Plans and pricing
A plan for
every business
Real monthly prices, the exact volumes you get, and a published minimum term. No “contact us for a quote”.
Trusted by Australian businesses
- 98%
- client retention
- 312%
- average organic growth
Foundation
$1,200
to $1,800 / month
Single-location small business in a low to moderate competition market. Local trades, clinics, salons and hospitality.
What you get
- 10 - 15 keywords tracked
- 2 - 3 pages improved / month
- 1 new content pieces / month
- 25 Ai prompts tracked
- 1 Google Business Profiles
- 1 strategy calls / month
- Setup
- $950
- Minimum term
- 3 months
- We reply within
- 24 hours
Growth
$2,000
to $3,500 / month
Established business in a moderately competitive market, or a service business covering several suburbs.
What you get
- 15 - 50 keywords tracked
- 6 - 8 pages improved / month
- 2 - 3 new content pieces / month
- 2 - 4 link placements / month
- 75 Ai prompts tracked
- Up to 5 Google Business Profiles
- Setup
- $1,950
- Minimum term
- 6 months
- We reply within
- 8 hours
Authority
$4,000
to $7,500 / month
Competitive verticals - legal, finance, medical, construction - or brands targeting the whole country.
What you get
- 50 - 200 keywords tracked
- 12 - 20 pages improved / month
- 4 - 6 new content pieces / month
- 5 - 10 link placements / month
- 200 Ai prompts tracked
- Quarterly Digital PR campaigns
- Setup
- $3,500
- Minimum term
- 6 months
- We reply within
- 4 hours
Enterprise
$8,000
to $25,000+ / month
Large sites, multi-location groups, franchises, international targeting or complex builds. Scoped, not packaged.
What you get
- 200 - 400+ keywords tracked
- Custom pages improved / month
- Custom link placements / month
- Custom Ai prompts tracked
- Unlimited Google Business Profiles
- Monthly Digital PR campaigns
- Setup
- With your build
- Minimum term
- 12 months
- We reply within
- 2 hours
Need something between two tiers? Most accounts are scoped, not picked off a shelf - setup is waived on a twelve-month term.
Build a custom plan →Go even further
Priced separately because not every business needs them, and hiding them inside a headline rate would make the plans look more expensive than they are.
E-commerce overlay
Catalogue, product feed, faceted navigation and category work for online stores. Added on top of Growth, Authority or Enterprise.
- On Growth
- +$1,000 / month
- On Authority
- +$1,800 / month
- On Enterprise
- +$2,500 / month
Extra locations
Google Business Profile, citations, a location page and local rank tracking for each branch beyond your plan allowance. The rate tapers as you add more.
- On Foundation
- $120 / location / month
- On Growth
- $95 / location / month
- On Authority
- $80 / location / month
- On Enterprise
- $65 / location / month
Every plan covers all four engines
Compare our plans
Thirty levers, all of them countable. A dash means it is not in that plan - which is exactly the conversation to have with us if you need it.
| The levers | Foundation $1,200 to $1,800 / month Get a free audit | Growth $2,000 to $3,500 / month Get a free audit | Authority $4,000 to $7,500 / month Get a free audit | Enterprise $8,000 to $25,000+ / month Get a free audit |
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| Commercials | ||||
| Monthly fee (AUD ex GST) | $1,200 - $1,800 | $2,000 - $3,500 | $4,000 - $7,500 | $8,000 - $25,000+ |
| One-off setup fee | $950 | $1,950 | $3,500 | Scoped |
| Minimum term | 3 months | 6 months | 6 months | 12 months |
| Notice period | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | 60 days |
| Scope | ||||
| Target keywords tracked | 10 - 15 | 15 - 50 | 50 - 200 | 200 - 400+ |
| Pages optimised at onboarding | Up to 15 | Up to 30 | Up to 60 | Custom |
| Pages improved per month | 2 - 3 | 6 - 8 | 12 - 20 | Custom |
| Content | ||||
| New content pieces per month | 1 | 2 - 3 | 4 - 6 | Custom |
| Location and suburb pages per month | 1 | 2 - 4 | 4 - 8 | Custom rollout |
| In-depth guide or linkable asset | - | - | 1 per quarter | 2+ per quarter |
| Content refreshes per month | - | 1 - 2 | 3 - 5 | Custom |
| Authority | ||||
| Link placements per month | Citations only | 2 - 4 | 5 - 10 | Custom |
| Outreach prospects contacted per month | - | Up to 100 | Up to 200 | Custom |
| Digital PR campaigns | - | - | Quarterly | Monthly |
| Local | ||||
| Google Business Profile locations | 1 | Up to 5 | Up to 15 | Unlimited |
| Google Business Profile posts per month | 2 - 4 | 4 - 8 | 8 - 15 | Custom |
| Citations built in the first 90 days | 20 - 30 | 40 - 60 | 80 - 100+ | Custom |
| Review management | Alerts only | Full response management | Full, plus review generation | Full, across all locations |
| Ai search | ||||
| Ai prompts and questions tracked | 25 | 75 | 200 | Custom |
| Ai visibility reporting | Quarterly | Monthly | Monthly, plus gap analysis | Monthly, plus sentiment |
| Technical | ||||
| Technical audit depth | Standard | Full | Full, plus developer support | Full, plus log file analysis |
| Technical fixes | We recommend | We implement | We implement, plus dev hours | Dedicated dev hours |
| Schema coverage | Organisation and LocalBusiness | Plus FAQ, Breadcrumb, Review | Plus Article, Service, HowTo | Full custom |
| Reporting | ||||
| Live dashboards | 1 | Up to 4 | Up to 10 | Custom |
| Written monthly report | Basic | Detailed | Comprehensive | Comprehensive, plus exec summary |
| Strategy calls per month | 1 | Up to 2 | Up to 4 | Unlimited |
| Quarterly business review | - | Included | Included | Included, on-site option |
| Your team | ||||
| Named contact | Shared pod | Dedicated account manager | Dedicated senior strategist | Senior strategist and team |
| Response time, business hours | 24 hours | 8 hours | 4 hours | 2 hours |
| Shared Slack or Teams channel | - | Optional | Included | Included |
Everything a plan covers
Nine areas, 105 line items. Which of them your site needs, and in what order, is set by the audit - the table above shows the volumes each plan buys.
