Werth Design — Wilmington, Delaware
I'm Matthew Werth. Contractors miss 62% of their calls — and 78% of customers hire whoever answers first. I build fast websites with AI that answers every call, books the job at 2 a.m., and gets you found on Google. I make sure the one who answers is you.
Who it's for
If you live on phone calls, walk-ins, and word of mouth — and you're losing some of it to a website that doesn't pull its weight, or a phone that goes to voicemail after hours — that's exactly who I build for. In Wilmington, the Brandywine Valley, and beyond.
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping. Only 1 in 5 shops answers a new call within the hour — and 78% of customers hire whoever picks up first. I make sure that's you, day or night.
Built for your tradeHair, barber, dental, chiro, med spa. Online booking and automatic reminders that keep the chairs full and cut the no-shows.
Cafés, bakeries, caterers, wineries. A fast menu, online orders, and reservations — so you win the phone-in-hand crowd.
Law, accounting, insurance, real estate. A credible site and an AI intake that books the clients worth your time.
Artists, authors, makers. A storefront that sells while you create — like Laurie's prints and the wine guide above.
Churches, societies, families, retiring pros. A searchable, lasting home for sermons, scholarship, and history.
Selected work
Bringing in customers, selling the work, filling the calendar, keeping a legacy whole — these are real, live sites doing real jobs for the people who own them. A handful of recent ones; tap any to see it for yourself.
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A lifetime in the pulpit, made searchable. 641 expository sermons with streaming audio, AI word-synced transcripts you can tap to seek, playlists, and inline scripture. A life's work, kept whole.
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Fifty years of biblical scholarship, rescued from a dying format. A 1990s frameset rebuilt into a fast, responsive archive of 154 books and papers — readable on any device, indexed for the next generation.
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An artist's catalog that sells while she paints. A botanical-and-landscape print shop with a gallery, her story, and a clean path to buy — built so the art comes first and the buying is easy.
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A passion turned into a product. A 76-winery travel directory engineered as an SEO funnel — discovery, maps, and a clear path to buy the guidebook behind it.
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Showing teachers what great looks like. An instructional-coaching platform with 200+ real classroom video clips, membership gating, and district seats — wrapped in the kind of QA most small sites never get.
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A trading-desk tool that fits in your pocket. A mobile-first stock watchlist with an editorial-terminal look, live market data, and a build that installs like a native app.
Live AI tools
The same kinds of tools I build into client sites — live, and free to play with right now. Paste a review, upload a photo, rewrite a headline. This is AI doing a real job, not a parlor trick.
Text · Reputation
Paste a customer review — even a brutal one-star — and get a calm, professional reply you can post in seconds.
Text · Copywriting
Drop in your homepage headline and get three sharper versions that lead with what your customers actually care about.
Audio · Transcription
Press play on a sermon and the transcript lights up word by word — tap any line to jump straight to it. Built for pastorjackwerth.org.
Vision · Color
Upload any photo and AI pulls its palette, then matches each color to a real tube of paint — a buy-list and mixing kit in one.
Chat · Assistant
The assistant in the corner of this very site — it answers questions, ballparks pricing, and books a next step, powered by Claude.
Vision · iOS app
Point a phone at a trading card and AI names it in a heartbeat — 98.8% accurate across thousands of cards. The engine behind a native iOS app.
What I do
Most studios either design pretty things that don't work, or build working things that look terrible. I do both — and I sweat the part that comes after launch.
Service 01
Get found. Look the part. Win the click.
Fast, modern, mobile-first sites for local businesses and creators — built for Google and built to convert, with none of the bloated page-builder weight that slows everything down.
Service 02 · Signature
The phone gets answered. The job gets booked. Every time.
Not a chatbot you have to babysit — one system I build, configure, and run for you. A fast site, your Google profile working properly, reviews coming in steadily, and AI answering trained on your shop that books the job at 2 a.m. and rings your cell the moment it's a real emergency.
$2,499 setup + $199/mo — or $999 to add the AI layer to the site you already have. One person accountable for all of it.
Service 03 · Signature
A lasting home for a life's work.
Sermon archives, scholarship, art catalogs, family histories, memorials. I take a lifetime of material and turn it into something searchable, beautiful, and built to outlive the next platform that disappears.
Pricing
Most studios start around $2,500. I start at $899 — same craft, none of the bloat. Every project still gets a fixed price before a line of code is written; these are starting points, with a real number after a quick conversation.
