Stonekept is a small web studio in Buffalo, Minnesota. We design and build websites for small businesses and nonprofits — and then we stay.
A business invests in a website. It launches, it looks great — and then it’s left alone. Software falls out of date. Plugins break. The design ages. Six months later the site is slower, less secure, and quietly working against the business it was meant to help.
The problem was never the build. It was the model — web work sold as a one-time project, with no one responsible for the years that follow. So we built Stonekept to do it differently: one studio that builds your site and looks after it, with managed hosting, for as long as you own it.
“A website isn’t a project you finish. It’s an asset you maintain — or a liability you ignore.”
A printed brochure is finished the day it’s printed. A website isn’t. It’s working for you every hour — the first thing a customer sees, your most patient salesperson, the place people decide whether to trust you. That only holds true if someone keeps it sharp.
So we don’t build brochures. We build assets, and then we maintain them — because an asset left unattended quietly turns back into a liability.
Your site sells, informs, and builds trust 24/7 — long after a brochure would be in a drawer.
New services, prices, and hours stay current — the site keeps pace with the business.
Updates, backups, and monitoring keep the asset an asset — not a slow-motion liability.
We build on solid, standard foundations — no fragile shortcuts that fall apart the moment we hand it over.
Fixed packages, one agreement, no surprise invoices. You always know what you’re paying before work starts.
No jargon, no mystery. We explain what we’re doing and why, in words that actually mean something.
The relationship doesn’t end at launch. We’re the studio you call months and years later.
A one-time project. You pay, you launch, you’re on your own. Every future edit becomes a new invoice — so most owners stop asking, and the site slowly drifts out of date.
One studio that builds your site right, then keeps it that way — updated, backed up, monitored, and edited whenever your business changes.
We’re based in Buffalo, Minnesota and work with small businesses and nonprofits across Wright County and the Twin Cities west metro. Local enough to meet in person, equipped to work with clients anywhere.
Trades, services, retail, and professional practices that need a site that earns its keep.
Mission-driven organizations that need to look credible and stay current on a sensible budget.
A focused web studio — design, build, hosting, and care under one roof. Small by design, so the person who builds your site is the person who looks after it.
Tell us about your business and we’ll map out the right way forward — build, hosting, and care included.