The design-to-marketing engine

Take your website from zero to hero.

Your designer made it look good. We make it sell. Your site becomes your hardest-working salesperson, one executable at a time.

★★★★★Loved by 100+ founders
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No account. Ten seconds. Your first step to a site that sells.

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Trusted Brands, Trust 701am

Quote.comQuoteYeti.comCollegeRanker.comCollegeConsensus.comAcademicInfluence.comTheBestSchools.orgGetShifted.comBestKidStuff.comAutoInsurance.orgDigitalJournal.com Quote.comQuoteYeti.comCollegeRanker.comCollegeConsensus.comAcademicInfluence.comTheBestSchools.orgGetShifted.comBestKidStuff.comAutoInsurance.orgDigitalJournal.com

…and hundreds more.

★★★★★ Rated 5/5 by VC-backed, P/E-held, and bootstrapped founders.

You're busy running the business. So who's running growth?

Right now? Probably no one. So your beautiful site just sits there, looking great and converting almost nobody. Here's the fix: conversion design, copy, SEO, content, and tracking, all shipped one executable at a time.

Before sunrise
  • × A pretty site that doesn't convert
  • × Traffic you can't see or trust
  • × Growth ideas stuck in a backlog
  • × No time, no in-house team
After 701am
  • Pages built to convert, shipped in days
  • Technical SEO & content that ranks
  • Tracking & funnels you actually trust
  • Momentum, one executable at a time

A standard, not just a name.

7Seven days a week
:
0Zero excuses
1One life to live
AMEvery morning

Great work. Zero busywork.

No calls. No decks. No back-and-forth. You subscribe, you queue, we ship.

1

Subscribe

Pick a plan and you're in. You get a private board in minutes. Drop your first task with a quick note or a Loom. That's it.

2

Request

Pile on as many tasks as you want. A landing page. An SEO audit. A VSL script. A tracking setup. Rank them, and we pull from the top.

3

Receive

Your top task ships in about 48 hours. Review it on your time, leave a note, and we revise until it's right. Then we grab the next one.

Backlog

Pricing page redesignDesign
VSL script, demo flowCopy
Schema + Core Web VitalsTechnical SEO

In progress

New homepage heroDesign · ~48h

Done

Checkout optimizationApproved
PostHog funnel setupApproved
+Landing pages+UI/UX audits+Direct-response copy+Technical SEO+Content strategy+VSL scripts+Email sequences+Funnel tracking+Heatmaps+Ad creatives+Pricing pages+Lead forms +Landing pages+UI/UX audits+Direct-response copy+Technical SEO+Content strategy+VSL scripts+Email sequences+Funnel tracking+Heatmaps+Ad creatives+Pricing pages+Lead forms
What you can request

From first pixel to first-page ranking.

One team for the entire journey. Design, copy, SEO, content, and data. Stack up the requests. We ship them one at a time.

Conversion Design & UX

Landing pagesUI/UX auditsCheckout & cartPricing pagesLead forms

Copywriting & Direct Response

HeadlinesSales copyLead magnetsVSL scriptsEmail onboarding

Technical SEO & Content

SEO audits & fixesCore Web VitalsSchema / structured dataInternal linkingTopic clustersContent briefsProgrammatic SEO

Data & Growth Infrastructure

PostHog / June / PlausibleHeatmappingDrop-off analyticsLead scoringAI automation

Growth Creatives

Meta / LinkedIn adsBanner creativesSponsor decksEarned media

Don't see it?
Just ask.

If it moves revenue, it's fair game.

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You bring the problem. We turn it into executables.

Twenty-plus years means we know what a vague problem actually breaks into: the right executables, in the right order. Hand them to your team, or we ship them ourselves.

A founder says
"Our organic traffic is tanking."
We turn that into executables
  • + Technical SEO audit
  • + Content audit
  • + AI + citations audit

Real deliverables your team can run, or we ship them ourselves.

A founder says
"Traffic's up, but conversions aren't."
We turn that into executables
  • + Site design + UX audit
  • + CRO teardown
  • + Funnel + tracking review

A prioritized fix list, shipped one executable at a time.

