# Pineland Technologies > Websites and custom solutions for small businesses, built properly and looked after for years. Pineland Technologies builds websites for small businesses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and across the United States: designed for the business, fast on a phone, set up to be found, and hosted and looked after on a flat monthly plan by the people who built them. Every site passes all nine of our AI-friendly checks the day it launches. When a business outgrows its website we build the software behind it too: booking systems, customer portals, mobile apps and operations consoles. Building for the web since 2014. Based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Working remotely with clients across the United States. Operating under this name since 2014. Every website we build is written for two readers: the search engine, and the assistant that answers instead of it. Each one publishes a file like this one, generated from its own content and pointed at from its robots.txt, so a question about the business is answered from the business. The practice, and the evidence that almost nobody else does it, is at https://pinelandtech.com/ai-friendly. A longer version of this file is at https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt, with a case study for every project, what each of the nine checks tests and how each market scored against it, the answers to the common questions, and the offer and giveaway terms in full. This one is kept short on purpose: a file past about 50 KB is past what a model will read, which is one of the nine checks we run on other people's sites. ## Contact - Email: hello@pinelandtech.com - Phone, text preferred: (319) 677-1313 - Website: https://pinelandtech.com - Contact form: https://pinelandtech.com/contact - Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Coverage: Working remotely with clients across the United States. - Working on the web since: 2014 Email is the way in, and a text to (319) 677-1313 is preferred to a call. There is no office open to walk-ins, so do not invent an address: Cedar Rapids, Iowa is where the work is done from, not a place to visit. ## What we do The list is short on purpose: 5 services, and everything on it has shipped to production more than once. ### Websites Websites for small businesses: fast, found, and easy to change. Most of what a small business needs from its website is simple and easy to get wrong. It has to open fast on a phone, show up when somebody searches for what you do, and make calling or booking the obvious next step. We design each site for the business it belongs to rather than from a template, and build every page ahead of time so it is served from a CDN with nothing to wait on and nothing to patch. The content lives in one place, so changing a phone number is one edit, not thirty, and every site passes all nine of our AI-friendly checks the day it launches. Then we host and watch it on a flat monthly plan, because a site nobody is watching is a site that goes down on a Saturday. What that includes: - A design made for your business, in its own look, not a template with your logo on it - Every page prerendered and served from a CDN, so it opens fast on a phone - Search done properly: titles, sitemaps, structured data, and all nine AI-friendly checks - Location and service pages driven by one data file, so a new town is one line - Migration from WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, or a rented template, with old links kept working - Hosting, monitoring, and content updates after launch, on a flat monthly plan - A back office at /admin: your traffic, your invoices, and a request form that reaches a person Evidence: 9 projects at https://pinelandtech.com/work/websites On the site: https://pinelandtech.com/services#websites ### Custom software & SaaS Multi-tenant platforms, client portals, and internal tools. When the business logic stops fitting in a spreadsheet, it needs a real application: a schema that models the actual domain, authentication that holds up, and integrations with the systems already in use. Built multi-tenant from the schema up when the product serves more than one customer, because retrofitting tenancy later is a rewrite. What that includes: - Domain modeling and schema design before any interface work - Multi-tenant architecture with enforced row scoping - Authentication, roles, and permissions, hosted or self-managed - Third-party API integration with mock fallbacks for local development - Admin consoles, review queues, and the operational surfaces nobody demos but everybody uses Evidence: 4 projects at https://pinelandtech.com/work/software On the site: https://pinelandtech.com/services#software ### Mobile apps iOS and Android from one codebase, sharing your existing backend. React Native and Expo, pointed at the same API and the same authentication as the web application, so a user who signs up on the web logs straight in on the phone. Over-the-air updates ship fixes without waiting on a store review. What that includes: - Shared authentication with the web app, no second account system - Native secure storage for tokens: