We build your complete website for you — pages, words, and pictures — and you approve it live before you pay a dollar. Engineered by real people to be fast, accessible to the ADA standard, and found by Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT. Live in days. Editable by anyone on your team.
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From a fire department to a village hall to a corner café, every Mainfolk site comes photo-ready, mobile-perfect, and wired to be found — the day you open the doors.
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Real screenshots of live sites we built end-to-end — a fire department, a village hall, a corner café. All three are live right now: open them on your phone, run a speed test, navigate them by keyboard.
The Department of Justice’s ADA Title II web rule requires state and local government websites to meet WCAG 2.1 AA — on federal deadlines. Overlay widgets don’t get you there. Mainfolk builds accessibility into the markup itself: contrast, keyboard navigation, semantic structure, and alt text are part of the build, not a retrofit you pay for twice.
The deadlines were extended in April 2026, and DOJ is clear the requirement isn’t going away — building to the standard now beats scrambling later. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your entity’s specific obligations.
April 26, 2027
Governments of 50,000+ residents
Required to meet WCAG 2.1 AA.
April 26, 2028
Under 50,000 residents + special districts
Fire protection districts, park districts, library boards — the deadline is on the calendar.
Mainfolk ships with deep presets for the organizations that need a dependable web presence most — the right pages, the right tone, the right structure, from the first draft.
Recruitment is down, and the website still says 2019.
Volunteer and career recruitment pages, CPR and smoke-alarm program listings, and an emergency alert banner you can post in seconds.
Fire department websitesThe community hears about your department everywhere but from your department.
Transparency pages, press releases, community programs, and recruitment that presents the badge the way it deserves.
Police department websitesDOJ’s ADA Title II web rule puts WCAG 2.1 AA on a hard deadline — and most municipal sites aren’t close.
Accessibility-first engineering by construction, plus agendas, minutes, and public notices residents can actually find.
City & village websitesNew visitors decide whether to walk in on Sunday by what they find on Tuesday night.
Service times up front, sermons, ministries, events, and giving — warm, current, and easy for staff to update.
Church websitesA PDF menu from last spring is costing you tables tonight.
Menus, hours, and specials anyone on staff can change from a phone — plus structured data that puts you in the answer.
Restaurant websitesYou’re on a job site, not a website — so the leads go to whoever Google finds first.
Project galleries, service-area pages, and a lead form that rings your inbox — engineered to rank.
Contractor websitesInstagram is a feed, not a front door — it doesn’t show prices or hold a booking.
Services, pricing, your people, and booking links on a site as polished as the work you do.
Salon & studio websitesYour mission outgrew the website a volunteer built in 2014.
Programs, impact, and donation paths presented with the credibility funders — and search engines — expect.
Nonprofit websitesYou’re never staring at a blank page wondering what goes where. The pieces folks like you actually use are built in — you just drop in your words and your photos.
Your story, your people, a photo gallery that shows the place off, your hours and prices, the map to your door — the things a first-time visitor looks for, laid out and ready.
Post an event, share an agenda or a menu as a download, put up a notice the moment something changes, and keep a simple news feed going — all from your phone, no help needed.
A contact form — or one you build yourself — that lands every message straight in your inbox and keeps a copy, so a new customer or a would-be volunteer never slips through.
Your name, your trade, your town. That’s the whole intake — no blank canvas, no jargon.
5 minutesMainfolk plans your pages, writes real copy in your voice, sets palette and typography, and places imagery — a complete first draft, not a blank template.
About a minuteClick any block to edit it. Swap a photo, sharpen a headline, add a page. Publish, and it’s live worldwide in under a minute.
Live in daysMost website shops rent you a theme. We built the platform — so every site inherits engineering that template shops can’t retrofit.
AI isn’t bolted on — it’s how the site is designed, worded, and kept current. We build AI products for a living; this is one of them.
When someone searches for what you do — or asks ChatGPT or Perplexity to recommend one — your site is built to be the answer they get, not the one buried on page three.
WCAG-AA contrast, keyboard navigation, and semantic structure by construction — not an overlay widget pretending to be compliance.
Your pages open the moment someone taps — whether they’re on a phone downtown or a laptop across the state. Fast sites get found; slow ones get abandoned before they load.
No updates to run, nothing to patch, no 3 a.m. white screen. The platform is maintained for you; your site just works.
Mainfolk is built and run by Champlin Enterprises — engineers you can actually reach, who answer, and who ship.
No plugins, no logins for a stranger to guess, no server for you to babysit. When the whole town shows up at once — a storm, a headline, a grand opening — your site holds.
Most website builders hand you a site and walk away. Mainfolk builds the reporting in — so on Pro and Civic you see who’s finding you, in plain English, with no analytics account to create and no code to paste.
See how many people came by this week and which pages they opened — in plain English. No separate analytics account, no code, nothing to wire up, no “analytics person” required.
Google, Facebook, or a flyer with your address on it — see what’s actually bringing folks in, so you know what’s worth doing more of.
Your most-opened pages and every message your forms bring in, together in one place — so you can tell what your community actually wants from you.
You don’t have hours to build a website, and you shouldn’t have to. Tell us about your shop or your town — we build the whole thing, and nothing costs a dollar until you’ve seen your site live and said yes.
Your website and your domain belong to you, not to us. Whenever you want, download the whole thing in one click — every page, every photo, and every message your visitors sent. No contract, no cancellation maze, no “export is a premium feature.” That’s the opposite of how the big builders treat you.
