Priced to undercut your current SEO bill.
Four build tiers and four monthly retainers, all with AEO baked in. We always quote below what you're paying now. Floor is $60 a month on hosting and maintenance.
Not sure which tier? Answer four questions.
No form, no email needed. We'll point you at the build and plan that fit, show the all-in cost against the market, and tell you why.
Where are you starting from?
So we can frame the recommendation around your situation.
Pick what gets built.
Every engagement is two parts: a one-time build, plus a monthly plan that keeps it ranked. Each build compounds on the last — and sets the plan it starts on (noted on each card). Start where you are; move up any time without redoing the work below.
Site
Get online, built to be found.
one-time
A modern, fast site that AI search can actually read — AEO baked in.
- Modern stack: TypeScript + React, Lighthouse 90+
- AEO baseline: llms.txt, AI-bot allowlist, FAQ schema, PersonJsonLd
- Schema markup, sitemap, robots.txt
- Mobile-first responsive design
- Contact form wired to your inbox
- Hosting on cite-met.com
Story
Put the content you own to work.
one-time
A custom design system, plus your decks, videos, and podcasts turned into pages.
- Everything in Site
- Custom design system (no template)
- Blog seeded with 5 SEO-optimized posts
- Slide decks, white papers, video & podcasts → SEO pages (back catalog included)
- Shorter PDFs and reports (up to ~12 pages) → indexable pages
Engine
Scale to hundreds of pages.
one-time
A programmatic SEO engine: one template, hundreds of pages from your data.
- Everything in Story
- Programmatic SEO engine (1 template, dozens to hundreds of pages)
- Document library, long reports & RFP responses → multi-page hubs
- Multi-location and service-area scaling
- Internal linking maps + per-template schema
- Search Console indexation submission
- Extra templates available at $1,500 each
Studio
Ship a custom app, not just a site.
custom quote
Custom application work — ecommerce, portals, agents. Quoted per project.
- Everything in Engine
- Ecommerce with Stripe + inventory sync
- Booking systems and member portals
- Industry-specific calculators / configurators
- AI agents trained on your domain knowledge
- Data science: recommendation engines, lead scoring
Prices shown exclude applicable taxes.
Keep it ranked.
Your build sets the floor — start there or step up any time. AEO is included at every tier. Month-to-month, no annual contract, and you own the code.
Care
Keep it healthy.
Hosting + AEO upkeep + a monthly AI-traffic report. The floor under any build.
- Hosting on cite-met.com + uptime monitoring
- Monthly dependency + security updates
- AEO upkeep (llms.txt, schema refresh)
- Monthly AI-traffic report (Human / SEO / AI)
- 1 hour/mo of small content edits
Local
Get found in your area.
Win local search: Google Business, local citations, and a post a month.
- Google Business Profile management
- Local citations + on-page tuning (5 pages, 25 keywords)
- 1 SEO-optimized blog post per month
- Monthly ranking + traffic report
- Everything in Care
Growth
Most popularOutrank your competitors.
The first tier with off-page authority, competitor intel, and a strategist.
- Off-page link building (4-6 placements / mo)
- Competitor share-of-voice tracking vs 3 competitors
- Monthly strategy call with a strategist
- 4 SEO-optimized blog posts per month
- New decks, videos & podcasts → SEO pages each month
- Quarterly technical SEO audit (15 pages, 50 keywords)
- Everything in Local
Authority
Become the source AI cites.
Off-site PR, original research, and active AEO citation-building. Volume-based.
- AEO citation-building across ChatGPT / Perplexity / Google AI
- Reddit + Quora seeding, Wikipedia entity work, digital PR
- Original research or data piece per quarter
- Content sprints (location, service, model pages) · 150 keywords
- Your decks, docs, and reports → ongoing page production
- Bi-weekly strategy + dedicated lead. Everything in Growth.
Prices shown exclude applicable taxes.
What unlocks at each step
The rule of the house
We always quote below what you're paying your current SEO people. Floor is $60/mo on hosting and maintenance. Tell us your current spend, we'll send back our quote. The math always works in your favour.
See exactly what changes.
Each step up adds one clear thing, not a vague bump in size. Here's the whole ladder, both halves, in one view.
| What you get | Site | Story | EngineMost popular | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (one-time) | $2,500 | $5,000 | $9,000 | $15,000+ |
| 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 | ||||
| Programmatic engine | ||||
| Custom app work | ||||
| AEO baseline + schema | ||||
| You own all the code | ||||
| Starts on plan | Care | Local | Local | Authority |
| What you get | Care | Local | GrowthMost popular | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price / month | $60 | $300 | $700 | $2,000+ |
| Hosting + AEO upkeep | ||||
| Monthly AI-traffic report | ||||
| Blog posts / month | 1 | 4 | Sprints | |
| Local SEO + Google Business | ||||
| Off-page link building | ||||
| Competitor tracking | ||||
| Strategist call | Monthly | Bi-weekly | ||
| AEO citation-building + PR |
Want the receipts?
