Why your "beautiful" website isn't selling anything
The five friction points that quietly kill conversions — and how to find them in an afternoon.
STUMKE X° designs, builds, and promotes premium websites for companies that expect their site to sell — not just sit there.
Real businesses, measurable results. Every project ships with a case study.
ICBC-accredited collision shop — full site with services, glass, courtesy car fleet, and a 3-step estimate flow.
Red Seal mechanic shop with animated RPM hero, service booking, and local SEO built around "auto repair Langley BC."
A cinematic dining concept — click through the fully interactive prototype.
Sub-second loads and 95+ Lighthouse scores — because speed converts.
Custom-designed for your brand. Never a template, never generic.
Technical SEO baked into every page from day one.
Landing pages and campaigns built by the same hands convert better.
The average business website takes 5+ seconds to load on mobile. Mine target under one. Press play and watch what your visitors experience.
The same milestones you'll track live in your client portal.
Your business, audience, and goals.
Sitemap, messaging, conversion plan.
Structure before style.
High-fidelity mockups for approval.
Fast, accessible, hand-built.
Devices, browsers, speed, forms.
Go live with tracking in place.
Care plans keep it fast and secure.
Two live sites you can open right now, plus scores you can run yourself in Google PageSpeed Insights.
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[ Awaiting a real quote from the owner of Coast Mechanical — request before launch ]
Landing pages to full e-commerce.
Next.js, TypeScript, hand-built.
Technical + local search visibility.
Managed campaigns with real ROI.
Updates, security, backups.
Fast, monitored, fully managed.
Forms, follow-ups, and workflows.
Identity that carries everywhere.
Tell me about your business and get a fixed written quote — plus honest advice, even if that advice is "you don't need me yet."
Get a free quoteSTUMKE X° is a one-expert studio delivering the quality of a large agency with the accountability of a single craftsman.
I started building websites because I kept watching good businesses lose customers to worse competitors with better websites. Your website should be your hardest-working employee — and most of them are asleep.
I'll be straight with you: STUMKE X° is early. My client list is short and you can see all of it on the portfolio page. What that means for you is simple — you get my full attention, senior-level work, and pricing that reflects a studio still building its reputation rather than coasting on one.
I stay deliberately small. No account managers, no hand-offs, no telephone game — you work directly with the person designing, building, and promoting your site.
Mission: build websites that measurably grow the businesses that own them. Vision: a client roster where every single site pays for itself — and a portal so transparent that "how's my project going?" never needs to be asked.
Live progress, real deadlines, and a full timeline in your client portal.
Every design decision is measured against one question: does it bring you customers?
Hand-built code, tested on real devices, targeting perfect Lighthouse scores.
If you don't need what you're asking for, I'll tell you — before you pay for it.
Your code, your accounts, your content. You're never locked in.
Care plans and reporting keep every site getting faster, not slower.
Hiring a small studio should feel safer than hiring a big one, not riskier. These are in writing on every project.
You get a written quote before work starts, and that number does not change. If I underestimate the job, that's my problem to absorb — not a change order for you.
Your code, your domain, your hosting account, your Google Ads account, your content. Everything is registered in your name from day one. If we ever part ways, you walk away with the whole thing.
Every email, every question, during the project and after it. If I ever miss that window, tell me and the next month of care plan is free.
Every site I build targets a 95+ Google Lighthouse score on mobile. If yours launches below 90 and I can't fix it, you don't pay the final invoice.
Let's talk about what a website built this way could do for your business.
Start a conversationDesign, development, search, advertising, and care — so nothing falls between vendors.
Custom design shaped around your brand and your customer's decision — never a template.
Hand-built with the modern stack trusted by the world's best product companies.
Ranking is engineering plus content. I handle both sides so Google — and customers — find you.
Your site stays fast, secure, and current — without you thinking about it.
Campaigns built by the person who built your website — so ads and landing pages actually work together. Full details, process, and pricing on the dedicated page.
Explore Google Ads →Describe your goal and I'll recommend the smallest project that achieves it.
Ask me anythingMost ad budgets leak money on the landing page, not the campaign. As your web developer and your ads manager, I fix both sides of that equation.
Account structure, audiences, ad copy, and extensions built for your goals.
Target buyers, not browsers — with negative keywords blocking wasted spend.
Calls, forms, and purchases tracked so every dollar is accountable.
Purpose-built pages that match the ad — the biggest ROI lever there is.
Bids, budgets, copy, and targeting tuned continuously against results.
What we spent, what it earned, and what happens next. No jargon.
Drag the slider. Estimates use typical local-service benchmarks — real numbers depend on your industry and market.
Real monthly management fees — separate from your ad spend. Scale is quoted per account.
Agencies that only run ads can't touch your landing pages. Developers who only build sites don't watch your campaigns. I do both — so when a keyword underperforms, I can rewrite the page it lands on the same day. That feedback loop is why my managed accounts convert above industry averages.
Send me read-only access and I'll tell you exactly where the budget is leaking — free.
Request a free auditTwo live client sites you can verify right now, plus a collection of concept websites — each one a fully designed, interactive prototype showing how STUMKE X° adapts to completely different industries.