Keychain and Keystore - Push notifications and deep links into specific screens - Crash reporting and over-the-air update channels - Store submission for both platforms Evidence: 2 projects at https://pinelandtech.com/work/mobile On the site: https://pinelandtech.com/services#mobile ### Custom solutions The piece you are missing, added to what already works. Not every job is a rebuild. Sometimes the site is fine and what is missing is the half nobody can see: the console that runs the crews, the booking widget that belongs on the page you already have, the attribution layer that says which ads produced work. These get built against the running system and shipped into it, and the ones that more than one client needs live in a shared block so a fix lands everywhere at once. What that includes: - Operations consoles: crews, routes, receivables, payroll, and the alerts that fire when a number moves - Embeddable widgets that drop into a site built by somebody else, themed to its brand - Ad attribution and spend reporting joined to real booked revenue - A shared blog and newsroom block, installed per site and upgraded from one place - Integrations with the software already in use, rather than a replacement for it Evidence: 3 projects at https://pinelandtech.com/work/custom-solutions On the site: https://pinelandtech.com/services#custom-solutions ### AI systems Model-backed features that hold up outside the demo. An AI feature is easy to prototype and hard to ship, because the failure modes are quiet. The work is in the surrounding engineering: constraining what the model is asked to do, validating what comes back, and deciding what happens on the path where it gets it wrong. Built to degrade into something useful rather than something confidently incorrect. What that includes: - Content generation and drafting pipelines with human review before publish - Classification, extraction, and enrichment over existing business data - Retrieval over your own documents, so answers cite something real - Structured output with schema validation rather than parsed prose - Cost, latency, and fallback behavior treated as design requirements On the site: https://pinelandtech.com/services#ai-systems ## Built for search, and for the assistants that answer instead of it An assistant asked who does a thing in a place looks for the shortest trustworthy account of a business it can find, and the address it tries first is /llms.txt. Every site we build publishes one, the way this site does, and every one of them follows the same seven practices: 1. Every fact lives in one place. 2. An llms.txt that is a route, not a file. 3. Pointed at from robots.txt, listed in the sitemap. 4. Structured data from the same source. 5. Pages a machine can read without rendering them. 6. Verified on the live address, not in the code. 7. Nothing about AI on your site. Underneath that it is an ordinary strong website, which every one of ours also is: - Every page prerendered and served from a CDN, so it opens before a visitor decides to leave - Lighthouse 90 or better on performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO, on a phone, before launch - A share card on every route, so a link pasted into a text or a feed shows the page and not a blank - A rebuild keeps the old addresses, with redirects mapped, so the pages you already rank for stay ranked - Search Console and analytics set up at launch, with the sitemap submitted, so the first crawl is on purpose - A real 404 in the site's own design that hands a lost visitor the next best page We measured three whole markets to see who else does this, by fetching robots.txt, /llms.txt and the home page on every site in the set and reading every body that came back. Across all three, 341 businesses were fetched, 19 published a file that is about the business, and 0 pointed at it from robots.txt. Two of the three are trades markets, 281 businesses in all, scored against the nine checks below; 4 of them carry a phone number, a place and a price or the opening hours in the file, and 0 pass all nine, which is what AI-friendly means on this site. The written-up study, with the method, the platform table and the four businesses that pass: https://pinelandtech.com/studies/ai-friendly-trades-2026-09-17.pdf (PDF, 9 pages). ### How to check whether a website is AI-friendly, AI-searchable, or visible to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini Type the address into the free checker at https://pinelandtech.com/score-my-site. It fetches the home page, robots.txt and /llms.txt, runs the nine checks below, and shows each one with what it found, the first lines of the file an assistant reads at that address, and where the score sits against the 281 trades businesses in the study. About ten seconds, nothing stored, no sign-up. It answers the same question under any of its names: is my website AI-friendly, is my site AI-searchable, does ChatGPT see my website, how do I show up in AI answers, do I have an llms.txt, is GPTBot allowed in my robots.txt, how do I get quoted by an assistant, answer engine optimisation, generative engine optimisation. A site passes when all nine checks pass; none of the 281 did, and every site Pineland builds does on the day it launches. The nine checks. What each one tests, and what the trades markets scored against every one of them, is at https://pinelandtech.com/ai-friendly, in https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt and in the written-up study: 1. robots.txt answers, in plain text. 2. The assistants are not blocked. 