Your reputation is real. Your website should be too.

I build websites and Google listings for owner-run businesses in Arvada and along the Front Range, built from your story and your real reviews. When the phone starts ringing, I help you set up the follow-up, scheduling and paperwork too.

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The audit is a free 30-minute read of your site, your Google listing and your search results, done on a call with you.

Cara O’ConnorFounder, TheOpsIQ · Arvada
Swadley Ditch Association website, built by TheOpsIQ
Swadley Ditch Association, Arvada · Balance by Brooklynn on a phone. Both built by TheOpsIQ.

Good businesses are
hard to find online.

Word of mouth built your business. New customers search Google first. If your site and listing don't show what you've built, they call someone else.

The Compass™

Before anything gets built, I look at four things: your story, what a new customer sees, what your numbers say, and what to fix first.

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What We Build

Websites and Google listings first. Then, if you need them: the Ops Playbook, a CRM that keeps track of your customers, and training so your team can use AI tools on the work they already do.

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Recent client sites

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T's Gone Wild custom apparel website

Eaton, CO · Custom apparel

T’s Gone Wild

A made-to-order apparel shop dressing teams, schools and events. A bold one-page home built around a simple quote flow.

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Balance by Brooklynn website on a phone

Fitness & wellness

Balance by Brooklynn

A full rebrand and a clean one-page site. A new identity, from the name up.

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Swadley Ditch Association website on a phone

Arvada · Ditch association

Swadley Ditch Association

A long-running ditch association with one clear home online for members: notices, documents and contacts, with ongoing updates handled for them.

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Websites
from $750
Monthly plans
from $1,250/mo
Compass Audit
free
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Too much of the business
running through you?

Inquiries in three inboxes, quotes you meant to follow up on, booking by text after dinner. The Ops Automation Playbook maps where your time goes, writes down how your business runs, and builds two workflows you can run yourself. One time, three to four weeks, $2,000.

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See it first. Then decide.

  1. 1

    A free Compass Audit

    A 30-minute read of your site, your Google listing and your search results, done with you.

  2. 2

    A free mock-up

    A preview of how your business could look online, before you spend anything.

  3. 3

    The build

    Websites from $750. Monthly help after launch from $1,250 a month. Every number →

Hi, I'm Cara O'Connor.

I'm based in Arvada, and I'm not a big agency. I work directly with you and lead with your story, not my services. Every build starts with the owner's story, their real reviews, and the reason people drive across town for them.

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How I work

  • You work with me directly, from the first call to launch.
  • Every build starts with your story and your real reviews.
  • Paid work is quoted in writing before it starts.

Notes for owners who built something real

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Let's see how you show up today.

A free 30-minute Compass Audit: your website, your Google listing and how you show up in search, read with you. No cost, no obligation.

Anything else slowing you down? (optional, pick any)

I’ll reply within one business day to pick a 30-minute time that works for you.

Prefer email? cara@theopsiq.com  ·  303.261.5090