Living Websites

Living Website Core: $0 setup + $597 a month

Bryan Benner has built for the web for 20 years and runs Living Websites in St. Catharines.

Core 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, with no setup fee. After setup, the part that matters starts: the site keeps publishing genuinely useful pages about your work and your area, on its own, at a full daily cadence, and each one has to pass the same open-source honesty gates this site runs on itself. $597/month is a founding rate: an early-stage price, not a discount off something bigger.

What the $0 setup builds

The setup is a complete, honest website for your business, live on your domain with hosting and TLS handled, at no setup cost.

  • 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 $597 a month keeps doing

The monthly is not a maintenance fee with nothing behind it. It keeps the engine running at a full daily cadence:

  • New genuinely useful pages about your service and area, published on a steady daily 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 Core fits

Core is built for single-location trades and local services: contractors, cleaners, landscapers, repair shops, clinics with one office, ready for a full daily cadence. If your lane is not proven yet and you want to start at a lighter pace, look at Foundation. 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. Pricing here describes what a new customer pays; anyone already on an earlier plan keeps the terms they signed up under.

Keep reading, then book the call.

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.

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FAQ

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.

What does "founding rate" mean?

Your rate is locked in for as long as you stay continuously subscribed, even if the price for new customers changes later. The founding rate is open to the first 10 clients on each tier; once a tier fills, clients who join after that start at whatever the tier is priced at then.

Is there a minimum term?

Yes, for founding-rate clients: a 3-month minimum, stated in the signed agreement you receive when you order. After that it is month to month, with no cancellation fee. If you cancel before the 3-month minimum is met, we invoice the remaining balance of that minimum and your service continues through the end of the term.