About
One person. That’s the pitch.
KV Web Works is Kirk Vantine, working out of Dexter, MI. When you call, I answer. When something breaks, I fix it. There is no account manager between us because there is no one else here.
Most small businesses end up on Wix or Squarespace for a sensible reason: it was the fastest way to have something. Then a few years pass, the site looks like every other site, changing anything meaningful means fighting a page builder that was never designed to let you, and none of it is actually yours.
I build the alternative. A site designed for your business specifically, built by hand, hosted on infrastructure that stays in your name, and handed over to you completely — the code, the domain, the accounts, all of it. If we stop working together tomorrow, nothing of yours stops working.
Why it’s built this way
I am close enough to Detroit that the comparison comes naturally: there is a difference between something assembled from parts and something machined for the job. Template platforms are the first thing. What I do is the second. It takes longer and it is worth it, because the result cannot be mistaken for anyone else’s.
The same instinct runs through how the work is handed over. Fixed quotes, no hourly meter, and everything in your name at the end. If the work is good you will stay because it is good, not because leaving is painful.
The honest version
I started building sites for organisations I knew locally — a service club that had outgrown its old site, a charter captain who needed his phone to ring, a therapist opening a solo practice. The work kept coming from the same place: people who had been sold a subscription when what they needed was something built.
Where I work
Based in Dexter, and glad to meet in person anywhere around Southeast Michigan — Dexter, Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Saline, Brighton, and Metro Detroit. Most of the work happens over email and a couple of calls, so if you are further out that is fine too.
The mark
What the logo is saying
The gear is the machinery — the part of a website nobody sees and everybody depends on. The monogram is who is doing the work, which on this job is one person you can reach. The spike breaking out of the gear is what you are actually paying for: a business that grows because the thing works.
It is deliberately hard-edged. Nothing about it looks like it came out of a template gallery, which is rather the point.
Let’s talk about your site
Half an hour, free, no pitch deck. Tell me what your business does and what is wrong with the site you have.