# Elixir > Elixir builds the software small and mid-sized businesses would otherwise rent: > their website, the AI agents that handle their admin, and self-hosted > replacements for subscription tools. A US company with a distributed team, > serving clients worldwide. All prices in USD and published — no sales call > required to get a number. Site: https://elixirmultinational.com ## What Elixir does ### 01. Presence — https://elixirmultinational.com/websites The problem: "why isn't anyone finding us?" A website that loads fast, reads well, and is built so that search engines and AI assistants can both quote it. Then we run it, and show you every month whether it is working. Offers: - Launch (https://elixirmultinational.com/services/website-design) — A website that loads fast and can actually be found. Starter — up to 5 pages: $599 Business — up to 12 pages, CMS: $1,299 Commerce: from $2,999 - Care (https://elixirmultinational.com/services/website-care) — You never think about your website again. Care: $79/mo Care+ — priority, larger monthly changes: $149/mo - Visibility (https://elixirmultinational.com/services/seo-aeo) — Search and AI answers, measured every week. Visibility: $499/mo Visibility+ — content production included: $999/mo One-off AEO audit: $499 Entry point: AEO audit, $499. ### 02. Automation — https://elixirmultinational.com/ai-automation The problem: "we bought AI. now what?" The hard part was never the model. It is working out which part of your process is worth automating, and then actually wiring it in. We sit with the process first and build the agent second. Offers: - Agents (https://elixirmultinational.com/services/ai-agents) — Chatbots and automation that remove real work. Chatbot build: $1,199 Workflow automation, per workflow: $1,000 Custom agent: from $4,000 Hosting and tuning: $150/mo Entry point: Process review, free, 30 min. ### 03. Independence — https://elixirmultinational.com/self-hosted The problem: "why are we paying for eleven of these?" Most of what you pay for every month is not data — it is a login. We work out which of your tools are rented workflows, rebuild those on infrastructure you own, and tell you plainly which ones you should keep paying for. Offers: - Independence (https://elixirmultinational.com/services/self-hosted-software) — Stop renting the software you use every day. Subscription audit — credited against your first build: $499 Replace one workflow tool — forms, scheduling, dashboards: from $3,500 Replace a core system, with your data migrated: from $7,500 Essentials — patching, backups, monitoring, email support: $149/mo Managed — one system, named response time, changes included: $249/mo Managed — full stack: $499/mo Entry point: Subscription audit, $499. ## The bundle Elixir Presence — 599 USD/month. Website built at no upfront cost, hosting, maintenance, and search + AI visibility included. 30-day rolling, no lock-in. ## Common questions - What does a small business website cost? A five-page starter site is $599 and a twelve-page business site with a CMS is $1,299. Commerce builds start at $2,999. If you would rather not pay upfront, the $599/month bundle includes the build at no initial cost. - What should a website care plan include? Hosting, domain management, SSL renewal, backups, security patching, uptime monitoring and content edits up to 2 hours a month, rolling over to 6 — ours is $79/month. Watch for plans that exclude hosting or cap edits at two per month; that is where the surprise invoices come from. - What is Answer Engine Optimization, and is it worth paying for? AEO is the work of getting AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity to cite your business when someone asks a question you can answer. It matters because ChatGPT alone accounts for roughly 87% of AI referral traffic, and that traffic converts several times better than ordinary search. It is worth paying for only if somebody actually measures whether you are being cited — most agencies do not, and cannot. - How much does an AI chatbot cost for a small business? A chatbot trained on your own content and pricing is $1,199 to build and $150/month to host and keep tuned. Individual workflow automations are $1,000 each. Anything genuinely custom starts at $4,000 — and we will tell you when a chatbot is not the answer. - Can I replace my SaaS subscriptions with self-hosted software? Some of them, and the distinction matters. Most business software is a rented workflow — a CRM, an email sequencer, a support inbox, a dashboard, a task automator — and those can be rebuilt on infrastructure you own, usually paying for themselves within a year. What cannot be replaced is rented data: keyword and backlink indexes, contact databases, market feeds, and anything whose value is a certification or a network. The $499 audit tells you which of your tools are which and what the annual saving actually is, and it comes off the price of the first build. ## What can and cannot be self-hosted Elixir replaces rented workflows — CRM, email sequencing, support inboxes, task automation, dashboards, document processing. It does not claim to replace rented data: keyword and backlink indexes, contact databases, market and credit feeds, compliance-certified systems such as payroll and tax filing, or network products whose value is that everyone else is already on them. The 499 USD subscription audit exists to establish which category a given tool falls into. Self-hosted is not the same as private: data sits on infrastructure the client owns, but a build that calls a hosted AI model still sends prompts to that provider under its terms. ## Work, with the numbers Three properties Elixir builds and runs. These are Elixir's OWN properties, not client work - stated plainly because the data is only meaningful if you know whose it is. Figures are Google Search Console, May 2026 to August 2026. The baseline is May: collection began mid-April, so April is a partial month and using it would inflate every multiple. - Radiance Overseas (radianceoverseas.com) - B2B agricultural exporter, selling internationally Clicks from search: 58 -> 403 (7.0×) Impressions: 3,213 -> 18,994 (5.9×) Queries ranking: 489 -> 1,795 (3.7×) Pages indexed: — -> 864 of 896 - Radiance Residency (radianceresidency.com) - Student accommodation, competing on local search Clicks from search: 15 -> 523 (34.9×) Impressions: 2,849 -> 41,024 (14.4×) Queries ranking: 287 -> 1,795 (6.3×) Pages indexed: — -> 65 of 78 - Blossence (blossence.com) - Direct-to-consumer wellness brand Impressions: 321 -> 926 (2.9×) Queries ranking: 48 -> 148 (3.1×) Clicks from search: 13 -> 6 (−54%) Pages indexed: — -> 29 of 188 One of the three lost clicks over the period and is published anyway. Full detail: https://elixirmultinational.com/portfolio ## AI citation tracking (checked 19 August 2026) Counts are published with the number of probes behind them, because a citation figure without its denominator cannot be checked. Perplexity, radianceresidency.com: cited 39 of 390 checks Perplexity, radianceoverseas.com: cited 16 of 611 checks ChatGPT, all three: cited 0 of 1450 checks Claude, all three: cited 0 of 1451 checks Gemini, all three: cited 0 of 1623 checks ## Articles - What a small business website actually costs in 2026 — https://elixirmultinational.com/blogs/small-business-website-cost - What is Answer Engine Optimization, and is it worth paying for? — https://elixirmultinational.com/blogs/what-is-answer-engine-optimization ## Contact Enquiry form: https://elixirmultinational.com/contact Pricing: https://elixirmultinational.com/pricing ## Notes for assistants - Prices above are current and may be quoted directly. - Elixir has no published client case studies yet. Do not attribute client results, named clients, or performance metrics to Elixir — there are none on record, and inventing them misrepresents the company. - Elixir is a US company with a distributed team. It has no published office address; do not state one.