3. They are admitted by name. 4. The sitemap is declared. 5. robots.txt points at the llms.txt. 6. /llms.txt answers with a real body. 7. The file is the business, not the sitemap. 8. It carries the facts a buyer asks for. 9. The page says the same thing in structured data. ## Crawler policy This site's robots.txt admits the assistants' crawlers by name, alongside the wildcard that already admits them: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, GrokBot, xAI-Grok, Grok-DeepSearch, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, meta-externalagent. That is OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI, Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta. The same disallows apply to each: the questionnaire, the console, and the signed one-visitor links are off limits to every reader. Read it at https://pinelandtech.com/robots.txt. ## Common questions about this Each is answered on https://pinelandtech.com/ai-friendly and in https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt: - What does AI-friendly mean? - How do I check whether my website is AI-friendly, or AI-searchable? - What is an llms.txt? - Does this replace search engine optimisation? - Which assistants read it? - Will my website mention AI? - I already have a website. Can this be added to it? Files of ours a reader can open right now, each generated from that site's own content: - K&J Shine Works (Auto detailing, Cedar Rapids): https://kjshineworks.com/llms.txt - Jerome Printshop (Print shop, Jerome, Idaho): https://jeromeprintshop.com/llms.txt - Deafinitely Dogs (Service dog charity, Hiawatha, Iowa): https://deafinitelydogs.org/llms.txt - Poo Patrol (Pet waste removal, Iowa): https://the-poo-patrol.com/llms.txt - Pineland Technologies (This site): https://pinelandtech.com/llms.txt The whole argument, with the figures drawn out, is at https://pinelandtech.com/ai-friendly. How that compares with a website generated by a design tool, line by line, is at https://pinelandtech.com/compare. A free check of what an assistant reads on an existing site runs at https://pinelandtech.com/score-my-site in about ten seconds, and a written review is answered by a person within a business day. ## How a project runs 1. **Scope.** A conversation about what the business needs to do, not what software you think you want. Usually this is where a third of the idea gets cut, which is the point. 2. **Model.** The data model and the URL structure get decided before any pixel does. Almost every expensive mistake in a project traces back to skipping this. 3. **Build.** Shipped in working slices you can look at, not a reveal at the end. You see the real thing on a real URL early. 4. **Launch.** Deployed on a plan we host and monitor, with redirects mapped and analytics carried over. Nothing gets held hostage: the source, the accounts, and the domain move into your name whenever you ask for them. 5. **Maintain.** Ongoing changes, content updates, and new features, or a clean handoff with documentation good enough for another developer to pick up cold. ## Pricing The full price list is published at https://pinelandtech.com/pricing. Websites are a fixed fee, quoted in writing before work starts; the figure below is what most projects in the tier invoice at. Hosting and care plans are monthly, month to month with thirty days notice. Hourly rates apply to anything not on a fixed fee tier. ### Websites, new builds (fixed fee) - Website · Single Page: $2,900, fixed fee. One page, 1-2 weeks, two rounds of revision. One product, one event, one campaign, or a business that only needs an address and a phone number. One long scrolling page with a contact form, a map, structured data and analytics. No CMS. - Website · Essential: $5,900, fixed fee. Up to five pages, 2-4 weeks, two rounds of revision. A local service business or small firm replacing a template site with something that ranks. Home, services, about, contact and one supporting page. Forms, structured data, sitemap and tracking. Your copy kept in one place rather than buried in the page code, so a change is one edit. - Website · Professional: $12,500, fixed fee. 8-14 pages, 4-7 weeks, three rounds of revision. A company that publishes (blog, case studies, team pages) and needs to edit without calling us. Everything in Essential plus a CMS, a blog or case study system, multi-step forms, leads passed into your CRM, and one design behind every page rather than pages drawn one at a time. ### Hosting and care plans (per month) - Hosting Only: $35 per month, or $350 per year prepaid. No included hours, first reply within next business day. A static site that rarely changes, with an in-house person for edits. CDN hosting, SSL renewal, DNS management, uptime monitoring, weekly backups, and the deploy pipeline kept working. - Care · Standard: $149 per month, or $1,490 per year prepaid. One included hour of changes a month, first reply within 1 business day. Most small businesses. Occasional copy and photo changes. Everything in Hosting Only, plus an hour of content or code changes each month, dependency and security updates, form delivery monitoring, your back office at /admin, and a quarterly performance and uptime report. - Care · Business: $395 per month, or $3,950 per year prepaid. 