Compare Scorpion vs RapidWebLaunch

Scorpion vs RapidWebLaunch: do you need a marketing program or a website?

Scorpion runs your whole marketing program, ads included, usually on a 12-month contract. For $95 a month, I build and run just the website, and it’s yours from day one.

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Scorpion marketing program

Quoteno published price

12-month term typical for the website platform and SEO. Ads usually month to month.

  • Website, SEO and AI search Scorpion
  • Ads, Local Services Ads, AI intake Scorpion
  • Commit to the term, then decide You
The Everything Plan

$95/month

$0 to build. No contract. Cancel anytime.

  • I design, write and build it Patrick
  • Changes by text or email, included Patrick
  • Yours from day one, every file Patrick

Yes, it’s my comparison, so every Scorpion fact links to where it comes from. Checked .

Side by side

Scorpion and RapidWebLaunch, side by side

A Scorpion marketing program next to my one plan.

Scorpion compared with RapidWebLaunch
What you’re comparing Agency Done for you
What you’re buying The work that’s included
A full marketing program: website, SEO, AI search, digital ads, Local Services Ads (LSAs) and intake, with lead scoring and a reporting dashboard. A website: design, writing, hosting, on-page SEO, forms, analytics and updates. No ad management.
Price What the monthly bill says
No price list. Scorpion says the investment depends on your business goals. $95 USD a month, billed monthly. One plan.
Contract How long you’re committed
12 months, typically, for the marketing technology and SEO. Ad services are usually month to month. No minimum term. Cancel by email, any time, no fee.
Paid ads Google, Facebook, display
Google Ads, LSAs and Meta ads, managed by Scorpion, plus your ad spend. Scorpion Not offered. Keep your ad specialist, or run them yourself.
Answering new leads When someone calls or chats
Convert AI answers calls, collects case details and books consultations around the clock, with instant lead scoring. Scorpion Calls ring your phone. Lead forms and online booking are built in, with CRM connections.
SEO Getting found on Google
SEO and AI search, usually on the 12-month term. Scorpion On-page SEO is included and done for you. Ongoing local SEO is a separate $995/month service. Patrick
Changes after launch New photo, new price, new page
Scorpion’s team keeps the site updated: “Fast updates, fast changes.” Scorpion Included. Routine edits have a 72-hour target. You can edit blog posts and FAQs yourself. Patrick
Who you talk to When you need something
An account team. One solo law practice says Scorpion treats it like its most important client. Scorpion Patrick, directly, by phone, text or email. No call center. Patrick
Who owns the site Design, content, files
Yours after the contract term: domains, content and imagery. Not the system the site runs on. You, from day one.
If you leave What you walk away with
Key accounts handed back, plus the site’s static files, design assets and content. The platform stays with Scorpion. Every file of the website, and help moving it. It’s custom-coded, so later changes need a developer.
What’s different

The differences that matter

What you’re buying, how long you’re committed, and what you keep when you leave.

Scorpion runs your marketing. I run your website.

Scorpion sells a whole program: website, SEO, AI search, digital ads, LSAs and intake, tied together with lead scoring, call answering and revenue tracking. If you want one team buying the ads, AI answering the phone at 2 a.m., and reports on which cases came from where, that’s the job it’s built for.

Ads are its strong suit. Even a competing law-firm agency calls Scorpion “genuinely good at running ads.”

I don’t run ads at all. My plan is the website: design, writing, hosting, on-page SEO, forms and changes. If paid ads bring in most of your work, switching your website to me means keeping someone else for the ads.

Website, ads, SEO and AI intake from one team.

Just the website, done properly. No ads.

Twelve months for the platform, month to month for ads

Scorpion “typically requires a 12-month contract” for its marketing technology and services like SEO, while Google Ads, LSAs and Meta ads are “typically month-to-month terms.”

So the parts of your bill can run on different clocks. Stopping the ads doesn’t necessarily end the website and SEO term. Before you sign, ask which products carry the 12-month term, how renewal works and what notice ends it, and get the answers in writing.

With me there’s no term to track. You pay monthly and cancel by email whenever you like.

12 months typical for the website and SEO.

No minimum. Cancel by email, any time.

