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A custom website, managed for you. From $399/mo.

Summit Studio builds your site and keeps it running: hosting, upkeep and foundational search and AI-answer setup, with no big build invoice. Start with the plan that fits and move up when you’re ready.

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Website included · No setup fee · AI-led, human-checked12-month membership; if you take the website with you before twelve months, the remaining build balance applies.

Website plans

Every plan includes a custom site built by our team, hosting and upkeep. Plans differ in how much ongoing work goes into growing it.

Site

A custom site that’s built right and kept healthy.

$399/mo

  • Custom 5-page site
  • Hosting and upkeep
  • Foundational SEO and AI-answer setup (schema, llms.txt)
  • A monthly change allowance: 2 hours a month (about 3 small edits)
Start with Site

Most businesses start here

Site + Visibility

Everything in Site, plus monthly work on being found.

$599/mo

  • Everything in Site
  • Monthly AI-answer work
  • A monthly change allowance: 2 hours a month (about 3 small edits)
Start with Site + Visibility

Growth

Strategy, search, content and conversion work every month.

$1,799/mo

  • A monthly strategy check-in
  • Monthly work on SEO and AI answers, content and conversion
  • Monthly Google Business Profile work
  • Directory listing management (consistent name, phone and details across major directories)
  • You see each month’s priorities before we start
  • A monthly change allowance: 2 hours a month (about 3 small edits)
Choose Growth
Compare website plans
FeatureSiteSite + VisibilityGrowth
Monthly price$399/mo$599/mo$1,799/mo
Custom site (5 pages)IncludedIncludedIncluded
Hosting and upkeepIncludedIncludedIncluded
Foundational SEO and AI-answer setupIncludedIncludedIncluded
Monthly change allowance2 hours (about 3 small edits)2 hours (about 3 small edits)2 hours (about 3 small edits)
Monthly AI-answer workNot includedIncludedIncluded
Monthly Google Business Profile workNot includedNot includedIncluded
Directory listing managementNot includedNot includedIncluded
Monthly strategy check-inNot includedNot includedIncluded
SEO content and conversion workNot includedNot includedIncluded
Priorities shared before each monthNot includedNot includedIncluded
Setup feeNoneNoneNone

Summit Signal (keep your current site): $450/mo, 3-month minimum, then month to month.

All plans: No setup fee. 12-month membership; if you take the website with you before twelve months, the remaining build balance applies. Your change allowance is 2 hours a month (about 3 small edits, like text, a photo, hours or a link); bigger work is quoted first. Unused time doesn’t roll over. Your website is built as part of your membership. If you want to take the website with you before twelve months, the initial build balance is payable: that amount is agreed with you in writing before your membership starts, and reduces by one twelfth for each qualifying paid month, reaching zero after twelve. Also available: Scale from $2,500/mo for several locations or markets.

Recent sites we built and look after.

Revel OTR Urban Winery homepage

Revel OTR Urban Winery (opens in a new tab)

Urban winery · Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati

Tri-State Signs homepage

Tri-State Signs (opens in a new tab)

Commercial signage · Hamilton, OH

Kelley Ready Mix homepage

Kelley Ready Mix (opens in a new tab)

Ready-mix concrete · Batavia, OH

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Can’t replace your site?

Keep your website: Summit Signal.

Not ready to rebuild? Keep the site you have, and we’ll help you understand what’s happening on it and what to improve next.

$450/mo

3-month minimum ($1,350 over three months), then month to month. Fixes from the list are quoted before we start.

Ask about SignalHow Signal works
Product-style panel: an ordered list of what to do next, each with its reasoningSignal · Monthly read · [Your business]What to do nextOrdered by likely impact. You agree what gets picked up.1Make the quote form visible on the service pagesWhy: Most visits to service pages end before the form.Agreed2Rewrite the water-heater page around the questions people askWhy: It brings people in from search but few go further.Agreed3Fix the phone link in the mobile headerWhy: Taps on the number do not start a call on some phones.Next monthIllustrative example. Not a client screen or real data.

