DUO Studio — A DUO Digital Company

Home service websites that don't look like

We build brand-first, AI-native websites for home service operators who'd rather lead the category than blend into it.

Design
Human-led
— Other AI builds: one template, different logo
Conversion
CRO experts
— Most builders sell pages. We sell pipeline.
Future-proof
SEO
— Industry: quarterly audits, manual edits
Why most contractor sites fail

The website most agencies will sell you is already obsolete.

Slow. Bloated. Built on stacks that pre-date the LLM. Every change is a six-week project. Templated to look like the seven other roofers in your zip code. Optimized for the search engine of 2018 — not the search engine, or the AI assistants, of 2026.

You don't have a website problem. You have a foundation problem. Everything you'll want to do next — paid media, SEO, AI lead capture, automated content, reviews, financing, intake — sits on top of the site. If the foundation is broken, every dollar you spend on top of it leaks.

What's broken
01/05
Built for yesterday's search.
02/05
Every change takes weeks.
03/05
Looks like every other contractor in your market.
04/05
No room to grow into what's coming next.
05/05
No idea what's actually converting.
What we actually are

A dev shop with the taste of a creative agency.

We operate like a code-first development team and feel like a design studio that respects your brand. We use AI to compress the timeline, multiply the variations, and ship changes in minutes. We don't use it to replace the people who decide what good looks like.

Our creative director sets the direction. Our design team refines it. Our developers build it on a modern, code-based stack. AI gives us more shots on goal — humans pick the shot.

— The Distinction

That's the difference between a website built by AI and a website built with AI. We're the second one.

Creative Director
Sets direction
Design Team
Refines + ships
Developers
Build it real
Why this matters now

Your website is the foundation.
Your brand is the differentiator.
We build for both.

— The Engineering

We're a marketing agency before we're a website company. Every site we build is engineered to generate revenue — fast load times, clean conversion paths, full-funnel tracking, the technical SEO most agencies quietly skip.

— The Brand

But what separates a $5M home service company from a $50M one isn't another templated landing page. It's a brand that customers can feel before they read a word. It's the kind of first impression that lets you charge premium, hire premium, and stop competing on price.

That's the part most website agencies can't do. It's the part we built DUO Studio around.

What you get

Brand, site, and the engine underneath.

Three layers. One delivery. The brand sets direction. The site is the artifact. The engine makes it compound over time.

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Brand

  • Discovery + audit of positioning, voice, and visual identity
  • Brand enhancement or full rebrand — scope set by discovery
  • Logo, palette, typography, and design system delivered as source files
  • Brand guidelines your team can actually use
/02 / 03

Site

  • Custom homepage, refined against dozens of AI-driven variations
  • Complete page catalog — services, locations, gallery, financing, about, contact
  • AI-native code stack: Astro + Tailwind, deployed on Vercel
  • No CMS bloat, no plugin tax, no monthly performance debt
  • Changes shipped in minutes, not weeks
/03 / 03

The Engine

  • Full technical SEO — Search Console, schema, robots.txt, sitemap, redirects
  • LLM optimization for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI surfaces
  • Content engines built to compound — automated blogs, comparison pages, FAQs
  • Reviews, testimonials, and video embeds integrated where they convert
  • Full launch handoff — redirects mapped, GSC reindexed, monitoring in place
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The Stack

Modern infrastructure. No bloat.

We don't ship WordPress, page-builders, or anything else that lets a plugin take down your site. Real code. Real ownership. Real speed.

How a project moves

Seven steps. Weeks, not quarters.

Discovery to launch. Brand to deploy. We don't disappear between steps — you see the work as it moves.

01 Discovery
02 Creative direction
03 Design exploration
04 Design refinement
05 Copy
06 Build
07 Launch
Avg. timeline — 4 to 6 weeks
01

Discovery

We run the call. We get the business, the brand, the buyer, the constraints, the competitors. We leave with a build spec, not a guess.

02

Creative direction

Our creative director sets the direction — enhancement, refresh, or full rebrand. You see it before we build anything.

03

Design exploration

Claude Design generates dozens of design variations against the direction. We curate. You pick.

04

Design refinement

Our design team takes the chosen direction and turns it into a polished homepage and a full design system.

05

Copy

Written for your buyer, your offer, and the search engines — human and machine — that need to find you.

06

Build

Claude Code + Astro. The full page catalog, built on the design system, optimized as we ship.

07

Launch

Technical SEO, redirects, GSC, content engines turned on, monitoring in place. You go live with the foundation already working.

Selected work

Selected work,
shipping soon.

Case studies — Q3 2026
Full rebrand + site
Roofing · TX
Coming soon
Brand refresh + site
Pool Builder · CA
Coming soon
Site + content engine
HVAC · GA
Coming soon
Full rebrand
Remodel · FL
Coming soon
Who you're working with

Seven years in tech. Two years deep in the trades. One team that knows both.

DUO Digital has built brand and run revenue for B2B SaaS companies, enterprise tech, and now a roster of home service operators ranging from one-truck HVAC shops to $25M pool builders. We know what generates revenue at every scale, and we know what a brand needs to look like to charge premium for it.

The Studio is the wing of DUO Digital that does both at once.

$40M+
In pipeline generated
— across the DUO Digital roster
7 yrs
In advertising & marketing
— founded 2019, Costa Mesa
20%+
Landing page conversion rate
— across hundreds of pages shipped
Next steps

Book a discovery call.

Thirty minutes. We look at your current site, your brand, and your top competitors, and tell you honestly whether the Studio is the right move. No deck. No pitch. Just a real read on what's holding the brand back and what a rebuild would actually do for the business.

— Discovery call request