Small businesses shouldn’t need an IT department to have a good website.

Most owners end up juggling a website builder, a hosting bill, a domain registrar, an email tool, and whoever they paid to “do the SEO” once. Nobody knows which one to call when something breaks.

Headwater is one relationship instead of five. We build the site, host it, keep it updated, and set it up so Google can find you. You call one person.

The name comes from where a river starts — a headwater is the source everything downstream depends on. For a business, that’s your domain, your website, your email. Get that right and everything else has somewhere solid to stand.

We’re not a drag-and-drop builder you have to babysit, and we’re not a big agency that hands you off to a project manager after the sales call. It’s Ryan, a build process that already works, and a plan with a clear monthly bill.

Ryan Gonzales has been building on the web since 2004. Headwater the agency is new — our one public client right now is CollectIQ.app, a live marketplace we still run on Growth. Twenty years of experience, a short and honest client list — we’d rather earn the next one than pad a portfolio.

Every relationship starts with a 30-minute call, so we actually understand what you need before recommending anything. Most people start on Local. Add Commerce if you want to sell online (we prefer Shopify, though a custom Stripe store fits sometimes). Move to Growth once the site is working and you want to grow faster. Site covers just the essentials if that’s all you need.