You own the site after the term, but not what it runs on

“You own your website after the length of your contract with Scorpion is complete,” Scorpion says. Domains, content and imagery are yours too. What you won’t own is “the underlying system,” Scorpion’s own platform. When you leave, Scorpion hands back accounts like Google Analytics, LSAs and social media, plus the site’s static files, design assets and content.

That’s a real handover. But content and files aren’t a site you can keep running and editing somewhere else. Scorpion says so itself: “You’ll need to work with another vendor to rebuild your website.”

With me, the website is yours from day one, every file. One honest trade-off: it’s custom-coded, so once you leave, bigger changes need a web developer.

Yours after the term. The platform stays with Scorpion.

Yours from day one. Leave with every file.

Know what’s fee and what’s ad spend

Scorpion doesn’t publish prices. A competing law-firm agency says engagements start in the low thousands a month and can reach five figures in competitive personal injury markets, and that the number often blends the management fee with the ad spend.

That doesn’t make the ads bad. It means you should see the parts. Whoever runs your ads, ask for the fee and the ad spend as two numbers, in writing.

One quote. The fee inside it isn’t published.

No ads, so nothing hidden in a budget.

An account team, or the person who built your site

Plenty of Scorpion clients love their account team. Joanna Suyes, a solo practitioner, wrote that Scorpion increased the number and quality of her calls, and that “Even though Suyes Law is likely one of their smallest clients, Scorpion always treats us like we’re their most important.”

With me, you talk to the person who wrote and built your site. You text, email or call me, and routine edits have a 72-hour target. The flip side: I’m one person, not a department, and there’s no AI answering your phone overnight.

An account team, plus AI on the phones.

Patrick, the person who built your site.

Cost

What each option costs

Scorpion quotes privately, so here’s what it does publish, next to mine.

The least you can commit to, in months
  • Scorpion website platform and SEO 12 months
  • Scorpion ad management Month to month
  • RapidWebLaunch 1 month

From Scorpion’s FAQ and my terms, September 2026. Scorpion calls its terms “typical,” so check your own agreement.

What Scorpion and RapidWebLaunch cost
Cost
Website and monthly fee The core bill
Custom quote, based on your goals $95 a month, billed monthly
Setup Before launch
Not published. Ask for it in the quote. $0
Ongoing SEO Month after month
SEO and AI search, quoted, typically on a 12-month term On-page SEO included. Local SEO is optional at $995 a month, website included.
Ads and AI intake Management, media and call answering
Ad management month to month, plus your ad spend. AI intake quoted. Not offered
Website only, first year
Custom quote Scorpion doesn’t publish the quote.
$1,140 Cancel any month.
  • A competing agency puts Scorpion engagements in the low thousands a month and up, often with ad spend blended in. Ask for the two separately.
  • Running ads? Add the cost of whoever manages them to my column.

What each option asks of your time

Who does what, start to finish.

Who does each job with Scorpion and with RapidWebLaunch
The job
Getting started
A strategy call, then 4 to 10 weeks to launch the website Scorpion No questionnaire. I research your business, you review before launch. Patrick
Changes after launch
Handled by Scorpion’s team Scorpion Text or email me. 72-hour target. Patrick
Answering new leads
AI intake and chat, around the clock Scorpion Form leads and bookings come to you, or into your CRM. You call them back. Patrick
Checking results
Scorpion’s dashboard and revenue attribution You Simple analytics you can read yourself Patrick
Leaving
Wait out the term, collect accounts and static files, then get a new website built You An email. I send you the files and help with the move. Patrick
Complaints

What Scorpion customers complain about

Every company gets complaints, and Scorpion scores 4.2 out of 5 on Trustpilot, with most reviews at five stars. Still, these themes come up again and again in public reviews, each linked to where it comes from.

  • Leaving can mean a slow handover and a rebuild

    Several reviewers who left say they didn’t walk away with a working website. One family business wrote that Scorpion controls “the assets,” another reviewer wrote that Scorpion owns the website, and a third describes delayed account transfers and a placeholder page where the site used to be. Scorpion’s FAQ says you own your domain, content and imagery after the term, get your accounts and static files back, and need another vendor to rebuild the site.

