# GridHooks

> GridHooks is a design and development studio in North Carolina, USA. We design and build websites, web apps, mobile apps, brands, AI systems and business automations for small and growing businesses, with a fixed price agreed before work starts.

- Fixed price, agreed in writing before any work starts.
- A real person replies within one business day.
- Clients own everything: domain, site, code and content. No lock-in.
- Based in North Carolina, USA. Studio hours Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 ET. Works with clients across the US.
- Contact: hello@gridhooks.com · https://www.gridhooks.com/contact · Start a project: https://www.gridhooks.com/start-a-project

## Start here

- [Home](https://www.gridhooks.com/): Websites, apps and brands that bring in business.
- [Services](https://www.gridhooks.com/services): Six disciplines, one team, fixed prices.
- [Work](https://www.gridhooks.com/work): Client sites and apps we designed and built.
- [How we work](https://www.gridhooks.com/process): From first call to launch in four steps.
- [About](https://www.gridhooks.com/about): The studio, our principles and our promises.
- [Contact](https://www.gridhooks.com/contact): Talk to a real person within one business day.
- [Start a project](https://www.gridhooks.com/start-a-project): Five quick questions to a fixed price.

## Services

- [Websites](https://www.gridhooks.com/services/websites): A fast, good-looking website that helps people find you and get in touch.
- [Web apps](https://www.gridhooks.com/services/web-applications): Custom online tools, portals, and dashboards built around how your business works.
- [Mobile apps](https://www.gridhooks.com/services/mobile-apps): iPhone and Android apps that feel smooth, simple, and worth keeping.
- [AI systems](https://www.gridhooks.com/services/ai-pipelines): Practical AI that reads, sorts, answers, and drafts, so your team can do the real work.
- [Automations](https://www.gridhooks.com/services/business-automations): Connect your tools so busywork happens on its own, without copy and paste.
- [Branding](https://www.gridhooks.com/services/branding-and-assets): A logo, colors, and a clear look that makes your business easy to remember.

## Who we help

- [Home services](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/home-services): Websites for HVAC, plumbing, roofing and contractors that get named by Google and AI, answer every call and book the job. Fixed price, you own it.
- [Medical & dental](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/medical-dental): Websites for independent medical and dental practices: recommended by Google and AI, 24/7 online booking and trust before the first visit. Fixed price.
- [Law & professional services](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/law-professional): Websites for law firms, CPAs and advisors that get cited by Google and AI, cut what you pay per lead and book consultations after hours. Fixed price.
- [Restaurants & retail](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/restaurants-retail): Websites for restaurants, cafés and local shops that take orders without app fees, keep your hours right on Google and AI, and bring people in.
- [Real estate](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/real-estate): Websites for real estate agents that reply to every lead in seconds, bring seller leads you own with no referral fee, and get you named by AI.
- [Fitness, salons & wellness](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/fitness-wellness): Websites for gyms, studios, salons and spas that take bookings and deposits 24/7, keep new clients off commission apps and get recommended by AI.
- [Auto services](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/auto-services): Websites for independent repair, tire, body and detail shops that book jobs while you work and earn trust with clear prices and real reviews.
- [Studios & venues](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/studios-venues): Websites for recording, photo and podcast studios and venues that book sessions with deposits online, keep marketplace fees and sell your rooms.
- [Vibe coders & indie devs](https://www.gridhooks.com/for/vibe-coders): Built your app with AI? We audit, fix or take it over to make it production-ready.

## Work

- [GreyArm](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/greyarm): See, and control, every AI in your home
- [Sighted](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/sighted): A live sky-sighting platform that checks every report
- [ClassFactor](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/classfactor): Any class material becomes a complete study system
- [Legacy Recording Studios](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/legacy-recording): A nationwide studio finder with booking built in
- [Selentara](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/selentara): An open-world shooter that plays right in the browser
- [ProVital Transit](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/provital-transit): Medical ride requests made simple for Charlotte families
- [HEAL](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/teleheal): A free, peer-led recovery community for life after treatment
- [Montiago Visual Studios](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/montiago): A Charlotte studio site that sells the room
- [ViralUFOs](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/viral-ufos): A UFO news site that reads like evidence
- [2theKore Carpet Cleaning](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/2thekore): One cleaning site that serves offices and homeowners
- [Ensure Domains](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/ensure-domains): Domains, hosting, and email sold from one storefront
- [Simply Custom Solutions](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/simply-custom): Gate and fence services sorted by who's buying
- [By His Hands Construction & Grading](https://www.gridhooks.com/work/by-his-hands): A grading contractor site built around quote requests

## Journal

- [All articles](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal): Every guide, newest first.
- [Shipping Production RAG: Evals, Guardrails, and the Monitoring You Can't Skip](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal/shipping-production-rag-evals-guardrails-monitoring): Retrieval-augmented generation is easy to demo and hard to trust. This is how we take RAG systems from impressive prototype to production-grade — with retrieval that actually works, evals that catch regressions, guardrails against hallucination, and the monitoring that keeps it honest.
- [Core Web Vitals in 2026: The Engineering Playbook for Sub-Second Sites](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal/core-web-vitals-2026-engineering-playbook): Core Web Vitals reward sites that feel instant. This is the field-tested playbook we use to ship sub-second marketing sites — from the metrics that matter to the rendering, image, and font decisions behind them.
- [Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture That Scales Without Burning You Down](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal/multi-tenant-saas-architecture-that-scales): Every SaaS is multi-tenant whether you planned for it or not. This is how we think about tenant isolation, the trade-offs between shared and separate databases, and the patterns that keep a growing SaaS fast, safe, and cheap to run.
- [The Retention-First Playbook for Mobile Apps People Actually Keep](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal/mobile-app-retention-first-playbook): Downloads are vanity; retention is the business. This is the retention-first playbook we design mobile apps around — the first-run experience, the habit loop, performance as a feature, and the metrics that tell you the truth.
- [Back-Office Automation That Pays for Itself in a Quarter](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal/back-office-automation-that-pays-for-itself): Automation done right buys back time, removes errors, and pays for itself fast. This is how we find the processes worth automating, design systems that survive contact with reality, and avoid the brittle scripts that become tomorrow's liability.
- [Design Tokens and the Brand System That Actually Ships](https://www.gridhooks.com/journal/design-tokens-brand-system-that-ships): Most brand guidelines die in a PDF no engineer ever opens. Design tokens are how a brand survives contact with production — one source of truth for color, type, and spacing that flows from Figma into every platform you ship.

## Free tools

- [The Lab](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab): All free tools in one place.
- [Dofollow Link Checker](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab/dofollow-link-checker): See which links on any page pass SEO value.
- [SEO Audit Engine](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab/seo-audit): A plain-English SEO health check for any page.
- [Brand Palette Generator](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab/brand-palette): Build an accessible color palette from one brand color.
- [Meta & OG Previewer](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab/og-preview): Preview how a link looks when shared on social and in chat.
- [Sitemap Inspector](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab/sitemap): Validate an XML sitemap and see what it tells search engines.
- [AI Brief Builder](https://www.gridhooks.com/lab/brief-builder): Turn a rough idea into a clear project brief.

## Company

- [Changelog](https://www.gridhooks.com/changelog): What changed on the site, and when.
- [Privacy policy](https://www.gridhooks.com/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://www.gridhooks.com/terms)

## Optional

- [Full detail for AI assistants](https://www.gridhooks.com/llms-full.txt): services, industries, case study results and FAQs in one file
- [XML sitemap](https://www.gridhooks.com/sitemap_index.xml)