A founder says
"We're spending on ads with nothing to show."
We turn that into executables
  • + Landing page + offer audit
  • + Ad creative review
  • + Tracking + attribution check

Every dollar accounted for, every leak sealed.

A founder says
"We just relaunched and growth stalled."
We turn that into executables
  • + Redirect + indexation audit
  • + Core Web Vitals fixes
  • + Content refresh plan

We find what the relaunch broke, and fix it fast.

A founder says
"We have data but no idea what's working."
We turn that into executables
  • + Event tracking setup
  • + Funnel + drop-off dashboards
  • + AI reporting automation

Clear numbers you can finally act on.

A founder says
"Our emails just don't convert."
We turn that into executables
  • + Lifecycle email audit
  • + Onboarding + nurture sequences
  • + Lead scoring setup

Emails that actually move people to buy.

It's "you'll never go back" better.

701am replaces flaky freelancers and bloated agencies for one flat monthly fee. The work ships so fast you won't want to go anywhere else.

One flat rate

Same price every month. No retainers. No scope creep. No surprise invoices.

~48-hour delivery

Most tasks come back in about two business days. Sometimes faster.

Zero meetings

100% async. Everything runs through your board, UXPilot, Google Docs, and Loom.

Pause anytime

Out of tasks for now? Pause and bank your days. Come back when you're ready.

Senior execution

You work with senior talent. No juniors. No handoffs.

Unlimited requests

Queue all you want. We deliver them one executable at a time.

$120k to 150k/yr $3,500/mo.

A senior, full-stack growth hire runs you $120k to $150k+ a year. Plus benefits. Plus the slow months where you pay them to wait for work.

With 701am, you pay when you actually have work to ship. Run it hard for a sprint. Hit pause. Come back at sunrise. No payroll. No idle time.

701am vs. the usual options.

Same growth work. None of the overhead, contracts, or calendar invites.

701am
Agency
Freelancer
Full-time hire
Monthly cost
$3,500 flat
$15k+ retainer
$5k to $10k, variable
$12k+ loaded
Turnaround
~48 hours
Weeks
Days to weeks
Ongoing
Meetings
None
Endless
Some
Daily
Scope covered
Design, copy, SEO, content, data
Siloed teams
One skill
One person
Commitment
Pause or cancel anytime
Long contracts
Per project
Salary + benefits
Recent work

Real work, real numbers.

revenue growth
+50%
organic traffic
+30%
paid conversion rate
100+
clients since 2007
Quote.com
Technical SEO + revenue Quote.com portfolio 2x revenue growth in 90 days via technical SEO, a stronger editorial vision, interlinking, and revenue optimization.
TheBestSchools.org
Technical SEO + content TheBestSchools.org +50% 50% lift in organic traffic in 90 days with technical SEO and content pruning.
QuoteYeti.com
Redesign + CRO QuoteYeti.com +30% A full redesign pushed paid-campaign conversion rates up 30%.

We took the Quote.com portfolio from page 2 to $63K a day.

The highest-converting pages were stuck one page away from the money. Here's how we went and got it, in 3 months.

quote.com
Quote.com homepage
2× revenue
The problem

The Quote.com portfolio had traffic, but its highest-converting pages were buried on page 2 of Google, under years of technical debt and slow, page-builder-bloated templates loading in 1 to 3 seconds. The revenue was sitting one page away.

What we shipped
  1. Rebuilt the foundation. We moved off bloated page builders onto a high-quality, in-house WordPress theme. Load times went from 1 to 3 seconds down to 500ms.
  2. Deployed a content SWAT team. We pointed nearly the entire editorial team at the page-2 money pages and pushed them onto page 1, where the revenue was waiting.
  3. Renegotiated the upside. Once organic leads surged, we renegotiated the revenue arrangement with the upstream affiliate partner to capture more of every lead.
$25K$63K

a day in pure organic leads. All organic, in 3 months.

revenue
+8%conversion
500msload time, from 1 to 3s
P1up from page 2

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What people say about us.

★★★★★ 5.0 from VC-backed, P/E-held & bootstrapped founders

"David Krug & 701am have been our secret weapon since 2007. They nail design, copy, SEO, content, and data, and never once miss on reliability. For an online business, that's indispensable."