    “after our agreement had ended, our public-facing website was left displaying what appeared to be a default IIS page instead of our company website.”

    A Trustpilot reviewer, July 2026

    Before you sign up: Before you sign, ask which accounts will be in your name, what you get back when you leave, and who keeps the site online until the new one launches.

  • Leads that don’t fit the business

    Some reviewers say the leads they paid for didn’t match their work. An HVAC company says it was charged for calls about chiropractors, dental offices and massage services, and that it was offered about $10 or $15 back after spending thousands. A lighting and sprinkler company on Clutch reported “poor delivery in leads,” and another reviewer called theirs “low quality if not suspect.” Scorpion says on its law firm page that every inbound lead “is scored immediately for quality.”

    “There were days when over $1,000 of our advertising budget was consumed by leads that had nothing to do with HVAC.”

    A Trustpilot reviewer, September 2026

    Before you sign up: Ask how you flag a lead that has nothing to do with your business, and how it gets credited. Get the answer in writing.

  • Reports that don’t show where the money went

    One reviewer describes “little transparency into how our advertising dollars were being spent,” and another got “generic reports with no real accountability.” The HVAC company says a job worth about $5,000 showed up as about $15,000 in closed revenue. Scorpion sells one dashboard for performance, intake and revenue, and its FAQ says you keep access to your own Google Analytics.

    “We asked for clear data on results and ROI and got generic reports with no real accountability.”

    A Trustpilot reviewer, September 2025

    Before you sign up: Keep admin access to your own analytics and ad accounts, and ask for the management fee and the ad spend as two separate numbers each month.

  • Hard to change course mid-contract

    A few reviewers say results fell short and the contract was hard to change. One says asking to change the plan got “a corporate run around,” another felt “stuck with $35k contract that isn’t delivering,” and a third had “very little to show” after two years. Scorpion’s FAQ says a 12-month term is typical for its platform and SEO, and it replied to the first review with an offer to talk it through.

    “if you ask about changing terms of plan if its not working they will do a corporate run around aka beating around the bush on making changes.”

    A Trustpilot reviewer, March 2026

    Before you sign up: Ask what happens if results miss the plan: can you cut or change services before the term ends, and what does that cost?

Who it’s for

Who should choose which

Choose RapidWebLaunch if

  • Your main need is a website that turns visitors into calls and form leads.
  • You want to own the website from day one and leave with one email.
  • You want to talk to the person who writes and builds your site, not an account team.
  • You don’t run ads, or you already have someone you trust running them.

Neither of us may be the right fit if

  • You want a big marketing team, but on a website platform you can take with you. An agency that builds on an open platform fits that better than either of us.
  • You want to design and edit every page yourself. A DIY builder costs less in cash, and my Weebly comparison shows what that trade looks like.
The Mixtec Construction website on a laptop and a phone, with a remodeled kitchen behind the headline.
Left Scorpion

Two Dallas contractors who left Scorpion

Mixtec Construction, a kitchen and bathroom remodeler, left Scorpion for a fast, affordable website. So did DFW Cabinets, another Dallas-area contractor.

See the Mixtec Construction project
Switching

How switching from Scorpion works

Timing is everything here. Use the rest of your Scorpion term to get your domain, accounts and files under your control, then launch the new site before the old one goes dark.

  1. Find your end dates

    Scorpion’s platform and SEO usually run on a 12-month term, and ads often run month to month. Check your agreement for each end date and the notice it asks for. I plan the launch around the date that matters.

  2. Make sure the domain is in your name

    Scorpion says domains are yours. Confirm you can log in to the account where it’s registered, well before the term ends. Then we only change where it points.

  3. Ask for your files and accounts in writing

    Request the site’s static files, design assets and content, plus owner access to Google Analytics, LSAs and social accounts. One former client needed several follow-ups, so ask early and keep a list.

  4. Make sure every call reaches you

    If Convert AI answers your calls or books consultations, decide who picks up once it’s switched off, and put your own number on your Google profile and listings before you leave.

  5. Keep your addresses and your analytics

    Every page on your current site gets a permanent (301) redirect to its new address, and your name, address and phone stay identical. Your Google Analytics stays yours, so your history comes with you.