SEO Strategy & Research
7 items
- Business & service analysis
- Target audience analysis
- Target market/country analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Search intent analysis
- SEO goal & KPI setup
- SEO roadmap & strategy document
SEO Basics
4 items
- Google Search Console Set up
- Bing Set up
- Google Analytics 4 Set up
- Generate and update sitemap
Technical SEO
16 items
- Website crawl & SEO audit
- Website architecture
- URL structure
- Robots.txt optimization
- HTML and XML sitemap creation & optimization
- Indexability & crawlability
- Canonical tag optimization
- 404 & broken URL management
- Redirect audit
- HTTPS/security check
- Mobile-friendliness
- Page speed optimization
- Core Web Vitals
- JavaScript/rendering issues
- Duplicate content
- Pagination/parameter issues
On-Page SEO
13 items
- Keyword research
- Keyword clustering & topic grouping
- Keyword cannibalisation audit
- Long-tail & question keyword research
- Meta tag optimization
- Header tags optimization
- URL optimization
- Content optimization
- Search intent alignment
- Image optimization
- Alt text optimization
- Internal linking
- Breadcrumb optimization
Off-Page SEO
9 items
- Backlink audit
- Competitor backlink analysis
- Backlink gap analysis
- Quality link building
- Guest posting
- Industry/business directories
- Brand mentions
- Unlinked brand mentions
- Referring domain growth
Content SEO
12 items
- Content audit
- Content gap analysis
- Content strategy
- Topic/keyword clusters
- Blog content planning
- New content creation
- Existing content optimization
- Content refresh/update
- Pillar & supporting content
- TOFU/MOFU/BOFU content
- FAQ content
- E-E-A-T optimization
Technical Content & Search Enhancements
9 items
- Schema markup
- Organization schema
- Service schema
- Article/Blog schema
- Breadcrumb schema
- FAQ schema where eligible
- LocalBusiness schema where applicable
- Image SEO
- Video SEO
Analytics, Monitoring & Reporting
21 items
Monthly Monitoring
- Organic traffic
- Organic leads
- Keyword ranking performance
- Search impressions
- CTR
- Top-performing pages
- Declining pages
- New ranking keywords
- Lost ranking keywords
- Indexation
- Technical errors
- Core Web Vitals
- Backlinks/referring domains
- Competitor performance
- Rank tracking setup & maintenance
Reporting
- Monthly SEO report
- KPI comparison
- Work completed
- Performance analysis
- Issues & opportunities
- Next-month action plan
Local & International SEO
14 items
Local SEO
- Google Business Profile optimization
- NAP consistency
- Local keyword targeting
- Location/service pages
- Local citations
- Reviews & reputation
- Local backlinks
- Local schema
International SEO
- Country/market keyword research
- Localized content
- Country-specific landing pages
- hreflang implementation
- International URL structure
- Country-specific backlinks
What actually happens
Most agency relationships fail over expectations, not delivery. So here is the honest shape of the first twelve months.
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01
Months 1 - 2
You see work, not results
Audits, fixes and foundations. Impressions may move; leads will not yet. We show you exactly what was done.
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02
Months 3 - 4
First ranking movement
Usually on longer, more specific searches. Low-competition local terms move first. Some early enquiries.
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03
Months 5 - 8
Leads become measurable
Meaningful movement on commercial terms, and enquiries trend upward. This is where the investment starts to pay back.
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04
Months 9 - 12
It compounds
Head terms rank, authority builds, and your cost per lead falls below paid channels.
Brain Stream
Get your audit in
two minutes
We will audit your site against Google and the Ai answer engines, then tell you which plan you actually need - including if that is the cheapest one.
No obligation, and no sales call required to get the findings.
Frequently asked questions
Need something between two tiers? Ask us - most accounts are scoped, not picked off a shelf.
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Because the work scales with the site. A twenty-page site and a two-thousand-page site on the same plan get the same disciplines applied at different volumes. The audit sets where in the range you land, and it does not move afterwards without a conversation.
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The audit, the baseline, the technical remediation plan and the initial configuration work - all of which happens before the monthly programme has anything to stand on. It is waived on a twelve-month term.
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No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. The scope is the full list of what we do; the audit decides which parts your site needs and in what order, and the comparison table shows the volumes each plan buys. A twenty-page site and a two-thousand-page store need very different halves of it.
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Up at any time, effective immediately. Down at the end of the minimum term with thirty days notice. Nobody is trapped in a tier that stopped fitting.
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Yes. It is not an add-on and it is not reserved for the top plan. The volume of prompt tracking scales with the tier, but the discipline is in all four.
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We say so in the monthly review rather than waiting to be asked, and we say what we are changing. If the honest answer is that the budget is better spent elsewhere, you will hear that too.
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Yes. Audits, migrations and consulting are quoted as standalone pieces and plenty of clients never take a retainer. The plans exist because ongoing work compounds, not because one-off work is unwelcome.
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Third-party costs passed through at cost where they apply - paid tooling for very large sites, and media spend on digital PR campaigns if you choose to run one. Both are agreed in advance and neither is marked up.
Areas we service
Brain Stream
Sydney NSW Australia
5.0 on Google