Search & AI for ecommerce
Get certified AI-ready in 8 weeks.
An 8-week done-for-you sprint that takes your Shopify store from invisible to the brand AI can find, read and quote, and certifies it at the Professional AI-Ready Baseline.
- USD $5,000 fixed fee
- 8-week sprint
- Certification guaranteed
The Foundations Sprint is an 8-week, fixed-fee project that fixes the technical, content, authority and measurement foundations a Shopify store needs to show up in AI search, then certifies it at the Professional AI-Ready Baseline. It is the front door to our 6-month Transformation, and the whole fee credits toward it.
- Investment
- USD $5,000, one-time fixed fee
- Timeline
- 8-week sprint, done for you
- Best for
- Shopify brands doing $20k+/month, NZ or AU head office
- Guarantee
- Certified AI-ready in 8 weeks, or we keep working free
Risk reversed
The AI-Ready Certification Guarantee
In 8 weeks we certify your store at the Professional AI-Ready Baseline: the technical, content, authority and measurement standard AI engines need to find, read and quote you. Every part is verified against a documented handover audit. If we cannot certify you in 8 weeks, we keep working until we can, at no extra cost.
You go from invisible to AI, to certified, optimised and visible.
What we install
Four pillars, installed as a system
Every deliverable below, installed across the four pillars of the AEO maturity model. Watch the system go in.
Technical
A store AI crawlers can read perfectly.
- Technical site audit + Shopify dev report Done
- robots.txt fix + llms.txt created Done
- Product schema + GTINs validated Done
- FAQPage + AggregateRating schema Done
- Google Merchant Center + feed sync Done
- Microsoft + Perplexity merchant programs Done
- 10 priority pages optimised, answer-first Done
- Wikidata entity + Organisation schema Done
Content
The questions your buyers ask, answered the way AI quotes.
- 200+ keyword & prompt research Done
- Topic-cluster roadmap (pillar + spoke) Done
- FAQ page, 15 to 25 real buyer questions Done
- 10 high-impact pieces written & published Done
Authority
The citations that teach AI you are the safe recommendation.
- 30 foundational backlinks in directories Done
- Brand citations made consistent Done
- Toxic backlinks reviewed & disavowed Done
Measurement
So you can see exactly what is moving.
- Week-1 baseline snapshot, yours to keep Done
- Weekly / monthly measurement framework Done
- Handover audit + end-of-sprint Loom Done
The maturity model
These four pillars are the AEO maturity model
The industry measures AI readiness across the same four pillars. Most brands sit near the floor on at least one. The Sprint lifts you to the certified Professional baseline across all four.
- Invisible
- Emerging
- Structured
- ProfessionalCertified baseline
- Leading
The Foundations Sprint lifts all four pillars from the floor to the certified Professional baseline.
The plan
How the 8 weeks run
- 1
Weeks 1 to 3
Technical foundations & baseline
- Onboarding, access and priorities confirmed
- Week-1 baseline snapshot captured
- Technical audit + Shopify dev report
- robots.txt fix, llms.txt, Wikidata + schema
- 2
Weeks 4 to 6
Product data, merchant feed & on-page
- GTINs + product schema validated
- Merchant Center, Microsoft, Perplexity live
- 10 priority pages rewritten answer-first
- FAQ sections added to priority PDPs
- 3
Weeks 6 to 8
Content, authority, certification & handover
- 10 high-impact content pieces published
- 30 foundational backlinks + citations
- Measurement framework delivered
- Certified at the Professional AI-Ready Baseline
Objective, not our opinion
A certification you can check yourself
The Professional AI-Ready Baseline is a real, checkable standard. Your schema is validated against Google’s own Rich Results Test, and every criterion is documented in a handover audit. This is an objective, Google-backed finish line, not a report with our logo on it.
Validated by Google’s tools
Your product, FAQ and organisation schema pass Google’s Rich Results Test. See the exact tool we verify against.
Open the Rich Results Test →Documented handover audit
Every pillar is checked off against the baseline in a written audit you keep, so the certification is provable, not a claim.
The investment
USD $5,000
One-time fixed fee. Done for you, in 8 weeks.
Your full $5,000 credits 100% toward the AI & Search Transformation if you upgrade within 60 days of the sprint. You are essentially pre-paying Month 1.
Book a diagnostic →The ladder
What comes next
The Foundations Sprint builds the base. The 6-month AI & Search Transformation builds the engine on top of it, and your full sprint fee credits toward it.
| Foundations Sprint | AI & Search Transformation | |
|---|---|---|
| Timeline | 8-week sprint | 6 months |
| Technical audit & AI crawlability | Yes | Yes (Month 1) |
| Schema implementation | Yes | Yes (Month 1) |
| 10 priority pages optimised | Yes | Yes + ongoing at scale |
| 200+ keyword content plan | Yes | Yes (12-month roadmap) |
| High-impact content pieces | 10 (refresh or new) | Ongoing at scale |
| Foundational backlinks | 30 (directories) | Yes (30/month) |
| Measurement framework | Yes | Yes (weekly + monthly) |
| Content & PR at scale | — | Yes |
| Monthly reporting + strategy calls | — | Yes |
Questions, answered
We have been burned by SEO before. How is this different?
Two ways. First, there is a fixed finish line: we certify your store at the Professional AI-Ready Baseline, a checkable technical, content, authority and measurement standard, verified against a documented handover audit and Google’s own tools, not a vague report. Second, it is guaranteed: if we cannot certify you in 8 weeks, we keep working until we can, at no extra cost. You are buying a defined outcome, not hours.
What exactly is the AI-Ready Certification?
It is our certification that your store clears the Professional AI-Ready Baseline across all four pillars: technical, content, authority and measurement. Every criterion is something we deliver in the sprint and verify in a documented handover audit, including your schema passing Google’s Rich Results Test.
Is the $5,000 really credited?
Yes. If you upgrade to the 6-month AI & Search Transformation within 60 days of completing the sprint, the full $5,000 is deducted from your Transformation investment. The sprint is designed as the first paid step, not a separate cost.
Does this help us on Google too, or only AI?
Both. The same foundations that make you readable to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI also lift your classic Google rankings. Answer-first content, clean schema and real authority work everywhere.
Book a diagnostic
A 45-minute working session on your real data. We show you where you sit on each pillar and the fastest path to certified. Zero pitch.