Plain prices. No surprises.

Yes — every kit includes 3 months of Maintenance free ($447 value): managed hosting, SSL, weekly backups, security updates, and a quarterly micro-update. After those 3 months it's $149/mo to keep us running and caring for the site, and you can cancel anytime. Prefer to run the site yourself? Take the free Launch Handoff instead — there's no requirement to stay on a plan. The build itself can be paid in full or on a payment plan.

Essentials ($49/mo) is pure infrastructure: managed hosting, SSL, weekly backups, uptime monitoring, and security patches, with 72-hour email support. The Maintenance Plan ($149/mo) is everything in Essentials plus real human care: monthly uptime and security checks, faster support (48-hour, 24-hour urgent), a quarterly micro-update, and a month-11 planning call. If you expect to want occasional changes and a person watching the site, Maintenance is the better deal; if you just want it up and safe, Essentials is the lowest honest price we can run it for.

If you're on the Maintenance Plan, you get one micro-update per quarter — up to about an hour of work (copy tweaks, image swaps, small adjustments). Need more, or a bigger change like a new page or section rework? Change Request — Small is $125 (~1hr) and Standard is $325 (~3hrs), both flat published prices. The Support Bundle prepays five Small requests for $500 — a 20% saving. No surprise hourly invoices, ever.

Every site we build runs on fully managed cloud hosting — global CDN, DNS, and automatic SSL handled in one deploy pipeline. You don't need a cloud account, don't get hosting bills, and don't touch a console. Both plans include weekly backups and security patches; Maintenance adds monthly checks and the quarterly micro-update. If your project needs a database, it's scoped per-project and folded into the initial proposal.

Yes. The Launch Handoff gets you a complete export, a written setup guide (DNS, SSL, deployment), and credential handoff — and it's free, with any project or any cancellation. The trade-off, stated plainly: self-hosters aren't eligible for our hosting plans, because we can't reliably maintain infrastructure we don't control. Change requests are still available à la carte.

You receive a free Launch Handoff with the full export and setup guide, plus 30 days of transition hosting to give you time to migrate smoothly. Backups are retained for 30 days after cancellation, then permanently deleted. No exit fees, no drama, no retention pitch.

Yes. Launch Kits are structured as 50% to begin and 50% on launch, which fits naturally with the checkout flow here. For custom arrangements on larger projects, use the onboarding form.

Projects needing e-commerce, custom integrations, or larger scope are quoted individually. E-commerce builds start around $5,000, and most custom projects land in the $6,000–$12,000 range. Email hello@raikowskistudio.com or use the onboarding form and you'll get a proposal within 1–2 business days.

You do. Once a project is paid for, the site content, design assets, and source code are yours — that's written into our contract, not a courtesy. The Launch Handoff isn't an ownership fee; it's the packaging service (full export, setup guide, credentials) for taking the site elsewhere, and it's free. Your files are yours to take, full stop.

Two different reasons. Cheaper than an agency: the studio is one experienced operator with no account managers, no commissioned sales team, and no per-seat software stack, so a project costs less to produce and the number is knowable before we talk. Will they go up: yes, somewhat — these are founding-client rates while we build our Polk County portfolio, and they'll rise as that proof accumulates. The reward for coming in early is that monthly plan clients who join now keep their rate when published prices move.

Published industry guides put a professionally built small business site at $2,000–$8,000, ongoing maintenance at $95–$350/mo from freelancers ($200–$1,000/mo from agencies), and local SEO retainers at $500–$2,000/mo. Our Pro Site is $2,800, hosting starts at $49/mo, maintenance is $149/mo, and local SEO is $600/mo. We sit in the lower part of every one of those ranges — not underneath them. A price far below the floor usually means something has been quietly removed from the scope, and we'd rather compete on publishing the number at all than on being the cheapest quote you get.