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Become the brand
AI recommends.

The AI & Search Transformation for Online Patios, a six-month done-for-you build you then own

Get recommended on ChatGPT

The offer · Prepared for Glenn Shefford & Angela Symonds · Confidential

The offer in one minute

Simple by design. One thing, done properly. We spend six months building your Search and AI foundations for you, drive your AEO score from 45 toward Certified at 80, and then hand you the system to own and run. No lock-in, no platform to learn during the build, and you keep everything we make.
45 / 100
your AEO score today, from the strategy report
80 / 100
Certified AI-Ready, the standard we build you to
6 months
done-for-you, then the system is yours
1-2 hrs
of your time a week during foundations, less after

What you get

Three outcomes. We sell the outcome, not a pile of deliverables.

01
Stop renting your traffic
More than half your traffic is paid, and it stops the day the spend stops. We build the owned channel underneath: the 391,000 category searches a year already happening in Google, with the AI layer on top.
02
Be the brand AI recommends
ChatGPT already referred 254 sessions this year and your store is one of the few an AI agent can transact with. We build the answers so every council, cost and kit question your buyers ask names you.
03
Own the system, not a vendor
We install a compounding asset your team can run. You are never stuck with an agency you cannot leave, because the whole thing is yours to keep.

The four pillars we build

Around 70 to 80% of this is proper SEO, done well with AI. Four pillars, scored out of 100 so progress is objective. The scores below are yours, from the strategy report.

PillarWhat we build, for youYou today
1 · TechnicalYour technical layer is genuinely modern: the agentic commerce endpoints, agents.md, llms.txt and an agentic discovery sitemap are live, and your homepage title and meta are properly keyworded. What is left: the 6,000-plus thin component SKU pages diluting your crawl, Core Web Vitals measured and remediated, and the domain consolidation so everything compounds in one place.20 / 25
2 · ContentKeyword and AI-prompt research into topic clusters, then the content that answers every buyer question, engineering-checked by your team before it publishes. Your map is 50 keywords, 132 buyer questions and 10 territories. The work is almost all net-new: your blog holds 20 posts, so we build the kit buying guides, the council-approval and cost answer sets, and the patio-type and span content only a manufacturer can write.10 / 25
3 · AuthorityThe backlinks, mentions and placements AI actually cites. For you that means lifting your Domain Rating off 9, transferring what the 30-year D&C Patios domain has earned rather than abandoning it, and getting into the home-improvement round-ups and trade conversations where competitors like Apollo Patios (DR 39) and Fair Dinkum Builds (DR 49) already live.5 / 25
4 · MeasurementWorkstream one, before anything else scales. Search Console is not connected, your analytics only began in February 2026, and the Source column in your CRM sheet is empty, so no channel can be credited with a quote. We stand up Search Console, wire lead-source attribution into the sheet Angela already keeps, then add AI-visibility tracking, so every result of this engagement is provable in won deals, your real unit.10 / 25

45 out of 100 today. Certified is 80, which is Professional on all four. The evidence behind each score is in Appendix B of the strategy report.

How the six months run

1First 90 days: measurement, foundations and first production

We capture your baseline, repair your measurement, land the technical fixes and stand up your content engine. Content production begins inside these first 90 days: as soon as everything is calibrated to your voice and the claims you can substantiate, the pieces start shipping.

2Months 3 to 6: content + authority at pace

We build your content and authority hard: around 100 to 150 pieces across the six months, plus the foundational links and citations. Your visibility starts compounding across search and AI, and by month six you are transformed, ready to hand over.

3Month 6 onward: you own it

The foundations, the content, the links and your certification are yours, on your own low-cost platform login rather than a big agency retainer. From here it is your call how much support you want.

After the six months, it is yours

You keep everything and choose how to run it. Three ways forward, all on your terms.

Do it yourself
Keep the platform for a low monthly fee (hundreds, not thousands) and run it in-house in an hour or two a week.
Do it with us
Join the ecommerce accelerator community: weekly coaching, other Shopify brands on the same tools, strategy and back-end sessions.
We keep running it
Stay on a rolling retainer at the pace you choose and we keep the whole engine humming for you.

