American-made website software
Websites for the folks who make a town.
Mainfolk builds a complete, professional website for your shop, your trade, or your town — designed and written by AI, engineered by real people to be fast, accessible to WCAG 2.1 AA, and found by Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Live in days. Editable by anyone on your team.
Free plan, free forever · No credit card required · Found on Google & ChatGPT
Real sites, real results
The kind of website your organization deserves.
Every Mainfolk site comes photo-ready, mobile-perfect, and wired to be found — the moment you open the doors.
Who it’s for
Built for how you serve.
Mainfolk ships with deep presets for the organizations that need a dependable web presence most — the right pages, the right tone, the right structure, from the first draft.
Fire Departments
Recruitment is down, and the website still says 2019.
Volunteer and career recruitment pages, CPR and smoke-alarm program listings, and an emergency alert banner you can post in seconds.
Fire department websitesPolice Departments
The community hears about your department everywhere but from your department.
Transparency pages, press releases, community programs, and recruitment that presents the badge the way it deserves.
Police department websitesCities & Villages
DOJ’s ADA Title II web rule puts WCAG 2.1 AA on a hard deadline — and most municipal sites aren’t close.
Accessibility-first engineering by construction, plus agendas, minutes, and public notices residents can actually find.
City & village websitesChurches
New visitors decide whether to walk in on Sunday by what they find on Tuesday night.
Service times up front, sermons, ministries, events, and giving — warm, current, and easy for staff to update.
Church websitesRestaurants
A PDF menu from last spring is costing you tables tonight.
Menus, hours, and specials anyone on staff can change from a phone — plus structured data that puts you in the answer.
Start freeContractors & Trades
You’re on a job site, not a website — so the leads go to whoever Google finds first.
Project galleries, service-area pages, and a lead form that rings your inbox — engineered to rank.
Start freeSalons & Studios
Instagram is a feed, not a front door — it doesn’t show prices or hold a booking.
Services, pricing, your people, and booking links on a site as polished as the work you do.
Start freeNonprofits
Your mission outgrew the website a volunteer built in 2014.
Programs, impact, and donation paths presented with the credibility funders — and search engines — expect.
Start free
How it works
From a short brief to a live website.
1
Tell us about your organization.
Your name, your trade, your town. That’s the whole intake — no blank canvas, no jargon.
5 minutes2
AI designs, writes, and illustrates it.
Mainfolk plans your pages, writes real copy in your voice, sets palette and typography, and places imagery — a complete first draft, not a blank template.
About a minute3
You tweak anything. Publish in a click.
Click any block to edit it. Swap a photo, sharpen a headline, add a page. Publish, and it’s live worldwide in under a minute.
Live in days
Why Mainfolk
Engineered like a product. Not assembled like a template.
Most website shops rent you a theme. We built the platform — so every site inherits engineering that template shops can’t retrofit.
AI-native
AI isn’t bolted on — it’s how the site is designed, worded, and kept current. We build AI products for a living; this is one of them.
Found by AI assistants
Per-site llms.txt, JSON-LD structured data, and clean semantic HTML — engineered so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews can read and cite you.
Accessibility-first
WCAG-AA contrast, keyboard navigation, and semantic structure by construction — not an overlay widget pretending to be compliance.
Blazing fast edge delivery
Every page is served from a global edge network, milliseconds from your visitors. Speed is a ranking factor — we treat it like one.
No plugins to maintain. Ever.
No updates to run, nothing to patch, no 3 a.m. white screen. The platform is maintained for you; your site just works.
Real humans behind it
Mainfolk is built and run by Champlin Enterprises — engineers you can actually reach, who answer, and who ship.
What Mainfolk customers say
“I run a bakery, not a web company. Mainfolk had us online in an afternoon — and now folks find us on Google before they find the big chains.”
Dana WhitfieldOwner · Elm Street Bakery, Prairie Creek
For the towns, too · ADA Title II
See civic plans
Accessibility isn’t a feature. For local government, it’s the law.
The Department of Justice’s ADA Title II web rule requires state and local government websites to meet WCAG 2.1 AA — on federal deadlines. Overlay widgets don’t get you there. Mainfolk builds accessibility into the markup itself: contrast, keyboard navigation, semantic structure, and alt text are part of the build, not a retrofit you pay for twice.
The deadlines were extended in April 2026, and DOJ is clear the requirement isn’t going away — building to the standard now beats scrambling later. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your entity’s specific obligations.
April 26, 2027
Governments of 50,000+ residents
Required to meet WCAG 2.1 AA.