ICBC-accredited collision shop in Langley — full-service site with online estimates and a courtesy-car fleet showcase.
Red Seal mechanic shop with animated hero, service pages, and local SEO — 4.9★ average across Google and Yelp.
Seasonal, local, unhurried — a modern wood-fire kitchen.
Cinematic wood-fire dining site with an interactive digital menu, dish gallery, and reservation flow.
Curated Fraser Valley listings with agents who answer.
Minimal luxury listings platform with live search filters and an interactive mortgage calculator.
AI workflows that follow up, file, and report — while you build.
Futuristic SaaS site with a runnable workflow animation, live activity feed, and billing toggle.
Full site build for an ICBC-accredited body shop in Langley: services, glass, insurance workflow, courtesy-car fleet, and a three-step online estimate request.
Brothers Autobody is an ICBC-accredited collision shop staffed by Red Seal technicians. The old site didn't reflect the quality of the work happening in the bay — and it made getting an estimate feel like paperwork instead of a two-minute task.
The goal: a site that instantly signals "premium, certified, trustworthy," pulls insurance customers straight into the estimate flow, and stands out from every other body shop in the Fraser Valley.
Deep black and red — the shop's own colours — plus a full-bleed video hero of a Viper on the lift to communicate "we work on serious vehicles" without saying it. Bold display type, section eyebrows, and trust badges up top: ICBC Accredited, Red Seal Certified, Tesla & EV Trusted, Premium Products.
Single-page architecture with anchored sections so the phone number and estimate CTA are one tap away from any point on the site. Hand-built collision, paintwork, dent & scratch, and detailing service cards. A dedicated Glass section covers ICBC's free rock-chip fill policy — with the driver-view exception spelled out in plain language.
The insurance section splits into three clear paths: ICBC direct billing, all Canadian insurers, and private-pay. Below it, a scrolling logo band handles every major make from Toyota to Tesla so no one lands on the page wondering "do they work on my car?"
"Not your average courtesy cars." Instead of the usual boring loaner disclaimer, the site showcases the actual fleet — RAM 1500, Dodge Durango, Jeep Compass, Dodge Charger, Chrysler Pacifica — turning a customer-service perk into a real marketing hook.
A three-step estimate request handles personal info → vehicle details → service and insurance type, ending with a clean confirmation state. Every service card, every hero button, every insurance path routes here.
A collision shop website that reads like the certification wall on the office says it should. It's live at brothersautobody.ca. Sister project coastmechanical.ca — for the mechanical shop across the street at 6030 196 St — carries the same design language in navy and blue.
Full site build for a Red Seal licensed, family-owned mechanic shop: animated RPM hero, service pages, booking flow, and local SEO built around the searches Langley drivers actually make.
Coast Mechanical is a family-owned repair shop with Red Seal licensed mechanics serving Langley, Surrey and the Fraser Valley — brakes, engines, transmissions, diagnostics, and ADAS calibration. The trust was already earned in the bay: a 4.9★ Google rating and thousands of repeat customers. The website just didn't show it.
The goal: a site that feels as precise as the work, ranks for "auto repair Langley BC," and turns searchers into booked appointments without a single phone-tag round.
Deep midnight navy with electric cyan — a dashboard-at-night palette that immediately separates Coast from the beige-and-clipart shops around it. The signature move: an animated RPM gauge in the hero that sweeps to life as the page loads, with gradient headline text that reads "done right the first time." Trust badges ride high: Red Seal Licensed, Family Owned, 12-Month Select Part Warranty.
Fast single-page architecture with anchored sections — Services, Why Us, Reviews, Book, Contact — so the booking CTA is always one tap away. Service content written around real search phrases (brake repair, transmission service, out-of-province inspection) rather than shop jargon, with the free-estimate promise stated plainly: no surprises.
Structured data marks the business up as an AutoRepair local entity — name, hours, service area, and review ratings — feeding Google's map pack directly.
The live RPM gauge. It's decorative for visitors but strategic for the brand: nobody leaves the site confusing Coast with the generic template shops down the street. Paired with the glowing "Book an appointment" CTA, the hero does the whole sales job above the fold.
A mechanic shop website that finally matches the shop's reputation — live at coastmechanical.ca. Sister project Brothers Autobody — the collision shop at the same 196 St address — carries a black-and-red identity built on the same conversion architecture.
Real prices, no games. Every project gets a fixed written quote before work begins.
| Feature | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom design (no templates) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 95+ Lighthouse target | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-serve CMS | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Client portal + live progress | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| E-commerce / booking | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Automation & integrations | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Care plan available | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The Starter and Professional prices are firm starting points for standard scope. Anything unusual — heavy custom features, integrations, or extra content work — gets quoted separately after a short discovery call so the final number never changes mid-project.
Yes. Projects are typically split into a deposit, a midpoint payment, and a launch payment. Larger builds can spread further.
Monthly care plans cover updates, security, backups, hosting, and small content edits. Pricing tiers match your site's complexity.
Yes — see the Google Ads page for management plans. Clients who build with me get discounted landing page work.
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