How it works · the human-involvement ladder

You drive. We work alongside you.
Or we run it for you.

The defining difference isn't the platform — it's how much of the work a real strategist takes off your plate. No prompt box, no marketplace, a named human every step.

30 min · with a real strategist · site audit included

  • Free 30-min strategy call · no obligation
  • 2-week launch — written into your proposal
  • A named strategist, every step

Step 01 · The strategy call

A strategy call with a senior operator

Free, 30 minutes, your site audited live across SEO and AI visibility — the same person handles new business and knows the playbook.

Step 02 · The 2-week build

A 2-week build by the SEO team

Written into your proposal as a commitment, not a vague claim. Custom scopes get quoted on the call — still shipped faster than a typical agency.

Step 03 · The keys + monthly cadence

Keys handed over, strategy on call

Loom walkthrough on launch, monthly strategy time on call for as long as you stay. The relationship starts the day the site goes live.

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How human-led works

A real strategist. Start to finish.

Four steps, no chatbots, no “launch in minutes” theater. We do this every day — we’ll just do it for you, then stay on call once it’s live.

  1. Day zero

    Free strategy call

    30 minutes with a senior 1Digital® strategist — the person who handles new business AND knows the SEO playbook. Not a chatbot, not a script-reading junior BDR. We audit your site and your AI visibility live, and you walk away with a plan. No obligation, no card on file.

    • Live audit
    • Strategy plan
    • No card on file
  2. Weeks 1–2

    We build it

    Design, content, SEO baseline, and a Vercel launch — all run by our team. You give one round of feedback. We handle the rest. Most 5-page builds go live in two weeks.

    • Design + content
    • SEO baseline
    • Vercel launch
  3. Launch day

    We hand you the keys

    Full admin access for your team, a live training session, and a named strategist who knows your site by name. You can drive it yourself any time you want — many clients never do.

    • Admin access
    • Live training
    • Named strategist
  4. Ongoing

    We stay on call

    Strategy time and support hours every month, scaled to the plan you pick. A site that keeps improving and a strategist on call — not hosting, not a help desk.

    • Monthly strategy
    • Support hours
    • Always-on

The human-involvement ladder

Pick your posture. Not your feature count.

The defining difference: the level of human leadership scales with the plan, and we say so plainly. Choose how much of the wheel you want, and we take the rest.

Human-guided

You drive

Essentials$89/mo

We set you up right and stay reachable. A real strategist is one message away when you need one.

Strategy time30-min kickoffSupport1 hr/mo

Site stays current — at your pace

Start with this posture
Human-accompanied

We work alongside you

Managed$199/mo

Strategy time every month, plus we host and maintain. You stay in the driver’s seat with us on the bench.

Strategy time1 hr/moSupport2 hr/mo

Site stays current with your business

Start with this posture
Human-led

We run it for you

White-Glove$449/mo

We drive strategy and execution. Named strategist, monthly roadmap call, and proactive monitoring — we fix it before you notice.

Strategy time3 hr/moSupport4 hr/mo

Always-on strategist · site stays current

Start with this posture

Why us, not a builder

They hand you a tool. We hand you a team.

A builder is built for launching a site yourself in minutes. We’re built for businesses that want operators to build it — and make it rank.

Other platforms

A tool and a free trial.

  • A tool and a free trial
  • A help center, not a team
  • Intro pricing that triples later
  • You’re left to figure it out
  • Lock-in or a hard cancellation

Workspace CMS

A team and a strategist.

  • A team and a strategist
  • A real, named strategist who knows your site
  • Honest flat pricing — no intro-rate jumps
  • A 15-year SEO operator on call
  • Cancel anytime, keep your data

Built to evolve

Your site has a heartbeat. It’s never static.

The typical agency build follows the same arc: a flurry of work, a launch party, and then five years of the site quietly aging while the business moves on without it. We don’t work that way. Every Workspace CMS plan includes monthly strategist time dedicated to ongoing changes — so the site you launch this quarter doesn’t become the site you’re embarrassed of in 2028.

You come back to us each month with tweaks, updates, and improvements based on what the business is actually doing. The site is a living, breathing item — continuously updated, always current, always evolving. That keeps you fresh for Google (recency is a ranking signal) and fresh for the AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini pull from current pages first). It also means you never have to find time to deal with the site — because we’re always on it.

Always-current

Fresh content for the indexes

Google rewards recency. AI engines retrieve current pages first. A stale site loses both — quietly, over months you don’t notice. Our cadence keeps the heartbeat going.

Strategist-led

Tweak-by-tweak, with a human

Use your monthly strategist hours for the work that actually moves the needle — content updates, conversion experiments, schema changes, SEO refresh, copy nudges. You ask, we make it happen. No project quote for a phone-number change.

No deferred debt

Updates as ideas surface

Changes happen the week you think of them — not deferred until your next big “we should redo the site” reckoning two years from now. The site stays current with the business because the strategist is still on it.

Not a site we deliver and walk away from. A site that keeps a heartbeat — because a human-led strategist is still on it every month.

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The honest answer

Why pay monthly?

Two reasons. Both run monthly.

Reason 01

A strategist on call.

You’re never on your own with the site. Every plan ships with a named strategist — you’ll always know who you’re talking to and where the work stands.

Reason 02

A site that keeps evolving.

A static site loses ground with Google + the AI engines every quarter nothing changes. The monthly cadence keeps the heartbeat going — fast pages, fresh content, working SEO.

What the monthly fee actually buys

  • Real strategy time every month — SEO consulting or copywriting, your choice (plan dependent).
  • AI-visibility tracking across Google + the AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) so you can watch yourself get cited as search behavior shifts.
  • Support hours every month for the tweaks, the fixes, and the “can we change this?” moments.
  • A named strategist who knows your site, your goals, and your history with us.

That’s what the monthly fee buys: a site that keeps improving and a strategist on call. Not hosting. Not a help desk.

Cancel anytime. Export your content and redirects whenever you want. No intro rate that triples in month four.

Ready to talk? We’re consultative, not self-serve.

Book a free 30-minute SEO strategy call. A senior 1Digital® strategist (the person who handles new business AND knows the SEO playbook) audits your site, walks through what we'd do, and quotes a 2-week launch — not a chatbot, not a script-reading junior BDR.