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From a focused business website to a custom application. Each tier adds to the one before it.
Get online, built to be found.
A fast, modern site that AI search can read and quote, built that way from day one.
Put the content you own to work.
A custom design system, plus the decks and videos and podcasts you already own turned into pages.
Scale to hundreds of pages.
One template, hundreds of pages generated from your own data.
Ship a custom app, not just a site.
Custom application work: ecommerce, portals, and agents. Quoted per project.
Your build price covers the project. Your monthly plan is additional. Prices exclude applicable taxes.
Hosting, upkeep and search visibility. Choose the amount of ongoing work that fits your business.
The entry plan. Hosting and upkeep, plus winning local search: a managed Google Business profile, local citations, and a fresh post every month.
The first tier with off-page authority and competitor intel, plus a strategist on call.
Off-site PR and original research, with active work to get you named in AI answers. Volume-based.
Plans are month-to-month, with no setup fee. Your build sets the minimum plan: Local for Site, Story and Engine; Authority for Studio.
Visitor intelligence on Growth & upLocal is the entry plan: hosting and upkeep, plus content and the map pack.
Local gets you found. Growth gets you chosen over competitors — off-page links, competitor intel, and a strategist.
Growth wins the SERP. Authority owns the category and the AI answer — off-site PR, research, and citation-building.
Four questions. No email required. Get a suggested build, monthly plan and first-year total.
So we can frame the recommendation around your situation.
Compare the scope, then check the full cost. You own your code, content and domain.
| What you get | Site | Story | EngineMost popular | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (one-time) | $2,500 | $5,000 | $9,000 | $15,000+ |
| Senior hours | ~16 | ~33 | ~60 | 100+ |
| Typical market, year one | $5,000-$15,000 | $8,000-$18,000 | $20,000-$40,000 | $15,000-$50,000 |
| Pages | Up to 8 | Up to 15 | 200+ | Custom |
| Original copywriting | Every page | Every page | Every page | Every page |
| Custom design system | ||||
| Video + podcast → pages | ||||
| Pages generated from your data | ||||
| Custom app work | ||||
| Set up to be found by AI search | ||||
| You own all the code | ||||
| Starts on plan | Local | Local | Local | Authority |
| What you get | Local | GrowthMost popular | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price / month | $300 | $700 | $2,000+ |
| Typical market / month | $500-$2,000 | $1,500-$2,500 | $3,000-$8,000 |
| Hosting and upkeep | |||
| Monthly AI-traffic report | |||
| Blog posts / month | 1 | 4 | Sprints |
| Local SEO + Google Business | |||
| Off-page link building | |||
| Competitor tracking | |||
| Visitor identification (Cite-Met Pulse) | |||
| Strategist call | Monthly | Bi-weekly | |
| Getting you named, plus press |
Every tier is an hour budget at a $150/hr senior rate. Feedback and revisions draw from that budget. We flag extra work before going over.
A Story build, for example. The scope and hour cap are agreed before work begins.
$300-$750 per page ($4,500-$11,000 a site)
Included on every page and post+20-30% on your retainer, or $3,000-$8,000/mo standalone
Baked into every tier$29-$499/mo SaaS (Otterly, AthenaHQ, Profound)
Included via cite-metNot offered; most ship raw AI output
Every word, via our open-source skills$50-$300/mo separate vendor
Included in the retainer$500-$10,400 one-time
None$130-$500/mo (Ahrefs, Semrush, rank trackers)
Included6-12 month minimums, asset clawbacks
Month-to-month, you own everythingA plain-English business-facts file ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can parse in one pass. Hours, address, service areas, certifications.
GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended. All explicitly invited in.
Your customer's actual questions marked up so AI engines pull the answers directly. Service explainers written the way an AI answer wants to quote them.
The owner's role, what they specialise in, their certifications and years of experience. The signal the AI tools use to decide who to name.
In your Cite-Met workspace, alongside project progress and ongoing care. We review traffic sources and AI crawler activity month to month; crawler visits are not proof of citations.
Built on current tooling we maintain ourselves. Under two seconds on mobile data, designed phone-first, and accessible.
Capabilities decks, pitch decks, and training slides become real explainer pages that can be found, instead of a PDF nobody can find.
YouTube videos and webinars become blog posts with embedded video, transcripts, key-moment extracts, and the questions answered on the page. Back catalogue batched at signing.
Episode pages with full transcripts, summaries, and timestamp anchors, all written out properly. New episodes within 24 hours of publishing.
A white paper or report becomes a clean explainer page, or a short set of them if it runs long, with the key claims written the way an AI answer quotes them.
A whole library of manuals, guides, and spec sheets, structured and analyzed into a cross-linked set of pages. The volume and data work is what puts it at Engine.
The answers you already wrote to win bids become service, FAQ, and HowTo pages that rank for exactly what your next client is searching for.
for agents, teams, and brokerages
for trades, contractors and custom home builders
for independent restaurants and small groups
for SaaS products and developer tools
for home theater and smart home installers
for dental practices and law firms
for CPA firms and tax accountants
for boutique studios and personal trainers
for veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
for independent retailers and storefronts
for independent and specialty auto shops
for private schools and training programs
Every tool in our stack is built in-house, engineered to work together and ship measurable outcomes for clients. Click any screenshot to see it full-size.
Award-winning collaboration platform
The $100K Lovable Shipped grand prize winner. Real-time visual feedback directly on live staging sites — voice notes, session replay, and AI-powered reports. No screenshots, no email chains, no confusion.
Visit GiveFeedbackThree reasons. We built our own delivery tools (an SEO writer, a voice auditor, and a slop detector, all open-source on GitHub), so work that takes a 2019 agency weeks takes us a fraction of that, and the saving goes to you instead of a strategist's salary. We bundle the things competitors bill separately: copy, the AI-search work, hosting, and traffic tracking.
Because hiding the price is the thing buyers are afraid of. Every tier is an hour budget at a senior $150/hr rate, so you can see exactly what your money buys. If we quoted by "discovery call" you'd have no way to check whether the number was fair. Publishing it is the honest version.
Price divided by $150 is the hours of senior work in your tier. A $5,000 Story build is about 33 hours. Revisions and feedback rounds draw down that budget instead of being billed per round, so the question isn't "how many revisions." It's the hour cap, and that's fixed and stated up front.
No setup fee, and the monthly plan is month-to-month with no annual lock-in. The build is half up front and half on launch. You can step down to the $300 Local plan or leave any time, and the code and content stay yours, domain included.
You need at least the floor plan for your build (Local under a Site, Local under a Story or Engine, Authority under a Studio) because a bigger site needs more upkeep. You can run on the floor and step up whenever you want, never down below it.
Then the math is simpler: the Local plan is $300/mo, prepaid a year is $720, and one extra customer usually covers it. The free audit will show you what you're missing before you spend anything.