flow. It's $199 to set up plus $149/mo, with the first month free.

What is the AI receptionist, and can I try it?

It's a bilingual (English/Spanish) AI voice agent that answers every call 24/7, books appointments, qualifies leads, and texts you the details — so you never lose a job to voicemail. It starts at $500 setup + $297/mo. You can call our live demo line and talk to it yourself: (760) 546-9189.

How long does a project take?

Most websites launch in 5–14 days depending on tier — Starter in about 5–7 days, Pro in 7–10, and full app builds in 10–14. Local SEO, the AI receptionist, and ongoing services go live within a few days of kickoff.

Do you build mobile apps and custom software?

Yes — native iOS and Android apps built and shipped to the App Store and Google Play, plus full-stack web apps and SaaS with authentication, dashboards, and Stripe billing. Custom builds are quoted per project.

Where are you located, and who do you work with?

Circuit Coders is a San Diego studio serving the whole county — North County (Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, San Marcos, Escondido) out to the coast and inland — working with local service businesses like contractors, auto and collision shops, detailers, barbers, and more, as well as clients nationwide.

Are these real custom sites or templates?

Every site is custom-built from scratch — not Wix, not Squarespace, not a theme. You get an admin dashboard to manage your own content, and you own the result. We design each build around your brand and the way your customers actually buy.

What does it cost to maintain a site after launch?

Optional. A $199/mo maintenance retainer covers hosting, security updates, backups, and a couple hours of content or layout edits each month. There's no lock-in — you can also take the site and run it yourself.

How many calls does the average small business miss?

Around 62% of calls to small businesses go unanswered, and about 85% of callers who hit voicemail never call back. For a shop getting 20 calls a week, that's roughly 12 jobs at risk.

How much does a missed call actually cost my business?

Multiply your average job value by the bookable calls you miss. A San Marcos plumber at $350 a call-out missing 2 bookable calls a week is losing about $36,400 a year.

Is an answering service worth it for a small business?

Human answering services run $250–$400 a month and mostly just take messages. A missed-call text-back plus after-hours AI answering, built once as a $200–$500 add-on to a $499 site, usually recovers more jobs for far less.

Does answering more calls help my Google Maps ranking?

Not directly — but the same Google Business Profile work that drives those calls (categories, reviews, citations, schema) typically moves map-pack rankings in 60–90 days, and answering is what turns the ranking into revenue.

How Many Jobs Missed Calls Are Costing Your Business

The Call You Missed Went to the Next Shop on the List

You're under a sink in Vista or halfway through a ceramic coat in Fallbrook and the phone rings. You let it go to voicemail because you're working — which is exactly the problem. That caller found you on Google Maps, waited four rings, and tapped the next listing.

The industry numbers are ugly: roughly 62% of calls to small businesses go unanswered, and about 85% of people who hit voicemail never call back. They don't leave a message. They book with whoever picks up.

In North County, that competitor is never far. Search 'mobile detailing Oceanside' or 'plumber San Marcos' and the map pack hands the caller three businesses side by side. If you're #1 and don't answer, #2 gets the job — your ranking did the marketing and someone else cashed the check.

Do the Actual Math on Your Own Phone

Pull up your call log from last week. Count the missed calls from numbers you don't recognize during business hours. That's not an inconvenience — that's your leak, and it has a dollar figure.

For a detailing shop charging $150–$250 a job: miss 10 calls a week, and if even 3 of those would have booked at $200 average, that's $600 a week. Run it out and you're at $31,200 a year walking to the next listing while you were busy doing the work that was supposed to pay you.

It gets worse the bigger your ticket is. Trades and service businesses with $300+ call-outs are bleeding a used truck's worth of revenue every year, one unanswered ring at a time.

Mobile detailer (Fallbrook/Bonsall): $150–$250 per job, 3 missed bookings a week ≈ $31,000/year
Plumber (San Marcos): $350 average call-out, 2 missed bookable calls a week ≈ $36,400/year
HVAC (Carlsbad): $450 average repair, 2 missed a week ≈ $46,800/year
Dog groomer (Vista): $85 a groom, but grooming is repeat business — one missed new client is $1,000+ in lifetime revenue
Restaurant (Oceanside): a missed reservation call at 5pm Friday is a four-top you never see and never count

You probably don't have a marketing problem. You have an answering problem.

