1. MEASURE

See your score first.

Before you spend a dollar, run your ARO Score™ on the ARO Index™. It shows where AI understands your business, where it doesn't, and which competitors it recommends instead of you. No pitch attached. A lot of owners have never seen this data about themselves, because until the Index existed, nobody was measuring it. Free to look. Sometimes that's all the clarity you need to know what to do next.

ARO Index · Free Score Check
WHAT YOU SEE Your ARO Score / 100
COMPETITOR DATA Who AI recommends instead
GAP ANALYSIS Where AI understanding breaks down
COST Free to look
2. FIX, LIGHTER

The Refresh

$2,997

If your site mostly works but isn't getting recommended, you don't always need a full rebuild. Start with a Fix Pack to pinpoint exactly what's holding it back. Then those fixes get made, schema added, structure cleaned, content reshaped. It's a refresh, not a redo, and it comes with three months of monitoring so you can watch the score move and know it landed.

3. PROVE

A dated before and after, then monitoring.

Every rebuild ends the same way: a dated read before and a dated read after, on the published panel, so you can check the change. Then the retainers keep it that way. AI shifts, platforms change, competitors push. The retainer protects the position you paid to win. Think of it as insurance on the build, not a new bill.

PROVE, MONTHLY

Monitor Retainer

$1,000 /month

About $33 a day to never get blindsided. Monthly ARO Score re-check, a competitor movement report, and an alert the second your recommendation slips on any platform.

PROVE, ACTIVE

Defend Retainer

$2,000 /month

For competitive niches where the top spot is worth protecting. Everything in Monitor, plus the actual re-optimization work when something shifts, so you don't just find out you slipped, you don't slip at all.

Three-month minimum, because one month proves nothing. Month-to-month after that. Annual rates available.

RESEARCHER-LED ADVISORY

Your team can't say if AI recommends you. I can, with a number.

Small businesses get the build. Companies get the researcher. I run the only public index measuring whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity actually recommend a business, not just mention it. Bring me in to own that for your team, or to close the gap in the one you're building.

Fractional AI Search Lead

$6,000 /month

Embedded with your marketing or product team. Up to 20 hours a month, defined deliverables, reporting tied to ARO Score movement. Three-month minimum, because one month proves nothing.

Scope: AI recommendation, implementation (schema, structure, content systems), and process (how the team keeps it measured).

Strategic Advisory

$1,500

Five prepaid hours. Strategy calls, async review, or a workshop for a team building its own AI-recommendation practice. Scoped to the gap, not the calendar.

Scope: AI recommendation, implementation (schema, structure, content systems), and process (how the team keeps it measured).

Audit and Roadmap

$1,500

Full ARO Score audit across all four models, a fix list ranked by impact, and a strategy session to walk it. Defined scope. Credits toward The Measured Rebuild.

Custom Industry Program

custom quote

Vertical-specific measurement for a company or association. Separate development fee when it requires substantial new research.

Same method. Proven on one Charleston business first.

ARO Score 94, #1 Charleston, Sept 22, 2026, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity all recommending. Tested in incognito, every read dated.