Micah Sparacio Micah Sparacio Founder, Mountain Enterprises LLC · Client since 2007

"David's & 701am's expertise in SEO is incredible… an impactful (and essential) person to have on your growth team."

Meredith Kokos Meredith KokosVP of Analytics · LendingTree.com

"David is a key piece to company growth. His SEO insights are next level… a great leader and a great person to work with."

Alison Tisi Alison TisiUSNews.com
David Krug, founder of 701am Founder · Est. 2007

Skip the big agency.
Hire me.

I'm David Krug. Since 2007 I've turned websites into real businesses for VC-backed, P/E-owned, and bootstrapped founders across FinTech, Education, Healthcare, Tech, and Consumer. Hire 701am and you work directly with me and a small senior crew. No juniors. No account managers. No handoffs.

2007building since
100+brands shipped for
5industries deep
Work with me David KrugFounder of 701am

Let's be honest about fit.

701am isn't for everyone. Here's exactly who gets the most out of it.

Built for you if

  • You have traffic or a product, and want it to actually convert.
  • You'd rather ship than sit in status meetings.
  • You want senior work without a senior salary.
  • You move fast and give clear, async feedback.
  • You're a founder who wants growth, not just pretty pixels.

Probably not if

  • You want weekly calls and a deck every Friday.
  • You need a 20-person agency to feel safe.
  • You want cheap more than you want it done right.
  • You're after a one-off project, not ongoing momentum.
  • You'd rather talk about the work than ship it.
Membership

Join the 701am Founders' Club.

Ten seats. One flat fee. Pause or cancel anytime. An exclusive bench for founders who'd rather ship than sit in meetings.

4 of 10 founding seats left this month. We cap the roster to protect delivery speed.

★ Founders' Club
Membership · Est. 2007
Monthly Growth Engine
A standing seat for founders who want momentum, one task at a time.
$3,500$4,995/ month

Founding rate, while seats last.

  • One active task at a time
  • Average ~48-hour delivery
  • Unlimited requests & revisions
  • Design, copy, SEO, content & data
  • 100% async, no meetings
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Start today

No contract · Cancel anytime · First task in 48h.

Seat 04 / 10 · Pause or cancel anytime
Growth
For teams that need two things moving at once.
$5,997/ month

Double the throughput.

  • Two active tasks at a time
  • Priority ~48-hour delivery
  • Everything in Monthly Growth Engine
  • Front-of-queue scheduling
  • 100% async, no meetings
  • Pause or cancel anytime
Start today

No contract · Cancel anytime · First task in 48h.

Pause & save

Use 12 days, pause, and bank the other 19 for whenever your next funnel is ready.

Try it for a week

Not loving the first delivery within 7 days? Get 75% back, no hard feelings.

Questions, answered.

Why not just hire a full-time growth marketer or designer? +
A vetted, senior full-stack growth professional easily costs $120k to $150k+/year, plus benefits, and you may not always have enough work to keep them busy, so you pay for idle time. Our pause feature means you only pay when you actually have revenue-generating tasks to execute.
Is there really a "no meetings" rule? +
Yes. Everything runs through your project board, UXPilot, and Loom. It saves you hours of calendar fatigue and lets us spend 100% of our energy building assets that make you money, instead of talking about building them.
What if I don't like the work? +
We iterate until you love it. And if within the first 7 days you feel our output doesn't align with your brand standards, let us know and we'll issue a swift 75% refund of your initial month. No hard feelings.
How does the pause feature work? +
Billing runs on a 31-day cycle. Say you use the service for 12 days and clear your backlog, then hit pause and we freeze the remaining 19 days. Unfreeze them anytime, even months later, when you're ready for your next launch.
How fast will I get my work? +
Most executables ship in about 48 business hours. Larger requests like a full site redesign, a multi-page funnel, or a complete SEO overhaul are broken into pieces and delivered in a steady stream every 24 to 48 hours until done.
Can 701am redesign my whole site, not just optimize it? +
Absolutely. We turn existing sites into champions, but a ground-up redesign is fair game too. Queue it like any other request and we'll ship it page by page. From zero to hero.
From zero to hero

Ready to wake your website up?

Subscribe today, queue your first executable, and watch your site go from sitting there to selling for you. By sunrise.

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