  6. Rebuild forms and bookings, then test them

    Contact forms are rebuilt and tested end to end, and consultations move to the plan’s built-in calendar booking.

  7. Launch, check, then let the term end

    You review the new site before it goes live. Once it’s live on your domain and the forms, calls and email check out, the Scorpion term can end without your site ever going blank.

Pricing

Everything in one plan

No build fee, no contract, no upsells. Here’s every feature the monthly price covers.

The Everything Plan

One plan, because you should not have to study a comparison table to buy a website. Every feature below is included from day one.

$95/month

$0 to build. No contract. Cancel anytime.

Your website is yours from day one.

A site built for you, not from a template

Imagine what you could accomplish with more than just a Home, About and Contact page.

Built for speed

Hand-coded and served from data centers around the world, not a page builder dragging its own weight around. Fast on any phone, on any connection.

Custom illustrations

No junky stock photos or cookie cutter icons here.

Copywriting

Great copywriting is the difference between a website that sells and one that doesn't.

On-page SEO

Essentially this means making it as easy as possible for Google and AI to find you.

Custom lead forms

Forms that actually convert visitors into leads.

Easy analytics

Plain, simple, straightforward, valuable analytics anyone can read.

100's of local SEO pages

Local SEO requires hyper-local intent targeting. Almost every service-based business needs this!

Blog

Blogs are awesome if they are used authentically. The age of purely info-based content is over.

Social media integration

We can integrate your social media content directly into your website. Strategically, of course. We don't want visitors getting distracted!

Automated reviews management

Automatically add new reviews from review platforms (Google, Yelp, etc) directly into your website.

Online calendar bookings

Let visitors book meetings, sessions and appointments directly through your site.

Email newsletter integration

Email newsletters help turn your visitors into subscribers.

Automated legal policies

Your Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions are generated by a specialist legal-policy service and update automatically as privacy laws change. Included, with nothing for you to maintain.

CRM integrations

We connect your forms to the CRM you already use: HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho and most other software that connects with outside apps. A custom system gets its own scope.

Advanced integrations

Automations that send each new lead to the right person, log it in your spreadsheets and handle the follow-up.

Hosting

Not all hosting is created equal. If you want the Taco Bell of web hosting, Bluehost is waiting for you.

Unlimited Updates

Changes to hours, photos, text and services are included. Routine edits have a 72-hour target; larger requests get an agreed scope and completion date.

1-on-1 VIP support, direct with Patrick

No call centers, no offshoring, just your friendly neighborhood Patrick. Based in North America, native English speaker, and fluent in Spanish if that is easier for you.

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FAQs

Questions about switching from Scorpion

Can I leave Scorpion before my contract ends?

Your agreement decides that. Scorpion typically requires 12 months for its platform and SEO, while ad services are usually month to month. The practical move: build the new site during your remaining term and launch it just before the term ends.

Do I own my Scorpion website?

After the contract term, yes. Domains, content and imagery are yours, and you get the site’s static files and design assets. The platform it runs on isn’t yours, so Scorpion says you’ll need another vendor to rebuild the site.

Can you move my Scorpion website over as it is?

No. I rebuild it. I reuse the text, photos and design assets Scorpion hands back, and every old page gets a permanent redirect to its new address. The new site is written, designed and built as part of the plan.

Do you run Google Ads or Local Services Ads like Scorpion?

No, I don’t run ads. If ads bring in most of your work, keep an ad specialist or run them yourself, and make sure the accounts are in your name. Scorpion says it transfers your LSAs account back when you leave.

Is RapidWebLaunch cheaper than Scorpion?

For the website alone, compare your Scorpion invoice with $95 a month. I can’t give you an exact Scorpion number because Scorpion quotes privately. If part of your bill is ads or AI intake, it isn’t a like-for-like comparison.

Will my Google rankings drop when I switch?

Nobody can promise they won’t move at all. What I do: every old page gets a permanent (301) redirect, your business name, address and phone stay identical, and I submit the new sitemap and watch Search Console after launch.

What replaces Scorpion’s AI call answering?

Nothing in my plan answers the phone for you. It includes lead forms, online booking and CRM connections, so web leads reach you fast. If after-hours calls matter to your practice, keep an answering service alongside the new site.