We benchmarked every tier against the 2026 market. Here's what a website, SEO, and AEO actually cost elsewhere, with sources.
All pricing, in one place
The hour-budget model, every tier against the market, and what others bill separately.
Read itWhat a website costs
Freelancer vs agency vs Webflow vs DIY in 2026, and where our builds land.
Read itWhat SEO costs a month
The real retainer distribution, local SEO, content and links, vs our plans.
Read itWhat it costs to get cited by AI
AEO/GEO pricing, why it's usually a surcharge, and why ours isn't.
Read itWhat ships with every site.
AEO is not an add-on. It's the floor. Every Site, Story, Engine, and Studio build ships with the work below included.
llms.txt at the root
A plain-English business-facts file ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can parse in one pass. Hours, address, service areas, certifications.
AI-bot allowlist
GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended. All explicitly invited in.
FAQPage + HowTo schema
Your customer's actual questions marked up so AI engines pull the answers directly. Service explainers rendered as AI-answer-friendly structured data.
PersonJsonLd for E-E-A-T
The owner's jobTitle, knowsAbout, certifications, and years of expertise. The signal AI engines use to decide who to cite.
Monthly AI-traffic tracking
Via cite-met.com. We track which AI crawlers hit your site, the Human / SEO / AI traffic split, and the trajectory month-to-month.
Modern build, Lighthouse 90+
TypeScript + React (Vite, Next.js, or TanStack Start), Tailwind, shadcn/ui. Sub-2-second load on 4G, mobile-first, accessibility-compliant.
Turn the content you already own into search.
Most businesses already paid to produce content that's stuck in the wrong format: a capabilities deck that only ships as a PDF, webinars buried on YouTube, white papers and RFP responses lost in an inbox. We turn that archive into indexable, schema-tagged pages AI and search can cite. The line is roughly length: a deck, a white paper, or an episode that lands around a dozen pages or fewer is Story; a whole document library, or anything that fans out past that, is Engine, where the data structuring lives. Back catalog is included, and running it every month on new material is powered by the Growth plan and up.
Slide decks → SEO
Capabilities decks, pitch decks, and training slides become indexable explainer pages with the right schema — instead of a PDF nobody can find.
Video → SEO
YouTube and webinars become blog posts with embedded video, transcripts, key-moment extracts, and VideoObject + FAQ schema. Back catalog batched at signing.
Podcasts → SEO
Episode pages with full transcripts, summaries, timestamp anchors, and PodcastSeries + PodcastEpisode schema. New episodes within 24 hours of publishing.
White papers → SEO
A white paper or report becomes a clean explainer page, or a short set of them if it runs long, with the key claims as answer-shaped, schema-tagged copy.
Document library → SEO
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.
RFP responses → SEO
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.
Pick your industry, see your build.
Each industry page walks through the schema gaps we see most often on those sites, the pricing math against the typical SEO retainer in that field, and the rebuild we would actually quote.
Every capability, in depth.
The detailed guides behind each service — what we build, how it works, and the schema and AEO behind it.
Platform Rebuilds
- WordPress to Headless Migration
- Squarespace to Custom React
- Wix to Custom Migration
- Ghost to Headless Migration
- Core Web Vitals Optimization
- Headless CMS Implementation
- Legacy CMS Technical Debt Audit
- WordPress vs Headless: The Enterprise Migration Decision Framework
- Squarespace vs Custom React: When to Migrate and Why
- Wix vs Custom Development: The Hidden Costs of Template Websites
The stack behind the results.
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.
GiveFeedback.dev
$100K grand prizeAward-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 GiveFeedbackSpace & Story rebuilds small business websites to look better, load faster, and get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. A tight studio, not a 30-person agency. The team you meet on the first call is the team that ships, and the proposal always comes in below what you're paying your current SEO people.
The questions that actually decide it.
How is Space & Story cheaper than an agency without cutting corners?
Three 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, AEO, hosting, and AI-traffic tracking. And we run by a rule: we quote below whatever you're paying now.
Why do you publish your prices when most agencies hide them?
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.
What does the $150/hr rate actually mean for me?
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.
Is there a setup fee or a contract?
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 $60 Care plan or leave any time, and you keep the code, the content, and the domain.
Do I have to take a monthly plan?
You need at least the floor plan for your build (Care 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.
What if I'm not paying anyone for SEO right now?
Then the math is simpler: the Care plan is $60/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.
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We rebuild small business websites for AI search and keep them ranked monthly. The audit is free, the proposal comes in below your current spend, and the work is verifiable on four live case studies.