Fix It This Week: A Phone That Answers Itself

You can't answer while you're elbow-deep in a job, and you shouldn't hire a $20/hour person to sit by the phone. The fix is plumbing: every missed call gets an instant, automatic response that keeps the caller from moving down the list.

The single highest-ROI move is missed-call text-back. The caller hangs up, and within seconds they get a text: 'This is Leo at Circuit Detailing — on a job right now. Text me what you need or grab a slot here.' That one message recovers callers who would never have left a voicemail, because texting back takes them zero effort.

Missed-call text-back: instant automatic text with your name and a booking link — recovers a big chunk of callers who'd otherwise dial the next shop
A booking link that works on a phone: tap, pick a slot, done — not a form with 11 fields
After-hours answering: an AI receptionist that picks up at 8pm, answers your top 10 questions, and books the job while you're at dinner
A 10-second voicemail: your name, when you call back, and 'I just texted you a booking link' — then actually text it
Google Business Profile call history turned on, so you can see exactly which Maps calls you missed and when they cluster

What to Cut

Half the 'solutions' sold to small businesses make the missed-call problem worse. They add friction for the 30 seconds a caller is willing to give you, and the caller responds by leaving.

Be honest about what your customer actually wants: a human or a booked appointment, fast. Anything standing between the ring and one of those two outcomes is costing you jobs.

The four-option phone tree. You're a two-person shop, not Kaiser.
The 'your call is very important to us' greeting. It's 25 seconds of nothing, and they hung up at second 8.
The website chatbot. For a detailing shop, a chatbot is a tax on real customers — they wanted your number, not a conversation with a widget.
The $300/mo answering service that reads a script, mangles the address, and texts you the message an hour after the caller booked elsewhere.
A contact form as your only fallback. 'We'll respond within 1–2 business days' is a joke to someone with a burst pipe.

Every second between the missed ring and your response is a second the caller spends looking at your competitor's listing.

Your Maps Ranking and Your Missed Calls Are the Same Problem

Almost every call worth answering starts as a '[service] + [city]' search — 'electrician Vista,' 'dog groomer Fallbrook,' 'auto glass Oceanside.' Your Google Business Profile is the faucet, and the phone is where the water comes out. Fixing one without the other is pointless: ranking #1 and missing calls is paying for leads and shredding them.

So do both jobs at once. The same 60–90 days it takes to move in the map pack is plenty of time to get your answering stack in place, so the new calls actually convert when they arrive.

Complete Google Business Profile: right primary category, real hours, photos from actual jobs — not stock
One phone number everywhere: site, GBP, Yelp, Nextdoor. Random call-tracking numbers that break NAP consistency cost you rankings.
LocalBusiness schema.org on your site with telephone, address, and areaServed for every city you cover — Fallbrook, Bonsall, Pala, wherever you actually drive
A page per city for '[service] + [city]' searches: 'pool service Bonsall' should land on a Bonsall page, not your homepage
Reviews that mention the city and the service — ask every happy customer, reply to every single one

What This Costs: Market Rates vs. $499 Flat

Here's what the market charges to solve this. Human answering services run $250–$400 a month — $3,000–$4,800 a year — to take messages. AI receptionist SaaS platforms run $99–$500 a month. And most local agencies want $3,000–$8,000 for the website before any of that even starts, on a 4–8 week timeline.

Circuit Coders does it differently: $499 flat for a custom Next.js site on Vercel, live in 48 hours, one round of revisions included. Missed-call text-back, booking, or Stripe integrations get quoted as $200–$500 one-time add-ons — not a monthly ransom. Hosting and updates are optional at $50/mo.

Run that against the math from earlier. One recovered plumbing call-out at $350 covers most of the build. One recovered week of detailing jobs covers the whole thing with money left over.

Find Out What You're Actually Missing

Most owners guess they miss 'a couple calls a week.' Then they turn on GBP call history and find out it's 10–15, clustered exactly when they're on jobs — because that's when customers need them. You can't fix a leak you haven't measured.

So measure it. Send us your business name and we'll audit your missed-call exposure and your Maps presence for free, and build a free mockup of what your site should look like. No deposit, no call required, no obligation.

Free missed-call and Maps audit, plus a free mockup first. If you like it: $499 flat, live in 48 hours. If you don't, you owe nothing.