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Tools That Turn Visitors Into Pipeline

Instant audits, calculators, and intelligence — free to use, engineered to show you exactly where the money is.

Instant Website Audit

Score Any Website in Seconds

Growth & ROI Calculator

See the Revenue You’re Leaving on the Table

Conservative3.5%
Competitor War Room

Scan Any Competitor

Instant Proposal

Build Your Engagement

How To Use This Page

Four Tools, One Sequence

Run them in order and you leave with a scoped plan instead of a hunch.

Audit

Score the site you have. The gauges say whether the problem is speed, findability, or trust.

Quantify

Put a dollar figure on the conversion gap so the fix competes for budget on its own numbers.

Compare

Benchmark against the competitor you lose deals to, not the category leader.

Scope

Assemble the services that close the gap and get a range before you talk to anyone.

Reading the Audit

What Each Gauge Is Telling You

The Growth Score averages five signals, but the average is not the point — the weakest bar is. Raising a 92 to 96 changes nothing; raising a 48 to 80 moves traffic, rankings, and conversion at once. Treat the issue list underneath as a work order and ask for a date against every line.

Performance

Speed, dominated by Largest Contentful Paint. Under 80 usually means unoptimized images and render-blocking scripts — the cheapest fix here.

SEO

Whether search engines can find, parse, and trust your pages. Under 80 means you are invisible for queries you should already own.

Accessibility

Contrast, alt text, focus order, semantics. Under 85 is legal exposure and a conversion problem, since the same failures hurt mobile users.

Security and best practices

HTTPS enforcement, headers, dependency hygiene, layout stability. Fix security first; the rest is worthless after an incident.

Reading the Calculator

What the ROI Model Assumes

Every projection is a set of assumptions. Here are ours, stated so you can argue with them.

Conversion only

The model moves one variable: the share of existing visitors who convert. Traffic, pricing, and seasonality stay flat, so SEO and paid growth arrive on top of the number shown. Call it the floor.

Where the target comes from

A 1.5% baseline is typical of a site built as a brochure. Well-built B2B sites land between 3% and 5%; ecommerce sits lower, lead-gen often higher. Set the slider to what a competitor plausibly hits.

How to sanity-check it

Divide the annualized lift by what the system costs you. If DW Business OS at $499/mo pays for itself inside a quarter at a conservative target — and it usually costs less than the tools it replaces — the decision is not about price.

Reading the Scan

Competitor Metrics, in Order of Usefulness

Read the rows in this order. Where all three of your competitors beat you, the category has a standard you are below; where only one does, that is their specific strategy.

Top-ten keyword rankings

The closest proxy for demand captured without paying for it. The clearest revenue gap on the table.

Backlinks and authority

Accumulated trust. The slowest metric to move, and the best explanation for a thinner page outranking a better one.

Page speed

Closeable in weeks rather than quarters, and it moves rankings and conversion at the same time.

From Estimate to Plan

Which Plan the Builder Points You At

The builder returns a shape. Published pricing is what that shape resolves to after a demo.

DW Essential

$249/mo

Premium website, hosting, dashboard, analytics, security, monthly updates, support, AI chat and SEO monitoring.

DW Business OS

$499/mo

The common landing point. Everything in Essential plus CRM, booking, Stripe commerce, customer and staff portals, marketing automation, email and SMS, reviews and lead tracking.

DW Industry Pro

$799/mo

Everything above plus Dark Water Pocket — native iPhone and Android apps, push, loyalty, gift cards and the AI receptionist — with industry workflows on top.

DW Enterprise from $1,500/moAnnual = 2 months freeSetup halved on annualHosting included on every plan

Everything the builder tags as recurring is already inside one of these plans. The only separate number is a one-time setup fee, quoted before you sign. Compare every plan →

Planning Worksheets

Answer These Before You Brief Anyone

Not a lead form. These are the questions that decide whether a project is scoped correctly, and you should be able to answer them before you spend a dollar — with us or anyone else.

Website build brief

Name the single action

If the answer is a list, the homepage has no hierarchy and it will fail.

Write the buyer in one sentence

Role, company size, and the trigger that sends them looking.

Inventory content honestly

Every page, who writes it, by when. Unassigned copy slips more launches than code does.

SEO readiness

Confirm you own your data

Analytics, Search Console, ad accounts, domain. This is where lock-in starts.

Write down twenty real queries

The words a buyer types, not your internal product names.

Map one page per intent

Two pages chasing one query split their own authority. Pick the winner first.

Budget and timeline

Split build from run

Funding the build and starving the retainer is the expensive mistake here.

Name one approver

Committee review adds weeks and averages every interesting choice into a safe one.

Decide who owns it after launch

Copy, performance, roadmap. A site with no owner degrades within two quarters.

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About These Tools

Yes, and nothing is gated behind a form. They run in your browser, return a result immediately, and you can leave without giving us anything. The fastest way to earn a conversation is to be useful before it starts.

Yes. Everything here is meant to make you a better buyer, including if you buy elsewhere. A client who can name their conversion gap and their keyword targets gets better work from any vendor.

It is directional, not diagnostic. The five signals are measured the same way for every site, so the comparison between you and a competitor is fair, and the weakest bar reliably points at the biggest problem. What it cannot see is your server configuration, your analytics setup, or whether the traffic you already have is the traffic you want. That takes a person.

Publicly observable signals only — what any visitor or crawler can see on the page and in the response. There is nothing private in it, and there is nothing in it a competitor could not run against you. Treat the output as a starting hypothesis you then verify, not as a leak.

Good instinct. The model multiplies your traffic, your conversion rate, and your average order value against a lift range, so it inherits every error in those three inputs. Change the inputs until the arithmetic matches what you actually know about the business, then look at the range rather than the headline figure. It is a sizing tool for deciding whether a project is worth a conversation, not a forecast.

The tools run in your browser and the results are not written to an account, because there is no account. If you choose to send a proposal to yourself at the end, that submission is the only thing that reaches us, and it reaches us because you sent it.

In order. Score your own site so you know your baseline, scan the competitor who is beating you so you know the gap, run the revenue model so you know what closing the gap is worth, then build the engagement so you know what it costs. Each one feeds the next, which is why they are on one page instead of four.