Install our free plugin, press one button, and your WordPress pages, posts, menu and logo are rebuilt on Mainfolk, block layout and all. No code, no export files to wrangle, and your old site keeps running untouched while you look it over.
Mainfolk builds your chamber’s website — and a website for every member. Chamber Culture CRM is the membership platform that runs on the same engine: dues, members, events, and communications in one place, with your directory and deals published straight to your Mainfolk sites.
Every member website is built on Mainfolk and wired straight into the CRM — one platform for your chamber and everyone in it.
Pick your type of organization and get a free PDF checklist of everything a great website should include — no signup fluff, just your email.
A web shop charges $2,000–$5,000 to build a site like this. We build yours for free — and it stays free, on a mainfolk.com address, for as long as you like. Upgrade only when you want your own domain. Every plan — including Free — comes with hosting, security, and updates, and your site is always yours to take with you.
Build the whole site free. Look at it. Pay only when you want your own domain.
One website on yourname.mainfolk.com, built by AI in about a minute, with hosting, security and unlimited edits included. It stays free for as long as you like. The only catch is a small “Made with Mainfolk” note in your footer.
Ready for your own domain? That’s the only real decision:
For a small business getting online.
Pay yearly and get two months free.
For an established business that wants to grow.
Pay yearly and get two months free.
Civic web vendors quote $5,900–$25,000 a year. This is $149 a month, flat.
At about $1,788 a year it sits under every state’s competitive-bid threshold and the federal micro-purchase limit — so your board approves it on the consent agenda. No RFP, no setup fee, no five-year contract, and free white-glove migration: we move your old site over for you and set the new one up.
Need a PO, a W-9 or a written quote for a board vote?
Request a quote instead — no card, no account.
Rather we build it for you? Our team designs your whole site — pages, words & photos, tuned to your business — and hands it over ready to launch. A one-time $199.
| Feature | Free$0 | Launch$15/mo | Pro$29/mo | Civic$149/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Websites | 1 | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| Your own domain name | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web address | yourname.mainfolk.com | Yours | Yours | Yours |
| “Made with Mainfolk” note | In the footer | Removed | Removed | Removed |
| People who can edit | Just you | You + 2 | You + 9 | Unlimited |
| AI help each month | About 10 assists | More | Even more | Most |
| See who visits your site | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| News & blog posts | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Emergency alert banner | — | — | — | Yes |
| Accessibility statement page | — | — | — | Auto-published |
| We move your old site over | — | — | — | Free |
| PO, W-9 & written quote | — | — | — | Yes |
| Support | Community | Priority | Priority | |
| Hosting, security & updates | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Unlimited edits & pages | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Found by Google & AI assistants | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Built accessible | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Contact forms & leads inbox | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Take your site with you | Anytime | Anytime | Anytime | Anytime |
| Contract | None | None | None | None |
Prices are per account, in US dollars. Cancel any time — there is no contract and no setup fee, on any plan.
Riverbend Coffee is a complete site generated end-to-end by Mainfolk — pages, copy, palette, imagery, structure. Open it on your phone. Run a speed test. Navigate it by keyboard. It holds up — that’s the point.
riverbend-coffee.mainfolk.comWix and Squarespace give you the tools to build a site yourself — a weekend of dragging boxes, then keeping it up. Mainfolk’s AI builds the whole thing in about two minutes, written and designed for you, WCAG-compliant, and served fast. There’s a real free plan (Squarespace has none; Wix puts ads on theirs), and paid plans cost less while including more. Want the detail? See our full comparison.
The AI produces a complete first draft — pages, copy, palette, imagery — in about a minute. Most organizations review it, tweak a few things, and ship within days. The long pole is usually your photo folder, not us.
Yes. Every block is click-to-edit: change the words, swap a photo, add a page, publish. If you can fill out a form, you can run your website. No plugins, no themes, no training course.
Every Mainfolk page is engineered to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard by construction — color contrast, keyboard navigation, semantic headings, and image alt text are part of the platform, not a plugin overlay. For public entities facing ADA Title II deadlines, that is the standard the DOJ rule points to. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your specific obligations. See how we build it in (/ada-compliant-government-websites) and our accessibility statement (/accessibility).
AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews read the web to answer people’s questions. Every Mainfolk build ships the signals those systems look for — an llms.txt file, JSON-LD structured data, semantic HTML, and fast server-rendered pages — so when someone asks about organizations like yours, you are readable and citable.
No. Hosting, SSL, and global edge delivery are included, and the platform is maintained for you. There are no plugins to update, nothing to patch, and no surprise white screen — ever.
Yes. Sites launch on a mainfolk.com address and move to your own domain — yourfiredepartment.org, yourtown.gov, yourcafe.com — whenever you are ready.
Yes — free forever, not a trial. Your site lives on a mainfolk.com web address with a small “Made with Mainfolk” badge, and hosting, security, and updates are all included. Upgrade whenever you want your own web address or more AI help; everything you’ve built comes with you.
Your site keeps working on the Free plan — we never take it down or hold it hostage. And you can download everything — your pages, words, images, and leads — anytime, free. Your site is yours.
No. If you can type, you can run your site. Click any block, change the words, publish. The technical work — the security certificate, fast worldwide delivery, being found by Google and AI assistants — is handled for you.
Yes. On Civic — fire, police, cities, and churches — we move your old site over for you and set up the new one, free. No setup fee, no contract, and you can export and leave anytime.
Your site gets built in about a minute — and you approve it live before a dollar changes hands. The Free plan is free forever.
Town photography via Pexels
