Guide series — still being written
Costs, Timelines, and Choosing Help: DIY, a Service, or an Executive Firm?
From the Personal Reputation Management team · Last updated October 19, 2026
Short answer: You can do the basics free with time, hire individual-priced help like ours (Protect $39 + $24/month, Build $69 + $69/month, Recover $129 + $159/month, credits from $6), or pay executive retainers built for companies. Real timelines are weeks to months on every route. This series's pricing guide is fully published below; the rest compares routes and exposes red flags.
Why this matters for ordinary people
This category's pricing fog is not an accident; it is how ordinary people end up sold executive packages or suppression scams. Transparent totals and boring timelines are the tell of an honest provider.
What this series will cover
DIY costs in hours, our published pricing and its cost-divided-by-0.5 rule, executive-firm pricing, second-year totals and renewal traps, a six-question provider test, and scam red flags. The flagship pricing guide is published; siblings are outlined below.
Where to start today
Before paying anyone, read the pricing guide and map your own results with the searches in this series. Knowing your starting point is the difference between buying help and buying hope.
Guides in this series
- How much does personal reputation management cost?Complete guide
It depends who it's for. Traditional reputation firms serving companies and executives commonly work on retainers in the thousands per month, because the work is manual and the clientele can pay. Doing the basics yoursel…
- Should I do reputation management myself or hire help?Still being written
Do it yourself if your situation is simple — thin results, a few inconsistent profiles, brokers to opt out of — and you will actually spend the hours; our Knowledge Center teaches that free. Hire help when you want the w…
- What are the red flags of a reputation scam?Still being written
Guaranteed removal or rankings, secret methods, fake reviews or profiles offered as tactics, pressure to sign before seeing your own results, pricing that hides the second year, and anyone who will not state in writing w…
Honest by design — including what we don't do
What we do
- Show you what people find, result by result, and ask you to confirm what's actually you.
- Build your personal site from facts you approved — nothing is published without your approval.
- Use licensed search data and official tools only. No scraping.
- Keep watch weekly, in plain English, with one clear next step.
What we never do
- No fake reviews, fake profiles, fake news, or bought links.
- No bogus takedown notices, and no promises to remove results or guarantee rankings.
- No searching for anyone but you, and we never sell your data.