Your new website is built to rank from day one. Then its own AI brain keeps improving it automatically, every week, so you keep climbing without lifting a finger.
Free, no obligation. We design your homepage before you pay anything.
What our own website achieved in 3 months on the same system:
You want customers to find you on Google and hear about you from AI, without paying for every click. Right now, your website is working against you in two ways.
If your website runs on WordPress or Wix, or hasn’t been rebuilt in a few years, it’s probably slow and missing basic SEO, let alone the schema and files AI tools now read. Google can’t rank what it can’t understand.
Rankings need work every month: fixing, updating and adding pages. Your website can’t do any of that on its own, so it needs a somebody. That’s either you, with no time to spare, or someone you pay every month and still wait on.
Left alone, your website slides. Worked on every week, it climbs. The pattern we see, not a measurement of any one site.
If that sounds like your website, here’s how we fix it.
See how we fix itYou still get a website: a brand-new, custom one, designed for your business. What’s different is what’s built into it. Choose a part to see what it does for you.
Your new website is designed around your business, not squeezed into a template. Every page is written for you, to turn the people who find you into enquiries.
It looks and works like the website you’d expect, and you see your new homepage before you pay anything.
Most websites are built first and optimised later. Yours is optimised before it’s built.
WordPress and Wix were made so you could manage your own content, and ranking came later, through plugins and add-ons. Our framework is the code under every page, written for one job: getting you found on Google and recommended by AI.
It’s the same way our web design team builds every site.
Cortex is a team of AI agents we built. It plugs into your website and connects it to Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and live search data.
Every week it works out what’s holding you back, makes the fixes itself and tells you what it changed. In effect, your website becomes an employee whose only job is winning you more traffic.
You get the website you’d expect, plus the two parts most websites don’t have.
See my new homepageUntil now, every website has needed a person to keep it ranking, and that’s where the problems start.
Inconsistent results. Your rankings go up and down.
Consistent optimisation and steady results.
So how does your website run itself? Cortex repeats the same four steps, every week.
Every week, Cortex runs 5 scans on your website: health, speed, rankings, content and how your visitors behave. It uses live data from Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and SiteGuru, plus live search data.
It works out what’s holding you back, puts the fixes in order of how much they’ll help, then makes them itself: titles, speed, pages and content. New content waits for your approval.
Every change is logged. Every Monday you get a plain-English report of what was scanned, what was found and what was fixed.
Then it starts again. Each week builds on the last, so your website keeps improving long after launch, without you having to ask.
It’s the weekly work an SEO retainer usually pays for, done automatically and logged for you to see.
Google Search ConsoleRankings and indexing 
Google Analytics 4Traffic and enquiries 
Microsoft ClarityHow visitors behave 
SiteGuruTechnical health 
DataForSEOWhat your area searches for Every change logged and reported to you
Our site went live on the new build on 22 June 2026. These are Google’s own numbers for launchdigital.agency: the 3 months before the rebuild against the first 3 months after it.
Clicks from Google rose from 196 to 428 a quarter, up 118%. Clicks from people who didn’t already know our name nearly tripled.
12 of the 58 keywords we track were in Google’s top 10 before the rebuild. 3 months later, 23 were.
40 of our 58 tracked keywords climbed, 13 of them by 20 places or more. 16 slipped, and catching slips like those is what the weekly ranking scan is for.
Google Lighthouse scores the rebuilt site 97 for performance and 100 for accessibility and SEO. Speed matters to Google and to visitors, so Cortex re-tests it every week.
Before: 1 March to 31 May 2026 on our old WordPress site. After: 1 July to 30 September 2026 on the new site. Sources: Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, WhatConverts and Google Lighthouse.
Your plan covers the website, the work that keeps it ranking and the support, so there’s nothing else for you to buy.
Designed for your business, not a template. Up to 5 pages, live in 7 days.
Every page written for you, around what your customers search for.
CDN, SSL certificate, security monitoring and daily backups.
Connected to your Google tools and working on your website every week.
