The book · Will Ray

Build First.

Build a contractor a demo site in a couple hours with AI. Send one text. Get paid. Your first $500 in 14 days. You get the exact prompts, the exact message, and the plan I still use.

$15kbest month
$250where I started
1text message that opens the door
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I came out of a bootcamp broke.

Did everything they told me to do. Applied everywhere. Not a single job offer. Starting my own agency felt too early, too risky. But when your back is against the wall, you stop overthinking and start doing.

I started charging $250 for basic sites. Plumbers. Landscapers. Electricians. People who needed to show up on Google and didn't need some bloated $10k setup to make it happen.

I stopped pitching and started building.

Here's what changed everything. Instead of asking a contractor if he wanted a website, I built him one first. Then I sent one message:

"Hey, I saw your website had some issues and is probably not bringing in any new clients on its own. I built you a demo site, wanna see it?"

That one flip killed the hardest part of sales. You don't have to sell the dream when you can just show it to them. People open that message. People reply to that message.

What started as desperation turned into a real agency. I hit a $15,000 month. Not because I got lucky. Because I kept improving the system.

This book is that system.

Ready to use

The tools you can run tonight.

This isn't a book you read and think about. These come with it, ready to use.

01

The Prompt Pack: Build Demos at AI Speed

Three exact prompts I use to build and personalize contractor demos. Build a demo from scratch, swap it for the next contractor, and tighten the outreach message. Copy, paste, run.

02

Your First $500 in 14 Days

A day-by-day action plan. No theory. Just the exact steps to find your first contractor, build the demo, send the message, and close the job.

03

The One-Page Pricing Sheet

Steal my exact pricing tiers. Ready to hand over in a conversation or drop in an email. No more guessing what to charge.

The playbook

Plus the full playbook.

6 parts. 17 chapters. The whole machine from first demo to recurring revenue, so the tools aren't just tricks.

Part 1

Pick Your Lane

Why contractors beat tech startups, and where the money actually is in every town in the country right now.

Part 2

The Demo Method

How to build a demo in two hours using AI, make it look premium, and send the message that gets replies.

Part 3

Get the Yes

Free leads, no ads. The outreach system. How to follow up without being annoying.

Part 4

Close Without the Sleaze

The no-BS close. Kill every objection. The pricing staircase that scales your income.

Part 5

Build and Hand Off

Sites that just work. How to deliver, hand over the keys, and keep the relationship clean.

Part 6

Turn It Into a Business

One-off to recurring. Make them come to you. Own the platform so you stop starting from zero.

One message. Everything changes.

The old way: find a business with no website, ask if they want one, try to describe something they can't picture, wait for a maybe that never comes.

The new way flips it. You build first. Then you show them.

"Hey, I saw your website had some issues and is probably not bringing in any new clients on its own. I built you a demo site, wanna see it?"

the actual message I sendWORD FOR WORD

You're not asking permission to pitch. You're not selling anything yet. You built them something and you're offering to show it to them. That's a gift, not a sales call.

It kills the imagination gap. You're handing them something real with their business name on it, in their town, with their services on it. They see themselves. That changes the whole conversation.

What he has, and what you send

Same business. Two screens.

Left is what a lot of these guys are running right now. Right is what lands on his phone a couple hours after you decide to build it.

what he's got now free builder
A broken free-builder site: Not Secure warning, placeholder logo, lorem ipsum headline, and a missing image box.
what you send him built first
A clean contractor demo site: bold headline, license and insurance badges, five star rating, and a tap to call button.

Both of these are figures out of the book. Neither one is a real client.

Who this is for.

Not for you if:

  • ×You want to build SaaS products or land corporate clients
  • ×You're looking for a get-rich-quick shortcut with zero work
  • ×You already have a full agency roster and know the system
$15k
best month

Will Ray. The Tech Dad.

Former criminal. Recovering addict. Self-taught developer. I came out of a coding bootcamp with no job offers and built a web agency from scratch to support my kids, serving contractors and tradespeople.

I'm not a guru. I'm a guy who figured out a system that works and wrote it down so somebody else doesn't have to figure it out alone.

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Why $27?

Courses that teach less than this run $500 to $2,000, and most of them are taught by people who never ran the business. This is the whole system I actually run, and my first site paid $250. One client covers the book nine times over.

It's $27 because I want the person it's written for to be able to buy it. The guy at the kitchen table after the kids are asleep. That was me.

What people wrote in

Not my words.

“A practical, insightful approach to getting clients. Quite useful. Easy to digest and actually apply.”

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Build First

$27

The No-BS Blueprint for Starting a Web Agency. One price. Everything included.

  • 01The Prompt Pack (3 ready-to-run AI prompts)
  • 02Your First $500 in 14 Days action plan
  • 03One-Page Pricing Sheet
  • 04The full 17-chapter book (PDF)
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Instant PDF download. Questions? Email will@heywillray.com.

Most people take both

Add The Demo Site Loop, $17

The book tells you to build the demo first. The Loop is how you build it: one prompt to build, then Claude grades the result against my 10-point client checklist and fixes only what failed, until it passes. It’s the step people stall on.

Get Both, $44

The Loop is a checkbox on the checkout page. Leave it unticked for just the book, $27.

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