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Local trades and home servicesGrok

Website builder fees gone after 10 years: a landscaper built his own site with Grok

Picked and checked by Olga Pearson, host of The Practical AI Show · Published

Result

self-reported

Built his own website from scratch with Grok, which ended 10 years of paying Squarespace every year and gave him full control and his own analytics. AI now also handles most of his daily admin: email drafts, safety forms, crew attendance, scheduling and month-to-month tracking.

He has run a landscape construction company for 17 years and isn't a coder. He used Grok to build his own website from scratch, with the animation and layout he always wanted, and stopped paying Squarespace after 10 years. Now AI handles most of his daily admin: email drafts, safety forms, crew attendance, scheduling and month-to-month tracking. He says it saved him money and time.

Who did it

@ryanponLandscape construction company (17 years)@ryanpon on X · Oct 26, 2026

Try it now

  1. List what your current site has to keep: pages, contact form, photos, reviews, and how customers find you.
  2. Ask the AI to build the site with you one page at a time, and look at each page on your phone.
  3. Set up your own analytics so you can see visits and form fills.
  4. Move your domain and test every form and phone link before you cancel the old plan.
  5. Next, hand it one admin job a week: crew attendance, safety forms or the schedule.
Copy-paste prompt
I run a landscape construction company and I'm not a coder. Help me build a simple website I own: home, services, project photos, reviews and a contact form that emails me. Give me one page at a time, tell me exactly where to paste it, and wait for me to say it works on my phone before moving on.

Make it run every week

A play works once. Turn it into a routine in three small steps:

  1. Run it once and check the result yourself.
  2. Give your AI a schedule. Tell it when to run this play (every week, or every month) and to message you with what it found before you act.
  3. Keep a log. One line per run: what was checked, anything flagged, what you did.

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What to watch out for

Self-reported from his own post. The website was built last year; the admin work is what he uses AI for now. Before you cancel a website plan, check who holds your domain and back up your photos and form leads. Build it with Page: if you'd rather not host it yourself, Page gives you a site you edit by talking to it.

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