Website Design · Website Builds · Website Redesigns
I build custom websites and full business systems for western outfits and small businesses. A clean site, an online store, or the whole platform that runs your entries, your money and your back office. It's just me, and I'll tell you straight which one you need.
Call, text, or email · whichever's easiest · Manhattan, Kansas
Recent Work
Two flagship builds up front. Twelve more in the list below.
Also built, not linked yet
Two futurity standings systems. One carries a registry of more than 2,100 horses with standings that update through the season. The other runs a separate futurity's money standings. Both are live and working. They're sitting on temporary web addresses right now, so I'm not printing the links until they move to real domains.
Track Record
What I Build
Four things. A site people trust. A store or booking system that takes the money. Automation that does your busy work. Graphics that match. Pick what you need.
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Websites that make your business easy to trust and easy to contact.
Starting at $799
Start a Website Project02
Sell things and take reservations online, and get a private dashboard where you see every order and every dollar. This is the part most web designers will not touch.
Pricing Custom Quote
See It Running03
The busy work that eats your week gets handed to a system instead. You stop doing the repetitive part and get back to the part only you can do.
Pricing Custom Quote
Get Time Back04
Logos, flyers, stallion ads, retractable trade show banners, event graphics, and promotional print. Built to match the site and hold up in real hands.
Pricing Custom Quote
Request a QuoteAlready running for real businesses
A full product catalog and checkout. Customers browse tack, add to cart, and pay online. Built on Shopify so she can add products herself without calling me.
Riders reserve stalls, camping, and exhibitions and pay by card or e-check. The office sees every order, every dollar, and who still owes. Read the full story.
Need more than one of these? Ask about a full-scope project.
What I Build
A simple site and a full event platform are different animals, so they're priced like it. Here's the ladder, simplest first.
Tier 1
$799to start
You need to look professional and be easy to reach.
Pairs with Essential Care or Sharp Care
Tier 2
Quoted after a call
You sell products and want people buying online.
Pairs with Sharp Care
Tier 3
Quoted after a call
You run events and the office is buried in spreadsheets.
Pairs with Event Producer or Platform Care
Tier 4
Quoted after a call
An association running members, dues, points and a season.
Pairs with Platform Care
Which one is right for you?
You just need to look professional and get found.
You're selling products.
You run events with entries, payments and a back office.
You run an association with members and standings.
Not sure? Reach out and I'll tell you straight which one fits. If it's Tier 1 you'll get a number on the call.
How It Works
The bigger builds scare people who've never bought one. Here's the whole process.
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Not what it should look like. What the business actually needs handled. A call or a text thread covers most of it.
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Straight answer, no upsell. If it's a simple site you get the price on the call. The heavier builds get a flat quote after a short scoping call.
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You get a preview link and see it come together. Your current site stays up and untouched the whole time.
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Launches on your domain. The monthly plan keeps it updated, secure and fast. You own the domain, the files and the data.
See It Before You Buy It
Ninety seconds. No signup, no sales call. This is the organizer panel your riders never see, running on sample data you can click through yourself.
Login is demo / demo and any password works. Nothing is charged and no data is real.
Flagship Build
Go For Broke Productions runs a season-long, added-money barrel racing tour. I did not build them a brochure site. I built what they run on.
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Tour schedule, calendar, standings, finals qualifiers, results, sponsors, scholarships, and a page for every stop on the tour. Hand-coded, fast, mobile-first, and built to look like their brand instead of a template.
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Riders reserve stalls, RV and electric sites, camping, and exhibitions online and pay by card or e-check. Availability is live, sell-outs are handled cleanly, and a freed stall can be held for the waitlist instead of quietly reselling to whoever refreshes first.
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The back office. Sales, processing fees, deposits, and refunds in plain language. A searchable order ledger. Cash, Venmo, and check payments recorded from the office. Per-barn inventory showing paid, held, and available. A waitlist with private pay links. One-click stall assignments for race day. An activity log on anything that touches money.
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This is the part most web shops do not offer. When payments got stuck in an unsettled state, I traced it to a processor-side settlement problem and told them plainly what was and was not in their control. I built reconciliation tooling that flags declined cards and returned e-checks so the office can re-collect instead of eating the loss.
I read and prepare. The client clicks the actual refunds and holds their own credentials. I never touch client money.
The demo is a real, clickable organizer panel with sample data. Log in with demo / demo. Nothing is charged, nothing is real.
Website Pricing & Care Plans
Clear starting price. Bigger projects quoted by scope.
Website Build & Rebuild
Starting at $799
For businesses that need a clean, sharp website.
A clean site that earns trust and turns visitors into leads.
Includes
You own everything. Your domain, your files, your site. No lock-in, no platform fee, no take-it-back clause.
Your site launches when you love it. Two rounds of revisions are included. More if we need them. If a real issue shows up after launch, I fix it, on me.
$799 covers a clean business website. E-commerce, booking systems, big catalogs, extra pages, copywriting, or heavy SEO work are quoted by scope.
Monthly Website Care
Pick the level that fits your site.
$25/mo
Sites that mostly stay the same.
$100/mo
Sites that get regular updates.
$249/mo
Rodeo, barrel race, and roping producers running a season.
Custom
You run reservations, payments, and a back office.
Every plan includes hosting, uptime, security, and updates as agreed. Small updates mean text, image, button, link, and section tweaks. New pages, redesigns, e-commerce, or full campaigns are quoted separately. On-site event standby is $50/hour, one hour minimum, and is included as one standby day per season on the Event Producer plan.
