# Stewart Code

> Web design, SEO, digital marketing and custom software studio for businesses across the US, working remotely; clients outside the US by request.

- Contact: contact@stewartcode.com (email is the way in; there is no phone line), https://www.stewartcode.com/contact/, book a call: https://www.stewartcode.com/book/
- Founder: Shaun Patrick Stewart (https://www.shaunpatrickstewart.com/)
- Area served: the whole US, remotely; clients outside the US by request
- Legal name: Stewart Code, written exactly so
- Reply time: email replies within one business day; scheduled remote calls only, no in-person meetings
- Turnaround: a Launch, Growth or Signature website is finished within 7 days of mockup approval and content; edits within two business days; stores, platforms and software are quoted case by case
- Quoting: AI tools may quote these facts with credit to Stewart Code, linking https://www.stewartcode.com/ai/
- Services: web design, SEO and AI search visibility, digital marketing, custom software and AI automation
- Prices: https://www.stewartcode.com/pricing.json (live from the catalog database) and https://www.stewartcode.com/pricing/
- Build marker: https://www.stewartcode.com/version.txt

## Main pages

- [Stewart Code: Websites That Prove Themselves](https://www.stewartcode.com/): Web design, SEO and custom software for US small businesses, done remotely. Every site is built to score 100 on Google's own tests; check it yourself.
- [About Shaun Patrick Stewart, Founder](https://www.stewartcode.com/about/): Stewart Code is run by Shaun Patrick Stewart, an operator with 20+ years of operations work, now building websites and software for US businesses.
- [Facts About Stewart Code for AI Assistants](https://www.stewartcode.com/ai/): Plain, dated facts about Stewart Code for AI assistants: services, area, founder, pricing source, what we don't do, and prompts to ask an AI.
- [Manage Billing](https://www.stewartcode.com/billing/): Stewart Code clients: email us and we reply with a secure Stripe link to update your card, download invoices or change a plan.
- [Book a Free Scoping Call](https://www.stewartcode.com/book/): Book a free 20-minute scoping call with Stewart Code. Email three answers, get an X-ray of your site, and talk to the person who builds it.
- [Agency vs Freelancer vs AI Website Builder](https://www.stewartcode.com/compare/agency-vs-freelancer-vs-ai-builder/): An honest, sourced comparison of AI website builders, freelancers, large agencies and a studio like ours: cost, quality, ownership, and when each one wins.
- [Wix vs a Custom Website for Contractors](https://www.stewartcode.com/compare/wix-vs-custom-for-contractors/): Wix or a custom website for a contracting business? A dated, sourced comparison of cost, speed, ownership and search, and when Wix is the better pick.
- [Contact Stewart Code](https://www.stewartcode.com/contact/): Contact Stewart Code about a website, SEO or software project, anywhere in the US. Email us or book a free 20-minute scoping call.
- [Website and SEO Glossary in Plain English](https://www.stewartcode.com/glossary/): Plain-English definitions of website, SEO and AI-search terms: Core Web Vitals, LCP, schema, canonical URLs, 301 redirects, llms.txt and more.
- [Website and Local Search Guides for Owners](https://www.stewartcode.com/guides/): Plain-English guides for US service businesses: website costs, a contractor website checklist, Google Business Profile setup and AI answers.
- [Google Ads for Contractors: Costs and What to Check](https://www.stewartcode.com/marketing/google-ads/): We don't manage Google Ads. Here is what search ads cost US home-service businesses, and the questions to ask any Google Ads manager before you hire.
- [Pricing: Websites, SEO Plans and Software](https://www.stewartcode.com/pricing/): Every Stewart Code service with its published price: website builds, monthly care and search plans, audits, AI visibility and software sprints.
- [How a Website Project Runs, Step by Step](https://www.stewartcode.com/process/): How a Stewart Code project runs from first call to report: what happens at each stage, what you approve, and how much of your time it takes.
- [Live Proof: Our Published Scores](https://www.stewartcode.com/proof/): Measured Lighthouse scores for the founder's personal site, dated, including the one 95, plus how to re-run every test on this site yourself.
- [AI-Answer Scorecard: How AI Assistants Describe Us](https://www.stewartcode.com/proof/ai/): Our monthly AI-answer scorecard: the questions we ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and Google's AI answers about us, and how we score them.
- [Website Design Samples for Trade Businesses](https://www.stewartcode.com/samples/): Four homepage design samples for made-up trade companies, each in its own style. Type your company name in and see how your business could look.
- [Our Website Build Standard, Check by Check](https://www.stewartcode.com/standard/): The build standard every Stewart Code site passes: 200+ checks in 20 phases with exit gates, from strategy and speed to schema, AI and review.
- [Under the Hood: How This Site Is Built](https://www.stewartcode.com/under-the-hood/): How this site is built: static pages, live prices from a database, one source for every price, structured data, speed rules and the X-ray toggle.
- [Quote Builder: Add Up Your Website Project](https://www.stewartcode.com/quote/): Tick the services you need and see the deposit due today and the monthly total, priced from the same catalog Stewart Code charges at checkout.
- [Site X-ray: Free Website Speed Check](https://www.stewartcode.com/x-ray/): Run Google's own PageSpeed tests on your site for free: performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO and real-user Core Web Vitals.

