What it costs depends.Here is what it depends on.

LaniHQ prices on scope, responsibility, and business impact, not seats or commodity hosting rates. Every engagement is priced after a review, because a number given before anyone understands your systems is a guess. This is how that number gets built.

WHAT YOU ARE PAYING FOR

  1. 01

    Implementation fee

    Discovery, design, configuration, migration, and launch. One-time, scoped in writing before anything starts, and sized to the actual work rather than a package tier.

  2. 02

    Management retainer

    Monitoring, maintenance, support, reporting, and continuous improvement. Monthly, and the part that makes the system somebody’s responsibility instead of nobody’s.

  3. 03

    Third-party costs

    Hosting, platform seats, phone, and model usage. Passed through or itemized when they vary materially, never marked up quietly inside a bundled number.

  4. 04

    Scoped custom work

    A new portal, integration, campaign, or major expansion that falls outside the managed baseline. Quoted separately so the retainer stays predictable.

Drone imagery and inspection capture can be included or arranged as an optional add-on inside a managed package. The media stays with the client for the website, social, and marketing. The price is set in the written scope, so it is not listed here.

What moves the number.

These four things account for most of the difference between a small engagement and a large one. Knowing them in advance makes the conversation faster.

  • How much is already working. A functioning site, clean CRM, and documented process cost less to take over than a rebuild. We audit before recommending replacement: preserving what works is usually the cheaper answer.

  • How many systems have to talk. One website is straightforward. A website, CRM, phone, calendar, and accounting system that must stay in sync is where real engineering time goes.

  • How much responsibility transfers. Advice is cheap. Being accountable for uptime, response, monitoring, and recovery is not. Most of the retainer is the second thing.

  • How fast it has to happen. A sensible sequence over a few months costs less than compressing the same work into a few weeks. Urgency is a real cost driver, not a negotiating position.

Common questions.

What does it actually cost?

Every plan is priced after a free 30-minute review, once we know what you have, what you need, and how much of it we take off your plate. You get the price in writing before anything starts. That goes for the managed website plans as much as for custom automation or AI work, because what you already have, how many systems have to talk, and how much responsibility moves to us change the figure more than anything else.

How is the cost structured?

Most engagements combine a one-time implementation fee with an ongoing monthly management retainer, plus itemized third-party costs and separately quoted custom work. Pricing is based on scope, responsibility, and business impact rather than the number of software seats.

Is there a long-term contract?

Not unless you choose one. The managed website plans run month to month after a one-time setup fee, and you can cancel with 14 days' notice. If you would rather skip the setup fee, you can take a 12 month term instead: the fee is waived, and if you cancel before month 12 it becomes due, and nothing more. Either way, leaving early costs the same. Larger systems and custom work are quoted with their terms in writing. Accounts, domains, content, and data remain yours throughout.

What if I just want the automation work?

That can be scoped on its own (an n8n build, an agent deployment, or VPS infrastructure) without a website engagement. It is quoted as a project with an optional management retainer if you want it monitored afterwards.

Do you mark up hosting and software?

Third-party costs are passed through or itemized when they vary materially by client. You should be able to see what is a LaniHQ fee and what is a vendor cost.

What happens if I want to leave?

You keep your domain, brand assets, approved content, customer and operational data, and your connected business accounts. Managed websites stay an actively managed service, so LaniHQ continues to manage the source, deployment, and hosting configuration rather than handing over a repository. Export rights and offboarding steps are documented in the agreement before work begins, so the boundary is explicit rather than discovered on the way out.

Get a real number, in writing.

A systems review produces a prioritized picture of what is worth fixing and what it costs to fix it. No obligation, and no work starts without a written scope.

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