Flat-fee. In writing. Yours.
No retainers, no rent-forever. We price against what a booked retreat is worth — one or two recovered bookings pay for the whole site, whether your four-day runs $2,800 or $11,500.
Priced like the investment it pays back.
Priced against a booked retreat
Not against a cheap template. One recovered booking is worth many times a build fee — that's the math we price to.
No retainers
Flat-fee projects. You pay for the site you need — never a monthly bill just to keep your own website on.
You own everything
Your code, your hosting, your list, your bookings — all in your accounts. Every build ends with the keys in your hand.
The Lit Calendar
The converting venue website — the site, the booking, and the search visibility, built together. The one most venues buy.
What's in it
- Signature site build — 6–10 pages, venue-native
- Booking & availability integration — live calendar → inquiry/deposit
- SEO & AI-citation setup — so the right hosts find you
- Proof-of-past-retreats gallery + capacity & floor plans
- Email capture built into your own list
- The Handover Kit — docs, training, and the keys
The Lit Calendar
À-la-carte these modules run ~$4,900 — bundled, it's a venue's most direct path from "invisible" to "booked."
Start with the Lit CalendarThree ways to start — one booking engine in all of them.
What changes between packages is how much we build upstream. The part that fills your calendar — booking, proof, search, ownership — is standard in every one.
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| What's included | Most popularThe Lit Calendarfrom $3,900You have your brand & words | Open the Doorsfrom $4,600You have a brand — we write it | The Full Stayfrom $5,800We build it all, from scratch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signature site build (6–10 pages) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Booking & availability engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Proof-of-retreats gallery + capacity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SEO / AEO setup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email list capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Website copy & content | You provide | ✓written for you | ✓written for you |
| Positioning & story | — | — | ✓ |
| Brand identity (logo · palette · type) | — | — | ✓ |
| Handover Kit — you own everything | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Start here | Inquire | Inquire |
- Signature site, booking engine, proof gallery, SEO/AEO & email capture — all standard
- You provide the website copy & content
- Handover Kit — you own everything
- Everything in the Lit Calendar
- Website copy & content written for you
- Handover Kit — you own everything
- Everything in Open the Doors
- Positioning & story, plus brand identity (logo · palette · type)
- Handover Kit — you own everything
Already have a site to modernize? Lift & Shift (from $4,600) swaps the content-writing for migrating your existing content — same price as Open the Doors, built for established venues.
The module menu.
Prefer to build piece by piece? Every module stands alone. Bundles simply save ~10%.
| Module | What it is | Flat fee |
|---|---|---|
| Positioning & Story | Your venue niche, ideal retreat-host, messaging & positioning | $600 |
| Brand Identity | Logo, palette, type, voice, mini brand guide | $1,000 |
| Content Creation | Venue site copy + starter articles | from $800 |
| Website Build — Essential | 1–5 pages, designed, responsive, launched | $1,800 |
| Website Build — Signature | 6–10 pages — the typical venue site | $3,200 |
| Media Capture Day | Real-estate-trained photo & video crews — photos, Matterport 3D tour, floor plans, video, drone | quoted |
| Website Build — Bespoke | 10+ pages, designed from zero — for properties with a register of their own → | quoted |
| Content Migration | Move + reformat your existing content | $500–900 |
| SEO / AEO Setup | Benchmark + structured data + AI-citation readiness | $500–800 |
| Marketing Automation | Inquiry → email nurture, or a newsletter engine | $1,000 |
| Booking & Availability core in the flagship | Live availability mirrored from your own calendar — Google, Airbnb, VRBO, or any rez system — plus the inquiry → hold → deposit flow. No booking software required; if you want a full reservation tool, we set it up from scratch and quote its monthly cost plainly | $900 |
Every build includes the Handover Kit at no charge.
The Lamplighter
Your site is yours the day we hand it over — care plans are optional. They keep the proof fresh, the seasons current, and your search visibility fed, on the rhythm a venue already lives by. Cancel anytime; nothing turns off.
Each visit: new past-retreats into your gallery, a seasonal & pricing refresh, an SEO/AEO health check with fresh content, a booking-and-forms check, and a short read on your calendar's health. You own your site with or without a plan — this just keeps our hands on it.
Our first few, at a founding rate.
A small founding cohort comes in at roughly 25–30% off a bundle, in exchange for sharing the results — the before-and-after of a calendar that fills. We'd rather prove it than promise it.
The math nobody does for you.
The rebooking math
Keep your listing — it's working. But when a host you've already vetted comes back for year three, the platform takes its cut of a relationship you built. Three repeat groups rebooked direct pays for this site every single year. Your listing never knows the difference.
The asset math
Selling someday? A venue with its own booking engine, a documented retreat history, and an owned inquiry list is worth more on the day you list it — and the website conveys with the property. You're not spending on your last seasons; you're improving the thing the next owner pays for.
Simple, and in writing.
50 / 50
Half to begin, half at launch (milestones on larger builds). No surprise invoices. Cash flow runs seasonal at every venue we know — tell us your season and we'll shape the schedule.
Two revision rounds
Per deliverable, plus a 14-day fix window after launch — so it lands right. After that: $95/hr for one-off asks, or a care plan. No other number, ever.
You own the recurring
Hosting, domain, booking tool, email — all in your own accounts, never locked to us.
What you'll pay beyond us.
Because you own everything, the running costs are yours — and they're small. Here's every out-of-pocket expense, plainly. We never mark these up and never bill them through us.
What does it cost to run the site each year?
Does the availability calendar cost monthly?
Do I have to buy a booking tool?
What about photography?
And email, if my list grows?
Can I make updates myself?
Everything above stays in your name whether we work together for a season or for years — that's the point.
Let the scorecard tell you.
Five minutes, an honest read on what your site needs — and which of these is the right starting line for you.
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