You built the business.
We’re upgrading the foundation.

For eligible current CI Web Group customers, the one-time Hydra migration and upgrade fee is waived on every plan. You then choose an ongoing plan: Essentials at $150 per month, Content at $250 per month, or Growth at $500 per month. All three bill automatically each month until canceled with 30 days’ notice.

All three include the complimentary migration, the Hydra OS platform, managed hosting, maintenance, security, compliance-ready foundations with recurring QA, basic design changes, and the one-time full SEO migration pass. Essentials ($150/mo) stops there — no publishing. Content ($250/mo) adds one SEO/AEO-optimized blog post every week, published and internally linked. Growth ($500/mo) adds everything in Content plus a second post each week and 25 Hydra Build Credits each month for Growth Work; unused credits roll forward, so you can save them for a larger project.

Growth Work is the recurring search, answer-engine, content, conversion, and local work that keeps a live Hydra site gaining ground after launch. Every task is scoped to something you can point at — one page, one content cluster, one Google Business Profile — and priced so that nothing on the menu costs more than a single month of credits. A month buys, for example, an SEO/AEO audit with the top fixes applied, or a net-new service page, or a conversion pass on a money page, or several smaller items such as an FAQ block with schema, an internal-link pass, a schema block, or an image and alt-text pass. Unused credits roll forward, which is how clients fund a full Hydra Build Component over time. Two things are worth stating plainly: Build Components start well above one month's credits, so those are what you save toward rather than what you get in month one; and the Hydra SEO / AEO / GEO Agent runs on separate Search Intelligence Credits with its own monthly minimum, so it is never included in an upgrade plan.

Yes. You can move up or down between Essentials, Content, and Growth at any time — they are month-to-month, not tiers you are locked into. Moving up starts the added work on the next billing cycle; moving down takes effect at the end of the current month.

Hydra OS is CI Web Group’s proprietary website operating and delivery platform built on modern technologies including Astro. The public website is static and database-free; it is not a WordPress theme or a WordPress site running plugins. WordPress PMS may be used behind the scenes as an editorial source, but visitors never load a live WordPress application.

To activate and keep a Hydra site hosted, maintained, secured, and supported by CI Web Group, you accept one of the three monthly subscriptions ($150, $250, or $500) and its auto-renewal terms. It is month-to-month, not a long-term contract, and can be canceled with 30 days’ notice.

No long-term contract locks you in. Your business identity and owned assets remain portable. Hydra’s platform code, reusable components, agents, and infrastructure remain CI Web Group technology, so leaving Hydra means exporting your owned content and data and rebuilding or migrating them to the platform you choose.

Yes—you own your domain, business data, approved site content, original pages and blog posts, your images or properly transferred image licenses, SEO metadata, redirect map, and public information architecture. Third-party licensed assets remain subject to their licenses, and CI Web Group retains its proprietary Hydra platform code, reusable components, automations, and agent systems.

If your current website is a WordPress site and you control the underlying account and assets, CI Web Group can coordinate a standard WordPress handoff instead of a Hydra migration. Your new provider is responsible for importing, configuring, testing, licensing, and operating it. A Hydra site itself is not WordPress and cannot be moved as a WordPress installation without a separate rebuild.

For an existing WordPress site, we can provide a commercially reasonable handoff of the files, database, media, redirect and SEO configuration, and implementation details under our control. Passwords, secrets, historical form submissions, non-transferable software licenses, and proprietary CI Web Group tools are excluded. Vendor licenses may need to be repurchased, and the receiving provider must validate the restored site.

There is now a date. As of January 1, 2027, CI Web Group will no longer provide hosting and maintenance for WordPress or Webflow websites. Declining the Hydra upgrade does not cause an immediate shutdown — your current website stays live while its existing arrangement is active, and nothing changes before that date. You then have two options: launch your new Hydra website, with the one-time migration and upgrade fee waived for eligible current customers, or move your website to another provider, and we will provide multiple options for hosting, maintenance, and support. That vendor list is coming soon. If you are not sure what your site runs on today, contact us and we will confirm it.

The migration is designed to preserve valuable SEO equity. We inventory URLs, retain canonical paths where practical, map 301 redirects, migrate content and metadata, reconnect analytics and Search Console, validate forms and tracking, crawl the finished site, and measure performance. Temporary search fluctuation is possible with any platform migration, so launch QA and post-launch monitoring are included; rankings are never guaranteed.

Every plan combines the Hydra OS platform, managed hosting and edge delivery, maintenance, security, compliance-ready foundations and QA, basic design changes, and a one-time full SEO migration pass. Content adds one optimized blog each week; Growth adds a monthly Hydra credit budget for SEO work on top of that. Not included on any plan: call tracking and call recording, paid media, full-service SEO and local SEO programs, social media, PR, conversion campaigns, major redesigns, custom software, and large new content programs. Those are priced separately at ciwebgroup.com/get-started.

The eligible current-customer upgrade and one-time migration work are complimentary—there is no separate website rebuild fee for the included scope, on any of the three plans. Your chosen monthly plan begins when you enroll and covers the ongoing platform, hosting, maintenance, security, compliance QA, and support, plus the content cadence and credits included at that tier.

Yes, as of January 1, 2027. After that date CI Web Group will no longer provide hosting and maintenance for WordPress or Webflow websites. Before then you can either launch your new Hydra website — with the one-time migration and upgrade fee waived for eligible current customers — or move your website to another provider, and we will provide multiple options for hosting, maintenance, and support. A vendor list is coming soon. This change is about the platform we host and maintain; you continue to own your domain, content, and business data either way.

No. Call tracking and call recording are not part of any of the three Hydra Upgrade plans. These plans cover the website platform — hosting, maintenance, security, compliance and QA — plus the content cadence at your tier. Call tracking is part of a marketing plan, and you can add it along with full marketing and ongoing SEO at ciwebgroup.com/get-started.

No, and the difference matters. The Growth plan gives you a monthly Hydra credit budget you can spend on SEO and growth work on your own site. A full-service SEO program is a broader engagement — market and competitor research, local SEO and Google Business Profile work, link building, reporting, and a strategist owning the outcome. If you want that, configure it at ciwebgroup.com/get-started rather than relying on the credit budget alone.

Yes. The Hydra Upgrade plans keep the website foundation healthy, and Growth adds a monthly credit budget for SEO work. Customers who want ongoing local visibility, AI-search growth, paid media, PR, conversion work, or a larger content program than one post a week can configure full marketing with live pricing in Get Started.