Retainers and scoped projects · 15 prices in USD

Retainers and
scoped projects

Ten monthly retainers you can pause, and five larger projects priced after scoping. Cheapest first in each group.

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Or book a 20-minute call first. No pitch, just fit.

Fixed-price projects, from a free roast to an iOS app, are on the flat-fee page.

Month to month
Pause or stop any month. No contracts.
Written accountability
Seven retainers say it on their page: if it is wrong, we fix it inside the fee. The two partner plans refund 75% of a first week that does not work out.
Scoped before it starts
A larger project gets a fixed number in writing after scoping, never an hourly bill.

Monthly retainers

10 retainers, cheapest first · pause any month

  • Websites

    Website Care Plan

    $1,500/mo

    Month to month · hosting, eight senior hours, same-day outage response

    Hosting, eight senior hours a month, updates and monitoring.

    Keep my site live

  • Inbound and content

    Inbound Desk

    from$2,500/mo

    Month to month · three volumes, first response inside one business day

    Every inbound request answered by a senior person, under your rules.

    Staff my inbox

  • Growth

    Conversion Optimization

    from$3,500/mo

    Month to month · one shipped test a month, a month with no test is not billed

    One hypothesis-driven test a month, shipped and read.

    Start testing

  • Growth

    SEO & GEO Retainer

    from$4,500/mo

    Month to month · after the audit, depending on cadence

    The audit's roadmap, executed: pages, fixes and a monthly report.

    Execute my roadmap

  • Product design and builds

    Cadence

    $4,900/mo

    Month to month · one cycle a month, every cycle ends deployed

    One feature cycle a month, designed and shipped as production code.

    Start a cycle

  • Design and front-end

    Design Partner

    $6,500/mo

    Month to month · one senior, design and production front-end

    A senior creative director who also ships the front-end code.

    Add a design partner

  • Inbound and content

    Verified Content Desk

    from$7,500/mo

    Month to month · one page a week or one a day

    One verified page a week, or one a day, checked before publishing.

    Start my desk

  • Hospitality

    Hospitality Experience Lab

    $9,000/mo

    Month to month · measured against real bookings every month

    A standing studio for your properties, measured against bookings.

    Start the lab

  • Design and engineering

    Product Partner

    $12,000/mo

    Month to month · design and engineering, continuous features

    Design plus engineering, continuous feature development.

    Add a product partner

  • Leadership

    Fractional CPO

    from$15,000/mo

    Month to month · two to three days a week, direction in writing in week one

    Embedded product leadership that also designs and ships.

    Bring in a CPO

Scoped projects

5 projects, a fixed number after scoping

  • Team

    AI Workshop

    from$5,000

    Quoted after a scoping call · half-day or two-day, remote or on-site

    Half-day or two-day, your real projects on the table.

    Book the workshop

  • Hospitality

    Hotel Website Design

    from$12,000

    Three ways to buy · the entry price is the template build

    Aurelia template build first; custom design is the next tier.

    Start my hotel site

  • Hospitality

    Property Discovery

    $15,000

    Flat fee plus travel at cost · on-site residency, credited against the build

    Live the property on site to design its digital guest experience.

    Plan the residency

  • Product design and builds

    AI Feature Sprint

    from$24,000

    Quoted after a scoping call · two to three weeks, evals before ship

    An AI feature designed, evaluated and shipped in two to three weeks.

    Scope my AI feature

  • Product design and builds

    Complex Data Visualization

    from$30,000

    Quoted after a scoping call · four to eight weeks, scoped per dataset

    Make the hard data legible: custom charts, scoped per dataset.

    Scope my data viz

Questions

How a retainer works

Each retainer bills monthly and renews until you stop it. No annual contract and no minimum term beyond the first month. Pause or stop with a message before the next cycle; work in progress finishes inside the month already paid.

The month-to-month retainers pause with a message before the next cycle, and a paused month is not billed; Care Plan, Cadence, the Lab and the Partner plans say so on their page. An embedded engagement like the Fractional CPO sets its pause terms in the written agreement from week one.

Seven of the ten retainers write it on their page: if it is wrong, we fix it inside the fee. The two Partner plans add a first-week refund: leave inside seven days and 75 percent of the month comes back. The SEO retainer follows the audit that precedes it and is scoped from that roadmap.

After one scoping call, in writing, as a fixed number for an agreed scope. Hotel Website Design has three fixed tiers, and the entry tier is your brand on the Aurelia template. Complex data work is scoped per dataset. No hourly billing on any of them.

Most people do. A Sprint, a landing page or an app is the usual start, and a retainer keeps it moving. The fixed-price projects, from a free roast to an iOS app, are on the flat-fee page at /flat-fee-design.

Care Plan keeps a site alive. Conversion Optimization and the SEO retainer grow what you have. Cadence keeps a product moving one feature a month. Design Partner and Product Partner add a person to your team, and Fractional CPO adds direction. The two desks take a function off your plate: content, or inbound. Twenty minutes on a call settles it.

Not sure which one? Twenty minutes on a call and I will tell you, including if a flat-fee project is the better buy.

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