They sell you tools. We hand you the finished site.
Wix and Squarespace are good tools — if you want to spend a weekend building and then maintaining a site. Mainfolk is for when you’d rather it be done, done right, and done for less.
Free plan, free forever · No credit card required · AI-built in about two minutes
Six reasons teams switch to Mainfolk.
Wix and Squarespace are good tools if you want to spend a weekend building and then maintaining a site. Mainfolk is for when you’d rather it be done, done right, and done for less.
They sell you tools. We hand you the finished site.
Wix/Squarespace hand you a blank canvas and a weekend of dragging boxes. Mainfolk’s AI writes, designs, and builds the whole site in about two minutes. You edit, not build.
Built for who you are.
Wix is general-purpose, tuned for no one. Mainfolk ships deep presets for fire, police, city, church, and local business — right pages, right tone, right structure from the first draft.
Compliance built in, not bolted on.
Wix and Squarespace sites routinely fall short of WCAG/ADA. For any government body under the DOJ ADA Title II deadline, that’s disqualifying. Mainfolk is WCAG 2.1 AA by construction.
Faster, and actually found.
Static, edge-served pages load instantly and are structured for Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Wix sites are heavy.
A real person answers.
Champlin Enterprises builds it and supports it — not a ticket queue.
And it costs less.
A genuinely good free site — real address, no ads — where Squarespace has no free plan and Wix puts ads on theirs. Paid plans undercut both while including what they charge extra for.
Feature by feature.
The honest comparison — where Mainfolk wins, and why.
| Feature | Mainfolk | Wix | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who builds the site | AI builds it in about 2 min | You do (drag-and-drop) | You do (drag-and-drop) |
| Writes the copy for you | Yes (AI) | No | No |
| Real free plan | Yes — real address, no ads | Free plan, but Wix ads + subdomain | No free plan (14-day trial) |
| Starting price | $0 free · $15/mo with your own domain | Starts around $17/mo (billed annually) | Starts around $16/mo (billed annually) |
| Built for fire/police/city/church | Deep presets | Generic templates | Generic templates |
| Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA / ADA) | By construction | Not guaranteed | Not guaranteed |
| Page speed | Static edge network, instant | Heavier | Moderate |
| Found by AI assistants | Structured for it | Not specifically | Not specifically |
| Visitor analytics | Included, private | Add-on / limited | Basic |
| Support | A person who built it | Ticket queue | Ticket queue |
| Made in | USA (Champlin Enterprises) | — | — |
Competitor prices and plans as of 2026 and may change — check their sites for current details. Comparison reflects standard published plans.
Price-shopping for a department?
Mainfolk Civic is $99/month ($990/year) — WCAG built in, an emergency alert banner, unlimited staff editors, and we migrate your old site for you. Compare that to a general Wix or Squarespace plan you still have to build and audit for accessibility yourself, or a legacy government-web vendor billing thousands a year.
Stop building. Start running.
AI builds your site in about two minutes. The Free plan is free forever — upgrade only when you’re ready.