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Earn the answer. Own the SERP.

Earned visibility for the search era now and the answer engine era next. Built for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and the systems coming after them.

Surfaces
Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Bing
Best for
Categories where the answer matters as much as the click
What we do

A complete organic search practice.

Technical foundation, content architecture, authority building, and tracking across the search surfaces that matter today and the ones forming next.

01 / AEO
Answer Engine Optimization

Content structured for citation inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Entity coverage, format, and source authority tuned to how each engine retrieves.

02 / Foundation
Technical SEO

Crawl, indexation, rendering, Core Web Vitals, and the infrastructure that decides whether any of the rest of the work compounds.

03 / Strategy
Topical authority

Topic clusters and content depth that make the domain the unambiguous reference for the queries that matter to pipeline.

04 / Strategy
Content strategy

Briefs grounded in search intent, business value, and the gaps competitors haven't filled. Built so production stays focused.

05 / Production
Editorial production

Long-form content, research, and editorial built to rank and to be cited. Written by people who know the category, not a template.

06 / Foundation
Schema and entities

Structured data, entity disambiguation, and knowledge graph signals that help both Google and LLMs understand what the page is about.

07 / Foundation
Site architecture

Information architecture and internal linking designed for topical authority, not historical category trees that no one searches against.

08 / Tracking
SERP and LLM citation tracking

Rank tracking that includes AI overviews, plus citation monitoring inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Visibility, not just position.

09 / Authority
Digital PR and links

Earned mentions and citations from sources that move authority. No PBN tactics, no transactional link buying, no risk to the domain.

How we work

Five stages. Every engagement.

From the first technical crawl to a compounding content engine, the sequence is the same. What changes is the depth at each step.

01 / Week 1-2

Audit

Technical, content, authority, and competitive audit. Output is a written opportunity map ranked by impact and effort.

02 / Week 3-6

Architecture

Site structure, internal linking, schema, and the technical foundation. We fix the substrate before we publish.

03 / Month 2+

Content

Editorial production at cadence. Briefs, drafts, expert review, and publishing. Built for click and citation.

04 / Month 3+

Authority

Digital PR, source citations, and the earned signals that push the domain into the consideration set inside answer engines.

05 / Quarterly

Track

Rank, citation, and pipeline tracking. Strategy resets aligned to your board cycle and the moving search surface.

The work, measured

Built for the search surface that's forming now.

A decade of organic search work, plus an active practice in the new answer engine surface. We've published category guidance on AEO that shows up inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's own AI overviews.

Case study. Topical authority rebuild.
Enterprise SaaS leader

Technical SEO remediation, content architecture rebuild, and an editorial program targeting both traditional SERPs and AI-driven answer engines. Citation rate inside ChatGPT and Perplexity moved from zero to leading category share inside two quarters.

4X
Organic pipeline
#1
LLM citation share
120+
Brands served since 2016
$14B+
Capital raised by client portfolio
9
Clients that have gone public
90
Net Promoter Score

Always ready with great data. Follows directions and makes good suggestions. Really fast turnaround on requests. Best ad agency I have ever worked with.

June Bower|Finjan

Start with an SEO and AEO audit.

Two weeks, fixed scope, no obligation. You walk away with a written opportunity map covering technical, content, and AI visibility. Ranked by impact.

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