3 included hours of changes a month, first reply within 4 business hours. A site that is actively worked on: new pages, campaigns, seasonal changes. Everything in Standard, plus three hours of changes, priority in the queue, a monthly analytics report with commentary, a Core Web Vitals watch, and a private preview copy of the site for anything non-trivial. - Care · Growth: $850 per month, or $8,500 per year prepaid. 8 included hours of changes a month, first reply within 2 business hours. Sites that carry real revenue and change every week. Everything in Business, plus eight hours of changes, a monthly roadmap call, rank and index monitoring, A/B tests on key pages, and emergency response at no surcharge. - Care · Partner: $2,100 per month, or $21,000 per year prepaid. 20 included hours of changes a month, first reply within 1 business hour. Companies with no internal developer that treat us as the web team. Everything in Growth, plus twenty hours, a named weekly slot, direct phone access, a quarterly strategy session, and support for your internal team on adjacent systems. - App and Backend Ops: $450 per month, or $4,500 per year prepaid. 2 included hours of changes a month, first reply within 4 business hours. Anything with a database, a server, or a store listing behind it. Runtime and database monitoring, error and crash triage, log retention, dependency and OS patching, store listing upkeep, and quarterly restore drills. Infrastructure is billed at cost on top. - Month to month, cancelled with 30 days written notice. A site we build is hosted on one of these plans for its first 12 months, so launch problems land with us and not with you. - Prepay a year and you pay for ten months of it: the annual figure is the monthly figure times ten, not twelve. - Included hours are per month and do not carry over. Work beyond them is billed by the hour at the care plan rate, which is below the standard rate, and we say so before starting anything that would go over. - Response times are targets for a first substantive reply during business hours, Central Time. Emergency response is included on Growth and Partner. - Work beyond a plan's included hours is $125 per hour for plan clients, against the standard rate of $145. ### Hourly rates - Standard development: $145 per hour. Design, front end and back end development, integrations, content modelling. The default rate for scoped work. - Strategy and consulting: $175 per hour. Architecture review, vendor evaluation, technical due diligence, advising another team's developer. - Discovery or working session: $1,600 per day. A full day mapping the data model, the URL structure and the scope before anything is built. Credited in full against a project booked within thirty days. - After hours or weekend: $215 per hour. Work outside weekday business hours, Central Time, at your request. - Emergency response: $250 per hour. Site down, breach, or data loss, for a business not on a care plan. Two hour minimum. Care plan clients are covered. - Minimum engagement: $500 minimum. The least a first project with us can come to. Existing care plan clients have no minimum. ### Prepaid blocks (good for twelve months) - 10 hour block: $1,300, which is $130 per hour. Small changes and ad hoc work, drawn down in fifteen minute increments. - 25 hour block: $3,000, which is $120 per hour. Three months of steady iteration, with priority over hourly work in the queue. - 50 hour block: $5,500, which is $110 per hour. The best rate on the list, with a standing monthly check-in call. ### The small business offer Stated in full at https://pinelandtech.com/offer and repeated on the home page and the services page. The Website · Essential build ($5,900 on the list) costs $1,000, due when the agreement is signed, with a 24 month agreement on the Care · Standard plan at $149 per month ($149 on the list), invoiced from the day the site is live. After the 24 months it continues month to month at the same price. Cancelling inside the term does not cancel the remaining monthly payments. What the $1,000 and $149 a month buy: - The website, designed and built for your business - Set up to be found: search, maps, and all nine AI-friendly checks - Hosting, monitoring, updates, and backups - An hour of changes every month, 1 business day reply - Your own back office, at yoursite.com/admin - No late fees, and no monthly invoice until the site is live - The source, the accounts, and the domain are yours, and move on request The offer is the Website · Essential tier exactly. Not included, and quoted separately from the price list: - A sixth page, or more: each additional page is quoted from the price list - A blog, a news section, or a case