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seo, aeo & ai search
SEO packages with
the prices on the page.
Most agencies make you sit through a sales call before you hear a number. Ours are right here: four monthly plans covering Google rankings and AI search, from $289 a month, month to month, no lock-in. Every plan includes the AI search groundwork most agencies sell as a premium extra.
All prices +GST. No setup fees. No lock-in contracts. Cancel any month.
plain english first
SEO, AEO, AIO:
what you're actually buying.
Three acronyms, one job: being the business that shows up when someone looks for what you do. Only where they look is changing.
SEO: found on Google
Rankings, the local map pack, your Google Business Profile. Still where most enquiries come from, and still the foundation everything else stands on.
AEO: quoted by AI answers
When ChatGPT or Perplexity answer a question in your field, they name a couple of sources. Answer engine optimisation is the work of making your page the one they quote.
AIO: legible to AI, everywhere
The umbrella job: AI crawler access, an llms.txt file, structured data and plain answers, so every AI system reading the web, including Google's AI Overviews, can understand and cite you.
Want the full picture before you buy anything? Read our guide: how to show up in AI search. It tells you what you can do yourself, free.
the packages
Four plans. Real prices.
Pick by where your customers look for you. Every tier includes the AI search basics; letting the AI engines read your site shouldn't cost extra.
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Starter
$289 /month +GST
Businesses that want a pro watching the signal, without a full campaign yet.
- Google Business Profile managed: posts, updates, Q&A
- AI search basics: crawler access + llms.txt
- Site health watch: small fixes shipped monthly
- Monthly report in plain words
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Local
$495 /month +GST
Trades & local service businesses that live off "near me" searches.
- Google Business Profile: set up, optimised, managed
- Suburb & service pages with local structured data
- Review strategy that actually gets used
- AI search basics: crawler access + llms.txt
- Monthly report in plain words
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Most popular
Growth
$990 /month +GST
Established small businesses that want rankings, enquiries and a head start in AI search.
- Everything in Local
- Technical SEO: Core Web Vitals, structured data, fixes shipped, not just "recommended"
- Keyword strategy mapped page by page
- One new page or guide written every month
- AEO essentials: answer-first content AI engines can quote
- Monthly report: rankings, traffic, enquiries
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AI-First
$1,490 /month +GST
Businesses that want to own their answers on Google and in AI search, before their competitors do.
- Everything in Growth
- Content engineered to be quoted by ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews
- Entity & structured-data build-out across the site
- Monthly AI visibility check: who cites you, who doesn't, why
- Quarterly AI Search Audit included
- Priority support from the team that builds the sites
All prices +GST, invoiced monthly. Month to month, no lock-in, no setup fees. If the smaller package fits your business, we'll tell you so. Torn between tiers? Which plan is right for you →
recommended with any plan
The onboarding survey.
$199, one-off.
If you want us to, we come out to you, walk the business, and survey your site, your market and your competition before the first month starts. It's optional with every plan, and it's recommended, so we fully understand your business before we optimise a word of it. Sydney metro we do in person; everywhere else, a video walkthrough. No other Australian agency we checked publishes a named onboarding fee; the cheap end of the market hides it in lock-in terms instead.
not ready for monthly?
Start with the AI Search Audit.
$890, one-off.
We check what Google and the AI engines see on your site today: crawler access, llms.txt, structured data, page speed, and whether any of your pages give an answer clean enough to quote. You get a prioritised fix list in plain words, yours to keep; use it with us or with anyone else. Comparable audits from AI search specialists run $1,500 to $3,500.
how the market prices this
What agencies charge,
and where we land.
Sydney small-business SEO retainers mostly land between $1,500 and $3,000 a month. Specialist AI search agencies charge $2,000 to $5,000 a month for AEO alone, and one-off AI visibility audits run $1,500 to $3,500. We price under all of that on purpose: we already build, host and monitor the sites we optimise, so there's no sales team and no account managers to pay for. The same engineers do the work.
Bands from published Australian agency rate cards and pricing guides, checked July 2026: StudioHawk's SEO pricing guide, SEO Sydney Experts' published rates, Digital Eagles' packages, and Sydney AI-search cost guides (HornTech; Websites That Sell packages). Full market breakdown: how much does SEO cost in Australia.
Cheapest credible entry plan: $500
The lowest fixed price we found from a real Australian agency, usually with a lock-in term. Starter is $289, month to month, and it's real scope, not a link farm.
Typical SEO retainer: $1,500 to $3,000
Our Growth package covers the same four pillars at $990, because the technical work is cheap when you can fix the code yourself.
Typical AEO retainer: $2,000 to $5,000
Our AI-First package is $1,490 with the full SEO work included, not sold separately on top.
Typical AI audit: $1,500 to $3,500
Ours is $890, and the fix list is written so you could hand it to any developer, not just us.
why us
The team that builds the site
runs the SEO.
Most SEO is sold by people who can't touch the code, so their "recommendations" go to a developer who never gets to them. We design, build and host the sites we optimise, so fixes ship the week we find them. One real result: ReFigure, a Sydney chiropractic clinic, switched off $800 a month in Google Ads after our SEO work and now pays Google nothing. More on how we do SEO →
straight answers
Package questions.
Why publish prices when most agencies don't?
Because monthly SEO is predictable enough to price honestly, and hiding the number behind a sales call only serves the agency. The prices here are the prices. Website rebuilds have published starting prices too; only full custom builds vary enough that we quote them individually.
What is the difference between SEO, AEO and AIO?
SEO gets you found on Google: rankings, the local map pack, your Google Business Profile. AEO (answer engine optimisation) gets you quoted when ChatGPT or Perplexity answer a question in your field. AIO is the umbrella job: making your whole site legible to AI systems, including Google's AI Overviews, through crawler access, llms.txt and structured data.
Do I actually need AI search optimisation yet?
It's early, and anyone selling it as a magic bullet is selling snake oil. But your customers are already asking ChatGPT for recommendations, and the groundwork is cheap to do now: the same clean structure and plain answers that AI engines quote also help your normal Google rankings. That's why we bundle the AEO basics into every package instead of selling them as a premium add-on.
Is there a lock-in contract?
No. Everything is month to month and you can stop any month. SEO compounds over a few months, so we'd rather you stay because the reports show it's working, not because a contract says you have to.
What is the $199 onboarding survey?
A one-off visit before your first month starts: we come out to you, walk the business, and survey your site, your market and your competition. It's optional with any plan and recommended, so we fully understand your business before we optimise a word of it. Sydney metro is in person; everywhere else we do a video walkthrough.
Are the prices plus GST?
Yes, all prices are plus GST, invoiced monthly, with no setup fees. The AI Search Audit and the onboarding survey are one-off invoices.
Can you do this on a site you didn't build?
Yes. We audit your current site, fix what's holding it back, and improve it from there. If the site itself is the problem, we'll tell you honestly rather than pour your money into a broken foundation.
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