If you run a business with no website, you’ve probably priced the usual options — a Facebook page, a Wix trial, some $300 template gig from a marketplace. Most comparisons stop at the sticker price. The better question is what happens when a customer finds you at 9pm and asks one.
Because that’s the moment being online is supposed to pay for. Someone found you, they have a question — do they get an answer, or do they get silence and keep scrolling to the next business?
Here’s what each cheap option really buys, with numbers.
The free tier — Facebook page, Google profile, nothing else
A Facebook page and a Google Business Profile cost nothing, and you should have the Google profile either way. But both are rented ground. Your hours and photos sit on someone else’s property, ranked by someone else’s rules, next to ads for your competitors.
And when a customer messages at 9pm, nobody answers until you do. Every question waits on you personally. The “free” option costs you the customers who didn’t wait.
The DIY builder — $20 to $40 a month, plus your evenings
Wix, Squarespace, and GoDaddy run roughly $20–$40 a month once you’re on a tier without their ads on your site. The subscription isn’t the real price. The real price is that the design, the writing, the SEO, and the upkeep are your job now. Most owners get three evenings in and stall, and the half-finished site sits there representing the business.
The finished DIY page has the same gap as the free tier. It’s a brochure. It shows information; it doesn’t answer anybody.
The $300 template gig
A marketplace freelancer drops your logo and phone number into a template, collects once, and disappears. Nobody updates it, nobody watches whether it loads fast or ranks, and in a year it reads like it was abandoned — because it was. We wrote up why those sites don’t bring clients separately.
Still a brochure. Still silent at 9pm.
What “answers customers” changes
Every option so far fails the same test, so that test is worth naming. A page that answers customers needs someone — or something — on it that can respond the moment a visitor asks about price, hours, availability, or whether you handle their problem. Then it needs to capture who they are so you can close them.
That’s what Remi AI Lite is. An AI agent trained on your services, your prices, and your hours, answering on your page around the clock in whatever language the customer opens with, and sending you every lead as it happens. You close; it never misses the question.
And if you don’t have a website at all, the subscription includes one — a fast one-page site we design, write, and host on your own domain, so the agent has somewhere to live. The page isn’t a separate product or an upsell. It’s included because an agent needs a page under it.
The numbers
Remi AI Lite runs $40 a month. The one-time setup is $195 when we build the included one-page site, or $95 if you already have a website and we’re embedding the agent on it. Prepay the year and the setup is waived and you get two months free — $400 for the year.
Compare that to the middle option. A DIY builder at $30 a month is $360 a year for a page you built, wrote, and maintain yourself, that answers no one. For similar money, this gets you a page a developer built and keeps running, with an agent on it working every hour you don’t.
When this isn’t the answer
One page with an answering agent covers most local businesses that are starting from zero. It stops being the answer when you need more — several pages, content that keeps growing, your Google profile actively managed. That’s a website plan, starting at $95 a month. Remi AI books appointments on every tier; when the volume outgrows the entry cap, Get Booked and Remi AI Pro take unlimited bookings and run the calendar.
Not sure where you stand? Run the free AI analysis on whatever you have now — a builder site, a template gig, even a competitor — and see what it finds. Or tell us what you do and we’ll point you at the cheapest thing that works.
