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A small South Florida studio, working on local businesses.
SummitDev builds and ranks websites for the businesses that keep this area running — the trades, the clinics, the shops, the restaurants. We are based in Fort Lauderdale and we work across the tri-county area.
Why local only
Knowing the market is half the job.
National agencies treat South Florida like any other pin on a map. It is not. Search here is competitive in ways that surprise people: three cities' worth of businesses stacked inside a fifteen-mile radius, a large bilingual customer base, hurricane season turning some trades into emergency services for a quarter of the year, and a seasonal population that changes what people search for between January and July.
Working only in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach means we already know who you are competing with in your city and what your customers type into their phones. We are not learning your market on your budget.
How we work
Five things we hold to on every project.
You own everything
Domain in your name, hosting in your account, code and content yours, all logins handed over. If you ever want to leave, you can, and nothing breaks. We have seen too many owners locked out of their own website.
The price is the price
You get a flat number for a written scope before work starts. If the scope changes, we requote that piece first. No hourly creep, no surprise invoice at the end.
We will talk you out of things
If your site does not need rebuilding, we will say so and quote the repairs instead. If SEO is not your bottleneck, we will tell you what is. A smaller honest job beats a bigger one you resent later.
Plain language
You should not need a glossary to read your own project update. No acronym soup, no forty-page report exported from a tool nobody opens.
Nothing that risks your listing
No bought links, no fake reviews, no mass-generated pages. Short-term tricks put your Google Business Profile at risk, and that profile is often where most of your calls come from.
Fit
Who this works well for.
We do our best work with owner-operated businesses where the website has a job to do — book the appointment, get the call, take the order. Trades and home services, medical and dental practices, legal and professional services, restaurants and food service, salons, studios, and small retail.
We are probably not your best option if you need a large in-house marketing team's worth of output every month, a national brand campaign, or an enterprise platform build. We will tell you that on the first call rather than three months in.
Working with us, practically
- First contact
- A short call or a form. We ask about the business, not about your "digital vision."
- Turnaround
- Estimates back within one business day. Builds typically run three to six weeks.
- Who you deal with
- The person building the site. No account manager relaying messages.
- After launch
- Take the keys and run it yourself, or keep us on a care plan or SEO retainer. Both are fine.
Start with a free estimate.
No retainer, no pressure, and an honest read on whether you need what you think you need.