Port Orange  ·  Daytona Beach  ·  Volusia County

Better Systems for Winning Local Business.

NLDS builds websites, lead-response systems, and practical workflows that help local businesses attract customers, respond faster, and reduce repetitive work.

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Founder-Led Studio

Port Orange, Florida

Direct work with Michael Vail — no agency handoff

What We Build

Built Around Real Business Problems

Websites, lead systems, and workflows designed around how local businesses actually operate.

Concept Builds

10+ Independent Concept Builds

Built by NLDS to show the strategy, structure, and design direction we bring to local businesses

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Verified Local Business

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Where Local Businesses Lose Opportunities

01

Get Found

Website & Visibility

Make it easy for customers to understand the business, trust it, and contact it.

02

Respond

Lead Response

Capture new inquiries and make sure hot leads don’t sit unanswered.

03

Operate

Business Workflows

Reduce repetitive tasks and connect processes that currently depend on manual work.

Why Local Businesses Work With NLDS

Founder-Led Studio

Work directly with Michael Vail — no bloated agency handoff, no generic template process.

Built for Local Businesses

Structured around services, locations, calls, quote requests, and the way customers actually browse.

Practical Before Complex

We solve the specific problem first instead of adding unnecessary technology.

Clear Scope & Pricing

Starter, Core, and Pro Website packages make it clear what you're getting and what it costs.

Built to Connect

Websites, forms, lead intake, notifications, and business tools can work together instead of operating separately.

Ongoing Support

Every launch includes 90 days of review and fine-tuning, with Website Care available after that.

WHAT A WEBSITE SHOULD DO

A website that works turns visitors into inquiries.

A strong website should clarify what you do, build trust quickly, guide visitors toward action, and stay sharp after launch.

Clear Message

Explain what you do in seconds. Visitors should know who you are, what you offer, and why it matters.

Premium Presentation

Look established before people compare. Clean design, sharp visuals, and consistent branding signal professionalism.

Local Visibility

Build the foundation for people in your market to find you. A structured, fast, and properly built site is the starting point for local search.

Ongoing Support

Keep the site sharp after launch. A website that never changes starts to feel forgotten.

WHAT WE HELP FIX

Common Problems We Solve

Most local businesses do not lose leads because they are bad at what they do.

01

Website does not reflect the quality of the business

02

Customers cannot quickly understand what the company offers

03

New inquiries sit too long before someone responds

04

Staff repeatedly copy information between tools

05

Important follow-ups depend on someone remembering

06

Website, forms, inbox, calendar, and other tools operate separately

07

No clear view of what needs attention

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Serving Port Orange, Daytona Beach, Ormond Beach, New Smyrna Beach, Volusia County & Central Florida

Built for contractors, restaurants, coffee shops, salons, real estate, fitness, and local service providers

What We Build

Websites

Custom websites designed around trust, local visibility, and conversion.

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Lead Systems

Systems that capture, route, notify, and help businesses respond to incoming leads faster.

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Business Workflows

Practical automations for repetitive processes, follow-up, reporting, and information movement.

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Website & System Care

Ongoing checks, maintenance, improvements, and support.

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FEATURED CONCEPTS

Home Services · Industry Demos

Built for Local Service Businesses

Different industries need different customer journeys. These concepts show how strategy, design and motion change with the business.

Precision Line Roofing industry demo website, desktop view of the storm-ready roofing hero
Precision Line Roofing industry demo website, phone view
Precision Line Roofing industry demo website, phone view
Roofing Website ConceptIndustry Demo / Concept Build

Precision Line Roofing

A premium Florida roofing concept built around homeowner trust, roof inspections and a clear path to requesting service.

  • Inspection-first conversion path
  • Premium charcoal and copper visual system
  • Trust-driven service structure

Industry Demo · Concept build by NLDS · Not a client project.

We don’t design the same website twice.

Precision Line Built around trust, inspections and homeowner confidence.

