Clearframe
Custom digital face. Complete operating system.

Your business deserves more than a website.

Clearframe builds the public face and the machinery behind it: custom sites, backends, customer portals, employee workspaces, intake, records, automations, and admin tools. Start with a sharp website. Keep going until the whole operation has a digital home.

Need memory and controlled automation? See Continuum →
Free tools

Four free tools. Pick the two that fit your business.

A live one-screen demo of your site, a website security check, an AI visibility check, or a system blueprint — real work, done by hand and sent to your inbox. The only thing asked in return is an honest Google review.

01Live one-screen site demo
02Website security check
03AI visibility check
What Clearframe builds

A custom digital face for the business behind it.

The site is the first thing people see. The system behind it is what makes it valuable: forms that capture the right details, portals that keep people informed, backends that store records, and tools that help staff move work without chasing everything manually.

Find the first layer Choose one

Where should the build begin?

Recommended first build

Digital Face

Start with the public surface: a custom website that explains the offer, builds trust, and gives people a clean path to act.

  • Brand-specific pages, copy, imagery, and calls to action.
  • Contact and request paths built around how the business works.
  • Designed to expand into portals, records, and backend workflows.
Start with this
1Public face

A custom site that looks like the business, not a rented template.

2Backend

Records, files, quote details, admin tools, and workflow logic.

3Customer portal

Status, uploads, approvals, messages, and private project pages.

4Employee portal

Jobs, timecards, notes, checklists, reviews, and owner visibility.

Public site Backend records Customer portal Employee portal Admin dashboard Automation controls
Full custom builds

Start with the site. End with the ecosystem.

The first version can be a clean public face. The next layers can become backend records, customer status pages, employee portals, job folders, material lists, admin approvals, notifications, and internal dashboards.

Advanced operating layer

When the system needs memory, governance, and controlled automation, that's Continuum.

Clearframe can deliver the public surface and the private tools around it. Continuum is the deeper operating layer for work that needs persistent memory, decision history, intake routing, records, updates, and controlled automation.

Custom systems with continuity

For businesses with real ongoing work, the build can keep project memory, decisions, tasks, SOPs, customer records, and handoff files organized so the operation does not reset every time someone opens a new thread, spreadsheet, or inbox.

Standard

The work should feel custom because it is.

01

Not a template wearing your logo

The structure, copy, visuals, and calls to action match the business instead of forcing the business into a generic page.

02

The backend matches the real workflow

Forms, records, dashboards, notifications, and review steps are designed around how the work actually moves.

03

The ecosystem can grow one layer at a time

Start with the public face, then add customer portals, employee portals, internal tools, and operating memory when the business needs them.

Offers

Three ways to start. One clear ladder.

Every build starts custom, and every tier ships with security, SEO, hosting, mobile, and analytics included. Start with a page, grow into a system, or go straight to the top: a fully custom interface run by the Continuum runtime.

Tier 1 · Start here

Launch Site

From $1,500 one-time · live in about two weeks

A complete custom site — up to five pages — that makes the business look real, explains what you offer, and gives people one clean way to act.

  • Up to five custom pages — home, services, about, proof, contact
  • Design and copy written for your business
  • A lead path that lands requests straight in your inbox
  • Security, SEO, hosting, mobile, and analytics included free
  • Built to grow into the next tier without starting over
Start my site
Tier 2 · The working system

Business System

From $4,500 · scoped to your workflow

The public face plus the machinery behind it: intake, records, portals, and the admin tools your team touches every day.

  • Everything in Launch Site
  • Intake forms that create clean, saved records — not loose emails
  • A customer portal, employee portal, or both
  • Admin dashboard, approvals, and notifications
Map my system
Tier 3 · The flagship

Continuum Operations

From $7,500 setup + $600/mo runtime · founding rate locked

A fully custom interface for your business, run by the Continuum runtime — live operating memory, decision trails, and automated follow-up underneath every screen.

  • An operating interface built around your exact workflow
  • Continuum runtime: memory, decision history, automated follow-up
  • Private lanes for customer records and sensitive files
  • Done for you and kept current — managed continuity
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The entry point — Solo Start · $495 one-time

For sole proprietors and one-person operations: a custom page with one clear lead path, live about a week from your intake answers. Your own domain is registered and included — standard registration up to $25/yr; premium names are quoted before you commit. You own everything: the site files and the domain, in your own registrar account, handed over at launch. Your first month of site management is included — monitoring, security updates, and up to two content changes — plus the same free essentials: security, SEO, hosting, mobile, and analytics. We build it, you own it, we manage it.

Start solo

Not sure which tier fits? Start the conversation and we scope it around the actual work — you never pay for layers you do not need yet.

Included free with every tier

Every Clearframe build ships with these as standard — set up right on day one.

Security hardening

HTTPS everywhere, protected forms, and no plugin sprawl to patch or worry about.

SEO foundation

Structured data, search titles and descriptions, sitemap, and social preview cards done right.

Speed

Fast pages and optimized images — the site loads before visitors think about leaving.

Mobile ready

Every page designed for the phone screen most of your customers will actually use.

Hosting & domain setup

Reliable hosting configured and connected to your domain — no separate vendor to manage.

Visitor analytics

Privacy-friendly stats so you can see what is working without cookie banners.

Common questions

What exactly do you get?

Short answers before you start a public site, backend, portal, or full custom ecosystem.

I am not technical. Can I still use this?

Yes. You describe what you need. You get back something that works. The technical side stays on this end.

Is this just a website?

No. It can start as a website, but the build can grow into the backend: intake, records, portals, admin tools, automations, and controlled operating workflows.

What can a custom build include?

Public pages, request forms, quote flows, file uploads, customer portals, employee portals, dashboards, status pages, approvals, notifications, saved records, and reports.

How long does a build take?

A straightforward public site can often be done in one to two weeks. Larger builds with portals, backends, service connections, or deeper integrations are scoped around the actual workflow.

Start

Ready to give the business a proper digital face?

Tell me what the business does, what customers need to do online, and what the team keeps tracking by hand. We will turn that into the first useful build.

Michael Paynotta
Michael Paynotta Owner-operated Clearframe builds. Direct contact, no anonymous agency handoff.
Method

Start with the face. Build the system behind it.

A Clearframe build can begin as the site people see and become the private ecosystem the business uses: backend records, customer access, employee tools, admin review, and controlled automation.