For the trades · Signature
One system that makes sure the phone gets answered — and the job gets booked.
$2,499 setup
$199 / month
Happy with the site you have?
$999 setup to add the AI layer to it.
I'll call your line the way a customer would, show you exactly what they hear — then let you hear what mine would have said instead.
Launch
from $899
Get online, properly.
Most chosen
Grow
from $2,499
Turn visitors into customers.
Life's work
from $1,499
A lasting home for a legacy.
What you can count on
How it works
A free 30-minute talk about what you need and what it's worth to you. No pitch, no pressure.
A clear plan and a fixed price. You know exactly what you're getting before we start.
You see it early and often. I build fast and finish — with the QA most shops skip.
We go live, and I don't disappear. Keep me on a care plan, or take the keys — it's yours.
About
I'm Matthew Werth. By day I'm a software developer at JPMorgan Chase; the rest of the time, I'm Werth Design. I was trained as an artist — Temple University's Tyler School of Art — before I ever shipped production code, which is exactly why my sites look designed and actually work.
"I build clarity where systems are complex."
That's the whole job, really. I've built for pastors, scholars, artists, teachers, and small businesses — and engineered AI tools that actually help grow your business, not the clumsy kind of bot that turns customers away.
I work in person with people in Wilmington, Philadelphia, and South Jersey, and remotely with anyone who values craft, speed, and work that lasts.
— Matthew
Résumé highlights
Software Developer
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Tyler School of Art
Temple University · design & web development
AWS · Scrum · Java
AWS Cloud Practitioner · Certified ScrumMaster · Code Differently
Questions
That's the whole point. A fast site that ranks on Google, plus an assistant that answers and books every lead — even after hours — means fewer missed calls and more booked jobs. I'd rather build you something that pays for itself than something that just looks nice.
Real AI. I've shipped an image-recognition model at 98.8% accuracy and an automated transcription pipeline. For your business that usually means an assistant trained on your services that answers customers and books appointments, an automation that handles intake or follow-up, or an honest audit of where AI actually pays off — and where it doesn't.
It hands off, immediately. Anything it isn't sure about — or anything that sounds like a real emergency — gets transferred straight to your cell, and you get a text with the transcript so you already know what they need before you say hello. The AI's job is to catch what voicemail was losing, not to stand between you and your customer.
No. You keep the number that's on your trucks, your yard signs, and every review you've earned. We use conditional forwarding — your phone rings first, exactly like it does now, and the AI only picks up when you don't (after hours, or after a few rings on a job). Nothing about how customers reach you changes.
You cancel, and you keep everything that's yours: the site, the domain, the code, and your phone number routing back the way it was. The AI answering service simply stops. No contracts, no exit fee, and nothing held hostage — if it isn't paying for itself, you shouldn't be paying for it.
Not even a little. You never touch code, servers, or settings — I handle all of it, in plain English. If you can send a text, you can run what I build you, and I'm one message away whenever you need a hand.
Launch sites start at $899. The Never Miss a Job system for trades — site, Google profile, reviews and AI answering, all run by me — is $2,499 setup + $199/mo, or $999 to add the AI layer to a site you already have. Legacy and memorial archives start at $1,499, and improving an existing site (SEO, competitor analysis, AI) starts at $299. Every project gets a fixed price up front — no surprises.
Yes. Many of my sites run on GitHub Pages and similar static hosting, which costs $0/month. Usually your only ongoing cost is a domain name — about $12–20 a year.
A Launch site is usually 2–3 weeks. Larger sites with booking, a shop, or AI run 4–8 weeks. I work fast and finish.
If you want me to — continuous upkeep starts at $39/month (updates, backups, hosting help, and a human who answers), or a one-time $99 when you just need a few changes. Or I'll hand you the keys and a short guide — you own everything either way.
Yes — it's a specialty. I take a lifetime of material (sermons, scholarship, art, family history) and turn it into a searchable, beautiful archive built to outlive the next platform that shuts down.
Free · no obligation
I'll send you a free, plain-English audit — speed, mobile, Google ranking, and the exact spots where your site is quietly turning customers away. Yours to keep, whether we work together or not.
Usually back to you within a day.
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Whether it's a site that gets you more customers, an AI assistant that saves you hours, or a home for a life's work — I'd like to hear about it. I read every message myself.
Prefer email? matthewwerth@gmail.com
Wilmington, Delaware · serving Philadelphia & South Jersey · remote everywhere
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