Questions worth asking before you hire anyone.

Compared to doing it yourself, sure. Compared to what an agency charges for a fraction of this — Google Business Profile management alone often runs $300 to $500 a month on its own — this is the same money buying three systems instead of one, run by the person who's actually responsible for the result. If you just need a listing checked once a season, this isn't built for that.

Yes, if you're only buying a website. This isn't sold as a website — it's the website plus the Google Business Profile work and the lead follow-up that make the website worth having, bundled into one flat $300/month. A standalone site elsewhere might cost less upfront, but you'd still need to run the other two systems yourself, or pay for them separately.

There's only one plan — $300/month, everything included. Splitting it into pieces undercuts the point: the three systems reinforce each other, they don't work as well run in isolation. If $300/month doesn't fit right now, the honest answer is to wait until it does, not to buy a smaller slice.

No. It's month-to-month from day one — no minimum term, no exit fee. Cancel anytime, by text. The founding rate is locked for as long as you stay, not for a contract term; if you leave and come back later, you'd rejoin at whatever the rate is by then.

WordPress is fine, and I've worked in it for years. The tradeoff is maintenance — plugins, updates, and security patches are where most small business sites get compromised. This build has no database and no plugins, so there's nothing to exploit and nothing to patch. It also loads in under a second, which WordPress usually doesn't without significant extra work.

Yes. You'll log in through a simple content editor, change a headline or add a post, and hit publish — no developer, no ticket, no invoice. Every change is versioned, so if something breaks, it can be rolled back in a minute.

No. Everything lives in your own GitHub account, not mine — you own the code, the content, and the domain outright. Any developer can pick it up because it's built on a standard, well-documented framework, not something proprietary. That's specifically why it's built this way instead of on a platform you can't leave.

The structural difference here: this work is measured against one number — the revenue it produces, not rankings or impressions. If it's not showing up there, that's stated plainly in the report, not buried behind an account manager or a vendor pointing at another vendor.

Technical improvements — speed, indexing, attribution — show up within weeks. Ranking movement is typically 90 to 180 days depending on your category. Anyone promising page one in 30 days is either lying or doing something that'll hurt you later. What you will know within 30 days is exactly where every lead came from, which most businesses never have.

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for a recommendation in your trade and city, there's an answer forming right now. For most local categories that's still a channel with almost no competition. The businesses structuring their content for it now are the ones that get cited once it isn't.