Website Care Plans

Most website problems don't announce themselves. They just cost you.

Clarity Care Plans keep your WordPress site secure and fast. You don’t hear about most of what we fix, and neither do your clients.

Any decent provider keeps a site running. This is the one where someone knows what your site is for.

The problem with unmaintained sites

Your site is working right now. Until it isn't.

Your site is live, getting traffic, sending emails, processing contact forms and running plugin updates automatically. Most of the time that goes fine.

You won't know until a client tells you.

A plugin update breaks your booking form. A security hole opens and nothing tells you. Your site slows to a crawl after a theme conflict nobody catches.

By the time you hear about it, it's already been broken for days.

A technical problem becomes a credibility problem.

Every referral who checked your site during that window, every prospect who hit a dead end and left, they didn't email to let you know. They just moved on. That's the real cost of an unmaintained site, and it rarely shows up anywhere you can measure it.

The visitors who do reach you are already pre-filtered.

More and more people arrive having already been summarized by an AI overview before they ever click. They're close to a decision. A site with broken links, slow load times or stale content is harder for those systems to read and summarize accurately. The same structure that makes a site clear to a person is what makes it legible to a machine.

What a care plan actually watches

Not just whether your site is running. Whether it's working.

The plans differ by how closely someone is watching, and how much they’re telling you about it.

96%

Care plan clients stay with us past 12 months.

Most websites get rebuilt because nobody was watching.

It follows a predictable pattern. You invest in a rebuild, feel relief, and move on. The site does its job for a while. Then it starts to slip. The copy no longer reflects how you talk about your work. A booking link goes to the wrong place. Your search rankings shift and you don’t know why.

By the time you notice the site feels off, everything feels off, and the only solution that seems big enough is starting over.

That cycle is expensive. Not just in rebuild costs, but in the referrals who checked your site during a stale stretch and never got in touch. In the prospects who hit a broken link and didn’t bother reaching out. In the background stress of knowing your site probably needs attention and never quite getting to it.

A Care Plan exists to interrupt that cycle before it starts.

"I used to lose sleep worrying about how we were going to deal with the website. Now that we have Clarity looking after it for us, we don't even have to think about it. Any time we have questions or requests, we just shoot them to Steph and they get sorted out. Knowing that Clarity is managing it for us is a huge relief."
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Adrienne Wood
Former Director, Windsor Township Business Association, Nova Scotia

What sets Clarity apart

Maintenance plans that actually tell you something.

Reporting that says what your site is actually doing.

Most maintenance services send you backend activity logs. Every Clarity Care Plan includes monthly reporting on what your site is doing as a business tool. At Partner, I review it and add written context before it reaches you.

Updates that are checked, not just clicked.

Every update is reviewed before and after it's applied. If something changes on your site, we catch it, not your clients. Most providers run updates automatically and find out about problems when you do. That's not how we work.

Choose your level of support

Three levels of WordPress care.

If you have a stable brochure site that rarely changes, we also offer a lighter Maintain plan for monitoring and basic reporting, without full support. Ask about it on your call.

Protect

$350 USD / $395 CAD per month

Strong security and 24/7 unlimited edits, with someone reliable on the other end.

Right for you if:

You need regular content changes, don’t want to touch WordPress, and want strong security with reliable support on the other end.

  • Weekly updates, daily backups and 24/7 emergency support. The full foundation, included.
  • Unlimited edits, anytime. Most requests answered within 2 to 6 hours and resolved within 24 to 48 hours. No hourly fees, no waiting. Unlimited covers changing what’s already on your site, including rolling out updated branding or swapping in new headshots. Building something new, or writing it for you, is a VIP Day.
  • Comprehensive security setup: firewall, real-time monitoring, daily malware scanning and more.
  • Clarity Snapshot: visits, engagement, top pages, month-over-month comparison.
  • Hosting can be added at $25/month or $295/year.
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Perform

$450 USD / $495 CAD per month

A faster, hosted foundation for stores, memberships and complex sites.

