Fractional CMO leadership with an operator's hands still on the work.

We scope by outcome rather than by hour, but a typical engagement is the equivalent of two to four days a month: a weekly working session, async availability and the strategic deliverables agreed in the roadmap.

Both are available. Advisory-only engagements sit at the lower end of the retainer range; where we also run SEO, GEO or paid media the scope and fee reflect that. We'll say plainly which parts your team should own.

That's the intended ending. We write the role scorecard, help interview, hand over the roadmap and documentation, and taper to advisory during their first quarter so nothing stalls in the transition.

Engagements start with a $4,500 forensic audit, credited into month one. Ongoing retainers run $6,500–$14,500 per month depending on scope, channel count and publishing volume. We don't bill a percentage of ad spend and we don't lock clients into 24-month contracts to hide slow starts.

A traditional agency optimizes for ten blue links and a paid auction. We optimize for those plus the answer layer — AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini — where a growing share of commercial research now ends before anyone clicks. That means entity modelling, schema, citable content structure and measurement that separates classic organic clicks from assisted AI-influenced revenue.

Yes. Implement our 90-day plan and if the agreed leading indicators don't move within 3–6 months, we refund our fees. The guarantee covers our fee, not your media spend.

Three layers, in order. First, entity clarity: one canonical Organization with @id anchors, sameAs links to authoritative databases, and knowsAbout coverage of your real expertise. Second, extractable content: atomic answer blocks, comparison tables, transparent pricing and specs, and FAQ blocks on every commercial page. Third, corroboration: mentions in the roundups, directories, review platforms, and trade publications those engines retrieve. Measure it by probing a fixed set of buying questions monthly and tracking citation frequency per engine.

Citability. AI engines lift passages that answer one question completely in 40–80 words, in plain language, with a concrete number, definition, or list. Pages that bury the answer under narrative rarely get quoted. We rewrite key pages so every important question has a self-contained answer block, wrapped in schema that labels what it is.

Yes, because AI answers are built from indexed pages. Every major assistant retrieves from a crawled index, so pages that aren't crawlable, renderable, or structured never enter the candidate pool. Classic SEO is now the entry requirement for AI visibility, and the two programs share almost all of the same work.

Technical recovery and on-page work typically show movement in 30–60 days. AI citation lift on long-tail and comparison queries usually lands in 30–90 days. Category-level authority and head-term rankings are a 6–12 month curve. Every engagement ships a sequenced 90-day plan so early wins fund the long work.

You get a forensic audit, a prioritized 90-day execution plan with effort and impact scoring, and optional done-for-you implementation by our engineers and editors. Pricing is scoped per engagement based on catalog size, locale count, and whether you want execution included. Implement our 90-day plan and if you don't see results in 3–6 months, we refund you in full.