What you are actually buying

The four pillars of AI search become four sets of working workflows, built around your brand, so you can act on them rather than admire them. Four workflows transfer to you: content (the research, brief, write, review and publish chain, the most complex piece and the one that takes years to get right), technical SEO and AEO, authority, and measurement (the tracking, attribution and reporting layer that puts the right information in front of you at the right time, so decisions get made on what is actually happening rather than on a hunch). All four live inside Notable, all four keep being updated, all four are yours to keep.

The line that matters. Most agencies charge you year after year after year, and the day you stop paying, the capability walks out of the door with them. We charge you for six months to transform the business, and then you own the system. For a business doing what yours does through the store, the IP on its own would justify the investment.

How the engagement works

InvestmentWe will walk you through the numbers together, once the scope is confirmed
Your timeOne to two hours a week during the foundations phase (access, calibration, sign-off), then a quick weekly check-in for the rest of the six months
Contract termA six-month build. No lock-in beyond it
After six monthsA low monthly platform fee to keep and run the system, the accelerator community, or a rolling retainer if you want us on it
If you leaveYou keep everything: the foundations, the content, the links, the strategy and your certification
QualificationWe take a small cohort through the transformation at a time, so delivery stays hands-on
The commitment. The mid case in your strategy report is +$256,003 a year in new won-deal value, built from your own measured $11.00 per visit with no conversion-rate assumption anywhere in it, and the AI-chat layer is modelled at zero on top, on a channel that already referred 254 sessions this year. The system compounds past month twelve, you own it outright, and because you keep everything and can leave after the build, the risk of trying it is close to nil.

One note on timing: content ships from the first months, and rankings and AI citations follow with a lag, so judge the first six months on the score climbing and the run-rate building, not on cash collected in period. Value figures are directional, modelled from your own measured value per session, and are not a guarantee of results.

Why you can be confident

What comes next

You have your strategy report and the numbers sized on your own data. Next is a short call to confirm scope and walk through the investment together. From there we set up payment, book your onboarding call, and the six months starts.

Appendix A: the transformation, line by line

This is the full task list behind the summary above. Roughly 70 to 80% of it is proper SEO done well with AI, and the rest is what makes you the brand AI recommends. Approval points are marked, so you always know when something needs your sign-off.

Before we start: what we need from you

Phase 1 · First 90 days: foundations, calibration and first production

This period settles the domain decision, stands up the measurement, calibrates Notable to your brand, and ships the first wave of content. By the end of it the technical work is done and the content engine is running at pace.

Onboarding

Baseline and measurement (workstream one for Online Patios)

Research and strategy

Technical SEO and on-page

Notable onboarding and calibration

Content roadmap and first production

Authority, foundations

The goal we are driving at

Phase 2 · Months 4 to 6: production at scale and compounding

Foundations are in and the workflows are calibrated, so these months are about sustained output and building the authority that makes AI cite you. The mix each month is guided by the roadmap and adjusted for your seasonality and performance data.

Monthly content production

Authority and reputation

Being straight with you about the authority pillar: the engagement runs hardest on technical, content and measurement, because those are the three we can move reliably inside six months. The authority side of Notable, the off-site opportunity tracking, the community scanning and the digital PR tooling, is the newest part of the platform and we are building it out over the coming months. We are not going to promise you a dashboard that does not exist yet. What we will do is the foundational link work, tell you honestly where you stand on authority, and bring you the new tooling as it lands.

Ongoing technical

Reporting and strategy

What you end up with

OutputFirst 90 daysMonths 4 to 6Total
Collection & category builds8 to 14up to 18the commercial spine
Product consolidation & hardening6 to 12up to 16kits ranked, components tidied
Content refreshes4 to 8up to 12all 20 existing posts current
New answer content12 to 26up to 44the bulk of the build
Total pieces30 to 60up to 90100 to 150
Foundational backlinksProfile builtExtendedQuality-judged, not a quota
AEO scoreClimbing from 45Driving at 80 out of 100Yours to keep

Volumes depend on content complexity, engineering sign-off cadence and strategic priorities. The roadmap guides prioritisation, and we will always choose the higher-value piece over hitting a number.

Notable, the platform you end up owning

Notable is our own Shopify-native AI search platform, and it is the reason this leaves you with an asset rather than a folder of documents. During the six months we run it for you. After that it is yours.

After the six months, someone on your team spends an hour or two a week in Notable and the system keeps compounding. You can also join the AI Search Accelerator community for coaching and support, or keep us on a rolling retainer. Your call.

What is not included

Worth being straight about the edges, so nothing surprises anyone at month four.