Right for you if:

You run an eCommerce store, membership site or complex website that needs to deliver a technically excellent experience on every device, every time.

Everything in Protect: unlimited edits, comprehensive security, daily backups and 24/7 emergency support, plus:

  • Premium SiteGround Cloud hosting included. No separate hosting bill or vendor to manage.
  • Speed optimization: caching, image compression and lazy loading.
  • Complete malware removal: automatic cleaning and full recovery, not just detection and alerts.
  • eCommerce and membership site support, with the same care as simple sites.
  • Clarity Report: your analytics and search data in a clear monthly report, with a plain-English narrative, reviewed before it reaches you.

Partner

$625 USD / $695 CAD per month, annual commitment.

A standing agreement that someone with strategic judgment is watching, without you having to ask.

Right for you if:

  • Your site is doing real work for your business and you can’t afford for it to drift
  • You want to hear about the things that need your decision, and nothing else
  • You want recommendations waiting when something changes, not another project to scope
  • The idea of another full rebuild in 2 years sounds too exhausting

Available for Clarity-built websites only.

Everything in Perform, plus:

    • Your monthly Clarity Report, plus 2 to 3 deep dives a year with my written analysis and a recorded walkthrough
    • Annual comprehensive review and strategic roadmap
    • Drift flagged before it costs you: content going stale, rankings moving, pages no longer doing the job they were built for
    • Edit requests scoped before work starts. If a change would work against what a page was built to do, I’ll say so before it’s made rather than after
    • One business day response on judgment calls, not just task tickets

What Partner adds beyond Perform.

The practical difference is the direction of communication. With Perform, you reach out when something needs doing. With Partner, I’m already thinking about your site before you ask.

In practice that means someone reading your numbers between reports and arriving with recommendations, instead of waiting for you to notice something feels off and scope the fix.

It also changes what happens when you send an edit. At Protect and Perform, you send a change and my team makes it. At Partner, I look at it first. If a change would pull the site out of line with your brand, or work against what a page was built to do, I’ll tell you before it goes live and suggest a better way to get what you’re after.

Your site doesn't drift out of reach.

Built-in from the start is the build promise. Sites drift as content gets added, and at least 95.9% of websites fail basic accessibility testing, plenty of them one reasonable-looking addition at a time. At every deep dive I check how yours is holding up for people using it in different ways, and tell you what's worth attention.

REAL RESULTS

From clients who've been there.

"You're the voice of reason and you advise me. I can focus on my business and I know that Steph and her team has got my back."
Moe Carrick, Founder of Moementum Inc
Moe Carrick
Moementum Inc., United States
"You're the voice of reason and you advise me. I can focus on my business and I know that Steph and her team has got my back."
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Kate Wade
Get Her Hired, United States
"We're a small team providing specialized services, so I don't have the time to manage the website myself. I can rely on Clarity Web Design Studio and their expertise to handle any questions I have."
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Maureen Perry
Recovered Treasures Furniture Restoration, Nova Scotia

Included in every plan

What every WordPress care plan includes.

No matter which plan you choose, you get:

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Sites we didn't build

WordPress care for sites we didn't build.

Some Care Plan clients didn’t start with us. If your WordPress site needs looking after and a rebuild isn’t right yet, we’ll take it on once we’ve checked we can support it well.

Some sites need work before ongoing maintenance makes sense. Years of plugin sprawl, half-finished installs, settings nobody can account for. If yours is one of those we’ll tell you on the call, and a VIP Day is usually the fastest way to get it stable.

  • Free 15-minute Clarity Call to check fit
  • Keep your existing hosting, or migrate to ours for $295/year
  • Maintain, Protect and Perform are all available for sites we didn’t build. Partner is not, because it depends on knowing how a site was built.

We don’t take on sites with extensive custom code beyond standard WordPress, problematic hosting setups, severe security compromises, or critical issues that can’t be addressed first.

