AI-friendly websites · Cedar Rapids, Iowa
When somebody asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini who does what you do, the assistant reads a plain text file at your address before it names anyone. We wrote down the nine checks that make a website AI-friendly and ran them on 281 trades businesses. None passes. Every site we build passes all nine the day it launches, and we host it, watch it and keep it that way, then build the portals, dashboards and software your business grows into.
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The study · The score
1 / 5
0 of 281 trades websites are AI-friendly.
Rules passed out of nine, per market. Every address fetched 17 September 2026.
In their words, under their names, beside the site each one is about. Every one of them is still a client, and every site is one you can open.
“Working with Pineland Technologies to build my website was the easiest process. He listened to what I actually wanted, turned it around fast, and the site looks better than I imagined. If you need a website done right, he's your guy.”
“As a locksmith I have a deep understanding of my trade and I am highly focused on my skill set. When it comes to creating a website I found that I was far behind the curve and desperately needed help. Pineland Technologies came through for me at a critical moment and designed a website that exceeded the industry standard for quality. I couldn't be happier with the end product.”
“Not only did Pineland Technologies update our site and make it super fast. They also tied together our CRM, marketing tools, and advertising metrics all into one dashboard. It's incredible! It saves us hours of work each week and alerts us if a metric is out of range before we even look.”
“Thank you, Pineland Technologies, for rebuilding the Deafinitely Dogs website so quickly. The new site is faster and more modern, and they fixed our email and form issues so messages no longer get lost. We appreciate the care they put into a tool that helps us serve dogs and people every day.”
For small businesses. An AI-friendly site, nine checks of nine the day it launches, built and hosted for one figure. Sign a two year hosting agreement and the build is included: nothing up front, nothing invoiced until the site is live, and the same figure on the same date every month after that.
You end up owning it. The source, the accounts, and the domain move into your name whenever you ask, and we never charge a late fee. The only catch is the term, and the offer page prints it in full.
The small business offer.
$149a month
Build included. Billed monthly, one invoice.
24 month hosting agreement from the day the site goes live, then month to month at the same price. Cancelling inside it does not cancel the remaining payments.
AI-friendly websites
A website is AI-friendly when it passes nine checks a stranger can run in a minute: the assistants' crawlers are let in and named, the file at yoursite.com/llms.txt exists, is about the business and carries the phone number and the prices, and the page says the same thing in structured data. We ran them on every plumber, electrician, roofer and detailer we could find in Iowa and fourteen other states. Every site we build passes all nine the day it launches.
From View the study, 17 September 2026 (PDF, 9 pages).
One line on your file becomes one line in the answer, quoted from you.
Four steps, and you pay nothing until the third one is finished. Two to four weeks from the day the content is in hand, and the first invoice goes out the day the site goes live.
Twenty minutes on what the business does, who it sells to, and what the site has to make happen. If a website is not what you need, that is the answer you get, and it costs nothing.
The agreement says what is being built and what it costs. A card goes on file before the work starts, and it is not charged yet. Nothing is due until the site is live.
Two to four weeks from the day the content is in hand. You see it on a private address, on your phone, before anybody else does, and you get two rounds of changes.
The site moves onto your domain, we take over the hosting, and the plan starts. Every month after that is the same figure on the same date.
Free site review · no charge, no obligation
One reply, from the person who would do the work: your score against the nine AI-friendly checks, what is slowing the site down, and what we would change first. No charge, and no forty-page audit nobody reads.
Or email it to hello@pinelandtech.com
Starting from nothing? Tell us what you need built instead.
Paste the URL of the site you have now. That is the whole form.
The same nine we ran on 281 trades businesses: whether the assistants' crawlers are let in, whether there is a file at your address, whether it is about you, whether it carries your phone number and your prices, and whether the page says the same thing underneath. Then the older reader: speed, search, and whether a visitor can reach you.
Your score out of nine, what an assistant reads at your address today, and what we would change first, in plain language, from the person who would do the work.
Recent projects
Some of our recent work. Every one of these shipped and is still looked after by the people who built it. Read how any was built, then picture yours in the grid.
Mobile Service SyncSoftwareThe software a mobile service business runs onLow-Key LocksmithWebsites43 city pages that are worth reading
RWCBM MobileMobileThe members' network, on the phone
Embeddable Booking WidgetCustom SolutionsA booking wizard that drops into a site you already have
LaneLabSoftwareVideo stroke analysis platform for a swim coach
K&J Shine WorksWebsitesAuto detailing, rebuilt off WordPressFrom a first website for a small business to the software, apps, and integrations a growing one needs when its tools stop talking to each other. Nothing is listed here that we have not already shipped and then had to maintain.
After launch
A site is not finished when it goes live, it is just started. Everything we build runs on a flat monthly plan that covers the hosting and the looking after, so the thing you paid for is still working a year from now.
The site runs on infrastructure we manage and monitor. When something breaks at eleven at night, the alert comes to us rather than to you the next morning from a customer.
Dependencies patched, platform versions kept current, backups taken on a schedule, and the nine AI-friendly checks re-run on the live address after every deploy, so the site is still quotable a year from now.
A block of support hours every month for the new page, the changed price, the seasonal banner. You email the person who built it and it is done that week.
The source, the accounts, and the domain are yours and move into your name whenever you ask. No plan holds a domain as leverage, and cancelling takes thirty days written notice.
Tell us what the business does and where. Within a day you will have a straight answer on what an AI-friendly site takes to build, what it costs to run, and what we would cut. If the honest answer is that you do not need to build anything, that is the answer you get.
Or skip the form entirely. hello@pinelandtech.com reaches a person, not a queue.