Draft landed Wednesday, live Saturday. Twenty-three booking enquiries in the first week — we used to get four.
Mia Karahalios
Studio Eight Hair, Parramatta
Result
23 enquiries / week 1
VIC · Australia
Website design in Melbourne — built first, paid second.
Melbourne SMBs from Fitzroy to Brighton get a full-stack website on a real link inside three days.
The local picture
What makes Melbourne websites different.
Melbourne has the highest density of independent hospitality businesses in Australia. The local search game here is won or lost on mobile speed and review freshness — a cafe in Fitzroy with a slow Squarespace site loses the lunch trade to the one with a Cloudflare-hosted page that loads in under a second. We have built for clients across Fitzroy, Carlton, South Yarra, Brighton, and Brunswick.
Suburb by suburb
Fitzroy and Brunswick attract customers who check the website before committing. Carlton is café-dense with international student and tourist traffic that leans heavily on Google Maps and voice search. South Yarra and Brighton businesses skew to higher-income clients who weigh trust signals heavily — reviews, credentials, and polished presentation matter more than price. Richmond trades compete with a large service area and need suburb-level schema. Footscray is a growing market with strong local loyalty and emerging hospitality competition. St Kilda has high seasonal variation, making time-aware opening hours and event callouts especially valuable.
Where we ship
Suburbs we’ve already built for in Melbourne.
Each comes with local schema, suburb-tagged copy, and a phone number that maps to the right service area.
- Fitzroy
- Carlton
- South Yarra
- Brighton
- Richmond
- Footscray
- St Kilda
- Brunswick
Industries we serve
Built specifically for Melbourne small business.
What clients say
From VIC-based business owners.
I quoted three jobs off the new site before the old one even came down. Phone calls more than doubled.
Josh Whittaker
Whittaker Plumbing, Newcastle
Result
+118% calls
Finally a site I'm not embarrassed to put on a flyer. Mobile menu, directions, and the morning queue is longer.
Priya Anand
Folk + Filter Cafe, Marrickville
Result
Sat queue +30 mins
Honest comparison
How we compare for Melbourne businesses.
aibuiltmysiteDIY (Wix etc.)Freelance dev
First draft built before you pay
Yes — every project
No
No — deposit required
Time to live site
72 hours
Weeks of your time
4-6 weeks
Total cost in year 1
$528 — $744
$300+ subscription + your weekend
$3,000 — $8,000+
Ongoing edits included
Yes
DIY
Hourly rate
Conversion-tested copy
Written for you
Your job
Often extra
AU-based, Stripe-secure
Yes
Varies
Varies
Cancel anytime
Yes
Yes
No
Built in Melbourne, for Melbourne
Send a brief, see your draft by Friday.
Melbourne FAQ
Questions specific to Melbourne businesses.
Do you build sites for Melbourne's hospitality businesses?
Yes. Melbourne hospitality is one of our most common brief types. Speakable-tagged hours, fast-loading menus, and reservation embeds for groups are built into the default cafe and restaurant stack.
Can you cover both metro Melbourne and outer suburbs like Frankston or Dandenong?
Yes. Service area schema and suburb landing pages work anywhere in the Greater Melbourne area. The brief just needs the postcodes you cover.
Is AEST support available for Melbourne clients?
All our editorial support runs Mon–Fri AEST, which is the same timezone for Melbourne clients. Change requests go live the same business day they are received.
What every site includes
The default stack we ship in Melbourne.
Every AI website we build comes with the same foundation. We do not hide essentials behind a Pro tier. You get the lot from day one.
Local schema for Melbourne
LocalBusiness JSON-LD with the right VIC address, area-served suburbs and opening hours so Google attaches you to the right map results.
Cloudflare hosting + SSL
Edge-rendered out of Sydney by default. SSL certificate, HTTP/3, and an Australian CDN so first paint is fast on a 4G phone in the suburbs.
Conversion-shaped copy
Hero, services, social proof and FAQ tuned for the way Melbourne customers shop. We write it like a person, not a template.
Mobile-first layout
Click-to-call, click-to-SMS, click-to-maps, and accessible tap targets. Lighthouse 95+ mobile out of the box.
AUD billing via Stripe
Monthly subscription in Australian dollars. Cancel any month. Annual saves 17%. No setup fees, no deposit, no minimum term.
AEST support and edits
Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm AEST. Most edit requests turn around the same business day. No ticketing system, no upsell hop.
Code is yours
You own the design, copy, and source. On cancellation we hand over a full export inside 7 business days. No lock-in.
Indexing and search
Sitemap.xml, robots.txt, canonicals, OpenGraph and Twitter card metadata, schema.org structured data — all wired correctly on day one.
AI crawler friendly
Allowlisted for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and OAI-SearchBot so your business shows up in AI answers, not just blue-link search.
FAQ
Melbourne FAQ.
How fast can you actually launch?
Most businesses receive a complete first draft inside 72 hours of submitting the brief. Final go-live depends on your feedback speed — most clients are public within a week.
Do I have to write the copy?
No. We draft conversion-tested copy from your business details and your industry's known buying signals. You review, we refine — same process whether you've never written a line or you have a brand voice doc.
What's actually included for $44 a month?
A full website (home, services, contact, plus the pages your industry needs), Cloudflare hosting, SSL, mobile optimisation, all schema and SEO basics, and ongoing edits. The only thing missing is a custom domain — that's the $62 plan.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. No lock-in, no minimum term. Cancel directly from your Stripe receipt at any time and the site comes down at the end of the billing period.
What if I don't like the draft?
Then you don't pay. We hand back two rounds of revisions free. If round two still isn't right, we expire the link and part as friends — that's the whole point of building first.
Is this just a template?
No. Every site is built fresh from your brief. We re-use proven layout patterns (because they convert) but the design system, copy, palette, photography, and structure are made for you.