Pricing

Real numbers. No "let's chat."

Most agencies hide pricing because their pricing is bad. Ours isn't. Here it is, three product lines, tier specs visible, no hidden line items.

Product line 1

Bid intelligence

Start with the Engine. Add modules when one question matters more. Keep it current with a month-to-month plan. Reports are delivered as watermarked PDFs (so leaks are traceable). 7-day refund if the deliverable isn't useful. Pay first, deliverable after.

The Engine, $1,500 to start

Scoped to your trade
No filler, no over-promising.
  • The bundle auto-includes only what applies to your trade.
  • The winning-price breakdown leans on the bid tabs we hold for your work type.
  • The report says what we have for your agencies and what we don't.
  • We show what the winning bids were, from public award records. We do not claim line-by-line breakdowns of losing bidders' sheets, those line items are not public.
  • Federal encroachment mapping is a trade-specific add-on, where applicable (union-signatory electrical and similar), added only after we verify signatory status.

Add-on modules (à la carte or added to the Engine)

Competitor Dossier
$500
One-time. The one rival who keeps beating you.
  • Deep profile of a single competitor in your lane
  • Their win record by agency, from public award data
  • The dollar gaps on the contracts you both bid
  • What the winning bids were on those jobs, where public record allows
Agency Playbook
$500
One-time. How to win with one specific agency.
  • Who currently holds the work, and the renewal calendar
  • The winning-price band for that agency's contracts, where published
  • How they buy: open bid, cooperative routes, set-asides
  • A specific path to your first win there
Win-Price Benchmark
$350
One-time. The price band that wins a job type.
  • The winning-bid range for a specific job type in your region
  • Drawn from public award records and published bid tabs
  • Where you've been landing relative to that band
  • Sources cited so you can check every number
Pursuit Support / Bid Coach
$500 / pursuit
One pursuit. 48-hour turnaround.
  • Pre-bid response review
  • Winning-price context for this specific RFP, from public record
  • Davis-Bacon labor build-up if federal
  • 30-minute pre-submission call

Recurring tiers (month 2+)

Watch
$300 / mo
Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
  • Weekly RFP digest in your trade
  • Recompete and renewal alerts
Managed
$850 / mo
Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
  • Everything in Engine
  • Google Business Profile management
  • We draft your bid responses

See full bid intel page Free 5-page sample

One-time

Website builds

Fast static site. $0/month recurring hosting. You own everything.

Starter
$1,500
One-time. 5 pages. 2-3 weeks delivery.
  • 5 pages: Home, Services, Service Areas, About, Contact
  • Mobile-first responsive
  • Contact form with email notifications
  • Click-to-call on every page
  • Google Maps embed
  • Photo gallery (up to 12 photos)
  • Local schema markup
  • Fast static hosting ($0/mo)
  • 1 round of revisions
  • 1-hour handoff support
Get audit first Buy now — $1,500
Premium
$4,000 – $5,000
One-time. 15+ pages. 3-4 weeks delivery.
  • Everything in Standard
  • 15+ unique pages
  • Programmatic SEO (every service × neighborhood = a page)
  • Lead-capture forms with email + SMS notifications
  • Booking calendar integration
  • Customer photo upload form (for issue diagnosis)
  • Live chat widget (optional)
  • 3 rounds of revisions
  • 3-hour handoff support
Get audit first Buy now — $5,000

Add-ons (any tier)

Add-onPrice
Logo only (if needed)$200
Starter branding kit, logo + business cards + basic marketing pieces (skip if you already have a brand)$350
Migration from existing site (preserve content + URLs)$200 – $500
Schema markup audit + fix on existing site (no rebuild)$500

Payment terms: 50% upfront via Stripe, 50% on launch day. Premium tier supports a 4-5 month payment plan at +5% premium.

Monthly

SEO + GBP retainer

Cancel any time, no contract, month-to-month.

First 90 days, $250/mo

Your trial period. Lower price gives us both runway: we prove the work matters, you build confidence in the deliverables. After 90 days, the rate steps to $500/mo unless we agree otherwise.

$500 one-time setup fee covers: GBP manager add, tracking phone number provisioning, category cleanup, Q&A seeding, baseline call-volume measurement, kickoff call.

Bundle with web build → setup fee waived.

