Best AI website builder, or a proper quote? Cost it first, from your own figures
Stagenix is for the business that is paying for its own website: the salon, the practice, the law firm, the contractor, the storage operator, the club. Before you pick a builder, a template or an agency, the worksheets on this site cost the build from your own figures, on the page, with no account: how many pages, who designs them, who writes them, what the features add, and what it costs to run each month. Then the paid plan keeps the record of the project so the quotes, the page map and the launch list are never in three inboxes again.
Scoped, quoted, moved, launched
The scope the site was costed against, every quote lined up against it, the migration page map with its redirects, and the launch list with a name and a date on every line.
A website project is one record, and it is usually spread across three inboxes
- The pages, the features and the content owners, written down before anyone quotes. Most website quotes differ because they are quoting different sites. A scope with a page count, a feature list and a name against every piece of content is what makes two quotes comparable, and it is the document almost nobody writes first.
- Every quote filed against the scope, with its date and its total. A quote is only meaningful against what it was quoting. Holding each one against the same scope shows where a builder, a template and an agency actually differ, and what each one left out.
- The old page, the new page and the redirect, for every page you have. A migration loses rankings and enquiries when a page disappears with no forwarding address. The page map is the whole plan: every old URL, where it goes, and who checked it on launch day.
The free tools
The free tools here work the figures a business already has when it starts thinking about a website: how many pages it needs, whether the pages are templated or bespoke, whether the content is written in-house or paid for, which features go beyond plain pages, and what the platform costs a month. Each runs on your own numbers rather than a published average, and each prints so it can sit beside a quote unchanged.
- Website cost calculator: Count the pages, put an hourly rate and hours against them, add the content and the features, and see what the site costs to launch and to run for a year.
Stagenix Pro
Upgrading turns the worksheets into the record of the project. The scope becomes a document with pages, features and content owners; every quote is filed against it with its date and its total; the migration plan holds the old page, the new page and the redirect for each one; the launch checklist is ticked with a name and a date. Export is always available, so the record is yours whether or not you stay. Stagenix Pro is $24 per month for the whole team, billed monthly.
