Websites for the companies that build the grid.
Fiber crews, line contractors, broadband builders. You are bidding against firms whose sites look exactly like yours, and hiring against every one of them. Empyria builds the site that makes the difference obvious.
What Empyria actually is
A one-person web design studio in Wichita, Kansas, building custom sites for utility, telecom and infrastructure contractors. No purchased themes, no template bent to fit, no account manager between you and the work. The person who designs your site is the person who builds it, and the person who answers the phone afterwards.
That is the whole company. It is also the entire pitch.
Four businesses. All of them mine.
Empyria is new. The work is not. Every site below belongs to a company I own and operate, which means I never handed it off and moved on; I still answer for what it does, every month, in money I actually feel. Most portfolios show you a launch. This one shows you what happened after.
What this field needs that a generic site does not
Five things almost every contractor site in this sector gets wrong. Each one costs a bid or a hire.
Proof, before the form
Careers is your most valuable page
You are competing for splicers, linemen and techs against every outfit in the state. A hiring page that looks like an afterthought reads as a company that treats crews like one.
Say where you work
Service territory is the first question every buyer has, and most sites answer it with a phone number. A map and a plain list of counties closes the gap in one screen.
It gets read in a truck
A foreman on one bar of signal is a real share of your traffic. A site that takes six seconds to load is a site that was never seen.
Funding moves in waves
BEAD, RUS, state broadband offices. The work arrives on a schedule you can read in advance, and the site should be ready before the wave rather than during it.
Three things, done properly
Website design
The part everyone assumes they are buying. Structure, hierarchy, typography, and a look that belongs to you rather than to the template author.
Website development
Hand-built, fast, accessible, and yours. No proprietary platform and no license you have to keep paying to keep your own site.
Website care
Updates, backups, monitoring and the occasional small change, handled by the person who built the thing in the first place.
Why this costs more than the quote you already have
One project at a time
Yours is not queued behind eleven others. It is the thing I am doing.
You talk to the person doing the work
There is no account manager, because there is no account team. That is the feature.
Built, not assembled
Nothing starts from a purchased theme. The design exists before the build does.
You own the result
Your site, your hosting, your domain. Leaving is always possible, which is the only honest way to earn staying.
Answered plainly
What does a website from Empyria cost?
Most projects land between $10,000 - $25,000 depending on how many pages need real thought and whether the content exists yet. You get a fixed number before the work starts, not an hourly meter. If your budget is under that, I will say so and point you somewhere sensible.
How long does it take?
Six to ten weeks from the first call to launch. Most of that is decisions and content rather than building. If your copy and photography are ready it is faster; if they are not, that is normal and it is part of the work.
Do I have to write the content?
No, but you do have to talk to me. I write from interviews with the people who actually do the work, because a foreman explains a job better than any marketer will. You review and correct rather than facing a blank page.
What happens after launch?
The site is yours, on your hosting, with no licence to keep paying. A care plan is available and entirely optional. If you ever leave, you take everything with you.
Can you work with the site we already have?
Sometimes. If the foundation is sound, rebuilding the pages that matter is cheaper than starting over. If it was built on a marketplace theme in 2016, starting over is honestly cheaper. I will tell you which one you are looking at.
Why not just use a template?
You can, and for some businesses that is the right call. But a template is a bet that looking like everyone else costs you nothing. In a field where buyers shortlist on credibility and crews choose between employers, that bet is more expensive than it looks.
Tell me what you are building.
One project at a time, so the calendar is real. If it is not a fit, I will say so on the first call rather than three weeks in.