//San Jose · A web design agency
A web design agency serving San Josethat starts with what is actually broken.
Your customers judge your site against the software they use all day, not against your competitor down the street. That is an unfair comparison and it is still the one you are being held to. We build sites that load fast, say plainly what you do, and make the next step obvious.
Work directly with our founders. No account-manager handoff.
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The expectation gap in San Jose.
San Jose is the tenth-largest city in the country and the civic heart of Silicon Valley. Behind the technology headquarters sits one of the most diverse populations anywhere and a deep base of local and family businesses, from the downtown core and San Pedro Square Market out to Santana Row and the neighborhoods around them.
That proximity creates a specific problem for local businesses. Everyone here spends their day inside well-funded, heavily tested software, and they carry those expectations to your booking page without thinking about it. A three-second load, an unclear service description or a form that asks for eight fields reads as unprofessional in a way it might not elsewhere. You are not competing with those companies for customers, but you are competing with them for patience.
What we would look at first.
- 1Are the right people finding you?Search, maps and paid placement for the terms that carry buying intent, not the ones that only carry volume.
- 2Are you paying for the right demand?Spend against what converts, and an honest look at the demand you are buying that was never going to.
- 3Does the site finish the job?The offer, the proof and the next step, on the page the traffic actually lands on.
- 4Can the owner tell what worked?Calls, forms and bookings traced back far enough to make the next budget decision defensible.
Already have an agency? Good. Bring the report.
We will tell you what looks healthy, what we cannot verify and where we would look first. If the current setup makes sense, we will say that too. You do not have to fire anyone to get a second read.
Work you can check.
These are our clients, not San Jose clients. Every number on them is published on the study itself, so you can read the whole engagement rather than a highlight.
What we would most likely run for San Jose.
Founders stay.
The people you meet stay on the account. There is no sales handoff and no junior takeover after the contract is signed.
Yours to keep.
Accounts, domains, ad platforms and content are in your name. If we part ways you keep all of it.
Month to month.
No annual lock-in. We would rather keep the work worth renewing than hold you to a term.
//Common questions
What San Jose owners ask us first.
Are you actually local to San Jose?
No. Mining Wells is based in Irvine and serves San Jose businesses from there. We will not list a San Jose address we do not hold. Design and build work runs over calls and shared files regardless.
Do I need a full rebuild?
Not always, and we will tell you when you do not. If the existing site is structurally sound and the real problem is the offer or the traffic, rebuilding it is an expensive way to keep the same numbers.
Who owns the site afterward?
You do. Code, content, domain and hosting all stay in your name. No proprietary platform, no hostage fee if you decide to leave.
How do you price?
After we have seen the current site and agreed what actually needs to change. Ongoing work is month to month.
Can you guarantee more leads from a new site?
No. We can tell you what is measurably costing you conversions now and what we would change first. If your traffic is the constraint rather than the site, a new site will not fix it and we will say so.
Get my free marketing plan.
Tell us about the business and where the marketing is getting stuck. We will write you a plan for it, free, and tell you honestly if we are not the right people to run it.
No cost. No obligation. No pitch if it is not a fit.
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