5 every week: health, speed, rankings, content and visitor behaviour.
Cortex makes the fixes itself and logs every change.
Email us a change and it’s done, usually within 8 working hours. Never billed.
What was scanned, found and fixed, in your inbox every Monday.
Your website, its code and your accounts belong to you.
“Will the AI say things about my business that aren’t true?”
We train Cortex on your services, areas, tone and the claims it may make. You sign it off before anything is written.
Worth R9 995“Will I lose my rankings when I switch?”
Your old site is mapped page by page, the content moves across and every old address is redirected to its new page.
Worth R4 995“Will I show up in my area?”
Your Google Business Profile is tuned up and local schema goes live on launch day, so Google knows where you work.
Worth R4 995R19 985 of extras, included in every plan.
Growth and Scale add new articles, location pages and faster changes. See the plans.
To get the same result the usual way, you’d pay a web designer, a host, someone to report on it, an SEO agency and a copywriter. These are typical South African rates for the same work, bought from separate suppliers. For the wider picture, see what a website costs in South Africa.
Our website design packages cost a fraction of that, and you choose how you pay: a one-off setup fee and a lower monthly price, or nothing upfront and a slightly higher monthly price.
Your website, kept ranking.
R3 995 a month at list price
R2 995 a month
Plus a one-off R7 500 setup fee
R43 440 for the first year
Everything in What you get:
Plus new articles, area pages and conversion fixes.
R4 995 a month at list price
R3 995 a month
Plus a one-off R7 500 setup fee
R55 440 for the first year
Everything in Core, plus:
Plus competitor tracking and a monthly strategy review.
R9 995 a month at list price
R8 995 a month
Plus a one-off R7 500 setup fee
R115 440 for the first year
Everything in Growth, plus:
Minimum term of 12 months, then month to month. Prices exclude VAT. The founding price is for the first 10 sites or until 30 November 2026, and it stays locked for as long as you stay.
| Core | Growth | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website and hosting | |||
| Pages (extra pages in blocks of 5, any plan) | Up to 5 | Up to 5 | Up to 5 |
| Fast hosting, CDN, SSL certificate, security monitoring and daily backups | Included | Included | Included |
| Weekly scans | |||
| Health, speed, rankings, content and visitor behaviour | Included | Included | Included |
| Conversion fixes from visitor data | –Not included | Included | Included |
| How AI tools see you | –Not included | Included | Included |
| Competitor rankings | –Not included | –Not included | Included |
| Content | |||
| Existing content kept optimised | Included | Included | Included |
| New articles a month, approved by you | –Not included | 2 | 4 |
| Location pages, kept updated | –Not included | Up to 5 | Unlimited |
| Service page refresh every quarter | –Not included | Included | Included |
| Support | |||
| Change Desk: unlimited changes, never billed | Included | Included | Included |
| Changes usually live within | 8 working hours | 4 working hours | 1 working hour |
| Quarterly call | –Not included | Included | Included |
| Strategy review | –Not included | –Not included | Monthly |
| Reporting | |||
| The Weekly Brain Report, every Monday | Included | Included | Included |
Put in your own numbers. Nothing is sent anywhere.
For comparison, our own rebuild added 475 visits from search a quarter, about 160 a month, in its first 3 months.
We carry the risk, so you don’t have to. You see your new homepage before you pay anything, you can leave at month six if it isn’t working, and whatever happens, the website is yours.
We design your new homepage first. If you don’t love it, you walk away and owe nothing.
If by month six your website isn’t faster than your old one and your agreed rankings haven’t improved, you can leave early and keep the website.
Changes and fixes are included for as long as you’re with us, so there are no surprise invoices.
Your website, its code and your accounts are yours. If you ever leave, you take all of it with you.
How each guarantee is judged is written into your agreement.
Tell us about your business and we’ll design your new homepage, free. If you love it, we build the rest in a week. If not, you owe nothing.
Tell us about your business
We’ll come back to you within one working day to confirm your start date and anything we need for the design.