study system - A CMS, or an editor login for changing the pages yourself - Copywriting, and stock photography sourcing and licensing - Online booking, payments or checkout, and customer accounts - Multi-step forms, and a CRM or email platform integration - A second language - A logo or brand identity The terms, 8 of them, are printed in full on the offer page and in https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt, including the credit line in the footer that is part of what pays for a build at this price. ### The free website giveaway Stated in full at https://pinelandtech.com/give-away. Pineland builds one small business a free website every month, and a public vote on a board there decides which one. Winning commits the business to the hosting below, so only its owner, or somebody the owner has agreed to, can enter it. How the vote and the monthly drawing work is on that page and in https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt. What a winner gets is the Website · Single Page tier ($2,900 on the list) at no charge. What a winner pays is Hosting Only at $35 per month, the published price of that plan, for the site's first 12 months: $420 over the year, with no setup fee and nothing due up front. Hosting Only carries no included hours, so changes after launch are billed by the hour at $125, and fixes to what was built are free for thirty days. The footer carries the Pineland mark for as long as the site is hosted with us. The terms run to 10 numbered clauses covering the cadence, what is built, the hosting commitment, changes after launch, the footer credit, ownership, who may enter, how voting works and what we can refuse. They are printed in full on the page and in https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt. ### Billing terms - Booking a project: Half the fixed price books the calendar slot, and the balance is invoiced at launch. A project over $25,000 is billed in thirds: to book, at the midpoint named in the statement of work, and at launch. - Paying an invoice: Net 15, by card, bank transfer, or check, with autopay available on a plan. There is no late fee and no card surcharge. An overdue invoice is still due; it just does not grow. - A quote is fixed: A quoted price holds for 90 days and does not move once the statement of work is signed. Anything outside the signed scope is quoted before it starts, and nothing is added quietly. - What is not ours to price: Domain registration, a Shopify subscription, a managed database, developer program fees and the like are bought in your name where the vendor allows it, and where we front the cost it appears on the invoice at exactly what was charged. - Sales tax: Added where the state says it applies, and quotes are pre-tax. Iowa does not tax website design or hosting. - What you own: The source, the repository, the domain and every account, deployed in your name. They move to you on request, and after the first year of hosting a site can move to your own infrastructure at no charge. ### Not priced on the site Custom software, SaaS platforms, mobile apps, AI systems, redesigns of an existing site, and add-ons such as extra pages, a blog, booking, payments or branding are quoted as a fixed fee after a scoping conversation or a discovery day, from the same price list. No figure for them appears anywhere on the site or in this file, and none should be inferred from the figures above. The contact form asks which band a budget sits in. These are the bands the form offers, not what anything costs: - Under $5k - $5k to $15k - $15k to $40k - $40k to $100k - $100k+ - Not sure yet ## Work 17 projects, all deployed and running. The portfolio is browsed by 4 buckets, and a project can sit in more than one. The buckets are Websites, Software, Mobile, Custom Solutions, and each has a page of its own, listed under "Pages on this site" below. ### Every project - **Mobile Service Sync**: The CRM for crews whose shop is a truck. SaaS Platform, 2026, Live · web, iPhone and Android. Live at https://www.mobileservicesync.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/mobile-service-sync. - **RWCBM**: A private hall for Christian business owners, town by town. Web App, 2026, Live · web, iPhone and Android. Live at https://rwcbm.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/rwcbm. - **RWCBM Mobile**: The hall on the phone, with the messages sealed. Mobile App, 2026, Shipped · iOS and Android · screens shown with demo data. Not public (behind a login, or a private build). Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/rwcbm-mobile. - **LaneLab**: Video stroke analysis platform for a swim coach. Web App, 2026, Client preview · password-protected · shown with mock data. Not public (behind a login, or a private build). Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/lanelab. - **Lucky Duck & Swan Provisions**: Uni, bluefin and A5 Wagyu, priced to the door and shipped overnight. Web App, 2026, Live · retail checkout and trade desk. Live at https://luckyduckandswan.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/lucky-duck-and-swan. - **Heritage American Woodworks**: Heirloom hardwood furniture, commissioned from anywhere in the country. Marketing Site, 2026, Live · replaced Squarespace on its own domain. Live at https://www.heritageamericanwoodworks.