Month 4+, $500/mo

Standard rate after the trial period. Same scope as the trial, we're not adding hidden line items. The price reflects honest labor cost (2-3 hours/month of my time) + reasonable margin.

If we're producing measurable lead lift and you want to scale, we have a Premium tier ($750/mo) for multi-location / multi-service businesses with weekly written reports + ad-hoc audits.

What's included every month

DeliverableCadenceWhy it matters
GBP posts3-4 / weekGoogle ranks active profiles higher than dormant ones
Review responsesWithin 24h of new review88% of consumers read review responses; high response rate signals you care
Q&A managementWithin 48h of new questionUnanswered Q&A makes you look closed; competitors answer in 24h
Photo refresh3-5 new / monthRecent photos signal Google your profile is being actively maintained
Category auditQuarterlyGoogle adds new vertical-specific categories, we keep yours current
Call trackingContinuoustracking phone number on your GBP forwards to your real line; we log every call
Performance reportMonthly1-page summary: calls, profile views, posts, reviews, ranking-map progress

What's NOT included (and why)

Paid Google / Facebook ads. Different game, different metrics. Most contractors who try organic + paid simultaneously over-spend on the wrong one. Get the foundation right first.

Long-form content marketing. Blog post mills don't move the phone for service and general contractors. Skip it.

Social media management. Instagram doesn't book HVAC service calls.

Website hosting fees. Your site lives on a fast static stack at $0/mo. There's nothing to bill you for.

"Review removal" services. They don't work, and the ones that "work" violate Google's terms.

Off-page link building. Risk of penalty for ROI most contractors won't notice.

SEO Setup — $500 one-time Start retainer — $250/mo Full retainer — $500/mo
Best value

Bundle pricing

The Engine already bundles the bid intel side into one package. If you also want a website and ongoing GBP management, here is how it stacks.

Engine + Website
$3,000 – $6,500
Engine ($1,500) + a website build, your tier.
  • Everything in the Engine
  • Website build, your tier ($1,500-$5,000)
  • SEO retainer setup fee waived on the web build
  • One platform, one invoice
Managed (recurring)
$850 / mo
Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
  • Weekly RFP digest + recompete alerts
  • Quarterly Discovery Audit refresh + pursuit help
  • Google Business Profile management
  • We draft your bid responses

Web + SEO bundle, no bid intel

If you skip bid intel and just want the website + SEO retainer, we waive the $500 retainer setup fee.

Bundle Setup First 90 days SEO Month 4+ retainer Saves
Starter (5-page site + retainer) $1,500 $250/mo × 3 $500/mo $500 setup fee
Standard (10-page site + retainer) $2,500 – $3,500 $250/mo × 3 $500/mo $500 setup fee
Premium (15+ page site + retainer) $4,000 – $5,000 $250/mo × 3 $500/mo $500 setup fee
The fine print

Cancellation, refunds, payments

SEO retainer cancellation

  • Cancel any time. No contract, no early-termination fee.
  • Cancel mid-month → we finish the work for that month, then stop billing.
  • You keep the tracking phone number? Your call. If you want to keep it, we transfer it; if not, we release it.
  • You keep the audit reports + lead-attribution data we generated for you.

Web build cancellation + refunds

  • Cancel within 7 days of kickoff → full refund minus $200 admin fee.
  • Cancel after week 1 (wireframes delivered) → 60% refund of upfront.
  • Cancel after week 2 (content drafted) → 30% refund of upfront.
  • Cancel after week 3 (build complete) → no refund, but you take what's been built.

Payment methods

  • Stripe invoice (credit card, ACH, bank transfer)
  • 50% upfront / 50% on launch (web builds)
  • Monthly billing for retainers (auto-charged on the same day each month)
  • Premium tier web builds: 4-5 month payment plan at +5% premium

Satisfaction guarantee

  • If we miss agreed deliverables (posts published, reviews answered, reports sent), you cancel and we refund the month.
  • We don't guarantee Google rankings, those aren't ours to control. Any agency that does is lying.
  • 30-day post-launch warranty on web builds: bugs we introduced get fixed free.

Want it tailored to your business?

The free SEO audit shows which web + SEO tier fits. The free bid intel sample shows which procurement contracts your trade should be bidding. Pick one or both.