Google isn't the search bar anymore.
We built the agency that fixes it.
Buyers of high-ticket local services — roofs, HVAC, med spa, legal, dental, low-voltage — are starting their research in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. If your business is invisible there, you are losing deals before you knew they existed.
StandKnown exists because the old SEO playbook does not solve this. We rebuilt the whole stack — AEO retainers, local SEO, websites, blog, social, paid ads, branding — around a single outcome: being the business AI engines recommend by name.
Four principles.
No fluff.
Outcomes over outputs
We don't sell reports or hours. We sell measurable AI visibility — and we refund if the needle does not move in 90 days.
AI-first, not AI-also
Most agencies added "AI SEO" as a sticker. We rebuilt the entire playbook around answer engines because that is where buyers are going.
Measured, not promised
Dashboards you can log into. Numbers you can defend to a CFO. No monthly PDF theatre.
Senior work, every engagement
No account-manager layer between you and the operators doing the work. We staff lean and ship fast.
Why AI, why now.
Roughly one in four searches that used to begin on Google now starts inside an AI chat tool. That number is growing every quarter. For a buyer deciding who to hire for a $12,000 roof or a $4,000 med-spa package, "who do you recommend" typed into ChatGPT returns a shortlist of specific businesses.
Those business names were not picked at random. AI engines build their recommendations from structured citations, review density, forum mentions, entity signals, and schema. Businesses that have invested in those inputs win. Businesses that have not are missing from the shortlist entirely.
We built StandKnown to be the operator for that work. One retainer, every engine, every lever — AEO, local SEO, website, content, social, ads, branding. All under a 90-day refund guarantee so there is no asymmetry of risk.
If your buyers are asking AI who to hire, we make sure the answer is you.
Be the business AI
recommends by name.
Free 30-minute AI visibility audit — we score where you appear across six engines and show you the gaps before you decide anything.