Three services say "websites by text". They mean different things.

askotter: $99/mo self-managed, $600/mo managed

askotter is a Boston-area company for owners who have no time behind a computer: people fixing cars, fixing teeth, running shops. Your website and your marketing are watched around the clock, and when something should change you get a text. You reply YES and it is done.

The managed plan covers the website, local SEO and answer engine optimization. Managed with paid channels adds Google and Meta ads management with reporting tied to bookings, at $1,000/mo. The self-managed plan gives you the site and the builder with the same monitoring. Nothing requires a dashboard login, a person reviews managed changes before they publish, and the site is yours after six months on a managed plan.

SiteSignal: the text is a sales pitch

The name covers two unrelated things, so this needs care. The "AI builds a website, then texts it to the owner" demo comes from SynthMind Solutions, a New Jersey AI consulting firm. In the demo, SiteSignal finds local businesses with good reviews and no website, builds each one a site automatically, texts the owner a link, and schedules an AI voice call for the next morning. As of October 2026 the video is the only public artifact we could find: there is no product page, no signup and no published price, and SynthMind sells consulting engagements.

The decisive difference is direction. In the demo the text goes outbound, from the system to the owner, as a pitch. There is no flow where the owner texts back a change or runs anything by text. It uses the same channel for the opposite job.

Separately, sitesignal.app by DreamCore360 is an AI visibility monitoring tool sold to agencies. Different company, different product, and outside this comparison. It is named here only because the shared name causes confusion.

Where SiteSignal wins: if you are a seller prospecting local businesses, automated outreach with a pre-built site is a clever pitch mechanism. For an owner who wants their marketing run, it is a different product.

TypeSite.io: $79/mo sites, $199/mo flat-fee Meta ads

TypeSite.io, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, builds and runs websites for local service businesses with a text-based workflow. Its site states 2,200+ websites built, a 4.7 out of 5 Trustpilot rating and Meta Business Partner status, and support by text around the clock.

The $79/mo plan covers the site, hosting, business email, unlimited text edits, lead texts and Google setup, and cancellation is by text. The $299/mo Full Service plan adds four to ten written pages or posts a month, service and location pages, social posts and a ranking dashboard, with human review before publication. The $199/mo Meta ads service is a flat fee with no percentage of spend: unlimited Facebook and Instagram ads with matching landing pages, every campaign starting paused until you approve it, ad spend billed to you by Meta directly, and the ad account, pixel and landing pages in your name.

Where TypeSite wins: if your customers are on Facebook and Instagram and you want someone to run Meta ads for a flat fee, $199/mo is straightforward and fairly priced. Its pitch of Facebook leads without touching Facebook is honest about what it covers.

Where it stops: Meta only. Google search ads do not appear in TypeSite's public material, which means no coverage of the customer searching "emergency plumber near me" right now, and SEO is content-only inside the $299 tier. If you need search and social together with reporting across both, that is what askotter's managed plan with paid channels covers.