Sound familiar?
Every change is a mini-project
New seasonal menu? Email the agency, wait for a quote, approve it, wait for the work. A changed happy hour, a holiday closure, a new phone number — each one is a line item at agency rates and a turnaround measured in weeks. So the site drifts out of date, because keeping it current costs too much to bother.
The retainer bills monthly. What it buys is unclear.
“Maintenance,” “hosting,” “support” — a few hundred a month, every month, for a site that looks the same as it did last year. When you ask what you’re paying for, the answer is a version of “keeping it running.” You could keep it running. You’re not allowed to.
You don’t actually have the keys
The hosting is in the agency’s account. The domain might be too. The admin login you were given can change a paragraph but not much else. And the person who actually built the site left the agency two years ago — the handoff notes, if any, left with them.
Accessibility was never in the contract
The site was built to look good in a portfolio, not to be read by a screen reader. Photos without descriptions, text over busy images, a reservation widget that traps keyboard users. Nobody checked, nobody’s checking now, and roughly 1 in 4 U.S. adults has a disability — that’s a lot of guests meeting a locked door.
What switching to Remi looks like
You don’t need the agency’s cooperation or their files. Everything that matters is already public on your site — we rebuild from that, and you review the result before anything changes.
Scan your current site — free
We read your live site the way a screen reader does and show you what fails, who it locks out, and what a rebuilt version looks like. No email required to see it.
We move everything — free
Menu, photos, pages, hours, reservation and ordering links. Real people do the migration, not an import script you'll have to clean up after. You pay nothing for it, ever.
You review a working preview
Your new site is fully built before anything changes in public. Click through it, try it on your phone, have your pickiest friend try it. Nothing goes live until you say so.
We repoint your domain. You own everything.
Same web address, new site underneath. Your domain, your content, your logins, your data — exportable anytime. Cancel the old service when you're ready, not before.
One thing to do yourself: make sure your domain is registered in an account youcontrol. If the agency registered it for you, ask them to transfer it — reputable ones will, and it’s the one key that should never be in someone else’s pocket.
Life on the other side
- You can touch it. Hours, menu, photos, announcements — edited by you, from your phone, in seconds, without breaking anything. The site stays current because staying current is finally free.
- No retainer, no change orders. One honest price: free if you take online orders through Square, or a flat founding rate dine-in only. Hosting, security, and updates are included, not line items.
- Accessible by default. Every Remi site is built to WCAG 2.2 AA and monitored so it stays there — the thing that was never in the agency’s scope is in ours.
- The keys are yours. Your domain, your content, your logins, your data — exportable anytime. If you ever leave, everything goes with you. That’s what owning a website is supposed to mean.
The bottom line
A website you can’t edit and don’t fully control isn’t really yours. This one will be.
Start with the free scan — see what your current site fails and what the rebuilt version looks like. We migrate everything for free, no agency cooperation required, and you approve the result before it goes live.
Take online orders through Square and your whole site is free — $0/mo, no bill, ever. Dine-in only? $99/mo founding pricing (regular $149), reservations included. Migration is free either way.