Who you would be hiring

Russell Dempsey. I own SgtPooki LLC, a Washington company, and consultagent is the whole of it. There is no team behind me and no contractor I hand your site to. When you send a change, I am the one who reads it, does it, and replies.

I am my own first customer

The first site on this template, this hosting and this change process was one of mine. When something about it is annoying, I find out because it is annoying me, not because a customer had to complain.

That is the part worth knowing about me. Not a resume: the fact that I am the first person to feel it when this is done badly.

What I actually am

An engineer by trade, and the owner of the business you would be paying. Those are two different claims and both matter.

The engineer part is why your site is a set of static files with no database, no plugins and nothing that has to be patched on a Tuesday night to stay up. It is why it loads fast on a phone in a parking lot with one bar. Most small-business sites are a content management system with a dozen plugins, and most of what goes wrong with them is one of those plugins.

The owner part is why you get an answer. There is no ticket queue between you and me because there is nobody to put in one.

What I will not do

• Promise you a position in Google search results. Nobody who promises that can deliver it, and you have probably paid one of them already.
• Take on your site without telling you what it will cost. If what you want is not the $250 plan, I say so before we start, not after.
• Hold your site hostage. Your domain is yours, your words and photos are yours, and the code is yours to take once the six-month minimum is served.
• Sell you a website you do not need. If you are not sure you need one, read this first.

The honest limitation

I am one person. If I am ill, your site keeps serving, because static files on Cloudflare do not need me. What waits is changes, and if I am going to be out for more than a couple of days you hear it from me first.

That is a real limit and I would rather you weighed it now than found it out later. A business that needs a vendor with staff and a continuity clause should hire one, and I will say so if you ask me.

Larger jobs

Bigger sites, migrations off WordPress, anything with a backend, a store, or more than one location: those are real work and they get a written quote, not the $250 plan. Email consult@sgtpooki.com and say what you have.

Ask about your site, and I will tell you whether the plan fits.