Start from your situation, not from a menu.
Everything I do fits under four situations. Find yours below. Each service is explained in plain terms, because you should never have to buy something you cannot explain to your own bookkeeper.
Greg Drake Digital, a one-person practice in Petaluma, California, works in four areas: building and rescuing websites; improving how businesses show up in Google search and in AI answers; setting up practical AI automation and providing technology consulting; and maintaining client sites month to month with measured, dated reports.
I need a website. Or mine just broke.
The front door of the practice. Every site I build loads fast, has nothing bolted on that can be hacked, and is built so Google and AI tools can read exactly who you are and what you do. You own all of it from day one.
The AI-Ready Build
The standard build
A new site done right: your story, clean code, no database, no plugins, nothing to hack. "AI-ready" means the site carries labels in its code that tell Google and tools like ChatGPT exactly who you are, what you do, and where you work, so the machines describing you get it right. Details, timelines, and what is included →
The Rush Build
When the calendar is the boss
The same build, compressed for a real deadline: a launch, a listing, an event. Days, not months. We agree in writing on what ships first and what follows.
Site Rescue
Down, hacked, or held hostage · same-day lane
Your site is down, defaced, or a vendor is holding it hostage. Email me with RESCUE in the subject line and it goes to the top of the pile the same business day. The three-step script is here.
Consolidation
Usually follows the domain portfolio review
Several aging sites, one business. I fold them into a single site that can actually be maintained, with every old web address forwarding to the right new page so you lose nothing.
Campaign & presentation pages
One page, one job
A purpose-built page for a push: a buyer's guide, an event, a launch. Built fast, measured after.
I want to be found and chosen.
Two kinds of search matter now. The one you know: showing up when people search Google. And the newer one: showing up when someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI "who should I hire?" and gets a short list. I measure where you stand in both, then fix what keeps you out of the answer. What I will not do is promise you a guaranteed ranking or a guaranteed AI mention. Nobody can. What I can do is make you easier to find, easier to verify, and easier to recommend, and show you the measurements moving.
The AI Visibility Audit
Start here for situation 02
What ChatGPT and Google's AI actually say about you today, documented, and exactly why. In plain terms: the machines can only recommend you if they can read clear, consistent facts about you. This audit finds what they are reading now and what is missing.
The AI Visibility Program
The ongoing version, when findings call for it
The fixes, applied and kept current: consistent business facts everywhere the machines look, pages that genuinely answer the questions your customers ask, and re-measurement on a schedule, because the rules keep changing.
The Full Website Audit
The flagship diagnostic
Every page of your site through every instrument: speed, security, accessibility, and how readable your business facts are to search engines. Findings ranked by severity, each one dated, each one explained in a sentence you can repeat.
The Authority Audit
For professionals whose name is the brand
Everything a prospect finds when they look you up, scored, with the highest-value fixes ranked. If clients hire you, not a company, this is the one to start with.
The Reputation Audit & Repair
Audit first; repair when findings call for it
Your profiles, reviews, and listings, checked for the stale, the mixed-up, and the quietly wrong. Then, if needed, the cleanup: one consistent identity everywhere people and machines check up on you.
The Competitive Benchmark
Before you decide how much to spend
The same instruments, run on you and your competitors, side by side. You do not have to outrun the bear, just the other hikers, and the side-by-side shows exactly how much is enough. Sometimes the honest answer is "do not spend much here." You get that answer with the data attached.
The Complete Picture
The deep version
The Full Website Audit, the Competitive Benchmark, and the Reputation Audit in one brief, for when you want the whole chessboard before you move.
I want the business to run smoother.
The least visible part of the practice and often the most valuable. AI can genuinely take work off your plate, if someone sets it up around your actual workflows instead of selling you a subscription and walking away.
Working Systems
Custom AI, built around your workflows
AI set up to do real work in your business: drafting the proposal from your notes, summarizing the inbox each morning, reading a stack of documents and pulling out what matters, watching a deadline so you do not have to. Every system ships with guardrails and a human review point wherever a mistake would cost you money or reputation. I build these tools for my own practice first, then shape them to yours. If AI is not connected to a workflow, it is a demo, not an asset.
Tech Cleanup
A fixed sprint
The accumulated mess, sorted: accounts nobody remembers, email that lands in spam, files in five places, subscriptions you forgot you pay for. A short, fixed engagement with a written list of what changed.
Consulting
A second brain, by the question
Honest answers about tools, vendors, process, and where technology actually pays off for a business your size. Grounded in the same evidence discipline as everything else here. If the honest answer is that you do not need what I sell, that is the answer you get.
Hardware & software support
The steady hands
Machines set up, email and domains sorted, backups verified, and someone to call before small problems become outages. In person around Sonoma County, remote anywhere.
I want someone keeping watch.
Every measurement on this site decays. Software ages, rules change, listings drift. The cheapest problems are the ones caught early by someone who is actually looking.
Site Care
Month to month, leave anytime
Around-the-clock monitoring, software kept current, backups verified, and a one-page weekly report in plain English. A subscription, not a hostage situation: you own the domain, the site, and the content, always.
Site Care Plus
Care, plus the quiet surfaces
Everything in Site Care, plus upkeep of the pages that go stale without anyone noticing: legal notices, accessibility, the fine print that regulators and lawyers read.
The Quarterly Reading
The cheapest way to never be surprised
Your five key measurements, re-run every quarter, dated, with any drift explained. Like a physical for your website.
The Compliance Review
When counsel or conscience asks
Accessibility, privacy notices, and software so old its maker no longer fixes security holes in it, documented in a report you can hand to a lawyer or an insurer. Not legal advice; the factual groundwork for it.
The Domain Portfolio Review
For collectors of web addresses
Every domain you own, what it costs, what it risks, and what to keep, forward, or drop. Renewal dates watched so nothing lapses.
Rules in writing, before money moves.
Measure first
Readings and audits come first, with fixed scope. The findings are yours either way, even if you take them to someone else.
Fixed written quote
Every project gets one. No hourly meter running while you wonder what the bill will be.
You own everything
Care is month to month. Leave anytime, and the domain, the site, and the content go with you.
The not-buy list
Every proposal includes what I recommend you not buy. It is the fastest way I know to earn the second project.
Want the market context first? I published the honest North Bay ranges: what a website costs in Sonoma County.
That is normal. Start with the reading.
Send one web address. I send back five dated measurements of how your site is doing, each explained in one sentence, free. Or just email me what is bothering you, in your own words.