Modern websites,ranked in AI search.
We rebuild small business websites to look better, load faster, and get cited by AI search. Always for a lower price than you're paying your current SEO people.
24-page audit. No signup, no card. We just email it to you.
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Six places that wrote about the work
We rebuild websites for local service businesses.
If your business has a service area and a website that's quietly aging, this is for you.
32% of our traffic comes from AI search.
More than 11,618 visits in the last 7 days came from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews citing our work. That's more than 2× the traffic we get from Google search itself.
For context: most marketing agencies report under 5% of their traffic from AI search. We're our own AEO case study.
Five things every client gets. Always.
When a client signs with Space & Story, this is what they walk away with. Not aspirational. This is what every project actually ships.
Looks better.
Modern stack (TypeScript + React), custom design, Lighthouse 90+. Not a 2019 WordPress template that's quietly aging.
More accessible.
Sub-2-second load on 4G, mobile-first, accessibility-compliant, sticky lead-capture CTAs. Visitors don't leave because the menu won't open.
More pages, current content.
Programmatic SEO at scale, monthly blog production, and we turn your existing YouTube videos and podcasts into indexable pages.
More discoverable.
AEO baked in: llms.txt, AI-bot allowlist, FAQ/HowTo/Person schema, monthly AI-traffic tracking. Competitors mostly haven't shipped any of it.
Always cheaper.
Rule of the house: we quote below what your current SEO people are charging. Floor is $60 a month on hosting and maintenance. Never above your current spend.
We always quote below what you're paying now.
Rule of the house. Each plan does a different job — get found locally, outrank competitors, or become the source AI cites — with AEO included at every tier. Floor is $60 a month.
One-time build
Site
A clean, findable presence
Story
Your content, turned into pages
Engine
Most popularHundreds of pages from one data file
Studio
Custom apps, not just a site
Monthly retainer (AEO included at every tier)
Care
Hosting, AEO upkeep, monthly AI-traffic report
Local
Google Business + local SEO + 1 post/mo
Growth
Most popularOff-page links + competitor intel + a strategist
Authority
AEO citation-building + off-site PR + research
- Month-to-month
- No annual contract
- You own the code
The three questions we hear most.
The other eight live on the full FAQ.
You're not handing your site
to a 30-person agency.
You're working with the studio that ships it.
Space & Story is run by Mahmoud Halat. A decade at Verto Health, where he joined as employee #2 and helped scale the company to 80 by overseeing more than 100 healthcare deployments. He co-authored the patent (WO2025147762A1) on the AI orchestration architecture underneath that work, and the platform he architected ended up running roughly a quarter of Canada's daily COVID vaccine doses at peak.
In August 2025 he entered Lovable Shipped Season 1, built GiveFeedback.dev solo over six weeks, and won the $100K grand prize against 5,800 global builders. He's published the Agentic Marketing Operating System at mahmoudhalat.com/marketing-os under CC-BY 4.0, with 280+ primary sources. The framework Space & Story runs on every engagement, published openly so prospects can verify the methodology before they sign anything.
Mahmoud directs every engagement, and a small team ships alongside him. Toronto-based, trilingual in English, French, and Arabic. No 30-person handoff chain between sales and delivery; the team you meet on the first call is the team that ships your site.
website.
Lower invoice.
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We rebuild small business websites for AI search and keep them ranked monthly. The audit is free, the proposal comes in below your current spend, and the work is verifiable on four live case studies.