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Contractor websites

Your website is read by people deciding whether you are real

Buyers checking a name before a call. Primes screening teammates. Candidates deciding whether to reply. A contractor site has about fifteen seconds to answer what you do, who you serve and what you have already delivered.
This is the service we have delivered most often, so it has its own page rather than a line in a capability list.

01Proof

What clients said

We hired Jack to build the Ibis Innovative Solutions website after evaluating several other developers, and it was easily one of the best decisions we made early on. Jack delivered a polished, professional site at a fraction of what the bigger shops quoted us. What's kept us working with him long after launch is his responsiveness and ownership mentality. Whether it's a quick update, a feature upgrade, or just bouncing ideas around, Jack is always available and consistently goes the extra mile. He's the rare combination of talented engineer, fair partner, and genuinely good human. Highly recommend Jack and the Blacksmith AI team to any founder or company that values quality, value, and a true partner.

Tim LawrenceDirector of Operations, Ibis Innovative SolutionsLinkedIn recommendation, June 2026.

We engaged Jack and Blacksmith AI for a full website redesign and were highly impressed with both the efficiency and professionalism demonstrated throughout the project. Delivery was timely, communication was clear, and the final product aligned seamlessly with our expectations. We would confidently recommend their services.

The Crescendo Solutions TeamCrescendo Solutions LLCGiven to the Blacksmith team for website work.

02The gap

Capable companies, understated online

Most small contractors are further along than their website suggests. The site was built when the company was smaller, or built from a template that was never designed to carry contracting data, or built once and never touched again because updating it means filing a request with someone.

The cost of that is invisible and real. A prime doing due diligence on a teaming partner, a program office checking a name from a Sources Sought response, a senior engineer deciding whether to take your call: they all form a view in the first fifteen seconds, and they form it from a page you have not looked at in two years.

Common signals

  • Capability statements pasted into a page as an image nobody can search
  • Certifications and identifiers buried three clicks from the home page
  • Past performance described so generically it could belong to any company
  • No route from the site to a person, other than a generic inbox
  • Content that cannot be updated without a developer

03Selected work

Sites we have built

Every entry links to the live site so you can judge it rather than take our word for it.
The CS3 EGS website home page.

01Website and Digital Experience

CS3 EGS

A consortium site for a network of certified small businesses serving Navy and defense aerospace programs. The member directory is the working part: each company carries its own identifiers, codes and point of contact, published in a form a contracting officer can act on.

Delivered

  • Multi-page corporate website
  • Member directory with per-company contracting identifiers and code lookups
  • Content management integration for news and member highlights
  • Structured data and search fundamentals
Designed and built by BlacksmithVisit site
The Crescendo Solutions website home page.

02Website Redesign

Crescendo Solutions LLC

A full redesign for a small disadvantaged business working in technical data, integrated product support and custom software. The careers section is self-serve: the client posts roles and receives applications without touching the codebase.

Delivered

  • Full website redesign
  • Contracting identifiers and code presentation
  • Self-serve job posting through a content management system
  • Application handling and transactional email
Designed and built by BlacksmithVisit site
The Ready 3 website home page.

03Website and Digital Experience

Ready 3

A corporate site for a service-disabled veteran-owned small business in technical training, sustainment and engineering support. It publishes the full contracting profile, from identifiers and code coverage through to certifications, in machine-readable form.

Delivered

  • Corporate website
  • Contracting profile and certification presentation
  • Structured data for organization and capability information
Blacksmith engagementVisit site
The Ibis Innovative Solutions website home page.

04Website and Careers Platform

Ibis Innovative Solutions

A corporate site for a Reston, Virginia firm working across software development, systems engineering and cybersecurity for defense and intelligence customers. The careers section is self-serve, and both the contact and application paths carry layered protection against automated submissions.

Delivered

  • Corporate website
  • Job posting management through a content management system
  • Application pipeline with transactional email
  • Layered anti-automation protection on public forms
Designed and built by BlacksmithVisit site
The MFSI Government Group website home page.