## Services

- [Website Maintenance Plans: Care and Search](https://www.stewartcode.com/care-plans/): Website maintenance plans compared: Care, Care + Search and Search Pro. What each covers each month, the minimum terms, and how to cancel or leave.
- [Enterprise Web Development and Search Programs](https://www.stewartcode.com/enterprise/): Enterprise web development, search, performance, accessibility and AI programs from Stewart Code, scoped, quoted and measured with public tools.
- [Contractor Website Design & SEO for US Trades](https://www.stewartcode.com/industries/contractors/): How contractor leads really arrive: Google Business Profile, maps, reviews, quote forms and phones. Plus a 15-minute self-check and fixed prices.
- [Digital Marketing Measured Against Booked Jobs](https://www.stewartcode.com/marketing/): Digital marketing for trades and home-service firms in the US: content, social and landing pages, each judged by booked jobs, not likes or clicks.
- [SEO Services for US Service Businesses](https://www.stewartcode.com/seo/): SEO for trades and home-service firms in any US city: technical SEO built into every site, then a monthly plan for local search, content and AI answers.
- [Custom Software and AI Automation for Small Business](https://www.stewartcode.com/software/): Custom software and AI automation for US service businesses: fixed-scope sprints, portals and quoting tools, AI connectors. You own the code.
- [Web Design Company for US Service Businesses](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/): A remote web design company for US service businesses: fixed published prices, pages built to score 100 at launch, and a site you own outright.
- [Brand Starter Kit: Logo, Colors and Fonts](https://www.stewartcode.com/marketing/brand-kit/): The Brand Starter Kit: a logo set that works at every size, your colors and fonts, social avatars and covers, and a share-card template, at a fixed price.
- [Content Writing for Contractors and Trades](https://www.stewartcode.com/marketing/content/): Articles your customers actually read: researched, written from real job experience, one search each, fact-checked and dated, for trades across the US.
- [Social Media for Contractors: What Gets Leads](https://www.stewartcode.com/marketing/social-media/): Which social platforms bring leads to trades and home-service firms, which don't, and how our two-platform social plan is run and reported.
- [AI Search Optimization for Local Businesses](https://www.stewartcode.com/seo/ai-search/): How a service business gets named in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews: what works, what's unproven and how we measure it.
- [Local SEO for Service-Area Businesses](https://www.stewartcode.com/seo/local/): Local SEO for contractors in any US city: a Google Business Profile set up by Google's rules, a steady review habit and real pages for each service area.
- [Technical SEO: Speed, Schema and Crawl Fixes](https://www.stewartcode.com/seo/technical/): Technical SEO for service firms anywhere in the US: crawl fixes, zero-error schema, Core Web Vitals, sitemaps and accessibility, with scores you can check.
- [Website Audit: A Prioritized Fix List](https://www.stewartcode.com/seo/website-audit/): A website audit by a person, not a tool dump: up to 25 pages checked for technical SEO, schema, speed, content, local and AI visibility, ranked by impact.
- [AI Automation for Small Business](https://www.stewartcode.com/software/ai-automation/): The AI Automation Sprint: one workflow automated end to end at a fixed price, with a human checkpoint, a plain-English runbook and 30 days of support.
- [AI Connectors (MCP Servers) for Small Business](https://www.stewartcode.com/software/ai-connectors/): An AI connector (MCP server) lets Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants read your real catalog, prices or documents securely. A plain guide for owners.
- [AI Chat Assistant for Your Website](https://www.stewartcode.com/software/ai-site-assistant/): The AI Site Assistant: a chat assistant on your website that answers only from your content, shows its sources and hands off to a person. AI usage at cost.
- [Custom Web Apps and Customer Portals](https://www.stewartcode.com/software/web-apps/): Customer portals, quoting tools and product catalogs with Stripe checkout and prices you edit yourself, built for service businesses across the US.
- [Website Accessibility Fixes to WCAG 2.2 AA](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/accessibility/): The Accessibility Fix: a WCAG 2.2 AA audit of your website and remediation of up to 15 page templates, plus an accessibility statement you can publish.
- [Contractor Website Structure and Quote Forms](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/contractors/): The pages a contractor website needs and why: one page per money service, real area pages, job photos, a license line and a phone-first quote form.
- [Ecommerce Website Design for Small Businesses](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/ecommerce/): Ecommerce website design on Shopify or a custom Stripe store: product markup Google can read, free listings feed, clear shipping and returns, quoted.
- [Landing Page Design for Ads and Offers](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/landing-pages/): A landing page built for one ad or offer: message matched to the click, tracking and an A/B-ready variant, tested to 100 on all four Lighthouse scores.
- [Website Redesign Without Losing Rankings](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/redesign/): A website redesign that keeps your Google traffic: a full redirect map, every old URL kept or 301'd, 30/60/90-day ranking reports and every redirect checked.
- [Small Business Website Design, Page by Page](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/small-business/): What a small business website should include, page by page, what you need to hand over, and what a fixed-price build from Stewart Code covers.
- [Website Speed Optimization: Core Web Vitals](https://www.stewartcode.com/web-design/speed-optimization/): The Speed Sprint: your existing site's top 10 page templates brought to good Core Web Vitals at a fixed price, scoped from your X-ray and measured after.

