specshop.dev / Maintain

Your product keeps running. Your team keeps moving.
We handle everything in between.

We keep websites and products running, updated, and getting better — on a fixed-price retainer with no surprises. Spec-first change process, backed internally by the spec2web toolchain so one person can manage more than you’d expect.

The old way

Every change is a project.

Content needs updating. A plugin breaks. Google starts ignoring a page. Payment integration fails on a Tuesday and the business owner finds out on Friday. The only path back is re-opening the AI, re-explaining the site, making the change, pushing, redeploying. Every single time.

  • 20–30 minutes minimum for any routine update
  • Context lost between sessions
  • No proactive monitoring — you find out when things break
  • Sites go stale because changes are too painful
The specshop.dev way

One person. Multiple products. No drama.

The spec2web toolchain means one person can manage more clients than a traditional agency. Every project lives in a single dashboard. Changes are made once, deployed immediately. Monitoring runs in the background. You get a monthly report and a human who knows your product.

  • Content and copy changes within agreed SLA
  • Proactive monitoring — we find problems before you do
  • SEO visibility and monthly health reports
  • No context lost — Project Memory keeps everything
Retainer plans

Two services.
One team.

Website retainers keep your site current and visible. Product retainers keep your application running, tested, and improving. Both run month-to-month with no lock-in.

Starter
Keep it
alive
$600/year
Billed annually · Cancel anytime

For small sites that just need to stay current and not break.

  • Up to 4 content updates/month
  • Uptime monitoring + alerts
  • Monthly health report
  • 48hr response SLA
  • SEO monitoring
  • Priority support
Partner
Keep it
performing
$1,200/mo
~$14,400/year
Month-to-month · Cancel anytime

For teams that need a dedicated technical partner, not a ticket system.

  • Unlimited content updates
  • Full monitoring suite
  • SEO + analytics + commerce health
  • 4hr priority SLA
  • Monthly strategy call (30 min)
  • 2 small features/quarter included

Website plans billed annually. Product plans billed monthly.

What’s included Starter Growth Partner
Content updates / month410Unlimited
Response SLA48 hrs24 hrs4 hrs
Uptime monitoring
SEO monitoring
Google Search Console
Monthly reportHealth onlyFull performanceFull + strategy
Monthly strategy call
Feature development1 small / quarter2 small / quarter
Starter
Keep it
running
$595/mo
Month-to-month · Cancel anytime

For shipped MVPs that need to stay stable and secure.

  • Bug fixes & patch releases
  • Dependency & security updates
  • Uptime + error monitoring
  • Monthly status report
  • 48hr response SLA
  • Feature development available as add-on
Partner
Fractional
CTO track
$3,500/mo
Month-to-month · Cancel anytime

For founders who need an embedded technical partner, not just a dev shop.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Up to 20 hrs dev/month
  • Architecture guidance (Tiran direct)
  • 4hr priority SLA
  • Weekly sync (30 min)
  • Roadmap planning + tech strategy
What’s included Starter Growth Partner
Bug fixes & patches
Security & dependency updates
Response SLA48 hrs24 hrs4 hrs
Feature development8 hrs/mo20 hrs/mo
Architecture guidance
Regular sync callMonthlyWeekly
Roadmap & strategy
How it works

No tickets.
No drama.

We don’t run a ticket queue. We run a project. Every client has a named person who knows the product, the codebase, and the context — not just the latest support thread.

01

Onboard in a day

We set up Project Memory for your site or product. We connect monitoring, deploy pipelines, and Google integrations. You’re in the system before the first invoice.

02

Request or we spot it

Send a request anytime via email, Slack, or WhatsApp. Or we catch it first — monitoring runs continuously and we fix most things before you notice them.

03

Change, review, deploy

Every change goes through the spec2web pipeline — diff review, one-click deploy, and a commit message that explains what changed and why. No mystery updates.

04

Monthly report

What changed. What was fixed. How the site or product is performing. SEO visibility if you’re on Growth or above. Plain language, no jargon.

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We built the tool
we maintain with.

spec2web is the open-source desktop tool we use internally to run all client retainers. It’s not a third-party platform we depend on — we built it, we use it, and we maintain it. Which means when something in our toolchain improves, every client benefits.

All Maintain retainers are powered by spec2web Care — our managed spec2web service.

See spec2web

Project Memory

Every site and product has a live context file. No re-explaining from scratch. Every person on the retainer knows the full history.

Continuous monitoring

Uptime, performance, SEO signals, and error logs all in one place. We see problems before your users do.

Git-backed deploys

Every change is committed with context, reviewed before deploying, and reversible in under a minute. No mystery updates, ever.

One person, many products

The toolchain means one specshop.dev engineer can manage more than a traditional agency team. Efficiency passes through to your price.

Questions

Before you sign up.

Text changes, image swaps, adding or removing a page section, updating contact details, changing opening hours, swapping testimonials, updating pricing copy — anything that doesn’t require new code. New features (forms, calculators, integrations) are charged separately or included in your feature allocation on Growth/Partner plans.
We’ll tell you before we go over. You can upgrade your plan at any time, or we can quote additional work outside the retainer. We never do surprise billing. If a month is consistently over your allocation, we’ll suggest the right plan upgrade.
Yes. We onboard existing codebases via the spec2web Project Memory process — we review the codebase, build context, and connect monitoring. There’s a one-time onboarding fee for complex or legacy products. We’ll scope it on the discovery call.
For websites: HTML/CSS, Astro, Next.js, SvelteKit deployed to Vercel, Netlify, or Cloudflare Pages. For products: we evaluate on a case-by-case basis — most modern web stacks are fine. WordPress is evaluated individually (it’s not our primary stack but we’ll tell you honestly if we can support yours).
Yes. All plans are month-to-month with 30 days notice. No contracts, no lock-in. If you cancel, we hand over full documentation, a clean copy of your Project Memory file, and a deployment guide so your next team can pick up without friction.
Website retainers cover content, SEO, and uptime for marketing and informational sites. Product retainers cover code maintenance, bug fixes, security patches, feature development, and architecture for live applications with users and data. The technical depth is different — and so is the pricing.

Tired of it being your problem?

30 minutes. Tell us what you’re running. We’ll tell you which plan fits, what onboarding looks like, and whether we’re the right match. If we’re not, we’ll say so.

Book a discovery call →

or email hello@specshop.dev

Month-to-month · Cancel anytime · No lock-in