The reality of local search
Most business owners already sense that their website, or the Facebook page standing in for one, is not carrying its weight. The work is good and the reputation is earned, yet the phone rings less than it should.
The reason is simple. Customers across Santa Clara County no longer drive around to compare businesses. They search on a phone, type "plumber near me" or "best tacos downtown," and choose from the first results they see. A business that does not appear, or appears outdated, is out of the running before the comparison even begins.
The jobs you never hear about
You hear about the customers who called and went with someone else. You never hear about the ones who did not call at all. They searched for what you do, scanned the first few results, opened the two that looked current, and never learned your business existed.
That is what makes an outdated website expensive. It never shows up as a lost job. No missed call, no voicemail, nothing to point at when the month comes up short. The work goes to a competitor instead, and a quiet stretch reads like a slow season rather than something you can fix.
It happens here all year. On an ordinary Tuesday, when someone in Gilroy needs your trade and searches for it from the front seat of their truck. Through harvest, and on festival weekends, when the valley fills with visitors who have never heard of a single business in town and pick one off a phone screen. It is the same decision every time, and it is made before anyone ever speaks to you.
What a professional website corrects
You are found at the decisive moment
A site built to load quickly on a phone and rank for "near me" searches means that when someone in Gilroy, Hollister, or Morgan Hill needs what you do, today, you are the business they find. Not the competitor with the larger ad budget. The one whose site actually works.
You establish trust in seconds
People decide whether to trust a business almost instantly. A clean, professional site with your hours, your work, and a clear way to reach you accomplishes more in ten seconds than a sales conversation does in ten minutes. A Facebook page cannot do that, and an outdated site actively works against you.
You compete on the quality of your work
Many owners in this valley do better work than the competitor winning more calls. The difference is rarely the work itself. It is that the other business's website presents it as the safer choice. Correct the website, and the playing field becomes fair again.
Review the craft before spending anything
These are our demonstration builds: three practice companies from three different industries, each woven in three complete styles, all live right now. Choose the industry closest to yours, then click through the builds the way your customers would. The page you are reading was built the same way.
Showing Contour Civil & Survey, a fictional civil engineering and land surveying practice.
The CinematicA film that plays as you scroll. For brands that want the full experience.
The BalancedVideo above, effortless scrolling below. The best of both.
The Clean & SimpleFast, clear, phone-first. Nothing to figure out.
In full transparency: the companies shown in these demonstrations are fictional, created to display the work. Your site receives the same craft with your real business on it.
These three styles are a starting point, not a menu. Your build gets designed around your business rather than picked off a shelf, and anything you want added, a booking form, a gallery, a menu, a service area map, gets added. If you have seen something you like somewhere else, bring it and we will build it.
Prefer to see the full film? This same page as the cinematic cut, the top-tier build, scroll-driven.
Client results
The first client results will appear here soon. Loomwest is new, and this page does not publish fabricated testimonials. As the first Gilroy, Hollister, and Morgan Hill projects go live, this space will carry the real before-and-afters and the owners' own words. If you would like to be among them, the Report Card below is where every project starts.
The process, step by step
There is no agency to hire and nothing technical to figure out yourself. This is the path, and you may stop at any step if that is all you need right now.
Free Website Report Card $0
Send your current site, Facebook page, or simply your business name. You receive a plain-English assessment of what is costing you customers right now: slow load times, missing hours, no mobile view, whatever it may be. No cost, no obligation, no sales call.
Homepage mockup, in 48 hours $49
To see what a real homepage would look like for your business before committing to anything, $49 delivers a fully designed mockup within two days. If you proceed with a full site, that $49 is credited against the price. You never pay for the same work twice.
One-page site, live in 3 days $250
One page, one scroll, no menu to navigate. Everything a smaller business needs lives on it: what you do, the work itself, your hours, and a direct way to reach you. This is the right pick if you offer one main service, or if you mostly need to be found and look credible without much to explain. Same build quality and the same local-search groundwork as the full site. If you outgrow it later, the $250 comes off the five-page build.
