Flat-rate websites with a caretaker · Vancouver, BC

Your site. One flat rate. No hostages.

I build your site fast, keep it current for one monthly price, and you own it the whole time. When your hours change, email me, and the update is usually live the same day. If you ever leave, the site goes with you.

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From $175/mo CAD · edits included · reviewed by me before anything goes live

CHANGE RECEIPT #0412
request"new summer hours, closed Mondays"
receivedTue 9:41 am
pages touchedhome, contact
drafted bycaretaker
reviewed byDan
liveTue 11:06 am ✓
charge$0. Included.
A sample of the receipt every change ends with, in your inbox.
The problem

You probably rent your website. You just don't call it that.

EXHIBIT A

The agency that built your site bills you every time a phone number changes, and it takes two weeks.

EXHIBIT B

You are on a 12-month contract you do not remember signing, and you have never once had the login.

EXHIBIT C

Your hours changed in January. It is July. The site still shows the old ones, because updating it is a project.

I built FlatSite to be the opposite of that. One flat monthly price, edits included, and everything registered in your name from day one. The website equivalent of a landlord who fixes things the same day and lets you keep the house.

How it works

You email the change. It comes back done, with a receipt.

You send it

An email or text in plain words. "New staff photo attached." "Price is now $140." "We close Mondays."

The caretaker drafts it

My caretaker system makes the edit on a copy of your site within minutes, not days.

I review it

I personally check every change before it touches your live site. Nothing ships unreviewed. This is a promise, not a setting.

It goes live, you get a receipt

A short note showing exactly what changed and when. No tickets, no invoice, no "scope call".

Why the human review matters: software that edits a law firm's website unsupervised is how you end up with the wrong consultation fee published at 2 am. The caretaker makes me fast. The review keeps you safe. You get same-day speed with a person's name on every change.
Pricing, in CAD, published

Three plans. The whole bill, every month.

Starter

$175

per month CAD

  • Up to 5 pages, one template family
  • 4 edit requests a month
  • 2 business-day turnaround
  • Hosting, SSL, and monthly report included
Start with Starter
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Standard

$300

per month CAD

  • Up to 12 pages
  • 10 edit requests a month, next business day
  • 1 new page or post each month
  • Monthly ROI dashboard: traffic, form fills, speed vs your old site
  • Eligible for add-ons
Start with Standard

Pro

$500

per month CAD

  • Up to 25 pages, 25 edit requests (fair use)
  • Same business day when requested before 1 pm PT
  • 2 new pages or posts monthly, plus a quarterly campaign page for your ads
  • Quarterly design refresh pass
  • One add-on included
  • Opens after the founding five clients
Join the Pro waitlist

No long contracts

Three months minimum, then leave whenever you want and keep everything. From month 7 the full export is always free. That is the entire agreement, and it is shorter than any 12-month agency retainer you have signed.

Every plan includes: Cloudflare hosting and SSL, your real branding, a link-preview image, mobile and tablet QA, a contact form tested to land in your inbox, a monthly report, and a full export of your site files with the domain registered in your name.

Add-ons, same flat logic

Small tools that pay for themselves.

$75/mo

Missed-call textback

A missed call triggers an instant text: "Sorry we missed you, how can we help?" Replies land on your phone.

$50/mo

Review requests

After a job, forward me the customer's contact. They get a polite review ask with your Google link. Existing customers only, unsubscribe in every message.

$150/mo

Local SEO tune-up

Monthly Google Business post, one localized content block, citation check, and a rank snapshot.

$250 once

Promo video

A 45 to 60 second video cut from your site and photos, ready for Google, Instagram, or your homepage.

The part nobody else offers in writing

It is your site. Provably.

Renting a website is how you end up paying ransom to change a phone number. Owning it is the product. Here is what ownership means at FlatSite, in the agreement, not in the sales pitch:

  • Your domain, registered to you, from day one. You get the registrar login at launch.
  • Your content, exportable any day you ask.
  • Fast static pages. No plugins to rot, no CMS to hold you hostage, and the site keeps working without me.
  • If you cancel, I hand you the complete site and a written handoff. It stays up.
WHAT YOU HOLDDAY 1
domainyours ✓
registrar loginyours ✓
site filesexportable ✓
contentyours ✓
lock-in3 months, then none
If a web company will not put this table in writing, ask them why.
Fair questions

FAQ

What exactly counts as one edit request?
One bounded change to existing content, on one page, describable in one sentence. Change the hours, swap a photo you send me, rewrite one paragraph, add or remove a staff member. "Refresh the About page" is three to five edits and I will tell you the count before starting. A new page is not an edit, it is the monthly page your plan includes, or a quote.
An AI touches my website? What if it gets something wrong?
The caretaker only ever edits a draft copy. I review every change myself before it goes live, every time, and your receipt has my name on it. If something is wrong after review, that is on me and I fix it the same day at no charge. What the caretaker changes is speed, not accountability.
Why a 3-month minimum?
Because I waive the setup fee and do the full build up front. Three months keeps that honest for both of us. After that you can leave any month and take everything with you. If you cancel in months 4 to 6 there is a $500 wind-down fee that covers the waived setup, and from month 7 the export is free forever.
Who am I actually dealing with?
Me, Dan Strohl. FlatSite is a product of Strohl.dev, my one-person web studio in Vancouver. I have built and maintained sites for law firms in BC. You will never be handed to an account manager, because there isn't one.
What happens in the first two weeks?
I draft your new site from your existing public presence and the materials you give me, so there is no six-week content-collection stall. You review it, we adjust, it launches on your domain with your branding, a tested contact form, and a link-preview image. Then the caretaking starts.
Is my content copied from my old site legally?
Your business facts (hours, services, prices, address) are yours everywhere. Text your old agency wrote may be theirs under your old contract, so I rewrite rather than copy, and I confirm provenance with you during the draft. It is your story, told fresh, on pages you own.
Start here

Send me your current site. I'll tell you what I'd fix, free.

No call required. I reply with a short honest note: what is slow, what is stale, what a caretaker plan would cost you, and whether you even need one. If your current setup is fine, I will say so.

Usually within one business day · Vancouver, BC

Thanks. I read every one of these myself and reply within a business day.

No newsletter, no drip campaign. One reply from one person. Your details are used to reply to you and for nothing else.