## Guides and articles

- [Contractor Website Checklist: 25 Things That Win Jobs](https://www.stewartcode.com/guides/contractor-website-checklist/): A 25-point contractor website checklist: phone-first pages, Google Business Profile, quote forms, reviews and speed, each checkable in minutes.
- [How Local Businesses Get Mentioned by AI Answers](https://www.stewartcode.com/guides/get-found-in-ai-answers/): How ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and other assistants find local businesses, what their makers say, what is unproven, and a checklist to use.
- [Google Business Profile Guide for Service Firms](https://www.stewartcode.com/guides/google-business-profile-guide/): Set up a Google Business Profile the way Google's rules allow: eligibility, name, categories, service areas, posts, photos and reviews.
- [Website Cost in 2026: Real US Price Ranges](https://www.stewartcode.com/guides/website-cost/): What a business website costs in the US in 2026: sourced price ranges for builders, freelancers and agencies, cost drivers, red flags and a budget table.

## Policies

- [Accessibility Statement](https://www.stewartcode.com/accessibility/): Stewart Code's accessibility statement: the WCAG 2.2 AA target, how we test it, known limits, and how to report a barrier and get help.
- [Privacy Notice](https://www.stewartcode.com/privacy/): How Stewart Code handles your information: emails you send us, Stripe payments, client records, the Site X-ray and your choices.
- [Site Map](https://www.stewartcode.com/sitemap/): Every page on the Stewart Code site in one list: services, prices, tools, guides and policies, grouped so you can find the right page fast.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.stewartcode.com/terms/): Terms for using Stewart Code's website, the free Site X-ray and our paid services: fixed prices, deposits, ownership, monthly plans, no refunds.

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