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The people behind the stone

Every life has a story. We set it in stone.

Mastermind Creation Co. helps Michigan families create personal memorials without navigating the cemetery process alone. Once your order is received, we review the design with your family, verify the cemetery requirements, help coordinate the foundation when needed, and begin production after you approve the final direction.

Sunrise casting warm light across a peaceful cemetery Monuments statewide in Michigan · Large cemeteries and small local grounds
StatewideMonuments across Michigan · Cleaning in Genesee · Lapeer · Sanilac · Huron · N. Oakland · N. Macomb
One teamDrawn, etched, and set by the same people
24/7Book, request, and consult online

Clean one stone

$80 per stone, all in. Booked and paid online, before-and-after photos emailed to you.

Book an $80 Cleaning

Build a memorial

Custom monuments are drawn, etched, and produced year-round, straight through the Michigan winter. Only setting the stone waits on the ground and the cemetery.

Start a Free Monument Consultation

Keep it cared for

Annual Memorial Care is recurring cleaning and a condition check for a stone or a family plot — for the families who cannot get to the cemetery themselves.

Ask About Annual Memorial Care

Looking after a cemetery, a churchyard, or a veterans section rather than one grave? Section and grounds-wide projects are quoted on the work. In Middle Tennessee, where our family lives? Start here.

Drawn. Etched. Set.

Flat markers from $400, bevels from $600, slants from $1,250, uprights from $1,500, benches from $2,750, and family monuments from $6,500 — every price a starting point, published so you can size up your own project before anyone calls. Custom laser etching starts at $400. Monuments are drawn, cut, etched, delivered, and set statewide throughout Michigan, including Genesee, Lapeer, Sanilac, Huron, northern Oakland, and northern Macomb.

01 · Drawn

From your photographs.

Families bring photographs, stories, symbols, hobbies, and landscapes. We draw the memorial from those, send proofs, and revise it until it is right. Nothing is cut until you say yes.

02 · Etched

Burned into the granite.

Laser etching is not paint, film, or a plaque. The laser removes the mirror polish point by point and each point turns pale, building the greys of a photograph in the stone itself — so there is nothing on the surface to peel or wash off. Done in-house on Jet Black granite, because a black polish holds the range a portrait needs. How etching works.

03 · Set

By the same team.

We confirm the cemetery’s requirements ourselves, help coordinate the foundation, and deliver and set the finished stone. The people who drew your memorial are the people who set it.

$80 cleans the whole stone.

Not a deposit. Not a booking fee. Not a callout charge with the real bill to follow. Eighty dollars per stone is the finished job, start to finish, and nothing more is owed when we drive away.

  • The full biological cleaning Cemetery-approved biological cleaners applied with water and soft brushes, then left to keep working for weeks afterward. No bleach, no acids, no pressure washing, no wire brushes.
  • Trimming and edging the base The grass line and the base perimeter are cleaned up along with the stone, rather than left for the family to finish.
  • Before-and-after photos Emailed the same day with your receipt, so you can see the result even if you cannot get to the cemetery yourself.
  • The trip to your cemetery The same $80 at every cemetery on our routes — Genesee, Lapeer, and Sanilac weekly, Huron County on our Thumb route, and selected northern Oakland and northern Macomb routes. The number of headstones is chosen at checkout.

Your total is $80 per stone. There is no second invoice, no hourly rate, and nothing added at the graveside. Cleaning more than one stone? Quantity is chosen at checkout, still $80 each.

We never leave a cemetery having cleaned only one stone.

This is not a discount, a fundraiser, or a line added to your invoice. It is simply what we do with the trip you already paid for.

Every stone we are hired to clean pays for a second one. Before we pack up and drive out, we clean a veteran’s headstone in that same cemetery — at no charge to you, to their family, or to anyone.

You book One stone

The stone your family asked us to care for, cleaned start to finish for $80.

We honor One veteran

A veteran’s stone in that same cemetery, cleaned the same visit, paid for by us.

  • One for one, same visit Every paid cleaning is matched with a veteran’s stone in the same cemetery, on the same trip. No extra drive, no separate appointment, and nothing added to your $80.
  • The same careful method Veterans’ stones get exactly what yours gets: cemetery-approved biological cleaners, water, and soft brushes. Never bleach, never acids, never pressure washing — which is also what the VA requires for the government-furnished markers it still owns.
  • Nobody is asked for anything We do not collect donations for it, we do not bill a veteran’s family, and it is not funded by a surcharge on your cleaning. Eighty dollars is still eighty dollars.
  • It carries forward If every veteran’s stone in that cemetery is already cared for, the cleaning we owe carries to the next cemetery we visit. The count is kept either way.

Cemetery rules and family wishes come first, so we work with the cemetery on which stones need care. Booking a cleaning is the only thing required to set one of these in motion — there is nothing to opt into, and nothing to pay.

Built to keep the important part close.

A memorial should not feel like a product pulled from a catalog. It should feel unmistakably connected to the person it carries forward.

That belief shapes every part of our work. After an order comes in, families bring us photographs, stories, symbols, hobbies, landscapes, and rough ideas. We review the design together and personally check the cemetery’s rules. Because we work with cemeteries throughout Genesee, Lapeer, Sanilac, Huron, and northern Oakland and Macomb, large and small, we already know many requirements and know who to contact when something needs confirmation. We can also help coordinate the foundation. Production begins after the family approves the final direction.

The beginning

Purpose before production.

Mastermind Creation Co. grew from the idea that memorial work should be more personal, transparent, and locally accountable.

The work today

Craft and care under one name.

We create new monuments, produce custom artwork and laser etching, deliver and set statewide across Michigan, and biologically clean existing headstones across our six local counties.

The promise

Order first. Approve before production.

Once the order is received, we go over the design and cemetery requirements with the family. Production begins after the family approves the final direction.

Michigan today. Tennessee, where our family is.

Our family has strong ties to Tennessee, and as Mastermind Creation Co. grows, we are excited to expand our memorial services into the communities our family calls home.

Our family already lives in Middle Tennessee, which makes this a natural next chapter for a family-owned business rather than a line on a map. We are currently based in Michigan while we build that long-term presence, and we eventually plan to establish our primary home base in Tennessee. Until that day comes we will say exactly that: Michigan is where the shop is, Tennessee is where the family is. Headstone cleaning is the same $80 per stone there, alongside memorial preservation, family plot and cemetery cleaning, cemetery preservation, and custom monuments around Greenbrier, Springfield, White House, Goodlettsville, Hendersonville, Gallatin, and Clarksville.

Start with a conversation.

Pick the one that matches what you are looking at. Every path here reaches a person, and nothing on this site charges you for asking a question.

One stone needs cleaning

$80 per stone, paid once, nothing owed afterward.

Book an $80 Cleaning

A memorial needs making

Drawn with your family first, then cut. Free consultation.

Start a Free Monument Consultation

A stone needs looking after

Recurring cleaning and a condition check, quoted as a care plan.

Ask About Annual Memorial Care

A stone is leaning or sunken

Resetting and levelling, quoted after photographs.

Request a Reset Assessment