Is SEO still worth it now that AI answers questions directly?
The work matters more, but the measurement changes. AI assistants are trained and grounded on web content, so being retrievable and citable is how you appear in their answers. What shifts is the metric: you may get cited without receiving a click, which means share of answers becomes as important as sessions. Sites that stop investing become invisible to both surfaces at once.
How much does SEO cost?
It scales with site size and scope, which is why we look before quoting. A local business engagement and an enterprise technical retainer differ by an order of magnitude. You'll have a number after the first call.
Can I do SEO myself?
For a small local business, a good portion of it, yes — claim and complete your Business Profile, get reviews consistently, write genuinely useful pages, fix obvious speed problems. Where outside help earns its cost is technical diagnosis at scale, competitive categories, and situations where something has gone wrong and you can't identify why.
What's the difference between SEO and paid search?
Paid search buys placement and stops the moment you stop paying. SEO builds an asset that keeps working, but takes months to compound and can be damaged by algorithm changes or your own migrations. Most businesses need both, and running them separately usually means paying for clicks on terms you already rank for.
Do you use AI to produce content?
In production and analysis where it genuinely helps — clustering queries, structuring drafts, processing large datasets. Not for publishing unedited output. Content that nobody would choose to read doesn't rank durably and doesn't get cited, whoever or whatever wrote it.
Will you guarantee first-page rankings?
No. We don't control Google's algorithm, your competitors' spending, or your release velocity. We commit to defined capacity, agreed deliverables, forecasts we can be held to, and honest reporting when something doesn't work.
What if we already have an in-house SEO team?
Then you probably want us for specific technical depth rather than a full retainer — a log file analysis, a migration, a rendering diagnosis, a second opinion on a roadmap. We're comfortable in a supporting role.