Honest reads on the alternatives.
If you're evaluating us against another option, we wrote down how the comparison actually shakes out. Each page names where the alternative is the better tool — because if we only said where we win, no one would believe us where we do.
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Burnswright vs. WordPress
Most studio sites would tell you their tech stack is better than WordPress. That's mostly marketing — WordPress is a perfectly good tool for a specific kind of operator, and pretending otherwise wastes everyone's time.
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Burnswright vs. Squarespace
Squarespace deserves credit. They've built a tool that lets a one-person operation ship a clean, on-brand site in a weekend, with hosting and email and analytics bundled in. For a freelance photographer, a small consultant, a wedding planner — that's exactly the right tool.
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Burnswright vs. a Twin Cities agency
We don't have a problem with Twin Cities agencies. They do real work for real clients. Their typical engagement is $35-80k for a brand+web project, 3-6 month timeline, account team of 4-6 people, formal discovery phase, decks, brand books, the whole apparatus.
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Burnswright vs. a $5k template shop
Most operators evaluating a site rebuild get at least one quote from a local "website shop" — one or two people working out of a coffee shop, selling Squarespace or Wix builds at $3-6k. They're not scams; they just deliver a different product than we do.
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