Vibrant, fast websites — and tools that stop you missing calls — for small businesses around Australia. You see a real, working version of your site before we ever have a sales conversation.
Free to look · no lock-in · you own everything
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A lot of good local businesses are quietly losing work — a website that looks rough on a phone, or calls going to voicemail while you're on a job. Usually it's not that the owner doesn't care.
It's that fixing it means finding a "web person", explaining everything twice, chasing quotes, and hoping they don't disappear halfway through. Local Engine is the opposite of that: I do the first version myself, off your public details, and send it over. If it's useful, we keep going. If not, you've lost nothing.
No website, a site that struggles on a phone, calls going unanswered, no way to book online — whatever's costing you work.
A real, working version from your public details. Not a mock-up — an actual site you can click around.
Like it? We finish it properly with your words and photos, usually in a few days. Don't? Nothing owed.
No surprises, no line-item add-ons. Every site includes all of it.
Same solid structure underneath, styled to suit — a café shouldn't look like a law firm.
Want to see a full one? Open the worked example →
Fair question. Here's the honest comparison.
Most people check a business online before they call. A missing or rough site quietly sends them to whoever's next on the list — you never hear about the job you lost.
$5,000–15,000, months of meetings and revisions, and you're a small account they'll get to eventually. Overkill for a local business.
A clean site in a few days, built before you pay a cent, from $490 + $39/mo. One person who picks up the phone. Cancel any time.
Pick one or take the lot. Prices are ex-GST, month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice.
Website + Google Business Profile. Everything in the list above — I build it, host it, back it up and keep it updated.
Missed-call text-back. When you can't pick up, the caller gets an instant text so the job doesn't go to the next name on the list.
AI receptionist. Answers the calls you'd otherwise miss, takes the details, texts them to you. Callers are told up front they're speaking with an assistant.
All three, bundled. Website, text-back and receptionist together — the full setup for a business that wants to stop losing work.
You own your site, your domain and your content. If you ever leave, you take it with you.
I'm Jack — a sole trader in regional New South Wales, ABN 76 168 039 369. Local Engine is one person doing the work: straight answers, a real phone number, and nobody between you and the person building your site.
Small on purpose. I'd rather do good work for a handful of businesses than rush it for a hundred.
I'll show you a rebuild next to what you've got and you can judge for yourself. Sometimes it's not worth changing — if that's the case, I'll tell you.
Yes. The site, the domain and the content are yours, registered in your name. If you ever leave, you take it with you — nothing is held hostage.
None. I build them to start a conversation. If you like it we go ahead; if you don't, you've lost nothing and I've lost a bit of time.
No. Everything's month to month with 30 days' notice to cancel. No exit fees.
Regional New South Wales. I work with businesses right across Australia — most of it's done by email and a phone call or two.
Prices are ex-GST. I'll add GST once the business is registered for it, and tell you in writing before that happens.
Usually a few days from when you send me your details and the go-ahead. The phone tools are quicker — mostly a setup call.
I'll build a version for you to look at — no charge, no obligation, no sales call unless you want one.
Or just email me: localengine.jack@gmail.com