Website and SEO costs in Ottawa, written down.
Most web design and SEO pricing is a quote form. Ours is on the site, and these guides explain the numbers behind it - what changes them, what is included, and what you are actually signing up for in year one. The others are not about our money at all: a self-check for why you cannot find yourself on Google Maps, how to read any SEO package line by line, what AEO is, what profile management involves, what an AI receptionist costs, what Google AI Mode is, what hosting costs anywhere (not only here), how to choose an SEO company, and what a redesign costs.
Start with the money question.
It is the first thing anyone wants to know and the last thing most agencies put on a page, so it is the one we answered first. The rest take the questions people arrive with next: why they are not showing on Google Maps, what a package actually contains, what AEO is, what profile management involves, what an AI receptionist costs, and what Google AI Mode means for a local business.
Every price we charge, on one screen.
A custom hand-coded build from $499 CAD one-time, then one flat monthly plan. Year-one totals are the build plus twelve months - nothing hidden behind them.
The build price is a starting rate: your written, fixed quote depends on the size and complexity of the site, and it is confirmed before any work begins. Every project starts with a free scoping call.
| What | Price | Year one |
|---|---|---|
| Custom hand-coded build | from $499CAD · one-time | n/a |
| Hosting & Care | $59CAD / month | from $1,207 |
| Hosting + SEO | $299CAD / month | from $4,087 |
| Hosting + SEO + AI Agents | $388CAD / month | from $5,155 |
| AI voice Receptionist add-on | +$149CAD / month | n/a |
Year one = the build plus twelve monthly payments. The AI voice Receptionist is an add-on to the $388 plan, not a plan of its own.
A price you can check is worth more than one you have to ask for.
Quote-only pricing is not dishonest. Scope genuinely varies, and any studio that names a single number for every project is either guessing or padding. But it does put the whole cost of finding out onto you.
So we do both: the starting rate is published, and the fixed quote is still written down before anything starts. One of those is for comparing. The other is what you actually pay.
What a published price gives you
- You can compare us against anyone without booking a call first.
- You can decide whether we are in your range in about thirty seconds.
- We cannot quietly price the same work differently for two customers.
- The written, fixed quote still comes before anything starts.
We keep our marketing honest: no invented stats, no fake testimonials, no guarantees we cannot stand behind. Publishing the price is the same policy applied to money.
What people ask about the numbers.
1Why do most web design agencies not publish a price?
Usually because scope genuinely varies, and a studio that names one number for every project is either guessing or padding to cover the worst case. That is a fair argument. What it leaves out is who pays the cost of finding out: you do, in calls and forms, before you know whether the studio is even in your range. Publishing a starting rate and still writing a fixed quote afterwards answers the honest half without keeping the rest behind a form.
2Is there a catch in the $499 build price?
One thing, and it is on the page rather than in the small print. Every build runs on one of the monthly plans for its first year, which is what makes the one-time number possible. That puts year one at $1,207 all-in on Hosting & Care, $4,087 with SEO or $5,155 with SEO and AI agents, and all three sums are in the table above with the arithmetic shown. After the first year the plan is cancel-anytime.
3Why is there no was-this-now-that price on this site?
Because we never charged the higher number. A reference price is a claim about your own past selling, and Canada's Competition Act tests it two ways: whether a substantial volume was actually sold at that price, or whether it was offered in good faith for a substantial period. A price that only ever existed to be crossed out fails both. So the published rate is simply the rate, and the fixed quote is what you actually pay.
4Am I locked into a plan after the first year?
No. The first-year pairing is the one commitment and it is stated before you sign, because it is what the build price rests on. After that the plan is month to month and either side can end it with thirty days of written notice. The SEO and AI portions are month to month from day one, so moving between the three plans is not a renegotiation. The site itself is yours regardless of which plan you are on.
5Do these prices change if I am not in Ottawa?
No. The same published rates apply wherever you are in Canada, quoted and billed in Canadian dollars, because the work is done remotely from one studio rather than out of a network of offices with different overheads. The one thing tied to geography is the Ottawa Service Directory listing that comes with an Ottawa-area build, which is a local citation and only means something to a business serving that area.
6Which of these guides should I read first?
It depends on what you are deciding. If you are choosing whether to build or rebuild a site, start with what a website costs, because it shows the year-one arithmetic rather than just the sticker. If you already have a site and it is not being found, read what SEO costs. If the specific problem is that you cannot see yourself on Google Maps, read the Maps guide, which ends in a verdict and one of the verdicts is to hire nobody.
One of the answers above is a statement about Canadian law rather than about us, so here is the section of the Act it rests on.
- Competition Act, section 74.01, Misrepresentations to public (Justice Laws Website)
Read 2026-08-24. Source of the two tests an ordinary-price claim has to meet: a substantial volume sold at that price, or that price offered in good faith for a substantial period.
Know the number. Now the work.
If you need the site built, that is web design in Ottawa. If the site you have is fine and simply is not being found, that is a different job - SEO in Ottawa covers it on its own, on your existing site.