Websites & phone tools for local business

I build your website first. Then I show you.

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

Built for

CafésSalonsPlumbersElectricians MechanicsPhysiosDentists
The usual story

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.

How it works

Three steps — most of the work is mine

1

I find the gap

No website, a site that struggles on a phone, calls going unanswered, no way to book online — whatever's costing you work.

2

I build a starting point

A real, working version from your public details. Not a mock-up — an actual site you can click around.

3

You decide

Like it? We finish it properly with your words and photos, usually in a few days. Don't? Nothing owed.

What you get

Everything that's in a website build

No surprises, no line-item add-ons. Every site includes all of it.

A few looks

Built to fit your trade

Same solid structure underneath, styled to suit — a café shouldn't look like a law firm.

Why bother

Why not just leave it?

Fair question. Here's the honest comparison.

Leave it as is

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.

Hire a big agency

$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.

Local Engine

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.

Pricing

Plain numbers, no games

Pick one or take the lot. Prices are ex-GST, month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice.

Website $490once, then $39/month · or $390/year

Website + Google Business Profile. Everything in the list above — I build it, host it, back it up and keep it updated.

Phone $99per month

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.

Phone $249per month

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.

Everything $349per month · no setup fee

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.

Why Local Engine

You deal with me, not a call centre

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.

Questions

The ones people actually ask

What if I already have a website?

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.

Do I own it?

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.

What's the catch with the free preview?

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.

Is it locked in?

No. Everything's month to month with 30 days' notice to cancel. No exit fees.

Where are you based?

Regional New South Wales. I work with businesses right across Australia — most of it's done by email and a phone call or two.

What about GST?

Prices are ex-GST. I'll add GST once the business is registered for it, and tell you in writing before that happens.

How long does a site take?

Usually a few days from when you send me your details and the go-ahead. The phone tools are quicker — mostly a setup call.

Send me your business name

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