How long does a website take to build?

Day one is a call and a quote. Fifteen minutes on the phone, then one number and one date in writing, usually the same day. Nothing starts before you have both.

Days two through six are the build. You get a live preview link from the first day of work, so you are watching it fill in rather than waiting for a reveal at the end. That is deliberate. Changing your mind on day two is free, and changing it after launch is not.

The last day is hand off. Deployed, connected, and everything put in your name.

Anything that has to remember things. A customer portal, a login, a booking system that holds appointments, an internal tool that tracks jobs. Those need a database behind them and they run longer than a site that just has to say who you are and get you called.

Automations and AI answering depend on what they have to connect to. Two tools talking to each other is quick. Six tools with one of them being something nobody has built against before is not.

The other one nobody likes hearing: waiting on you. If I need photos, copy or a logo and they take a week to arrive, the build takes a week longer. I will tell you upfront exactly what I need from you and when.

Most of those months are not spent building. They are discovery calls, a deck, a designer mocking it up, a round of notes, another round, then the build getting handed to whoever is free that sprint, then every change going through a project manager.

I build with AI, which collapses the part that was always slow: the typing. The judgement is still mine and the testing is still mine. That is the whole reason one person can quote days for work that used to need a room.

You get a fixed date before anything starts, and it does not move because something took me longer than I thought. If I underestimate the job, that is my problem, not your invoice.