Search & AI for local & service businesses
Get certified AI-ready in 8 weeks.
An 8-week done-for-you sprint that takes your local, tourism or service business from invisible to found on Google and AI, and certifies you 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 local or service business needs to be found on Google and in AI answers, then certifies you at the Professional AI-Ready Baseline. When someone asks for "the best [service] near me", you become one of the names the engines return.
- Investment
- USD $5,000, one-time fixed fee
- Timeline
- 8-week sprint, done for you
- Best for
- Local, tourism & professional-service businesses in NZ or AU
- 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 site Google and AI crawlers can read perfectly.
- Technical site audit + dev-ready report Done
- robots.txt fix + llms.txt created Done
- Organisation + LocalBusiness schema Done
- Wikidata entity created Done
- 10 priority pages optimised, answer-first Done
Content
The questions your customers ask, answered better than anyone nearby.
- Keyword & AI-prompt research Done
- Competitor gap analysis Done
- Topic-cluster roadmap Done
- FAQ page created or optimised Done
- 10 cornerstone pieces written & published Done
Authority
The presence, reviews and citations that build trust.
- Google Business Profile fully optimised Done
- Duplicate listings claimed & merged Done
- Review-generation system live Done
- 30 backlinks + local citations (consistent NAP) Done
- Toxic backlinks reviewed & disavowed Done
Measurement
So you can see exactly what is moving.
- Week-1 baseline, incl. local-pack presence 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
Foundations & baseline
- Onboarding, access and priorities confirmed
- Week-1 baseline snapshot captured
- Technical audit + dev report
- Google Business Profile audit + schema + Wikidata
- 2
Weeks 4 to 6
Content & on-page
- 10 priority pages optimised answer-first
- Content plan & topic clusters built
- Review-generation system live
- First content pieces published
- 3
Weeks 7 to 8
Authority, content & certification
- All 10 content pieces published
- 30 backlinks + local citations built
- 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.
A fixed $5,000, done for you. From there, an ongoing AI Search partnership keeps your visibility, reviews and content compounding month after month.
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What comes next
The Foundations Sprint builds the base. An ongoing AI Search partnership keeps the content, authority and measurement compounding once the foundations are in.
| Foundations Sprint | Ongoing AI Search partnership | |
|---|---|---|
| Timeline | 8-week sprint | Monthly, ongoing |
| Technical + Google Business Profile | Yes | Maintained |
| LocalBusiness + Organisation schema | Yes | Maintained |
| 10 priority pages optimised | Yes | Ongoing at scale |
| Content pieces | 10 (refresh or new) | Ongoing |
| Backlinks & citations | 30 foundational | Ongoing |
| Reviews & reputation | System set up | Managed |
| Measurement framework | Yes | Monthly reporting |
| Digital PR & reputation | — | 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 business 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.
What exactly is the AI-Ready Certification?
It is our certification that your business clears the Professional AI-Ready Baseline across all four pillars: technical, content, authority and measurement. Every criterion is delivered in the sprint and verified in a documented handover audit, including your schema passing Google’s Rich Results Test.
Do you set up our Google Business Profile?
Yes. We claim and verify it, merge any duplicate listings so your reviews and authority are not split, complete every field, and set up a simple system to gather reviews on every job. It is one of the biggest levers in local search, so it is core to the sprint.
What do we need to have in place?
A live website and a Google Business Profile. If either needs setting up or fixing, we handle it, though it may add a little to onboarding time.
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.