SEO foundation + the answer layer above it

Your buyers are asking AI.
Make sure it names you.

We handle the SEO foundation and the layer above it — the pages and answers that get your business cited when buyers ask AI who to hire.

Tracked across
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiAI OverviewsBing AI
What your buyer sees
>Best law firm for a cross-border SaaS acquisition

Based on current sources, here are the platforms most often recommended:

  1. 1.
    Competitor ACITED ×4

    Widely referenced across review sites and coaching forums.

  2. 2.
    Competitor BCITED ×3

    Strong third-party corroboration; structured product data.

  3. 3.
    Competitor CCITED ×2

    Named in two independent comparison articles.

  4. 4.
    You are not here

    Your product is better. The model has no way to know that.

Illustrative. On a call, we run this live, on your category.

Brands we work with
Roadly Logistics
Power Health & Wellness
La Costa Limousine
(01)The bridge

SEO got you found. Answers get you bought.

Ten years ago your buyer typed a keyword and scrolled. Today they ask a question and read one answer.

If that answer doesn't name you, the ranking underneath it doesn't matter.

Most agencies still only work on the ranking. We work on both.
(02)Three layers

What we actually do.

Three layers, built in order. Most agencies stop after the first one.

Layer 1 — Foundation

Before anything gets cited, the basics have to hold. Traditional SEO, Google Business Profile, technical health — done at a level most agencies charge full price for and call the whole product. We treat it as the floor.

Layer 2 — Answer layer

We identify the questions your buyers ask before they spend, and build the entity structure that makes your business citable when they ask them. Then we track where you actually appear — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — with live queries, not estimates.

Layer 3 — Conversion layer

The layer most agencies don't have.

We build pages targeted at the topics that produce buyers, not the topics with the biggest search volume — and we show you the before-and-after in live AI results. This is led personally by our head of search, not handed to a junior.

(03)Everything included

Everything included.

Three service pillars run as one program. Every tier gets all three — the tiers differ in volume and market coverage, not in what's covered.

Traditional SEO

The rankings work, done properly.

  • Full technical audit — Core Web Vitals, crawl efficiency, site architecture
  • On-page optimization across existing pages
  • Keyword targeting mapped to funnel stage and buyer intent, not a fixed list
  • Ongoing content publishing on a set schedule
  • Internal linking and site structure
  • Authority building and link acquisition
  • Competitor gap analysis
  • Monthly reporting on rankings, traffic, and movement
Google Business Profile

The listing most businesses set up once and never touch.

  • Full profile optimization — categories, services, attributes, hours
  • Location and NAP consistency across your site, profile, and directory listings
  • Photo and media management
  • Google Posts published on a regular cadence
  • Q&A seeded and monitored
  • Review generation cadence and response management
  • Local pack tracking by service area
  • Multi-location management where applicable
AI Search (AEO/GEO)

Where your buyers actually start now.

  • Live query auditing across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini
  • Entity structure so AI systems can resolve who you are and where you operate
  • Structured data and schema built for citation, not just rich snippets
  • Share-of-voice tracking against the competitors named instead of you
  • Buyer question mapping — the questions asked before a purchase decision
  • Before-and-after live proof, run on the same queries over time

All three pillars run in every engagement. What separates the tiers — and what most agencies don't offer at all — is the conversion layer above them: pages built for the topics that produce buyers, led personally by our head of search.

(04)Who runs your account

The person doing the work is the person you talk to.

Every BrandSearch account is run hands-on by the person who leads our search work. Not an account coordinator. Not a junior handed a checklist.

You also get a live reporting dashboard you can log into anytime — tied to pipeline and revenue impact, not just rankings and traffic.

(05)What we measure

La Costa Limousine, day zero.

This is exactly what we saw before we started. Live queries, real competitors, no dashboard exports.

Share of voice
Competitor · Regional operator A64
Competitor · Regional operator B51
La Costa · day zero27

AI visibility score · all platforms · pre-engagement

Prompt inventory
PromptAskedValue
corporate car service with hourly booking190/mo$$$$
black car service to [airport] for executives340/mo$$$$
limo service near me8.1K/mo$$
party bus rental46K/mo

Ranked by revenue behind the query. Not by volume.

Entity graph
OPERATORFLEETCORPORATEEVENTS
Unresolved entity

Models cite entities, not pages.

Citation sources
  • Local & trade press2
  • Travel & booking directories6
  • Comparison & review sites0
  • Your own domain14

A model weights what others say about you more heavily than what you say.

La Costa · 90 days of engagement
Total AI mentions across models90 → 211 · 134% lift in ninety days
211
(06)Proof

La Costa Limousine.

Same live queries. Same competitors. Different answer.

(06) What moved

One client. One 30-day sprint.

AI Overview mentions
27 → 85

Google AI Overview mentions across a 30-day sprint.

Total AI mentions
90 → 211

Total AI mentions across models — a 134% lift.

Impressions
All-time high

All-time-high search impressions for the site.

“Really appreciate all the pages you've created driving traffic and demand locally. We saw a significant increase in local group-travel revenue in Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025.”

Marcus · CRO, La Costa Limousine

(07)Who this is for

We're a fit for a narrow kind of business.

We work with owner-operated professional services firms — legal, accounting, consulting, medical — with 5 to 50 employees in major US markets, where one person can make the decision and move. If that's not you, we'll tell you early rather than take the engagement.

(08)Pricing

Two ways to work with us.

Local
$1,500/ month

Single market. Foundation, answer layer, and conversion pages built for your service area.

National
$2,500/ month

Multiple markets or multiple service lines. Everything in Local at higher volume and broader query coverage.

90-day minimum commitment. We don't offer a money-back guarantee — we offer a 90-day window to show you the movement in live AI results.

(09)FAQ

Straight answers.

How is this different from a traditional SEO agency?
A traditional agency works on where you rank on Google. We do that too, but it's the floor. The rest of the work is making your business the one AI systems name when a buyer asks who to hire, and building the pages that close that buyer.
How long does this take?
The foundation work shows up first. Movement in live AI answers usually takes a few months, which is why we ask for 90 days before you judge it. Anyone promising faster is selling you something else.
How do you measure AI visibility?
We run your buyers' actual questions live against ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and record whether you're named and who's named instead. It goes into your reporting dashboard, which you can log into anytime.
Can you attribute AI answers directly to revenue?
No, and neither can anyone else — the industry does not yet have clean attribution from AI answers to revenue. Anyone who tells you they have it is guessing. We report what we can measure directly: where you appear, how that changes, and what your site traffic and pipeline do alongside it.
What do you need from us at kickoff?
Access to your site, analytics, and business profile, plus one call to go through how you actually win work and who your best customers are. After that we need one person who can approve pages, and that's mostly it.
The audit

Find out what AI says about you.

We run your buyers' questions live against the major models and show you who gets named. Then we tell you honestly whether we can move it.

Local $1,500 / month · National $2,500 / month · 90-day minimum commitment

We take on a limited number of engagements at a time, so each gets the depth it needs. When we're full, new clients join a waitlist.