Five-page site, live in 7 days $500
Five separate pages with a menu across the top: home, about, services, contact, and one more suited to what you do. The difference from the one-page build is room. Each service gets its own page to be explained properly and to rank for its own searches, which is what matters if you do several different jobs or serve several different towns. This is the one most businesses should buy.
Care Plan $59/month
Once your site is live, it needs to stay updated, backed up, and running. The care plan covers all of it. No contract, and you may cancel whenever it stops making sense for you.
Local ads, built and managed pricing on request
Once your site converts, ads pour more of the right people into it. Google and Meta campaigns built and run for your service area, plus a monthly report in plain English: what went out, what came back, and what changes next. Ads are only offered after your site is live, because sending paid traffic to a page that does not convert is the fastest way to burn a budget.
Built the way the good sites are built.
My name is Andre Costa and I came to this from engineering. My days are survey work around Gilroy and drafting septic and civil plans in AutoCAD, and after more than two years of it a habit sets in: a line in the wrong place is not a matter of taste, it is a failed inspection and a redesign. Every build here is held to that same standard.
The web side I taught myself, nights and weekends, and what pushed me into it is simple. There are businesses in this valley I genuinely love, doing better work than the competitors who outrank them, quietly losing customers to a search result. Around a dozen builds later the method is settled: pages get measured before they get decorated, and anything that does not move a visitor closer to calling you gets drawn out.
Modern tooling helps me move fast, and I use it, but it is not what makes the work good. The judgement is mine and the build is mine. The person who takes your measurements is the person who answers the phone.
- Hand-built. No templates, no page builders, no drag-and-drop.
- Fixed price, fixed timeline, live in seven days.
- Built to load in under a second on a phone.
- Your design, not a preset. The three styles below are a starting point, not a menu.
Drag to turn it · click to send the top layer under · CONTENT on top
- FIRST PAINT—ms
- PAGE HTML—KB
- REQUESTS—files
- ELEMENTS—on page
What this actually costs
A one-page site is $250 and a five-page site is $500. Compare either with the value of a single lost job, or with what an agency charges to deliver the same result over three months instead of seven days. There is no retainer, no discovery call, and no drawn-out agency process. There is a fixed price, a fixed timeline, and a finished website at the end of it.
The structure removes your risk. If you begin with the $49 mockup and decide a full site is not right for you at this time, you keep a professionally designed homepage for $49. Nothing more. No pressure to continue.
If you do proceed, that $49 is credited directly toward whichever build you choose. Start on one page and move up later, and the $250 comes off the $500 as well. You never pay for the same work twice.
The care plan carries no contract: no cancellation fee, no fine print, no retention calls. If it stops being worth $59 a month to you, you stop paying it.
The only genuine risk is inaction, while the next festival weekend, or simply next Tuesday, sends another customer to whichever business appears first.
Straight answers
Who builds the site?
Loomwest is run by one technical designer based in Gilroy, who is your single point of contact from Report Card to launch. Modern tooling keeps the build fast, which is why a five-page site takes seven days and $500 rather than three months and several thousand dollars. The design decisions are made by hand.
What if I already have a website?
The Report Card will tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping. If your site passes, you will hear that as well, and no further sale is attempted. A surprising number of businesses with existing sites fail the basic load-on-a-phone test.
What is needed from me?
An hour of your time in total: your services, your hours, your photos if you have them, and what sets your business apart. Everything else is handled for you, including the writing.
Do I own the site?
Yes. Your domain, your site, your content. The care plan keeps it healthy, but if you ever leave, the site goes with you.
Why is this priced below agency rates?
No office, no account managers, no six-person meetings. One local builder with modern tools and a fixed process. The price reflects low overhead, not thin work.
See what your customers see. It takes five minutes and costs nothing.
Email your business name and you will receive your Website Report Card within one business day. No pitch, no obligation, no mailing list you did not request.
Request Your Free Report CardPrefer a call? Include your number in the email and your technical designer calls you back the same business day.