Living Website Foundation: $0 setup + $297 a month
Foundation is for a business that wants the AI SEO work a trades or local-service business needs, running as a standing engine, without committing to daily cadence on day one. One main service, one area, published on more slowly. At setup you get a complete website built from your real business with no setup fee. After setup, the site keeps publishing genuinely useful pages about your work and your area at a lighter pace, and every one of them has to pass the same open-source honesty gates this site runs on itself. $297/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 $297 a month keeps doing
The monthly runs the same engine every Living Website runs, at a lighter cadence built for a single lane just getting started:
- New genuinely useful pages about your service and area, at roughly 2-3 pages a week rather than a daily cadence
- Every page passes the open-source de-AI and no-fabricate gates before it ships, no exceptions
- Hosting, TLS, backups, and maintenance, all included
- The same lead-escalation, telemetry, and search-visibility work every tier runs, just applied to one lane at a lighter pace
- 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.
The lighter cadence is not a stripped-down version of the product: it is the same engine, same gates, same reporting, running slower because a single lane just starting out does not need daily volume yet. You can watch our own site running the full-speed version of this engine on Proof.
Who Foundation fits
Foundation is built for a business testing the water with one lane: a new business, a side lane of an existing one, or an owner who wants to see the engine work before committing to a faster cadence. If your lane is already proven and you want the daily cadence, look at Core instead. If you have several services or locations, look at Growth.
One honest caveat: a lighter cadence means a slower compounding curve. Foundation still compounds, it just takes longer to show the same page count Core does. That is a real tradeoff, not a discount dressed up as one: lower real cadence costs less because it is genuinely less engine time, month to month.
Keep reading, then book the call.
- All packages and prices
- Core: one lane, daily cadence
- Growth: several services or locations
- How the engine works
- Watch it working on our own site
- Terms: 3-month minimum for founding clients, 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 FoundationFAQ
What is the difference between Foundation and Core?
Cadence, not scope. Both run the same engine, the same honesty gates, and the same reporting. Foundation publishes roughly 2-3 pages a week on a single lane; Core runs the full daily cadence. Foundation fits a business that is just getting started or testing one lane before committing to the faster pace.
Why is the setup fee $0?
Foundation is priced for a business getting started, so the cost is entirely in the monthly engine, not an upfront build fee. You still get the same complete site at setup that every tier gets.
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.
Can I move to Core or Growth later?
Yes. Foundation, Core, and Growth are the same underlying engine at different cadence and scope. Moving up is a plan change, not a rebuild.
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.