Still comparing your options? Our guide on how to choose a web design agency covers what to ask any agency.
Nobody can honestly promise you a position, on Google or in AI answers. What we promise is a website built to Google’s own published guidance, worked on every week, and the Month-Six Exit if your agreed rankings haven’t improved.
With a one-off setup fee of R7 500, Core is R2 995 a month, Growth R3 995 and Scale R8 995 at the founding price, excluding VAT. With no setup fee, each plan is R750 a month more. Every plan includes the website, hosting, Cortex, unlimited changes and the weekly report, on a 12-month term and then month to month.
Every plan includes a custom website of up to 5 pages, with every page written for you, fast and secure hosting, Cortex scanning and fixing your website every week, unlimited changes and the Weekly Brain Report every Monday. You also get three extras worth R19 985. Growth and Scale add new articles, location pages and faster changes.
A basic monthly website gives you a template and hosting, and usually nothing more happens after launch. Ours also includes the work that keeps you ranking: weekly scans, fixes, new content and a weekly report. Bought separately from a web designer, a host, an SEO agency and a copywriter, that work costs about R184 000 a year.
We build you a new one. Cortex needs a website built a particular way to work on, so we rebuild yours from scratch on the Built-to-Rank Framework, move your content across with your rankings protected, and then Cortex takes over. Your old website is retired.
Your current website is mapped page by page before we build, and every old address is redirected to its new page. That’s the Rankings-Safe Move. A few individual phrases can move during any rebuild, and the weekly ranking scan catches them.
7 days from yes to live. Day 1 is your free homepage design, and nothing goes live until you’ve signed it off. We take on 5 new websites a month, so your start date is the next free place.
Tell us about your business, approve your homepage and sign off the finished website. After launch, read your Monday report and approve any new content Cortex writes. Everything else is done for you, and there’s nothing for you to log into.
As many as you like. Email the Change Desk and it’s done, usually within 8 working hours on Core, 4 on Growth and 1 on Scale. Changes are never billed, within fair use. Extra pages are added in blocks of 5 at R595 a month per block.
Three extras come with every plan: the Business Brief (worth R9 995), the Rankings-Safe Move (worth R4 995) and the Local Ranking Starter (worth R4 995). Hosting, security, daily backups and the weekly report are included too.
Yes. The website, its code and your accounts are yours at all times. If you ever leave, we hand everything over, so you’re never locked in.
After 12 months you carry on month to month on 30 days’ notice, on the same plan at the same price. If you leave, hosting and the weekly scans stop at the end of your final paid month, and we hand the website over to you.
Cortex is a team of AI agents we built. It plugs into your website and connects it to Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, SiteGuru and live search data. Every week it works out what’s holding your website back, makes the fixes itself and reports every change to you.
Five scans. Health: broken links, weak titles and pages Google can’t index. Speed: every page tested and trimmed. Rankings: drops flagged, and pages close to page one pushed up. Content: stale pages and unanswered questions. Visitors: the places people hesitate and leave.
It fixes what the scans find: weak titles and descriptions, broken links, slow pages, missing schema and pages that are close to page one. It also rewrites stale pages and writes new content, which goes live only after you approve it. Every change is logged.
Before anything is written, we build the Business Brief: your services, your areas, your tone, the claims Cortex may and may not make, and the words to avoid. Cortex works inside it, and you approve any new content before it’s published.
Every change Cortex makes is logged and listed in your Weekly Brain Report, with what changed and why. New written content goes live only after you approve it, and anything you don’t like is reversed through the Change Desk at no cost.
An SEO retainer pays for a person’s time each month. Cortex runs the same checks and makes the fixes every week, without waiting for anyone’s time, and logs every change. Your website, hosting and unlimited changes come in the same monthly price.
Get one that works on your rankings every week, automatically. See your new homepage first.
Live in 7 days. Your founding price is locked for as long as you stay. Ends 30 November 2026 or when the last 3 places go.