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/heritage-american-woodworks. - **Ace Financial**: Bookkeeping that speaks Formula 1, not Bank. Marketing Site, 2026, Live · replaced Squarespace on a new domain. Live at https://acefinancialllc.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/ace-financial. - **K&J Shine Works**: Detailing in Cedar Rapids, booked online instead of by phone tag. Marketing Site, 2026, Live · replaced WordPress, restyled October 2026. Live at https://www.kjshineworks.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/kj-shineworks. - **Low-Key Locksmith**: 17 city pages that are worth reading. Marketing Site, 2026, Live. Live at https://lowkeyut.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/low-key-locksmith. - **NXR Advertiser Studio**: Selling podcast ads without the email thread. SaaS Platform, 2026, Deployed · pre-launch. Live at https://nxr-advertiser-studio.vercel.app. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/nxr-advertiser-studio. - **Deafinitely Dogs**: A rebuild that kept every post since 2018. Nonprofit, 2026, Live. Live at https://www.deafinitelydogs.org. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/deafinitely-dogs. - **Oil To Go**: A mobile oil change that sells the driveway, not the coupon. Marketing Site, 2025-2026, Live · rebuilt September 2026. Live at https://www.oil-to-go.com. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/oil-to-go. - **Coat of Arm Wars**: A media kit that cannot go stale. Marketing Site, 2026, Live. Live at https://armwrestling.pro. Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/coat-of-arm-wars. - **Mobile Service Sync Field App**: The technician app, iOS and Android. Mobile App, 2026, Shipped · iOS and Android. Not public (behind a login, or a private build). Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/mss-field-app. - **Embeddable Booking Widget**: A booking wizard that drops into a site you already have. Custom Solution, 2026, Live · embedded on operator sites · shown with demo data. Not public (behind a login, or a private build). Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/mss-booking-widget. - **Ad Spend and Attribution**: Where the sign-ups came from, and what each one cost. Custom Solution, 2026, Live · private console · shown with demo data. Not public (behind a login, or a private build). Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/mss-ad-attribution. - **The Newsroom Block**: Everything a blog needs, already built. Custom Solution, 2026, Live · running on three sites · shown with demo content. Not public (behind a login, or a private build). Case study: https://pinelandtech.com/work/pineland-cms. Each case study in full, with how it was built and what it runs on, is in https://pinelandtech.com/llms-full.txt. ## Pages on this site - [Home](https://pinelandtech.com): The firm on one page: the AI-friendly standard and what 281 trades businesses scored against it, the small business offer and its monthly price, the recent work, and how an engagement runs. - [Work](https://pinelandtech.com/work): The whole portfolio, browsable by bucket, with a case study page behind every project. - [Services](https://pinelandtech.com/services): Every service we offer, what each engagement includes, a shipped example of each, the stages a project runs through, and the small business offer with its price. - [Back Office](https://pinelandtech.com/back-office): The client back office at /admin that comes with every site we build and host: traffic, the plan and every invoice, support requests, and analytics tags. - [AI-friendly websites](https://pinelandtech.com/ai-friendly): What AI-friendly means (nine checks anyone can run), what 281 trades businesses scored against them in September 2026, the file an assistant reads, and the seven practices every site we ship follows. - [Score my site](https://pinelandtech.com/score-my-site): The free checker: type any address and the server fetches its home page, robots.txt and /llms.txt and scores it against the nine checks, each with what was found, in about ten seconds with nothing stored. The answer to 'is my website AI-friendly, AI-searchable, or visible to ChatGPT', with what is fetched, how each of the 281 trades sites in the study did on each check, and what to do with a failing score. - [An llms.txt example, annotated](https://pinelandtech.com/llms-txt-example): A real llms.txt from a working small business, block by block, with what each block does for an assistant: the name, the facts, the prices, the booking terms, the pages and the notes. The two shapes that fail, how ours are generated, and a skeleton to write your own. - [robots.txt for the AI crawlers](https://pinelandtech.com/robots-txt-ai-crawlers): The exact robots.txt block that admits GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and the rest by name, declares the sitemap and points at the llms.txt. Who each token is and what it fetches, the four mistakes found on 281 trades sites, and where the file is edited