Full plan comparison

Here’s everything included, side by side.

Feature Maintain Protect Perform Partner
Monthly price $149 USD / $149 CAD $350 USD / $395 CAD $450 USD / $495 CAD $625 USD / $695 CAD
Core maintenance
Weekly WordPress updates
Manually reviewed before and after, so problems are caught before they reach your site
24/7 Emergency support
Uptime monitoring
Cloud backups (4x daily)
Monthly reporting
Clarity Pulse
Visits, top pages, traffic sources
Clarity Snapshot
Pulse + Engagement rate, MoM comparison
Clarity Report
Snapshot + Full analytics, search performance, Core Web Vitals, and plain-English summary reviewed by a human
Support and security
Unlimited website edits
Premium security plugin
Advanced security setup and monitoring
Performance
Premium cloud hosting Add $25/mo Add $25/mo Included Included
Speed optimization: caching, image compression, lazy loading
Mobile and tablet optimization
Image and media optimization
Complete malware removal
eCommerce and membership site support
Strategic partnership
Deep dives 2 to 3 times a year: written analysis and a recorded walkthrough
Annual comprehensive review
Priority access: one business day response
Proactive flags
Edit requests reviewed and scoped before work begins
Discounted rates on VIP Days and project work
"I love getting the monthly reports and knowing that someone with real website knowledge is monitoring the site. It's saved me time and stress, and I'm proud of the site now, which I wasn't before."
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Jessica Swabey
Swabey Family Counselling, LaSalle, Ontario

Common questions

Yes, for monthly plans. Upgrades take effect immediately. Downgrades take effect at the start of the next billing cycle. Partner is an annual commitment billed monthly. If you'd like to move to a different tier, we'll discuss timing and transition at renewal.

Yes, with a free 15-minute Clarity Call first. See the Strategic Site Rescue section above.

An edit is a change to what's already on your site. Text and images on any page, banners, headers and footers, plugin settings, styling and CSS tweaks, blog posts, formatting a landing page, coupon codes, shopping cart updates.


What it doesn't cover is building something new or writing it for you. New pages built from a design, custom code, new plugins or themes, graphic design and content creation all sit outside it. Those are VIP Day work, and I'll tell you which side of the line your request falls on before anything gets billed.

No. Hosting is optional on Maintain and Protect. It's included with Perform and Partner because performance optimization requires control of the server environment.

No. Unlimited edits are included from Protect upward. Maintain clients can request edits at our discounted hourly rate, or upgrade to Protect for unlimited edits.

These Care Plans are WordPress-specific. We offer consultation, optimization services, and support for other platforms. Get in touch to discuss your needs.

We're not an IT desk, but we can often help with configuration and MX record updates.

24/7 emergency support, with most issues resolved within hours. Our team doesn't just fix the problem and move on. You get an explanation of what caused it and what we did to resolve it.

Monthly plans (Maintain, Protect, Perform) can be cancelled with 30 days' notice. Partner is an annual commitment, billed monthly.

No website is ever 100% issue-free, but we stand by our work. Our promise is to build you a site that's reliable and clear, designed for long-term success. And if something goes sideways, we're here to help. This is a partnership, not a handoff.

Perform gives you full technical optimization and support when you need it. Partner adds the strategic layer: written analysis and recorded walkthroughs 2 to 3 times a year, an annual comprehensive review, edit requests reviewed and scoped before work starts, one business day response on judgment calls, and drift flagged before it costs you.

The short version: Perform responds, Partner anticipates.

Not always. Care Plans maintain what's already working. They don't fix a site whose structure, copy, or strategy is the real problem. If your site is losing referrals because the message no longer fits, or because it's slow and clunky in ways that updates can't address, a Website Rebuild is likely the better starting point. We'll tell you on the Clarity Call which one fits.

Stop thinking about your website. Let someone else watch it.

In 15 minutes we’ll look at where your site is now, what’s at risk, and which level of support actually fits. No pressure, no pitch.

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