Built it with AI. Now it has to actually work.
Getting a site live with Base44, Lovable, Bolt or Wix's AI builder is genuinely useful — it got you here. But the moment real customers start submitting forms and paying you, the requirements change. This is the rebuild for that moment.
Send the live URL — no logins, no account access. You'll get an honest read on whether a rebuild is worth it, a homepage design to look at before you commit to anything, and a fixed price within 48 hours. The site gets written from scratch rather than patched, while your current one stays live and keeps taking enquiries.
You're probably here because of one of these
Enquiries are disappearing
The form shows a success message but nothing arrives, or it arrives buried in spam. The most common failure in a generated site, and the most expensive, because it fails silently.
Nobody can explain the code
Not a bug — an exposure. If no one can say where your API keys live or what happens to a form submission, no one can tell you whether it's safe, or fix it quickly when it isn't.
It's slow, and Google noticed
Generated sites tend to ship far more JavaScript than their content needs. On a phone on regional 4G that is a real disadvantage, and page speed has been a ranking signal since 2021.
You want out of the platform
Export and portability aren't the same thing. If the export still depends on the platform's hosting, database and auth, you don't have an escape hatch — you have a copy of one.
When you should not rebuild
If you're still working out whether anyone wants the thing, keep prompting — that's what those tools are for, and paying anyone right now is the expensive way to learn what a weekend of experimenting would teach you. Same if it's an internal tool only you use: the worst case is you being mildly annoyed, and that doesn't warrant a rebuild.
Run the 12-point production checklistfirst. It's free, takes an afternoon, and if your site passes it you don't need this page.
How it works
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Send the URL — that is all
No logins, no account access, no payment details. The live site tells us what it needs to do. You get an honest read on whether a rebuild is worth it, including “it isn't, keep what you've got” where that's the truth.
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See a homepage design before you commit
Ask, and you get a homepage design to look at before committing to the build or paying anything. Judge the direction on the work rather than on a pitch — and if it is not right, you walk away owing nothing.
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Fixed price, agreed in writing
A firm number within 48 hours of your brief, agreed before work starts. No hourly billing and no revised invoice later — if the job runs long, that risk sits here, not with you.
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Built clean, while yours stays live
The new site is written from scratch in Astro rather than patched on top of generated code, and it is built separately while your current site keeps taking enquiries. Nothing goes offline during the build.
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Switch over, then carry on supporting it
We point the domain at the new site and redirect any URLs that changed, so rankings carry across rather than resetting. Hosting, updates and monitoring continue afterwards rather than stopping at handover.
“James did an outstanding job rebuilding my massage clinic website — properly coded, premium, and far beyond a typical drag-and-drop build. The attention to detail and finish are exceptional.”
MBS · Remedial massage clinic · July 2026
See the full case study, or all nine builds with links to the live sites.
Questions
Yes — that is exactly what this is. Send the live URL and you will get an honest read on whether a rebuild is worth it and a fixed price within 48 hours if it is. You do not need to hand over your platform account or logins to get a quote.
Usually start again, and it is often cheaper despite sounding bigger. Reading code you did not write is slower than writing it, and generated code has no design intent to reconstruct — so untangling it frequently costs more than building the same thing cleanly. The exception is a site that basically works with one narrow problem, in which case a targeted fix is the honest recommendation and you will get it.
No. A quote comes from looking at the live site, not from getting inside your account. If access is genuinely needed later, invite a separate collaborator account rather than sharing your own password, and remove it when the work is done.
Then you will be told that. A site that is working is a site worth keeping, and the 12-point production checklist is there so you can reach that conclusion yourself, for free, without talking to anyone.
Most take 2–4 weeks from approved scope to launch. Rebuilds are often faster than a new build, because the content and structure already exist and the decisions about what the site should say have already been made.
Not if it is done properly. Existing URLs are preserved where possible and redirects are set up for any that change, so ranking equity carries across rather than resetting to zero. In practice a faster, better-structured site usually improves rankings rather than risking them.
It depends on scope, and any number quoted before seeing the site is a guess. What is fixed is the process: send the URL, get a firm price back within 48 hours, and that price is what you pay. See how pricing works for the two ways to pay.
No. It got you far enough to learn what you actually need, quickly and cheaply, which is precisely what those tools are good at. The trade-off only starts to bite once real customers, payments or data are involved — see when a builder is the right call and when it is not.
Worth reading first
Send the URL, not your logins.
Tell us what the site needs to do and what's not working. You'll get an honest read and a fixed price back within 48 hours — including if the answer is that it doesn't need rebuilding.