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About Graphcast Web Design
A Web Design Partner for Small Businesses
Graphcast Web Design is a small Houston-based studio that builds fast, honest websites for the businesses that keep towns running — trades, shops, restaurants, nurseries, and people opening their first location, wherever they are in the U.S.
Who builds the websites
Graphcast Web Design is run by Ali B., a Houston-based software developer. There is no bench of subcontractors behind that sentence. When this site promises direct access to the person building your website, it means one specific person, and this is them.
The background is product engineering, not marketing. Over a decade of shipping .NET, React and Flutter software came before Graphcast, and two of those products are still running today: QuoteSpan, the instant quote forms contractors embed on their sites, and TurboBudget, a budgeting app with bank sync and an AI assistant. Both are Graphcast-owned, and both are labelled as such in the portfolio.
That background is the reason a small-business site from Graphcast is built the way it is: pre-rendered, measured with real tooling, and shipped with the same habits as software that has to stay up. A five-page site for a fence company gets the same engineering discipline as an app that touches someone's bank account.
Houston is home, and the first client sites reflect it — a nursery in Tomball, a fence crew in Cypress and Spring. The work itself is remote: discovery calls, design walkthroughs and launch all happen by phone and video, so a business in Ohio gets exactly the same process as one down the road.
- Over a decade shipping production software — .NET, React and Flutter — before Graphcast existed.
- Builds and runs two products end to end: QuoteSpan, instant quote forms for contractors, and TurboBudget, a budgeting app with bank sync and an AI assistant.
- Works with trades, shops, restaurants, nurseries and new businesses opening their first location, across the U.S.
How Graphcast works, and why
The price goes on the website
Every plan price is published: $0 upfront, from $119/month (launch price for 12 months, then $199) with a 12-month minimum, and one-time builds for owners who prefer to buy outright. If a studio will not tell you what something costs until they have your phone number, the number is not the same for everyone. Ours is.
You talk to the developer
No account manager, no discovery workshop, no handoff to an offshore team you never meet. The person who answers the phone is the person writing the code, which is also why the reply is usually the same day.
Static beats a page builder
These sites ship as pre-rendered HTML with almost no JavaScript. That is why they load in under a second on a phone in a parking lot, and why there is no plugin stack to break at 2am.
Your business stays yours
Your domain, branding, content, copy, leads and analytics are always yours, on every plan — no domain-transfer fee, no exit fee after the minimum term. On a subscription, Graphcast owns the design and code and you can buy it out. Buy outright instead and you own all of it on final payment.
The full sequence — first call, scope, content, design, build, revisions, testing, launch, training, support — is written out on the process page, along with what causes delays and what we need from you.
Who Graphcast works with
Small businesses where the website has one job: turn a search into a phone call or a quote request. Contractors and trades, restaurants and shops, nurseries and garden centers, service businesses, and new businesses opening their first location. If you need a 40-page corporate site with a content team behind it, we are honestly not the right studio, and we will say so on the first call.
Graphcast Web Design works with small businesses anywhere in the United States. Everything runs remotely — calls, video walkthroughs, email — so where you are makes no difference to the process or the price. We are based in Houston, and businesses in Greater Houston (Conroe, Cypress, Galveston, Katy, Pasadena, Richmond, Spring, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Tomball and nearby) can also meet in person by appointment.
Talk to the person who builds it
Tell us about your business and we'll design a personalized homepage design concept, delivered as a private link, usually within 3 business days. If you love it, we build the whole site free, and a monthly plan keeps it hosted, supported and up to date.
- Free design and build, no setup fee
- Hosting, support, edits and updates from $119/month/mo (40% off your first 12 months)
- No obligation — the preview is yours to judge
12-month minimum agreement on subscription plans.
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Serving small businesses across the U.S. · Based in Houston, Texas
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