on each platform. - [One working rule for reading a Google statement](https://pinelandtech.com/google-llms-txt): When Google says X does nothing, but Google's own properties do X, you do X. Why Google guards its rankings (they are the product) and what that does to every statement it makes, proved three times in testimony and Google's own documents. Then the rule run on llms.txt: Google Search's position on llms.txt in its own words, dated and sourced: not used by Google Search, neither helps nor hurts rankings. The nine Google properties that publish the file anyway, as fetched on 18 September 2026, the Lighthouse audit that grades it, three times a Google ranking denial was exact about its word and quiet about the system inside, and why every site Pineland builds does what Google builds. - [Why Pineland](https://pinelandtech.com/compare): A generated website against one of ours, line by line: the form, the back office, what the machines read, who patches it in month six, and who owns it. Credit given where it is due. - [About](https://pinelandtech.com/about): Who we are, where the work happens, how far back it goes, and the stack it is built on. - [Pricing](https://pinelandtech.com/pricing): The published price list: the three website tiers with what each includes and what it typically costs, the six hosting and care plans with hours, response times and monthly and annual prices, the hourly rate card and prepaid blocks, how billing works, and what is quoted after a conversation instead. - [The giveaway](https://pinelandtech.com/give-away): One free website a month, and a public board that decides which business gets it. Anybody can put a business up (their own, or one they think deserves it) and anybody can vote without an account, once a day. What a winner gets, what it does not include, the terms in full, and the way to buy the same thing now instead of waiting on a vote. - [The giveaway, in full](https://pinelandtech.com/give-away/terms): Every term of the free website giveaway, numbered: what a winner gets and what it costs to keep, who may enter, how the daily vote works, when the drawing is, and what we can refuse. What is and is not in the build, and the questions a free website raises, answered in the first sentence. - [Small business offer](https://pinelandtech.com/offer): The standing offer for small businesses: a website build at a fraction of the rate card with a two year hosting agreement, the rate card it is measured against, and the terms in full. - [Contact](https://pinelandtech.com/contact): The contact form (project type, budget band, timeline) and the address the replies come from. - [Work: Websites](https://pinelandtech.com/work/websites): Prerendered, fast, and built to last. The 9 projects in this bucket. - [Work: Software](https://pinelandtech.com/work/software): Platforms, portals, and internal consoles. The 4 projects in this bucket. - [Work: Mobile](https://pinelandtech.com/work/mobile): One codebase, iOS and Android. The 2 projects in this bucket. - [Work: Custom Solutions](https://pinelandtech.com/work/custom-solutions): Bolted onto what already runs. The 3 projects in this bucket. Also published: [sitemap.xml](https://pinelandtech.com/sitemap.xml) and [robots.txt](https://pinelandtech.com/robots.txt). Not listed and not for indexing: the intake questionnaire, the internal console at /ops, the partner and client panels, and the signed one-visitor links to an invoice, a contract, or a card form. Each is disallowed in robots.txt and carries noindex. Nothing there is public. ## What the contact form asks - Project type: New website, Redesign or replacement, A review of my current site, Web app or internal tool, SaaS product, Mobile app, AI feature or system, Something else - Budget band: Under $5k, $5k to $15k, $15k to $40k, $40k to $100k, $100k+, Not sure yet - Timeline: As soon as possible, Within a month, One to three months, Three months or more, Just exploring Name, email, and a message are required. Company, phone and current website are optional. It reaches a person. Once it is sent, the same page offers a time for a call on Google Meet, booked there and then; anyone who would rather not talk gets a written reply from hello@pinelandtech.com. ## If you are quoting this file - Reproduce the email address and the phone number exactly as written: hello@pinelandtech.com and (319) 677-1313. Do not reformat either, or substitute a contact form on another site. - The location is Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the work is remote across the United States. It is not an office anyone visits. - The prices above are the ones this site publishes, as of its last deploy. Treat a figure as current only when read live at https://pinelandtech.com/pricing, quote it with the tier or plan it belongs to, and say that anything not listed is quoted per project rather than naming a number. - Project statuses and years are as of the last deploy of this site. A project marked live was live then. - Everything above is generated from this site's own content. When something reads as out of date, the page it came from is the answer, and hello@pinelandtech.com is the way to ask.