The Small-Business Tech Partner

Build it. Find it. Answer it. See it.

Websites, local search, business phones, and dashboards. The tech an independent restaurant or shop actually needs, bundled and run by one person and priced for a single location.

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Our work · 3 live sites

Real sites. Watch them scroll.

Every preview below is a live site we designed, built, and run for a real local business. Click any of them. New entries about this work land in the build log.

The receipts. We measured all of this ourselves.
Typical template site
1,000+ KB
BitBrd build
4.7 KB
Code your phone has to download

Measured on West Little Rock Glass: the page we built vs the template-builder page it replaced. 200× lighter loads first on slow phones.

typical template site BitBrd build
How fast the page is ready

That stutter where taps do nothing? Template sites stall mid-dial. Our builds peg the gauge: zero freezes, even on a five-year-old phone.

#8#5#3#1 you Google results
Where you show up on Google

Page speed is a Google ranking signal. Fast sites get found more. It’s the quiet engine behind every local-SEO win we report.

The problem

You didn't open a shop to run a tech department.

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Six-figure agencies

$5K retainers, 12-month contracts, and an account manager who’s never run a register. You don’t need a retainer bigger than your rent to show up on Google.

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Stitched-together DIY

Nights and weekends lost to website templates, DNS settings, and YouTube tutorials. You end up with four dashboards that don’t talk to each other and a result that still looks homemade. Your hours are worth more behind the counter.

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$60,000/yr$70,000/yr$80,000+/yr BEFORE BENEFITS

Hiring in-house

A full-time marketing or tech hire costs $80K+ before benefits. You can't justify it, and you shouldn't have to.

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Then there’s BitBrd.

Senior work without the agency invoice. One person builds and runs your whole stack: website, Google, phones, dashboard. And you have his number.

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What we do

Four pillars. One guy who answers. No duct tape.

Pick one to start. Add the rest as you grow. Everything talks to everything.

Build it · Custom Websites

Fast, mobile-first websites that load in a blink, measurably quicker than your competitors’. Built to convert browsers into customers, with nothing bloated to break.

  • Menus, online ordering, reservations
  • Shopify commerce for retail & specialty food
  • Accessibility and page speed baked in
  • You own the site, the domain, everything
1. competitor-a.com 2. competitor-b.com 3. yourbusiness.com

Find it · Local SEO

Show up when the person walking by pulls out their phone and searches. The lowest-hanging fruit most small businesses never pick.

  • Google Business Profile tuning & posts
  • Neighborhood-level keyword targeting
  • On-page schema & structured data
  • Review response & citation building

Answer it · VOIP & Auto-Attendants

A modern business phone system that doesn't drain your margins. Auto-attendants, smart routing, and voicemail-to-email at a fraction of legacy PBX pricing.

  • Custom auto-attendant + call-tree
  • Business-hours routing & after-hours handling
  • Voicemail transcription to email or SMS
  • Text-enabled business line included

See it · Custom Dashboards

One dashboard. Every sales channel. Finally. Shopify, DoorDash, Square, Toast, GA4, labor, inventory, all unified in a view built for you, not an off-the-shelf BI tool.

  • Multi-channel revenue & order tracking
  • Daily KPIs, labor cost, and inventory alerts
  • SEO & Google Search performance rolled in
  • Built custom to how your business actually runs
How we work

Four phases. No surprises.

A launch window measured in weeks, not quarters.

Nest

2-week discovery. Audit, positioning, keyword research, sitemap.

Build

Website, SEO foundation, and Google Business Profile built in parallel.

Launch

Site live. Tracking in place. First month of content queued.

Grow

Monthly SEO, content, and reporting. The number I track is customers walking in the door.

Who we work with

Independent focused.

We only take independents. If you answer your own phone, you’re our kind of client.

Restaurants & Cafés

Specialty coffee, neighborhood restaurants, bakeries, tea rooms, and bars.

  • Coffee shops
  • Cafés & bistros
  • Bakeries & pastry
  • Tea rooms
  • Wine & cocktail bars
  • Food trucks & pop-ups
$48.50

Retail & Specialty Shops

Makers, boutiques, and specialty stores selling online and in-store.

  • Makers & artisans
  • Clothing boutiques
  • Home goods & décor
  • Bookstores & vintage
  • Apothecaries & wellness
  • Specialty food & drink
BOOKED SOLID

Local Services & Trades

The shops that keep a city running. Found on Google, booked by phone.