Pay for the year, get a month free. Essential is $275 a year instead of $300. Sharp is $1,100 instead of $1,200. Event Producer is $2,739 instead of $2,988. One invoice, one time, done for the season.
Payment terms
Care plan invoices are due within 7 days. A $15 late fee applies after that. Service pauses at 30 days late. First-time slip is always forgiven if you just tell me.
How It Works
No agency runaround. You always know what's next and what it costs.
Brief by form, email, or text. Flat quote in 24 hours.
Pages, message, design direction. Locked before we build.
Mobile-first, fast. Sent over for your review.
Two rounds of revisions. Direct feedback, no ego.
Deployed, tested, yours. Add a care plan to keep it fresh.
AI-assisted workflow. Faster builds, sharper direction, affordable pricing. Real design judgment behind every site.
No middleman
Most agencies route you through a sales rep, then a project manager, then a developer you never actually meet. Iron Sharp Media is one person. Whoever answers your text is who writes the code.
What you skip
What you get
Fewer handoffs. Faster answers. Somebody who remembers your business the next time you call.
Who This Is For
If your work is solid but your website doesn't show it, that's the gap I close.
JAKE SZUK
Founder · Iron Sharp Media
About
I'm Jake, founder of Iron Sharp Media. Rooted in agriculture, rodeo, and hands-on creative work. Today the focus is websites that make real businesses easier to find, trust, and buy from.
I've watched great operators lose to competitors with better presentation. Iron Sharp Media exists to fix that.
The name comes from Proverbs 27:17. "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." That's the deal. You bring the business. I sharpen the image.
I also run Iron Sharp Strength, a strength and athletic-performance brand for rodeo athletes and competitors. Different industry. Same standard: real work, no fluff, built to last.
Frequently Asked
Pricing, timelines, ownership, and what a care plan actually covers.
Custom builds start at $799. That covers a clean small-business site with mobile-friendly layout, core business sections, basic on-page SEO, a contact form, and launch support. Bigger projects with e-commerce, booking systems, big catalogs, or heavy custom copy are quoted by scope. You get a flat number back within 24 hours of your brief.
Most small-business builds go live in one to two weeks from the day content is ready. Turnaround depends on scope, revision rounds, and how quickly copy, photos, and feedback come back. Every quote includes a projected launch window so nothing is a surprise.
Yes. Iron Sharp Media is based in Manhattan, Kansas and works with clients across Kansas, the Midwest, and remotely nationwide. Projects run over email, text, and video calls, so location does not change the quality or speed of the work.
The $25/month Essential plan covers hosting and uptime, SSL and malware protection, one monthly backup, occasional small updates when you ask, and email support. It fits sites that mostly stay the same. Sharp ($100/month) adds regular content updates, small design tweaks, monthly link and form checks, and priority same-day support. Event Producer ($249/month) is built for rodeo, barrel race, and roping producers: everything in Sharp plus two event flyers a month, matching social graphics, event pages kept current, entry info, results posted after each event, sponsor logos, unlimited small revisions, and one on-site standby day per season. Custom is quoted for larger sites, e-commerce, or heavy monthly work.
Yes. You own your domain, your content, and your site. Files and hosting can be handed off any time you want to move. Nothing is locked to a proprietary platform you cannot leave.
Yes. Website redesigns start at the same $799 base as a new build and reuse whatever content, brand assets, and images make sense. A redesign is the right call when your business is still positioned well but the site looks dated or is not converting visitors into leads.
Yes, for the right scope. Small product catalogs, booking flows, and simple checkout can be added to a $799 build for an additional flat fee. Larger stores with dozens or hundreds of products are scoped and quoted separately.
Small businesses, contractors, western and equine brands, rodeo and event organizations, agricultural operators, fitness and creator brands, and local service businesses. Recent builds include gun-dog training kennels, industrial filtration, contracting, western retail and tack, barrel racing events, and strength coaching.
No. I write the code myself in clean HTML and CSS and deploy on Cloudflare. That means your site loads faster than a template platform, has no plugin security holes, no forced software updates, and no monthly platform fee eating your budget. You are not locked into anybody's ecosystem, and the files stay yours.
No. You give me the basics about your business, your services, your pricing, and what makes you different, and I structure and polish the wording so it reads clean and sells to your real customers. A quick 10-minute call or text thread covers most of what I need. If you already have copy you love, we use it as is.
Care plan invoices are due within 7 days. After that a $15 late fee is added to the invoice. If it goes 30 days unpaid, care service pauses (edits, updates, monitoring, and backups stop) until the balance is cleared. Hosting stays up so your site never goes dark. First-time slip is always forgiven if you just tell me. I'd rather hear "money's tight this month" than get ghosted.
Still have questions? Send a project brief or text 913-752-7139 and get a straight answer back the same day.
Client Results
Websites first. Brand, banners, and print when you need them.
Across western, equine, rodeo, fitness, finance, and local business, the standard is the same.
Wild-West Webs recently used Iron Sharp Media. Couldn't be more pleased. Prompt, professional, and the work required no revisions.
Ready When You Are
Let's build a site that earns confidence before they call.
Contact
Tell me about your business. Reply in 24 hours. Call, text, or email · whichever's easiest for you.
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Text Jake directly. Whoever answers your message is who writes your code.
Text 913-752-7139Service area: Based in Manhattan, Kansas. Serving small businesses across Kansas, the Midwest, and remotely nationwide.