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Monthly retainer · from £350/mo

WordPress maintenance and AI search monitoring, combined into one monthly retainer.

Your WordPress or WooCommerce site stays running, secure, and visible in AI search. All handled as a single monthly retainer. We do the WordPress maintenance. We run your monthly GEO health check. You focus on your business.

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Essentials
£350
/month

WordPress maintenance + monthly GEO check. Ideal for smaller sites and solo operators.

Most popular
£450
/month

Everything in Essentials plus quarterly content refresh and same-day priority support. Best for active businesses.

WooCommerce
£550
/month

Full WooCommerce monitoring including subscriptions, payments, and stock, plus all AI retainer features.

What’s included

Everything your site needs, every month.

FeatureEssentialsPopularWooCommerce
WordPress core, theme & plugin updates
Tested before deployment, rolled back if anything breaks
✓✓✓
Daily offsite backups
Full database and file backups, 30-day retention
✓✓✓
Uptime monitoring
Checked every 5 minutes. You’re notified before your customers notice
✓✓✓
Security scanning
Malware scans and firewall monitoring. Issues remediated within 24 hours
✓✓✓
Monthly GEO health check
GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) check: AI citation test in ChatGPT & Perplexity, schema validation, and crawler access verification
✓✓✓
Monthly report
Uptime, updates applied, GEO visibility score, anything flagged
✓✓✓
Priority support
Issues responded to within 1 business day
—✓✓
Quarterly content refresh
Key pages reviewed and updated for AI extractability
—✓✓
WooCommerce monitoring
Payment gateway health, subscription logic, checkout error monitoring
——✓
Why it matters

Retainer vs. ad hoc. There’s a real difference.

Ad hoc / “call me when it breaks”
Problems discovered by customers before you
Outdated plugins left for months, a security risk
Nobody checking AI visibility is working
Emergency fixes cost more and take longer
Monthly retainer with Yellow Hippo
Issues caught before they affect customers or revenue
Updates tested and applied every month, consistently
AI visibility monitored monthly, you know if something changes
Priority response when something urgent comes up

“Finally, someone who just fixes it – and I know things are being looked after even when I’m not thinking about it.”

WooCommerce store owner, retainer client since 2022
Why it needs ongoing attention

AI search visibility isn’t set-and-forget.

Most people assume that once their site is AI-ready, the work is done. In practice, AI search visibility requires the same ongoing attention as traditional SEO, because the landscape keeps changing.

AI models retrain regularly. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI all update their understanding of the web on a rolling basis. A site that appears today may not tomorrow if something changes.
WordPress plugin updates can break things. Security or plugin updates can accidentally reset your robots.txt, remove schema markup, or block AI crawlers. Monthly checks catch this before it costs you visibility.
Your competitors are actively optimising. GEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) are growing fields. A monthly content refresh keeps you ahead as others improve their AI readiness.
New AI platforms keep emerging. New tools enter the market regularly, each with their own crawler and citation logic. Ongoing monitoring means you’re visible across all of them, not just the ones that existed when you first optimised.
Questions

Common retainer questions.

Is there a minimum contract term?
There’s a 3-month minimum to start. After that, you can cancel with 30 days’ notice. No long-term lock-in.
What counts as priority support?
Any issue that affects your site’s ability to function: checkout broken, site down, payments failing, significant errors. We respond within 1 business day with an estimated fix time.
Do I need the implementation work done first?
Not necessarily. If your WordPress site is already in reasonable technical shape, you can start a retainer directly. In month one we run a baseline GEO assessment, checking AI crawler access, schema markup, and Core Web Vitals , and flag any significant gaps that need addressing.
Can I upgrade or downgrade between tiers?
Yes, you can change tier with 30 days’ notice. Most clients start on Essentials and upgrade after a few months once they’ve seen the value of having AI visibility monitored alongside their WordPress maintenance.
What exactly does the monthly GEO health check involve?
Each month we run your site through a GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) health check: we verify AI crawlers still have access, validate your schema markup hasn’t broken, and run live tests in ChatGPT and Perplexity to check your citation visibility. Results are included in your monthly report.
What is the difference between SEO and GEO monitoring?
Traditional SEO monitoring tracks your Google rankings and organic traffic. GEO monitoring tracks your visibility in AI-generated answers: whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview are citing your site when users ask about your products or services. Both matter, and they use different signals.
Do you serve businesses in Reading, London, and across the UK?
Yes. We’re based in Reading, Berkshire and work with clients across the UK, including London, the Thames Valley, and US-based businesses. All retainer work is handled remotely.
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Let’s talk about a retainer

Tell us about your site, your current setup, and what’s been causing headaches. We’ll recommend the right tier and you can start with a month-to-month trial.

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