Arctic Airworks Built around comfort, system clarity and interactive storytelling.

Same strategy discipline. Different business problem. Different solution.

LeadStrike

A Hot Lead Shouldn’t Wait for Somebody to Notice It.

LeadStrike helps roofing, HVAC, and plumbing companies capture website inquiries and get the lead details to the team right away.

LeadStrike handles a focused lead-response problem. Business Systems is custom work built around your existing tools and processes.

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Row of local business storefronts

FOUNDER-LED STUDIO

Work directly with the person responsible for the strategy, build, and final result.

New Level Design Studio is founder-led by Michael Vail. That means the strategy, design direction, and quality control do not get passed through layers of account managers. You work directly with someone focused on making your business clearer to customers and easier to run — from the website to how new inquiries are handled.

Meet Michael
Michael Vail, founder and creative director of New Level Design Studio

THE NLDS METHOD

Find the Bottleneck. Build the Fix. Measure What Changed.

01

Understand

We learn how the business runs today: how customers find you, how inquiries arrive, and who handles what.

02

Identify

We pinpoint the bottleneck that costs the most, whether that is the website, lead response, or repeated manual work.

03

Simplify

We narrow the fix to the smallest change that solves the problem.

04

Build

We build the website, lead system, or workflow around how your team already works.

05

Test

We test it with realistic scenarios before it goes live.

06

Improve

After launch, we look at what changed and keep refining.

Website Packages

Starter Website

$499Starting at

A clean one-page website for a new or small local business.

Most Popular

Core Website

$899Starting at

The best fit for most local businesses that need clearer services and stronger trust.

Pro Website

$1,499Starting at

A deeper website system for multi-service or higher-ticket businesses.

Website Care

$99/moFrom

Monthly updates and checks that keep the site sharp after launch.

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Every build includes launch support and First 90 Days check-ins.

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SELECTED WORK

A Few Projects Built to Raise the Standard

Concept builds created by New Level Design Studio to show the strategy, structure, and design direction we would bring to this type of local business — and how a stronger website improves trust, clarity, and customer decision-making.

DH Luxury Roofing website concept

Roofing Contractor — Concept Build

DH Luxury Roofing

Most roofing sites look dated and aggressive. This concept shows the alternative — video-led hero, inspection CTA, and mobile-first lead capture.

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Volusia Legal Group website concept

Law Firm — Concept Build

Volusia Legal Group

A professional-services concept built around clear practice-area messaging, trust signals, and an easy consultation request path for local clients.

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Love Handles BBQ website concept

BBQ Catering & Food Truck — Concept Build

Love Handles BBQ

Booking was buried and mobile flow was weak. Rebuilt around catering inquiries, a food truck events page, and direct contact paths.

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Restaurants, contractors, law firms, real estate, fitness, and more.

What Clients Say

Real feedback from businesses we’ve worked with.

Google Review

“Michael did a great job designing our website! He was professional, creative, prompt, and very easy to work with. We are very happy with the finished product and would highly recommend him for website design.”

Eileen Wynne & Joe IaconisRealtors, Worth Clark Realty
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AFTER LAUNCH

Websites Need Attention After Launch.

After your website goes live, it still needs small updates, checks, refinements, and support to stay sharp. Our Website Care plan helps local businesses keep their site maintained without needing a full redesign every time something changes.

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Website Care

Starting at $99/mo
  • —Monthly website check
  • —Small content updates
  • —Link and form checks
  • —Basic performance review
  • —Priority support
  • —Ongoing site polish

Not Sure What Needs Fixing First?

Tell us where the business feels slow, disconnected, outdated, or overly manual. We’ll look at the problem and tell you what we’d improve first.

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No commitment. Just a direct, honest look.

Something in Your Business Could Work Better.

It might be your website. It might be how leads are handled. It might be a process your team repeats every day. Start with the problem — we'll figure out whether there's a practical way to improve it.

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