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Your website, built like a machine.
ARKO designs new websites and revamps tired ones for fabricators, builders and architects: fast, good-looking sites that rank in search, filled with photo and video of your work that’s ready for social too. And when you want it, the same site runs your quotes, clients and newsletters.
What if Rome was built in a day? 🏛️
Front of house
The site your clients see.
Fast, beautiful pages that show off your built work, rank in search and make it easy to send you a job.
Back of house
The machine your team runs.
Behind the same login: the inbox, job travelers, pipeline, client portal, contacts and newsletters.
How a request travels
Watch a quote become a job.
One request, start to finish, in the back office we build for every client. (Demo data, real software.)
Everything your team touches
One place, instead of six apps.
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Quote & intake forms
Forms built around how you quote. Drawings, models and photos upload straight to private storage, up to 100 MB each, and every request gets a job number.
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One inbox for the team
Every request in one list, not buried in someone’s email. Filter by status, assign it, search by name, company or job number.
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Job travelers
Each job opens as a traveler: the brief, the files, internal notes, messages to the client and every status change, on one timeline.
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Pipeline
Drag jobs from new to signed to delivered. Values and close dates on every card, so you can see what’s coming in this month.
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Client portal
Clients follow their job, read your messages and send revised files, all on your own website. They sign in with a passkey, so there are no passwords to forget.
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Contacts CRM
Everyone who’s ever sent a request, with calls, notes, meetings, quotes and newsletters on one timeline. Import and export as CSV whenever you like.
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Newsletters
Write in the admin, preview the real email, send to a tag or the whole list. Opens, clicks and one-click unsubscribe are built in, so there’s no Mailchimp bill.
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Team & passkeys
Admins, staff and clients each see only what they should. Sign-in is a fingerprint or face, and a lost phone takes one link to fix.
Built for the trades
Sites that do real work.
LCNW · Contract metal fabrication · Auburn, WA
A quote inbox the whole shop runs on
Quote requests with 100 MB drawing uploads land as numbered job travelers. Staff move them through the route, message customers in their own portal, and send the newsletter from the same contact list. Plus a bend calculator and shop tools that bring engineers back.
- Website
- Quote intake + drawings
- Job travelers
- Pipeline
- Customer portal
- Newsletter
- Bend calculator
POMA · Architectural railings & glass · Florida
A 3D railing designer that sells before the call
- Website
- 3D railing designer
- Photo-real renders
- Gallery
Dissimilar Metal Design · Architectural forms in natural metal patinas
Content that architects actually read
- Website
- Book requests
- Contacts
- Newsletter
The photography wing
Photograph your work.
Built projects, the shop floor, installs, aerials and film, shot by architectural photographers, edited in-house and loaded straight into your site and your social.
Who it’s for
Made for people who make things.
We started with architectural fabricators. The same machine works for anyone with a team and a pipeline.
Architectural fabricators
Metal, glass, stone, millwork. Quotes with drawings, travelers, portals.
Builders & contractors
Bids, subs, project galleries, client updates.
Architects & designers
Portfolios that win work, and a CRM for the leads they bring.
Manufacturers
Product catalogs, spec sheets, dealer and rep portals.
Developers
Listings, investor updates, sales teams in one place.
Anyone with a team
If your work runs on email threads and spreadsheets, it can run on your site.
How we work
Weeks, not months.
Call
Thirty minutes on how your team quotes, schedules and follows up today, and what keeps falling through the cracks.
Build
We design the site, carry over your content and wire the back office to your process. Every old URL keeps working.
Run
We host it, keep improving it and shoot new work as you finish it. You ask for changes from the same admin.
ARKO is good — like telepathically good — at producing the content we need. Highly recommend.
Paul OutlawThe Factory NYC
Questions
FAQs
Do you only work with fabricators and architects?
That’s where we started and what we know best, so our tools are shaped by shops and studios. But the platform works for any business with a team and customers: if you quote, schedule, follow up or send newsletters, it fits.
What does it cost?
Every build is scoped on a call, because a three-page site and a shop with a quote inbox and customer portal are different jobs. Most clients start with a build, then a monthly plan for hosting, care, content and photography. You get a fixed price before anything starts.
Do we own it?
Yes. Your domain, your code and your data. Contacts and quotes export as CSV any time, and nothing is locked into a platform you rent.
Can it replace our CRM and Mailchimp?
Often, yes. The contacts, pipeline and newsletters live on your own site, so the leads from your forms are already in your list. If you’re tied to a CRM you like, we can connect to it instead.
We already have a WordPress site. Can you move it?
Yes. That’s most of our work. We carry over your pages, posts, images and form history, keep every URL (or redirect it), and switch over without downtime. No more plugin updates.
Where is it hosted? Is it fast?
On Cloudflare’s global network. Pages are pre-built and served from the edge, so they load fast everywhere, with no server to patch and nothing for a plugin to break.
Do you shoot outside New York?
Yes. We work with a network of architectural photographers and drone pilots, and edit everything in-house so it looks like one body of work. That also cuts the travel.
How do we ask for changes?
Send a request from the admin, email us or record a quick video. Most changes ship within a couple of days, and you can watch each one move through the same pipeline your clients see.