Web design
Expertly designed websites for construction, restaurants, healthcare, government and law. Information on a page should not cost more than $500. Regulated and professional work costs more, capped at $3,000.00.
Ascend with Avena knows how to make a good website, and we build them by industry - construction companies, restaurants, healthcare, local government and law firms. We also run the subscription toolset Wisconsin law firms use to find, draft, send and track attorney advertising. Both are built and owned here in De Pere.
The offerings
There are two of them on purpose. A construction company, a restaurant, a clinic, a city hall or a law firm needs a presence people trust before they call. A Wisconsin law firm may also need the machinery that turns the public record into signed work. They fit together, and neither one requires the other.
Expertly designed websites for construction, restaurants, healthcare, government and law. Information on a page should not cost more than $500. Regulated and professional work costs more, capped at $3,000.00.
One subscription for Wisconsin law firms: case and public-records intelligence, letters drafted under attorney authorization, same-day dispatch, delivery tracked back to the case.
Web design
We design and build the whole thing - identity, structure, layout, hosting, the search-ready bones - and hand you a site that loads in a blink on a weak signal and reads clearly on a phone. That part does not change with the size of the business.
Construction companies, restaurants, clinics, city halls and law firms each need the same thing from a website: load fast, say plainly what they do, and make it easy to reach them. What differs is how much the page is responsible for once it is published, and that is what sets the band.
The craft is identical in both bands. What changes the price is how much compliance and liability the website has to carry - not how big your company is, and never the quality of the work.
Four industries, one standard of craft. Every photo here was taken in Wisconsin.
Type, color, photography and pacing are chosen for your trade and your market. You see the direction, and agree with it, before a single line of code exists.
No page builder, no theme, no plugin stack to babysit. Clean markup means pages that render instantly and never break because something updated itself at 2 a.m.
We configure the domain, DNS, certificates, caching and redirects, then hand you the keys. It is 2026 - a site this size does not need a monthly hosting bill.
Service pages, location pages, people pages and structured data arranged in a hierarchy a customer and a crawler can both follow without guessing.
Every layout is built for a 375-pixel phone first, with keyboard focus, color contrast and reduced-motion handled - because people read you standing in a driveway, not sitting at a desk.
Concept, typography, palette and imagery chosen for your business and reviewed with you before the build starts.
Every page hand-authored: home, what you do, who you are, where you work, contact and enquiry.
Domain, DNS, certificates, caching and redirects configured and handed over to you, in your name.
Information architecture, metadata and structured data laid out so your pages can actually be indexed and understood.
Responsive from 375 pixels up, with keyboard focus, color contrast and reduced-motion support built in rather than bolted on.
You own the domain, the code and the site. No lock-in, no mandatory retainer, no hostage situation if you leave.
The two bands
Every site we build gets the same hand-authored care. The only thing that moves the number is how much the page is legally responsible for once it is published.
Price follows the compliance and liability burden of the work, not the size of the business.
Band one
Trades and small businesses. Plumbers, electricians, HVAC and roofing crews, landscapers, painters, movers, restaurants, cafes, shops, salons, studios, general contractors.
This is the same craft applied to a simpler problem. Who you are, what you do, where you work and how to reach you - hand-authored, fast on a phone, honest. There is no compliance layer to carry, so there is no compliance layer to pay for. It is not a lesser website. It is the right website.
Band two
Law firms, medical and dental practices, clinics, city halls and local governments, financial advisers and insurance agencies, real-estate brokerages, and anything else carrying advertising, licensing or privacy rules.
Most projects land in the $2,000 range.
More, because of the guidelines. A regulated site is not just information on a page - it is a published communication a licensing board can read back to you. Staying inside those high guidelines is work, and that work is the whole of the difference.
Not a bigger design. Not more pages. A review layer that keeps a published communication inside the guidelines your profession is held to.
Every page read against the rules your licence lives under - for a Wisconsin law firm that includes SCR 20:7.3 on advertising and solicitation, and the equivalent for medical, financial and insurance practice.
Prior-results language, no-relationship notices, jurisdiction statements and required disclosures written into the pages that need them rather than buried in a footer nobody reads.
Contrast, focus order, keyboard paths, labelled fields and reduced-motion support - so the site works for everyone who needs you, and holds up if anyone asks how.
Enquiry forms, inboxes and analytics configured so a prospective client's information does not leak into a third-party tool by accident.
A record of what was published and when, so you can show a board exactly what your advertising said on a given date.
Nothing goes live until you have read it as the person whose licence is attached to it. That round trip is built into the schedule, not billed as an extra.
Both bands are a project price. The recurring column is the same either way, and it is almost empty.
Per year, for the domain renewal. That is the entire recurring cost of owning the site.
Served from the edge. There is no rented box behind it to pay for.
*if you choose to host with Cloudflare, our preferred hosting provider. The $10.47 is an annual domain renewal fee billed by the registrar, not by us.
$0.00/month hosting holds for a professional-services practice site. It does not hold for a multi-state, multi-agency or corporate platform serving on the order of 20,000 visits a day. If that is what you are building, we will say so plainly before you sign anything.
We designed the website for Avena Law Office, a Madison criminal-defense practice and a web-design client of ours - a band-two build, guidelines and all.
Attorney advertising tools
The second offering is a specialist one, for Wisconsin law firms only. The subscription toolset exists to take those five hours back. It finds the case, drafts the letter, waits for your authorization, sends it the same day, and tracks it home.
Lawyers capture just three billable hours in an eight-hour day. The other five drain into spreadsheets, old templates and post-office runs.
None of that is legal work. It is the clerical weight around legal work, and it is the part a well-built system can carry. The judgment stays exactly where it belongs.
How the information moves
One path, six stops, and a licensed attorney standing in the middle of it.
A new filing enters the Wisconsin court record.
The case lands in your workspace with every meticulous detail attached.
A letter is drafted, perfectly personalized to the recipient.
Nothing happens without an authorization from a licensed attorney.
Approved by 3:00 P.M. CST, it is dispatched the same day.
Delivery is tracked and written back against the case.
A subscriber tool showing every meticulous detail of every case in the state, in one organized case-by-case workspace.
A 1,000-hour trained model built specifically for legal data and content. It drafts letters perfectly personalized to the recipient.
Automated letter dispatch and delivery tracking, included in the subscription price.
Our own public-facing radar for Wisconsin court activity, powered by AvenaAI on the CaseTracker engine.
Leads available to Wisconsin law firms each year - and predictably more.
That is not a projection dressed up as a promise. It is a count, because the platform has access to quite literally every case in the state.
Brown County, Dane County, and the entire state of Wisconsin. What your firm pursues out of that volume stays your firm's decision, every single time.
The toolset surfaces information and prepares drafts. It does not decide, and it does not send.
Nothing happens without an authorization from a licensed attorney. Every draft is reviewed and approved by your firm before it moves an inch.
Records use, contact information and outreach are handled against Wisconsin statutes, not a generic national template pointed at a different state.
Advertising and solicitation drafts are written against Wisconsin's SCR 20:7.3 rules. Your firm remains responsible for the final communication.
A construction company, a restaurant, a clinic, a city hall, a law firm - or the toolset on top. We will tell you plainly what it costs before anyone signs anything, and we will not pad the number to make it feel serious.