Website, business email, payments, passwords. A real person does it with you, in person around the East Bay, for a fixed price. Every account is in your name, and once it is running you fly it yourself.
The first plane to fly faster than sound did not take off under its own power. A bigger plane carried it up and let it go. That is the job we do for your business.
Not a chatbot and not a call centre. Someone sits down with you, at your shop or your kitchen table if you are in the East Bay, by video if you are not.
Every account is opened in your name. Your data and your website's code live in places you control. You can remove our access yourself, any time, without asking us.
Fixed prices, written down before we start. No hourly meter running in the background and no surprise invoice at the end.
We show you how to run it all yourself. If you would rather not, a small monthly membership keeps us looking after it.
In the back room, where tools belong. We use it to work faster and to help you edit your own website. It never picks up when you ask for help. A person does.
Most small businesses need the same handful of things. We set up the ones you need and leave out the ones you do not.
yourbusiness.com, registered to you. Not to us, and not to a web designer who might move away.
you@yourbusiness.com on every phone and computer you use. It looks professional, and the mailbox belongs to you.
Need to change your hours or add a photo? Type what you want in plain English and it is done. The site is yours, not locked inside a site builder.
Take cards and send invoices through Stripe. The money lands in your own bank account.
One password manager for the whole business. Give your bookkeeper a login without texting it to them.
A private line for your team on Signal, with Undercurrent on top: alerts when something needs your attention, and a direct way to reach us.
Have an app? We get it into the Apple and Google stores under developer accounts that belong to you.
Start wherever you are. Each price is fixed and paid once, unless it says per month.
Thirty minutes with a person
For anyone who is not sure where to start.
Off the Ground
For a new or one-person business that needs to look established online.
Break the Barrier
For a business that is ready to take payments and bookings.
Cruising Altitude
For founders building a product or a team, who need a technical lead but not a full-time one.
Mach 2 in five business days
For when the launch date is already on the calendar.
$5,900one-time
Go HypersonicTwo ways to keep a person within reach once you are flying on your own.
Long-Term Support
For owners who would rather not run it themselves. We keep your email, domain, hosting, updates and backups running, watch for trouble and send breach alerts through Undercurrent. A person picks up the phone, and thirty minutes of help each month is included. Your providers bill you directly, at their own prices.
$99per month
Or $990 for the year.
Founding rate for our first five clients: $79 a month, for as long as you stay
Join LTSA flat price, no meter
For one question or one stubborn problem. A video call with a person, booked in half-hour blocks at a flat price. You know the cost before the call starts, so there is no reason to hurry.
$75per half hour
Book a half hourOwning your setup costs far less than paying for a plan in every category, and about the same as getting by on the cheapest ones. What changes is who holds the keys. Here are the sums.
What the tools cost to keep, per year
Against paid plans you keep about $1,220 a year. Against the cheapest plans, nothing: you pay the same and own all of it.
What the tools cost to keep, per year
Against paid plans, about $2,730 a year. Against the cheapest plans, about $140.
These are list prices for yearly billing, read on 9 October 2026. They change. A paid plan for every job means a website builder, a project board, a password manager, booking, forms, a customer list, newsletters, uptime alerts and business email, plus team chat for five. Our setup is your domain, business email, a password manager and one AI subscription in your name, with website hosting and the Launchpad apps at no monthly charge. You pay each provider directly and we add nothing on top.
The two are not the same goods. Our setup has no newsletter tool and no customer database, so if you need one you still rent it. The Launchpad project board is a Mac app for one person at a time, not a shared team board. Hiring a freelancer to build a website, with a care plan to look after it, runs about $3,068 in the first year. Mach 1 with a year of LTS is $2,940.
Five steps, from a free conversation to the day you take the controls.
A free half hour, in person or by video. You tell us about the business. We tell you what you need.
You get a written plan and a fixed price. Nothing starts until you say go.
We set everything up together. Each account is opened in your name, and each password goes into your own vault.
You change your own website, send a test invoice and add a teammate while we watch. Anything confusing gets fixed or explained.
We hand you a one-page record of everything you own and how to reach it. You fly on, or keep us on the radio with LTS.
Two things we built, and two open spots.
The founder's own company: secure team messaging and alerts built on Signal. It is the same tool we set up for you.
See UndercurrentRoom for an East Bay shop, studio or practice.
Room for a founder with a launch date.
First clients are boarding now. Your words could go here.
Held for an East Bay business owner.
Held for our first Mach 2 client.
We do not write our own reviews. When clients have something to say, you will read it here in their words.
Your first conversation and your setup are always with a person. Automation comes later, and only where it helps you.
We start in the East Bay, because sitting across a table is the quickest way to earn trust. Farther away, we work by video.
Every support job we create goes to someone at the start of their career: hired part-time, trained properly and paid for real work, at a time when first jobs are hard to find.
We are built for small businesses that plan to be around in ten years. Think of the shop that knows your name, not a company chasing a million users.
I am an engineer and a founder. In college I did at-home support for Apple, which is where I learned that good technical help is mostly patience and plain English. These days I build secure-communications software at Undercurrent, a company I started. Johnny Blastoff exists because friends and family kept asking me the same thing: “Can you just set this up for me?” Yes. I can.
The engineer behind Johnny Blastoff
The pre-flight check is free, takes half an hour and is with a person. Bring your questions.
Or write to hello@johnnyblastoff.io