Our services & pricing
A plain-English overview of every way Chykalophia engages with clients — project work, ongoing care, and Fractional CTO/CMO retainers — with real starting numbers.
This is the canonical reference for what Chykalophia offers and what each engagement starts at. Every number below is a real starting point — final proposals are scoped to your specific project after a discovery call.
Quick summary
Four ways to work with us: The Boring Stuff ($997+/m) for ongoing website care, Standard projects ($25K+) for new builds and redesigns, Larger projects ($55K+) for complex work, and Fractional retainers ($2,500+/m for one role, $5,500+/m for both + implementation).
The Boring Stuff — ongoing care plan
Starting at $997/month.
The Boring Stuff is our website care plan. It covers all the routine, behind-the-scenes work that keeps a site healthy, secure, and online — the work that's boring to think about but expensive to skip.
Included at every tier:
- Software updates (WordPress core, themes, plugins) tested on staging
- Daily backups stored off-server
- Uptime monitoring with alerts
- Security monitoring
- SSL certificate management
- Broken link & form checks
- Priority response when something needs us
- Staging environment for safe testing
Higher tiers add monthly content-update time, performance and SEO checks, and dedicated development hours.
See:
- Understanding care plan pricing — what drives the cost
- What our care plan covers — the full service list
- Why websites need maintenance — the case for ongoing care
Project work
Project work means a new website, a redesign, or a major buildout. We deliver on a fixed scope agreed in your proposal.
Standard projects — $25K+
Best fit for:
- Small-to-mid business marketing sites
- Brochure and service sites with custom design
- Most WordPress, Webflow, and Squarespace builds
- Simple e-commerce on Shopify or WooCommerce
Typical scope: discovery, design, content collaboration, build, testing, launch, and handoff. Most projects of this size complete in 6–12 weeks.
Larger projects — $55K+
Best fit for:
- Multi-stakeholder rebrands and redesigns
- Complex e-commerce with custom flows
- Sites requiring custom integrations or apps
- Multi-site systems or platform migrations
- Custom web applications
Typical scope: deeper discovery, additional design rounds, more integrations, and longer timelines (usually 10–16+ weeks).
Both tiers cover discovery, design, build, content collaboration, testing, launch, and handoff. The difference is the depth and complexity of work the agreed scope covers.
See What a website actually costs for what drives pricing inside each tier.
Fractional CTO & Fractional CMO retainers
Ongoing strategic engagements for businesses that need senior-level guidance without hiring a full-time executive.
Single retainer — $2,500+/month
Choose Fractional CTO or Fractional CMO — not both at this tier.
Fractional CTO typically covers: technology strategy, architecture decisions, vendor selection, build oversight, security & compliance posture, and acting as your technical sparring partner for big decisions.
Fractional CMO typically covers: marketing strategy, brand positioning, channel mix, demand-gen planning, content & SEO oversight, and acting as your marketing sparring partner for big decisions.
Both + implementation — $5,500+/month
Fractional CTO and Fractional CMO together, plus hands-on implementation work each month.
This is the right fit when:
- You need senior strategic guidance on both technology and marketing
- You want strategy and execution from the same team (no handoffs)
- You're scaling and the two functions need to stay tightly aligned
Implementation can include build work, content production, campaign execution, or whatever the strategy calls for each month.
The single and dual retainers are mutually exclusive — they're not stacked. If you start with one and the scope grows, we'll discuss moving to the combined retainer.
Payment terms
How we bill
Project work and retainers are due in full before work begins. For all contracts, balances 30 days past due begin to include late penalty fees. The Boring Stuff is billed monthly in advance.
See Understanding quotes & invoices for how to read a quote or invoice when one arrives.
How to engage
The path is the same regardless of which engagement makes sense for you:
Reach out. Email support@chykalophia.com with a short note about your business, what you're trying to do, and a rough sense of timeline.
Discovery call. A 30–45 minute conversation to understand your goals, audience, and constraints. No pressure, no cost.
Proposal. We send a written proposal with a clear scope, timeline, and price. The proposal is yours to review with anyone on your team.
Sign & start. Once the proposal is signed and the invoice is paid, we begin.
What's NOT in scope
To keep things honest:
- We don't offer hourly "rent a developer" work outside an active project or retainer
- We don't take on emergency-only one-off security cleanups (unless transitioning to a care plan)
- We don't combine the single and dual Fractional retainers — it's one tier or the other
- We don't run paid-ad campaigns as a standalone service (we can advise as part of a Fractional CMO engagement, but execution-only ad work isn't a product we offer)
Common questions
Related guides
- What a website actually costs
- Understanding care plan pricing
- Hidden costs to watch for
- Understanding quotes & invoices
- How we work together
- Our response times & support hours
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