Living Website Essential: $1,997 setup + $397 a month
Essential is for a business with one lane: one main service, one area. A plumber in Welland. A fence company in St. Catharines. At setup you get a complete website built from your real business. After setup, the part that matters starts: the site keeps publishing genuinely useful pages about your work and your area, on its own, and each one has to pass the same open-source honesty gates this site runs on itself.
What the $1,997 setup builds
The setup is a complete, honest website for your business, live on your domain with hosting and TLS handled.
- Design and copy built from your real business: your services, your area, your actual contact details
- A lead path that works: call, email, or form, routed straight to you
- Clean technical foundations: fast static pages, structured data, sitemap, and search-engine registration
- Your one lane defined with you: the service and area the engine will own
What the $397 a month keeps doing
The monthly is not a maintenance fee with nothing behind it. It keeps the engine running:
- New genuinely useful pages about your service and area, published on a steady cadence you can see
- Every page passes the open-source de-AI and no-fabricate gates before it ships, no exceptions
- Hosting, TLS, backups, and maintenance, all included
- A plain monthly report: what was added, what got indexed, what search queries moved, what leads came in
The quality bar, in the open
The obvious question about a website that writes its own pages is whether the pages are junk. Ours have one bar: genuinely useful to a real person, with zero invented facts. We enforce that with deterministic gates rather than promises. The de-AI gate fails a page that carries machine-writing tells, and the no-fabricate gate fails a page that states a number nobody sourced. Both are open source, and both run on this site first.
Cadence is deliberately steady rather than flashy. A young site earns volume as its authority builds, so pages arrive week over week, not in a dump. You can watch our own site doing exactly this on Proof.
Who Essential fits
Essential is built for single-location trades and local services: contractors, cleaners, landscapers, repair shops, clinics with one office. If you have several services or locations, or you work in a regulated industry, look at Growth instead.
One honest caveat: this is a compounding asset, and compounding takes time. Month one you have a strong site. The gap between a Living Website and a normal one widens month after month, as pages accumulate and start answering the questions your customers actually search.
Keep reading, then book the call.
- All packages and prices
- Not sure yet? See a bespoke mockup first, $297 credited toward this setup fee if you go ahead within 60 days
- Growth: several services or locations
- How the engine works
- Watch it working on our own site
- Terms: month-to-month, cancel anytime, you own your site
Order online and setup starts right away, or book a call first: we will look at your business together and set the lane your site will own.
Order EssentialFAQ
What do I have to do after setup?
Nothing is required of you. You set the lane with us once at setup: your main service and your area. After that the engine publishes on its own, and the monthly report shows you everything it did. You can review any page, and anything you want changed gets changed.
Is the content AI junk?
No, and you do not have to take that on faith. Every page must be genuinely useful to a real person and free of invented facts, enforced by two open-source gates that run before anything ships: one catches machine-writing tells, the other catches unsourced numbers. Volume is never the goal; a page that fails the bar does not publish.
What does the monthly report show?
Plain facts from the month: the pages that were added, what got indexed by Google, which search queries your site appeared and moved for, and the leads that came in. It is the same kind of telemetry we publish about our own site.
Where can I see a living website actually working?
This one. livingwebsites.ca runs the same engine we sell, publishing real guides and answers that rank. The Proof page shows the site updating itself in public, with real dates.