April 26, 2028
Under 50,000 residents + special districts
Fire protection districts, park districts, library boards — the deadline is on the calendar.
Free checklist
Not sure what your site needs?
Pick your type of organization and get a free PDF checklist of everything a great website should include — no signup fluff, just your email.
Honest pricing
Honest prices. Everything included.
Start free and stay free as long as you like. Every plan — including Free — comes with hosting, security, and updates, and your site is always yours to take with you.
America’s 250th Birthday · Founders’ Rate
25% off your first year for the first 250 customers — use code AMERICA250.
For the first 250 fire departments, police departments, cities & churches: $250 off your first year of Civic + free migration — we move your old site for you.
Ends Labor Day, September 7, 2026.
$0 /month
Try it for real — no card needed.
- One website on yourname.mainfolk.com
- AI builds your starter site in about a minute
- About 10 AI assists a month
- Community help
- A small “Made with Mainfolk” note in your footer
- Free hosting, security & updates included
- Take your site with you anytime
$15 /month
For small businesses getting online.
- Everything in Free
- Use your own domain name
- No “Made with Mainfolk” note
- More AI help every month
- Email support
- Free hosting, security & updates included
- Take your site with you anytime
$29 /month
For established businesses.
- Everything in Launch
- Even more AI help every month
- See who visits your site
- Priority support
- Blog tools (on the way)
- Free hosting, security & updates included
- Take your site with you anytime
$149 /month
For fire districts, police, villages, churches & nonprofits.
- Everything in Pro
- Emergency alert banner for your homepage
- Accessibility statement page (on the way)
- Unlimited staff editors
- We move your current site over for you
- Free hosting, security & updates included
- Take your site with you anytime
Every plan includes the technical stuff: security certificate, worldwide fast delivery, and search & AI-assistant optimization.
The proof
Don’t take our word for it. Take the demo’s.
Riverbend Coffee is a complete site generated end-to-end by Mainfolk — pages, copy, palette, imagery, structure. Open it on your phone. Run a speed test. Navigate it by keyboard. It holds up — that’s the point.
riverbend-coffee.mainfolk.com
Questions
Asked and answered.
How fast can we launch?
The AI produces a complete first draft — pages, copy, palette, imagery — in about a minute. Most organizations review it, tweak a few things, and ship within days. The long pole is usually your photo folder, not us.
Can our own people edit the site?
Yes. Every block is click-to-edit: change the words, swap a photo, add a page, publish. If you can fill out a form, you can run your website. No plugins, no themes, no training course.
Is the site actually accessible?
Every Mainfolk page is engineered to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard by construction — color contrast, keyboard navigation, semantic headings, and image alt text are part of the platform, not a plugin overlay. For public entities facing ADA Title II deadlines, that is the standard the DOJ rule points to. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your specific obligations.
What does “found by AI assistants” mean?
AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews read the web to answer people’s questions. Every Mainfolk build ships the signals those systems look for — an llms.txt file, JSON-LD structured data, semantic HTML, and fast server-rendered pages — so when someone asks about organizations like yours, you are readable and citable.
Do we need hosting, plugins, or maintenance?
No. Hosting, SSL, and global edge delivery are included, and the platform is maintained for you. There are no plugins to update, nothing to patch, and no surprise white screen — ever.
Can we use our own domain?
Yes. Sites launch on a mainfolk.com address and move to your own domain — yourfiredepartment.org, yourtown.gov, yourcafe.com — whenever you are ready.
Is Free really free?
Yes — free forever, not a trial. Your site lives on a mainfolk.com web address with a small “Made with Mainfolk” badge, and hosting, security, and updates are all included. Upgrade whenever you want your own web address or more AI help; everything you’ve built comes with you.
What happens if I cancel?
Your site keeps working on the Free plan — we never take it down or hold it hostage. And you can download everything — your pages, words, images, and leads — anytime, free. Your site is yours.
Do I need to know anything technical?
No. If you can type, you can run your site. Click any block, change the words, publish. The technical work — the security certificate, fast worldwide delivery, being found by Google and AI assistants — is handled for you.
What’s the America 250 deal?
To mark America’s 250th birthday, the first 250 customers get 25% off their first year with code AMERICA250. And the first 250 fire departments, police departments, cities, and churches get $250 off their first year of Civic plus free migration — we move your old site for you. It ends Labor Day, September 7, 2026.
Your business deserves a real website.
AI builds your site in about a minute. The Free plan is free forever — upgrade only when you’re ready.