How Long Does It Take to Get a Website Live?

When most people think about building a website, they picture a multi-month project. Weeks of meetings, endless rounds of revisions, designers asking for “brand guidelines” you don’t have, and a launch date that keeps sliding.

For executives and consultants, that timeline is a dealbreaker. You need something that works on your schedule, not the other way around.

Here’s the reality: a professional website can be live in 2-3 business days.

Why traditional timelines are so long

The traditional web design process looks something like this:

Discovery meeting (week 1)
Proposal and quote (week 2)
Design mockups, round 1 (week 3-4)
Revisions, round 2, maybe round 3 (week 5-7)
Development (week 8-10)
Content entry and testing (week 11-12)
Launch (week 13… maybe)

Most of this time is spent waiting. Waiting for feedback, waiting for the next meeting, waiting for “one more round of changes.”

It’s not that the work itself takes three months. It’s that the process is inefficient.

How the fast approach works

Modern web design for executives works differently:

Day 0: The preview. Before you’ve committed to anything, you receive a live preview of your site, built using your publicly available information. This isn’t a mockup or a wireframe. It’s a real, working website you can click through on your phone.

Day 1: Your input. You spend about 15 minutes telling us what to adjust. Different photo, updated title, tweaked text, different color palette. That’s it.

Day 2-3: Launch. We make the adjustments, connect your domain, and flip the switch. You’re live.

The total time investment on your end? About 15 minutes.

What you need to provide

This is the part executives appreciate most: how little we actually need from you:

A professional photo (headshot or environmental portrait)
A quick review of the text to make sure everything’s accurate
15 minutes to tell us what you’d emphasize or change

We already have a strong starting point from your public profile: LinkedIn, company website, press mentions. The preview you see is built from that information, so you’re not starting from scratch.

Why speed doesn’t mean corners are cut

There’s a natural skepticism: if it’s fast, is it good?

The speed comes from having infrastructure already in place. We’re not building a new system from scratch for every client. The technical foundation (hosting, security, performance optimization, SEO) is a proven system that’s been refined over time.

What changes per client is the content, design, and positioning. That’s the creative work, and it’s what we spend our time on. The technical plumbing is already done.

Think of it like a tailored suit: the tailor doesn’t reinvent fabric and stitching for every customer. They have a perfected process. What makes each suit unique is the fit, the fabric choice, and the finishing touches.

The real bottleneck is always the client

Honestly, the only thing that slows down the process is waiting for client input. If you respond quickly, we deliver quickly.

This isn’t a criticism. Executives are busy. That’s why we keep the input requirements minimal and specific. We don’t send a 20-question questionnaire. We don’t schedule four discovery meetings. We show you something concrete and ask “what would you change?”

What if I need more time?

No rush. The preview isn’t going anywhere. Some clients review it the same day and we’re live by tomorrow. Others take a week, share it with colleagues, and come back with a few notes.

There’s no pressure and no expiring deadline. The preview link works indefinitely, and it looks just as good on mobile as it does on desktop, so share it around and take the time you need.

The question isn’t how long a website takes to build. It’s how long it takes you to decide you want one. After that, we’re talking days, not months.