Workflow automation, built as a product
Maintenance Loop
For property managers. A tenant texts one number. The Loop sorts urgent from routine, offers the job to the right tradie, gets the owner's OK and closes the job when the invoice matches.
Website care · hosting, fixes and changes every month
Who looks after your website?
Graphite Digital Studio looks after websites for $149 a month, ex GST, on a 12-month minimum. That covers hosting (the computer that keeps your site on the internet), keeping the site running, fixes, a check-in and up to 30 minutes of changes every month. So when the site breaks or needs updating, you know who to ask. Every site we build comes with it, and we can take over a site someone else built.
- Care and hosting $149 a month
- Up to 30 minutes of changes a month
- 12-month minimum
- Home base Victoria, Australia
What care covers
What you get for $149 a month.
A website is not finished on launch day. Something has to keep it on the internet, and someone has to fix it and change it. Website care is that someone, for one fixed monthly fee.
- Hosting. Your site stays on the internet, day and night. It is included in the fee, not billed on top.
- Keeping it running. If the site stops loading, getting it back is our job, not yours.
- Fixes. A form that stops sending. A page that looks wrong on a new phone. When something breaks, we fix it, and the fee covers it.
- Small changes. Up to 30 minutes of changes every month: new opening hours, a changed price, a swapped photo, a new team member.
- A check-in. We get in touch to ask what has changed in the business, so the site keeps up with it.
- One studio. You deal with the studio that built the site, so nobody has to work out how it was put together.
Proof
We built these, and we run them.
These are ours. We designed them, built them and keep them running. Each one is live, so you can click through and check the work for yourself.
An app, live on the App Store
BRACED Strength Coach
A strength coach for iPhone that reads your sleep, sets the session and calls every set. We designed it, built it and took it through App Store review. The Android version is in testing.
An online store, built end to end
EYES ONLY
Our own streetwear label. We built its store from the first page to the checkout. It is a custom store, not a Shopify template.
Why it matters
Why does a website left alone go stale?
A website does not wear out. It goes stale, because the business keeps moving and the site sits still, and because phones, browsers and search keep changing around it. A browser is the program you open websites with.
- The details drift. Prices, hours, services and staff change. The site still shows last year's. A customer who spots one wrong detail can stop trusting the rest.
- Things break quietly. An enquiry form can stop sending and nobody tells you. You just get fewer enquiries.
- Phones and browsers move on. New versions keep coming out. A page that looked right two years ago can look broken on a new phone.
- Search reads what is there. Google and AI chat assistants read your site to answer questions about your business. If the site is out of date, so is the answer. Not being found at all is a different problem: see not showing on Google.
- Nobody is watching. With no one looking after the site, small problems stack up until someone notices. Often that someone is a customer.
Built by someone else?
My web guy disappeared.
It happens. The person who built the site stops answering, and nobody else knows how it was put together. We take over sites built by someone else. Send the link and tell us what is wrong with it through the contact page. We look at the site first, then tell you in writing what it costs to fix and to look after. You'll get a real reply within one business day from the person who would do the work. If it's down or hacked right now, start with who can fix my website. If the answer turns out to be a new site, our websites start from $5,900 for up to six pages, and there is a page on what a website costs.
How it works
Care comes with the build.
A 30-minute call
What you do, who you do it for, and what the site has to do.
A fixed quote
One price for the build and $149 a month for care, in writing. 50% deposit to start, the balance at go-live, the day the site opens.
The build
The person who scopes your site is the one who builds it.
Care, every month
The setup pays for the build. The monthly fee pays for keeping it running: hosting, fixes, your changes and a check-in.
Pricing
How much does website care cost a month?
Care is $149 a month. It covers the websites and online stores we build. The "from" prices for the builds are a guide, and you get a fixed quote after a 30-minute call. Australian dollars, ex GST. Monthly work on being found is a separate service: local SEO and AI search.
Care and hosting
$149/ month
Hosting, keeping it running, fixes, a check-in and up to 30 minutes of changes a month. 12-month minimum.
Website
from $5,900
Up to six pages.
Online store
from $7,900
Up to 50 products loaded.
Local SEO and AI search
from $790/ month
6-month minimum.
Founding clients
Half-price setup for the first 10 clients, monthly fee at full price, in return for a case study, a testimonial and permission to use their name.
FAQ
Straight answers.
How much does website maintenance cost a month?
Website care from Graphite Digital Studio is $149 a month, ex GST, with a 12-month minimum. That one fee covers hosting, keeping the site running, fixes, a check-in and up to 30 minutes of changes every month. Every website and online store the studio builds comes with it, and the studio can take over a site built by someone else. Prices are in Australian dollars.
What does website care include?
Website care from Graphite Digital Studio includes five things: hosting, keeping the site running, fixes when something breaks, a check-in, and up to 30 minutes of small changes each month. Small changes are things like new opening hours, a changed price or a swapped photo. It costs $149 a month, ex GST, on a 12-month minimum.
Who looks after my website after it is built?
Graphite Digital Studio looks after every website it builds. Each build carries its own monthly fee, so care is part of the deal from the start and not an extra you have to chase later. For a website that fee is $149 a month, ex GST, and it covers hosting, fixes, a check-in and up to 30 minutes of changes a month.
My web guy disappeared. What do I do?
If the person who built your website has disappeared, first find out what you still control: your domain name, which is your web address, and the login for wherever the site is kept. Then tell Graphite Digital Studio what you have through the contact page. You get a real reply within one business day. The studio takes over sites built by someone else, and tells you in writing what it costs after looking at yours.
Why does a website need looking after?
A website needs looking after because the business changes and the site does not change itself. Prices, hours and services go out of date. A form can stop sending without anyone noticing. Phones and browsers keep changing around it. Graphite Digital Studio's care plan deals with those things every month for $149, ex GST.
Is hosting included in website care?
Yes, hosting is included in Graphite Digital Studio's website care plan at $149 a month, ex GST. Hosting is the computer that keeps your website on the internet, day and night. The same fee also covers keeping the site running, fixes, a check-in and up to 30 minutes of changes a month, on a 12-month minimum.
Nobody looking after it?
Bring us a problem.
Send us the link and tell us what's wrong with it, or tell us nobody has touched it in years. On the call we'll say straight what it needs.