The studio is in Savannah, so none of this is guesswork

Y2 is in Savannah. Not "serving the Savannah area" from an office in another state, which is what most pages like this quietly mean. Worth saying plainly, and then getting on with the part that matters more, which is that a city of about 149,000 people takes 7.2 million overnight visitors a year, and almost none of them will pick up the phone.

Two customers, and one of them leaves on Sunday

Visit Savannah puts 2025 at 12.9 million visitors, 7.2 million of them overnight and 5.7 million on day trips, and about $4.1 billion in spending. Whatever you sell, some share of that is your market, and it behaves nothing like a local one. A visitor finds you on a phone, in a hotel room off Bay Street, at eleven at night, either three weeks before they arrive or twenty minutes before they want a table. They do not ring. If the page they are on gives them no way to book, they book somebody else.

The resident is the reverse. A neighbour's recommendation, a name they half recognise, and a site they check mainly to confirm you exist before they call. The visitor wants to finish the whole thing without speaking to anyone. The local wants proof and a number that gets answered.

Same website, two jobs, and most sites here are built for one of them. A tour company or a River Street restaurant leans to the first. An electrician working Ardsley Park and Gordonston leans to the second. Worth deciding before anyone opens a design tool, rather than after.

March is not August

The St. Patrick's Day parade has run here since 1824, is one of the largest in the country, and puts crowds in the hundreds of thousands through a downtown that Oglethorpe laid out in 1733 for rather fewer. Spring is the peak more generally. Then summer: highs regularly over ninety degrees, August the wettest month of the year, hurricane season from June to November.

So enquiries do not arrive evenly, and you cannot staff for the peak. Which means the peak is exactly when things get dropped. The voicemail nobody returned. The quote that went out four days late because you were on a roof. The booking request that sat unread through a Saturday in March.

That is the honest argument for building the system and not only the site. Enquiries land in one place, get a reply within seconds, and chase themselves when they go quiet. It works the same in August as in March, and it does not take a holiday.

You already fill in enough forms

Every business trading in the city needs a Business Tax Certificate, which expires on 31 December and has to be renewed by 1 March. Exterior work visible from the public right of way in the downtown historic district needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, and anything staff cannot sign off goes to the Historic District Board of Review, which sits on the second Wednesday of the month. If you run short-term rentals, the 20 percent per-ward cap on non-owner-occupied properties has now been met in every ward of the Downtown and Victorian historic districts, and anything new joins a waiting list.

None of that is our department. The point is only that a business here already spends more of its week on paperwork than one in a newer city, so the least a website can do is not add to the pile by emailing you a lead you then retype into three other places.

Quotes built from the job instead of rekeyed. Invoices that chase themselves. Bookings that write into the calendar you already keep. Dull work, and the work that gives back the most hours.

Why us, with SCAD down the road

SCAD has been here since 1978, Savannah is the largest of its locations, and it runs out of nearly seventy buildings scattered through the city. Eighty-two percent of its students come from out of state. Two consequences. Your customers see more good design in a week than customers in most cities this size, so the bar is higher than the population suggests. And there is no shortage of people here who will offer to build you a website.

The market is moving too. Garden City Terminal is the largest single-terminal container facility in North America, and the port had its second-busiest year on record in 2025. Gulfstream employs more than 11,000 people and is the largest private employer in Chatham County. Hyundai's Metaplant is 25 miles west in Ellabell, building since late 2024 and planning 8,100 jobs by 2031, with suppliers projecting thousands more behind it, and Bryan and Effingham counties are now growing considerably faster than Chatham. If you sell to businesses rather than visitors, that is your customer base changing shape.

So, plainly. Y2 started in 2025 and has a short client list. If you want fifty case studies in your exact trade, that is not us yet. What we do that most people offering you a website do not is build the thing that runs behind it, because a good-looking site that drops enquiries into an inbox is still a brochure. We are in town. We will come and look at what you already have and tell you what we would change first, before you pay us anything.

What matters most here

Web design: SCAD is headquartered here, so Savannah customers look at more good design than customers in most cities of 150,000. A site that looks homemade is more conspicuous here than it would be elsewhere.
Booking and scheduling: Of 12.9 million visitors a year, 7.2 million stay overnight, which means the decision gets made somewhere else, usually on a phone. If they cannot book on the page they are reading, they book the next place.
Lead capture and routing: The year here is not flat: the parade and spring at one end, a ninety-degree August at the other. One pipeline means the peak does not cost you the enquiries you never saw.
Follow-up automation: Savannah runs on bookings made months ahead: more than 2,500 weddings a year across 60-plus venues, plus convention business on Hutchinson Island, where the centre finished a $276 million expansion. The gap between first enquiry and payment is long enough for people to forget you.
Quotes and invoicing: Between Business Tax Certificates, Certificates of Appropriateness and MPC review, a business trading downtown already retypes enough. Quotes should come off the job, not out of a Word file.

We are based in Savannah, GA, not in Savannah. Happy to come out for the first meeting and for anything that genuinely needs doing in person.

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