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I've made 28 LinkedIn carousels and I haven't opened a design tool for any of them. Each one is about 60 lines of JSON. One Next.js page draws any slide at 1080 by 1350, a Playwright script screenshots all ten and prints the PDF, and Metricool schedules it. Writing the JSON is the only part that takes real time.

Metricool's Starter plan is $25 a month for up to five brands, so the scheduler costs about $5 a brand. A 2024 HeyOrca survey of more than 100 social media managers averaged $2,107 a month per retainer. The software is the cheap part. The service is a weekly batch the owner approves without chasing, and a report that shows the month.

Otterly.AI's Lite plan tracks 15 questions across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot for $29 a month. A UK agency pricing guide from July 2026 puts a standalone GEO audit at £3,000 to £8,000. A small business won't pay agency prices, but it will pay someone to tell it, with screenshots, whether AI answers name it and what to fix first.

OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity each send at least two different bots to your site. One collects pages that may train the next model, another indexes pages so the chatbot's search can cite them, and a third only shows up when a person asks about you. If your robots.txt treats them as one thing called AI, you're probably blocking the wrong one.

An AI receptionist on Retell AI costs about 11 cents a minute in Retell's own example, about 12.5 cents with its phone line. A plumber with 600 minutes of calls a month is looking at about $77 in usage. A human answering service like Ruby lists $250 a month for 50 minutes. The minutes are cheap. The service is the real price list, the transfer that works when a caller is angry, and the monthly report.

One lifestyle product photo made with Nano Banana Pro on Higgsfield costs 2 credits, about 10 cents on the $59 Plus plan. On Fiverr, the first page of AI product photography gigs started at $5 to $250, and half started at $15 or less. The image is close to free. The service is keeping the real label, passing the marketplace's first-image rule, and handing back a set the shop can upload.