05Website Redesign

MFSI Government Group

A redesign for a service-disabled veteran-owned small business supporting national security programs. Built in a restrained defense-technology register with a full light and dark system, a credentials ledger for identifiers and codes, and accessibility carried through the whole build.

Delivered

  • Website redesign in light and dark modes
  • Credentials ledger for contracting identifiers and code coverage
  • Accessibility and performance work
Designed and built by BlacksmithVisit site
All work

04Fit

Why a specialist matters here

  • 01

    We read the same documents you do

    Sources Sought notices, solicitations and capability statements are the raw material for this kind of site. Explaining what a UEI is, or why past performance is written carefully, is not part of the engagement.

  • 02

    Contracting data is a first-class feature

    Identifiers, code coverage and business status get designed presentation and structured markup, not a paragraph in the footer.

  • 03

    Restraint is the brief

    Your buyers are government and prime contractors. The design register that works there is closer to a technical document than a consumer product launch.

  • 04

    We build our own software

    The same team ships production applications. A website is the smallest thing we build, which is why the engineering underneath it is not an afterthought.

05Scope

What a build includes

Not every engagement needs all of it. This is the full list so you can strike what you do not want.
  • 01

    Strategy and architecture

    Who the site is for, in what order, and what each audience needs to find. Structure before pixels.

  • 02

    Interface design

    A visual system built for your company rather than adapted from a template, in light and dark, on every screen size.

  • 03

    Contracting data

    Identifiers, code coverage and business status presented where evaluators expect them, in text a search engine can read.

  • 04

    Capability statement

    A designed one-page statement that prints correctly and saves to PDF from the browser, kept in step with the site.

  • 05

    Past performance

    Work presented at the level of detail your contracts actually permit, which is usually more than companies assume.

  • 06

    Content management

    News, insights and job postings you publish yourself. No ticket, no developer, no waiting.

  • 07

    Technical foundations

    Structured data, sitemaps, canonical URLs, social previews and analytics readiness, set up once and correctly.

  • 08

    Performance and accessibility

    Fast on a phone on a bad connection, and usable with a keyboard and a screen reader. Both are testable, and we test them.

  • 09

    Deployment

    Live on infrastructure you own, with your domain, your accounts and a documented way to deploy changes.

06Process

How a build runs

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We read your capability statement, your last few proposals and your current site, then ask the questions those leave open.

    You getSite map, audience order, content inventory

  2. 02

    Design

    A visual direction applied to real pages with your real content, not a mood board with placeholder text.

    You getDesigned key pages, in light and dark

  3. 03

    Build

    Front end, content management, contracting data and the capability statement, on a preview URL you can watch fill in.

    You getWorking site on a preview deployment

  4. 04

    Launch

    Accessibility and performance checks, domain cutover, and a handover session recorded so nobody has to remember it.

    You getLive site, documentation, editing access

07Questions

Asked often

How long does it take?

A focused contractor site is usually a matter of weeks rather than months. The variable is almost never the build. It is how quickly content and approvals come back from your side, which is why discovery front-loads that work.

What does it cost?

Every engagement is quoted as a fixed price after discovery, so you approve a number before anything starts. Published market ranges for agency-built sites are on our home page with their sources, if you want a reference point before we speak.

Can we update it ourselves?

Yes. Anything that changes regularly, such as news, insights and job postings, is connected to a content management system with a plain editing interface. Structural changes still need a developer, which is true of any site.

Do we own it?

Yes. The code, the domain, the hosting accounts and the content are yours. There is no proprietary platform holding your site hostage and no license that lapses.

Can you work with our existing brand?

Usually, yes. If you have a mark and a palette we work inside them. If the brand is the actual problem, we will say so, and modernizing it can be part of the scope.

What about ITAR, export control and sensitive content?

A public marketing site should not contain controlled information, and part of discovery is deciding what stays off it. We build with that boundary in mind. We are not export control counsel, and decisions about what is releasable stay with you.

Send us your current site.

We will tell you what we would change and why, in writing, before anyone talks about a proposal.

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