A website for your township. Without it becoming your job.
Most townships this size don't have one. The phone rings anyway — when's the meeting, what did the board decide, is the road closed. We build the site that answers those questions, and we're the ones who keep it current. Not you.
You answer the same questions all week
You take those calls between everything else you're doing, and most of them have the same answer every single time.
That's the job a township website is actually for. Not to look impressive — to answer the easy questions at nine on a Sunday night so they're not on your desk at nine on Monday morning.
You're not behind. Most townships are right where you are.
We went through every township under 3,000 people in six states, one by one.
| State | Townships | No website | Share without |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 1,073 | 999 | |
| Minnesota | 1,750 | 1,472 | |
| Indiana | 641 | 412 | |
| Ohio | 824 | 455 | |
| Pennsylvania | 957 | 326 | |
| Michigan | 839 | 160 |
So this isn't a case of everyone else being ahead of you. And the ones who do have a site mostly aren't getting much out of it. We crawled 1,184 of them, close to 72,000 pages, and read 956 in full. Among the townships that do have a website:
- < 3 in 100with an “Agendas & Minutes” page have a real system behind it. The rest is a folder of PDFs and somebody's memory.
- 1 in 3have no contact page at all.
- > 1 in 2have no search box.
- 1 in 6can take a payment online.
- 1 in 100can put an emergency notice on the homepage.
Which means you're not playing catch-up. You get to skip fifteen years of half-working PDF folders and just do it properly the first time.
What clerks ask us first
“We can't afford it.”
“I don't have time to keep it updated.”
“I'm not a computer person.”
“Our board would never approve it.”
“We've gotten along fine without one.”
“You're new. What if you go under?”
Why us
Not cities, counties, school districts or libraries. Under 3,000 people is the whole business, so nobody here has to ask what a supervisor does or why the cemetery records matter.
The reason most townships your size don't have a website is that the industry's costs were built for cities. Ours aren't.
One person here knows your name and your board's meeting schedule. Before a posting deadline, you hear from them. Not a chatbot, not a ticket number, not an AI assistant.
Updates, postings, notices, changes. It's our job. That's the entire point.
What it costs
Published up front, so you can work out whether it's worth a conversation.
Where you sit in that range comes down to how big your township is and how much content you're bringing with you. No tiers, and nothing withheld from a cheaper plan — everything we do is included either way.
Setup is a one-time $499, waived while we're getting started. No minimum contract, and your site is yours.
We're new. We'd rather just say so.
Digital Township is starting out. No wall of client logos, no page of testimonials, and we're not going to invent any — you've seen enough vendor mail to know what a made-up quote looks like.
Here's the trade, plainly. You'd be one of our first townships. You won't be account 4,312 in somebody's ticket system, you'll be working with the same small team every time, and what we build next gets shaped by what your township actually needs, because there's nobody ahead of you in line.
If you'd rather wait until we have a hundred townships behind us, we understand. We'll still be here.
What this actually takes from you
Start to finish, a couple of hours of your time.
- A short form
Ten minutes. You don't need to know what you want yet.
- We put together a plan and a fixed price
Plus the one-pager for your board, if you want it.
- You send us what you've got
A filing cabinet, a Facebook page, a box of PDFs, a Word document from 2015 — whatever exists. If nothing exists, that's fine too. We've started from nothing before.
- We build it
Your total involvement is a couple of hours, mostly answering questions and looking at a draft. Weeks, not the better part of a year.
- It goes live and stays our job
That's when your account manager starts, and that's the part that actually matters.
Start with a message
No pressure, no sales sequence, and nobody ringing your hall. Tell us about your township in writing and we'll come back to you the same way.