What your site needs for Signal

If your site doesn’t meet these yet, we’ll tell you honestly. Usually a fresh site is the better spend.

Prefer a fresh site? Start at $399/mo. A custom site, hosting, and upkeep, with no big build invoice.

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Checklist of what a site needs before Signal can startWhat your site needs for SignalLoads securely (https), main menu links workEasy to use on a phonePhone taps to call, contact form sendsName, address, phone and areas are correctNo leftover placeholder textWe or your web team can add the Signal tagIf any of these fail, we will tell you, and usually recommend a fresh site.

Tell us about your business.

A short conversation to pick the right plan and agree the scope in writing before anything starts.

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Growth and Scale memberships

Every plan includes a custom site built by our team, hosting and upkeep. Plans differ in how much ongoing work goes into growing it: monthly AI-answer work on Site + Visibility, monthly strategy, search, content and conversion work on Growth, and more locations or markets on Scale.

03 / GrowthFor active growth

Growth

Strategy, search, content and conversion work every month.

$1,799/mo

No setup fee. Your first membership payment is due at signup.

Best for: Businesses actively trying to win more leads from search and their website.

Choose GrowthTalk to Summit first
  • Custom site, hosting and upkeep included
  • A monthly strategy check-in and monthly work on SEO and AI answers, content and conversion
  • Monthly Google Business Profile work
  • Directory listing management (consistent name, phone and details across major directories)
  • You see each month's priorities before we start.
04 / Scale

Scale

A bigger ambition. A closer partner.

from $2,500/mo

Scoped price — agreed after a discovery call, not a fixed subscription.

Best for: Businesses with more than one location, service line or market.

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  • Everything in Growth
  • Higher-touch strategic access
  • Covers multiple locations, service lines or markets.
  • Priority improvement capacity
  • Scoped advanced workflows

A premium website with growth built in. No separate upfront website build fee. Custom applications are scoped and quoted separately.

One membership instead of five separate relationships.

Most businesses end up coordinating these separately — and paying a build invoice before any of it starts. Summit brings them into one monthly membership with one point of contact.

  • A strategist

    Strategy and consulting are part of the membership.

  • A designer

    Custom design, done by the team that keeps the site.

  • A developer

    Custom website development, included — no separate build invoice.

  • A host and maintenance plan

    Hosting, security and technical maintenance.

  • A support retainer

    Ongoing changes and expert support within your agreed scope.

Compare the memberships

Comparison of Growth and Scale memberships
What's includedGrowthScale
Strategy and consultingIncludedIncluded
Custom designIncludedIncluded
Custom website developmentIncludedIncluded
Separate upfront website build feeNoneNone
Hosting, security & technical maintenanceIncludedIncluded
Website changes & expert supportExpanded scopePriority, scoped
SEO & AI-answer optimizationOngoing monthly workExpanded focus
Strategy cadenceMonthly strategy check-inHigher-touch access
Content & conversion workOngoing monthly content and conversion workPriority, scoped
Improvement capacityExpandedPriority, scoped
Custom applicationsQuoted separatelyQuoted separately
Pricing$1,799/moFrom $2,500/mo, scoped

The website and the membership

Your website is built as part of your membership. The ongoing growth service can be stopped before twelve months. If you want to take the website with you before then, the initial build balance is payable — that amount is agreed with you in writing before your membership starts, and reduces by one twelfth for each qualifying paid month, reaching zero after twelve.

What stays yours

You own your domain and the content and assets you supply, throughout. A transfer covers the website build; it does not include Summit's own proprietary services and tools, or third-party licences that cannot be transferred. Balance is only payable if you take the website — cancelling on its own does not trigger it.

Custom applications are scoped and quoted separately. Have a question about which membership fits? Talk to us.

Looking for AI workflow automation or managed AI? That work lives at Summit Collective, our AI implementation company.

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