Google still decides most of your leads. Win it properly.
AI search is exploding, but Google still handles the overwhelming majority of searches — and its AI Overviews pull from the same signals classic rankings do. We run SEO as one system with AEO: the whole answer surface, never one engine at the other’s expense.
Illustrative preview — the goal of every engagement, not a promise of placement.
Most small-business SEO is theater.
Reports full of nothing
Impressions up, rankings for keywords nobody searches, and a phone that doesn’t ring — the standard agency deliverable.
Set-and-forget decay
Search evolves monthly. A site optimized once in 2022 is quietly bleeding position to competitors who maintain.
AI Overviews changed the page
Google now answers directly on roughly 60% of queries. Ranking #1 below an AI answer is not the position it used to be.
An entire channel moved.
Most businesses never got the memo.
of consumers now use AI to find local businesses — up from 6% a year ago.
BrightLocal, 2026of businesses ever get recommended by ChatGPT across 350K+ locations.
SOCi, 2026overlap between Google’s local winners and the businesses AI actually names.
SOCi, 2026of local businesses have no AI strategy at all. That’s the window.
Industry surveys, 2026SEO that’s accountable to leads, not dashboards.
Strategy, content, and technical work — measured by what reaches your phone and inbox.
Keyword & intent mapping
Research grounded in what your buyers actually type and ask — mapped to pages that convert, not vanity terms.
Content optimization
Titles, structure, internal links, and copy rebuilt around search intent and answer-readiness.
Authority building
Legitimate citations, mentions, and links that make both Google and AI engines treat you as the credible option.
Site health
Speed, crawlability, indexation, and Core Web Vitals — the invisible layer that caps everything else.
Overview optimization
Content structured to be quoted inside Google’s AI answers, not just ranked beneath them.
Plain-English reporting
Rankings where they matter, and always alongside the number you actually care about: leads.
The Recommendation Stack™.
Five signal layers decide who AI engines name. Every engagement builds them in order — tap a layer to see the work behind it.
Layer 1 is the foundation — nothing above it works if the base disagrees with itself.
From kickoff to compounding results.
Foundation & fixes
We audit, reconcile your data, and repair the failures that silently disqualify you — the fastest wins land here.
Build & publish
The system goes live: structure, content, signals, and automation, each piece measured as it ships.
Compound & adapt
Engines change their sources constantly. We adapt monthly and report your Answer Share and real leads in plain English.
The 5 Stages of AI Visibility.
Every business sits on exactly one rung right now. Which one decides what to fix first — and roughly 99% are stuck below Stage 4.
Invisible
Engines can’t confirm you exist. Data missing, wrong, or contradicting itself.
Indexed
You exist to the machines, but you’re never chosen. In the data, absent from the answer.
Mentioned
You surface occasionally — usually in lists, rarely as the recommendation.
Recommended
Engines actively name you in your market. This is where the phone changes.
Default Answer
First name, consistently, across engines. The position competitors can’t buy overnight.
This is where the receipts go.
Every testimonial and result on this site will come from a real, verifiable client — named, with permission. Until we have them, this space says so out loud rather than borrowing someone else’s words.
“Replace with a real client quote once results land — ideally naming the outcome (‘AI started recommending us in 11 weeks’) and the person, business, and city.”
— Name, Role · Business, City
Replace with a real, measured result: starting Answer Share → current Answer Share, over a stated number of weeks, for a named client who approved it.
Never publish a number we can’t evidence.
Replace with a short case study: the situation, what we changed across the Recommendation Stack™, and what happened — including anything that didn’t work.
Link to the full write-up when it exists.
Delete this entire section once real proof replaces it — an empty promise is worse than no section.
Six promises — all checkable
before you pay us a dollar.
Published pricing
Every price on the page. No quote calls, no setup-fee ambush.
Month-to-month
No contracts. We re-earn the business every single month.
You own everything
Site, domain, content, data, CRM — in writing, from day one.
Free audit, no strings
A real human review, yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
Honest timelines
Visibility compounds over 8–12+ weeks. We say so before you buy.
We name what didn’t work
Every report lists the misses. Trust is built in the down months.
Same industry. Opposite rules.
Find out where you stand before you spend a dollar.
The free audit shows your Answer Share, your visibility stage, and your first three fixes — yours to keep either way.
Questions owners actually ask.
Yes — they compound. Google remains the biggest single source of customer discovery, and the signals overlap heavily. Every plan runs them together; splitting them is how you pay twice for half the result.
Published pricing, month-to-month terms, you own everything we build, and reporting that leads with leads. If those four sentences describe your last agency, you don’t need us.
Technical fixes show in weeks; competitive rankings typically build over 3–6 months and compound after. We’ll tell you the honest trajectory for your market in the audit — before you pay anything.