Pricing
$97 a month, and the directory is yours to fill.
No setup fee, no territory fee, no minimum term. What you charge the businesses you list is yours to set and yours to keep. Annual pays for 10 months and gets 12.
1 directory
or $970/year
One directory. Enough to find out whether you like this work.
- One directory in a niche and metro you pick
- A landing page and a directory, on a domain you name
- Hosting, the directory software, and every update we ship
- Build and sell the upgrades yourself, and keep the whole price
- Swap the niche free if it turns out to be the wrong one
3 directories — $65.67 each
or $1,970/year
Three directories. Room to find out which niche you are actually good at.
- Everything in Operator, three times over
- $65.67 per directory instead of $97
- Run one niche across three metros, or three niches in one
- The cheapest way to stop betting everything on one guess
- Swap any of the three free
5 directories — $59.40 each
or $2,970/year
Five directories. The plan for someone treating this as the business.
- Everything in Studio, five directories instead of three
- $59.40 per directory instead of $97
- Mix niches and metros however you like
- Enough territory to justify bringing someone on to help call
- Swap any of the five free
No setup fee
Competitors in this category charge $497 to $796 to switch the software on. We do not.
Month to month
Cancel whenever. Annual is a discount, not a lock-in — and it is the only contract we have.
Swap, not refund
A niche that does not work gets exchanged for another one, free, with no time limit.
Adding directories
The price bends as you add them.
The software costs us the same however many directories you run, so the price does not stay flat. Here is what each number of directories actually costs, including the cases where the cheapest answer is to stack a smaller plan rather than buy a bigger one.
| Directories | Cheapest way to buy it | Per month | Each | vs one at a time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 × Operator | $97 | $97 | — |
| 2 | 2 × Operator | $194 | $97 | — |
| 3 | 1 × Studio | $197 | $65.67 | saves $94 |
| 4 | 1 × Operator + 1 × Studio | $294 | $73.50 | saves $94 |
| 5 | 1 × Network | $297 | $59.40 | saves $188 |
Two of those rows are worth a second look. At two directories and at four, the next plan up costs three dollars more and includes a spare directory you have not used yet. We are not going to pretend that is a carefully engineered incentive — it is just where the arithmetic landed, and you should probably take the spare.
Elsewhere in this category the rate is flat — around $97 per directory per month with no discount at any number, so five costs $485. Checked August 2026 against the platform closest to this one.
What the seat includes
The platform is the product. What you put in it is yours.
The directory
A landing page and a directory on a domain you name. You choose the niche and you decide what gets listed.
Bulk import
Bring a list you already have rather than typing it in. Adding the businesses is your job, and this is the tool for it.
The platform
Hosting, the directory software, search, city pages, claim links, and every update we ship. Nothing to install.
The upgrades
A featured spot and a review system you can build and charge for, with no volume minimum and no per-account fee. The website builder is still in build.
And the platform it all runs on
Your own domain
The directory runs on a domain you own. You buy it, we point it, and it is your directory from that moment on.
City and category pages
A crawlable page for every city and category combination in your niche — the pages that earn the traffic.
Near-me search
Full text search plus real proximity ranking, so a visitor on a phone gets the closest match first.
Claim your listing
A business owner finds their listing, claims it, and lands in your queue to approve. No account needed on their side.
Listing profiles
Hours, photos, links, and fields you define per niche — a tyre shop and a dental office do not need the same form.
An admin, not a codebase
Listings, categories, locations and claims are managed from a dashboard. You never open a code editor.
If you email the businesses you have listed, that outreach is yours and so is the obligation that comes with it — anyone who unsubscribes stays unsubscribed. We will talk you through what that means before you send anything.
Add-on packs
The seat is a complete directory. These are the upgrades.
Each pack bolts one capability onto a directory you already run, priced per directory per month, cancel whenever. This is the ladder we climb ourselves — Premium Roast Coffee, our reference directory, is the shape they build toward.
Editorial
LivePublish like a magazine.
$49/mo per directory
- Guides written in markdown — headings, images, tables, the lot.
- Ranked best-of lists with the editor’s one-line reason per pick.
- A homepage band, its own pages, and sitemap entries for all of it.
Atlas
In buildOwn your geography.
$49/mo per directory
- City, state and country browse pages built from your listings.
- A map of everything you list.
- Geography-scoped best-of pages — best in the city, best in the state.
AI Authority
In buildDeep profiles, written by AI, on your key.
$49/mo per directory
- Listing types with rich profiles — hours, photos, FAQs, awards.
- AI-written summaries and descriptions for every listing you approve.
- Runs on your own Claude or OpenAI API key, so you control the cost.
Bring your own Claude or OpenAI API key — the AI runs on your account, so the usage cost is yours to see and yours to control.
Growth
In buildTurn traffic into a business.
$49/mo per directory
- A newsletter rail — subscribe, confirm, archive.
- Campaign links you can say out loud and track.
- Featured placements you sell to the businesses you list.
Packs are switched on per directory from inside the platform once your directory is live. The ones marked “in build” are exactly that — do not budget on them until the chip changes.
What you can charge for
What a listed business will pay you, and what exists to sell them.
| Service | Suggested price | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Website analysis | Free — it is the wedge | Sell it today |
| Featured listing | $39/mo | Sell it today |
| Reviews + NFC card | $129/mo | Sell it today |
| Leased website | $149/mo | In build |
| Mobile app | $99/mo | Not started |
| Everything that exists today | $168/mo | covers the seat on one business |
| Once the website builder ships | $317/mo | not yet — do not plan on it |
These prices are a suggestion, not a rule — you own the client, you set the number, and you keep all of it. What each service actually does →
Before you ask
The three that matter most.
There are directory platforms starting at $9 a month. Why is this $97?
Because a listing directory and a directory you can earn from are different products. The entry tiers cap you at around 100 listings, have no custom domain and no bulk import — and the gap widens once your directory is full. At that point you will want to sell those businesses something, and a $9 tier gives you nowhere to build it. Here the upgrades are part of the platform: a featured spot and a review system today, a website builder in build. If all you want is somewhere to keep a list, one of those platforms is a genuinely reasonable buy and we would rather you took it.
What happens if the niche does not work?
We swap it. Free, no argument, no time limit — you pick another niche and your seat moves to it. We do not offer money back, and we would rather be straight about why: a refund ends the relationship, and a bad niche is almost never a bad platform. The swap costs us close to nothing and it is the more useful remedy.
How many of these services can I actually sell today?
Three: the free website analysis, the featured listing, and reviews with the NFC card. Charged at the suggested prices that is $168/mo from a single business, and all of it is yours. The website builder is in build and the app has not been started. We would rather you know that before you pay us than after.
Want a directory?
Pick the trade you know and the metro you would work, and start building. Nothing to apply for and nobody to wait on.