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NDA available on request
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The people you meet do the work
Now Booking New Engagements
We limit how many clients we take at once so every account gets real attention and direct access to the people running it.
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15 Timothy Heights Road, 12569
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM EST
Who You Will Talk To
Slack Available Once Work Starts
Steven Franzken
Head of Search Architecture
Runs search strategy
Nehal Malvi
Co-Founder & Head of Web Strategy
Runs web and growth strategy
Tell Us About Your Site
Send your website and goals. We look at your search presence, AI visibility, and ad accounts before we talk.
Request Received
We reply within 8 hours with next steps. Steven Franzken or Nehal Malvi will be your point of contact.
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What Happens Next
Here is exactly what happens after you send the form. No mystery steps and no sales theater.
We Read It Ourselves
A senior team member reviews your site and notes what stands out. No sales reps and no automated screening in between.
We Do Our Homework
Before any meeting we run our own checks: how the site crawls, how you show up in AI answers, and where paid spend is being wasted.
A Plan You Can Act On
A 45-minute working session with Steven or Nehal. No canned decks, just what we found, what we would do, and what it takes.
Case Studies From Live Client Sites
Each study is a client site as it runs today: what the business sells, what the site had to solve, and how search, content and social work together on the same pages.
E-Commerce and SEOFox Valley Paint
A specialty marking paint manufacturer with a wide catalog and several very different buyers. How a clear product journey, helpful content and search visibility work together for a specialty e-commerce brand.
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Web Design and SEOGEO-US
A geothermal contractor with related services and an unfamiliar technology to explain. How a clear structure and plain-language education lead to one consultation path for a technical home-services brand.
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Web Design and SEOHVRub-R-Wall
A Hudson Valley waterproofing franchise with a broad service catalog and a product that is invisible once applied. How one index keeps the catalog clear and plain answers build trust before an estimate.
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Website Design and SEOJMR Custom Homes
A photography-first homepage for a family-run Hudson Valley builder. How the services stay easy to find and the published guides answer what buyers search first.
Read the case studyarrow_forwardNotes on Search, AI Answers and Paid Media
What we are working through on live accounts, written up as it happens: how answer engines pick citations, how tracking holds up, and what we change first.
How to Rank in ChatGPT: How Answer Engines Pick What to Cite
ChatGPT has no separate ranking system to game. How answer engines pick what to cite, which crawler controls your appearance, and what to change on the page.
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Rank First Digital: From 25 Years of Mid-Hudson Web to AI Search Visibility
How a senior-led New York agency grew out of 25 years of web work, why it split from Mid-Hudson Web, and how it is built so businesses rank on Google and get named by AI.
9 min readQuestions Before Getting in Touch
Straight answers on confidentiality, preparation, and how engagements work.