  • Glass & repair shops
  • Awards & engraving
  • Salons & barbers
  • Cleaners & detailers
  • Contractors & trades
  • Studios & instructors
Featured case study
Specialty Coffee · NOLA

New brand, no web presence, competing with established French Quarter cafés.

Witches Brew leaned on every pillar we offer: the Shopify site, the local SEO foundation, a modern phone system, and a custom real-time dashboard that pulls Shopify, DoorDash, Homebase labor, and Google Search Console into one view the owners check every morning. New Orleans is ferociously competitive for specialty coffee. They tripled monthly revenue in their first five months and banked a wall of five-star reviews along the way.

121K
Google Business Profile views, first 6 months
51K
Google searches that surfaced the shop
Page 1
Where the shop shows up on Google, and gets clicked about twice as often as the average listing
8,849
Profile actions: calls, menus, directions, site clicks
70
Five-star Google reviews in the first few months
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1,100+/wklaunchmonth 3
Website visitors / week
From a standing start to 1,100+ visitors a week
$10KM1$13KM2$19KM3$24KM4$30KM5
Monthly revenue
$10K → $30K in five months
600Jan1,800Feb2,000Mar1,800Apr2,400May
Google profile actions / month
Calls, menus, directions: 4× by month 5
Meet the builder
Paul DeSana, founder of BitBrd

Hi, I’m Paul.

I’ve spent 20 years in IT working with companies of every size: big enterprises with whole departments for this stuff, and small shops that get left behind or overcharged for it.

BitBrd is me shifting my focus to the underserved: bringing real, affordable tech to independent businesses that deserve the same tools without the enterprise invoice.

When you work with BitBrd, you’re texting me. The person who builds it, answers it, and stands behind it.

Pricing

Pick your runway.

Straight prices, quoted up front. No contracts on maintenance. Cancel anytime.

Launch

$100to launch · then $20/month hosting

A clean one-page site, designed cheap.

  • One-page site, designed & built for you
  • Mobile-first, fast on every phone
  • Contact form that emails you
  • Hosting, security & backups at $20/mo
  • Live in about a week
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Most popular

Grow

$400to design · then $60/month

More pages, better design, found on Google.

  • Multi-page site, premium design package
  • Local SEO built in: pages Google can rank
  • Hosting + updates & content changes
  • Monthly health & speed check
  • One text away, a real person
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Partner

Customquoted up front

The full stack.

  • Everything in Grow
  • Deep SEO program & monthly reporting
  • Modern phone system
  • Custom dashboard: all your numbers in one view
  • Online store, bookings, whatever the business needs
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Free · no call required

Get a free 10-point website checkup.

Drop your website address and we’ll send you a plain-English report: speed, mobile experience, Google visibility, and what we’d fix first. No obligation. Keep the report either way.

Frequently asked

Questions, answered straight.

What does it cost?
Get online for $100 to launch plus $20/month hosting: a clean one-page site, designed for you. Our most popular package is $400 to design plus $60/month: more pages, a stronger design, and local SEO built in. Bigger builds like online stores, phone systems, and custom dashboards are quoted up front, custom. VOIP phone systems start at $45/line/month all-in. Everything is scoped and quoted up front. No surprises.
Do you really replace my phone system?
Yes. For most small operators, we cut the phone bill in half or better. Modern VOIP handles everything legacy PBX does (auto-attendant, call routing, hold music, voicemail) plus things it can't (voicemail-to-email, SMS from your business number, mobile softphone). We port your existing number so customers never notice the switch.
What does a custom dashboard actually pull in?
Whatever you use. Common integrations: Shopify, Square, Toast, DoorDash, Uber Eats, GA4, Google Search Console, QuickBooks, Homebase, and inventory systems. We build it around your business, not a template. You get one screen that answers "how did we do today?" in under 10 seconds.
How long until my site is live?
1 to 2 weeks for a single-page site. 3 to 5 weeks for bigger builds. Phone system switchover is usually a 1-week window once numbers are ported.
I already have a website. Do you do improvements?
Yes. We start every engagement with a free audit. Sometimes the right move is a rebuild; sometimes it's a restructure and SEO overhaul on what you have. We'll tell you honestly either way.
Let's see if it's a fit

Thirty minutes with me. No pitch deck.

Tell me how the business runs and where it hurts. I’ll tell you exactly what I’d build, what it would cost, and, honestly, whether you even need it. If BitBrd isn’t the right fit, you’ll leave knowing what to ask whoever is.

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