| You need | Builder | Studio |
|---|---|---|
| A site this week, no integrations | Yes | Overkill |
| To rank for your service in your city | Basics only | Yes: service pages, schema, business profile |
| To show up in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers | Rarely | Yes: entity schema, answer-first pages, llms.txt |
| Booking, CRM, payments connected | Limited | Yes |
| Real photos and video, still fast | Often slow | Yes: Lighthouse 100 target |
| To own the code and move hosts | Usually no | Yes |
| To grow into a portal or a tool | Rebuild | Same codebase |
The hybrid that works
Use a builder to draft. Bring in a studio when the site has to earn its keep. We use the same AI tools to move fast and add the judgment, and you keep the code either way.