Two Ways We Grow Brands
SEMPITE offers two services: AI search visibility and organic growth for businesses that need to be found, and eCommerce and marketplace operations for product brands that need to scale. The creative that feeds both, paid social advertising, photo and video production, day-to-day social media management and graphic design, is produced in house by the same founder rather than subcontracted. Every engagement starts with a $199 audit, is executed by the founder, and is priced on one public page.
AI Search Visibility & GEO, Organic Growth
Your customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI before they ever click. We measure whether those engines mention you, then make you the answer, with schema, entity, citation, content, and classic SEO that compounds.
Built for: small & midsize businesses, local service providers, and personal brands: actors, musicians, athletes, artists.
Start with the Audit →eCommerce & Marketplace Operations
For product brands ready to scale: catalog and SKU management, multi-channel listing, inventory and fulfillment pipelines, and marketplace SEO: run by an operator, not an account manager.
Operated across: Shopify · Amazon · Walmart · eBay · Etsy
Talk to Jacob →One Clear Path, No Guesswork
Every brand's needs differ, so instead of forcing you into a package, the audit defines your scope. You climb only the rungs your data says you need.
Brand Audit
11 dimensions, every metric sourced. Your baseline and your roadmap.
Foundation Build
One-time build scoped line-by-line from your audit findings. Payment plans available.
Visibility Partner
Monthly AI-search reporting plus one done-for-you improvement, every month.
Custom Partner
Full done-for-you execution across your whole presence, including eCommerce ops.
Every Service, In Plain English
Most of these are delivered inside the retainers; all of them can be scoped à la carte from your audit.
AI Search Visibility (GEO)
The 2026 metric most agencies still pretend doesn't exist: whether AI engines mention and correctly describe you.
- Per-engine tracking: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI
- Schema & entity work (Person, Organization, Service)
- Citation building & reclamation
- Monthly movement reporting in your portal: prompt coverage, citation rate, per-engine score
- White-label for agencies: the same tracking under your brand, via the AI Search Visibility API
In every retainer · first-class metric in the audit · white-label available
AI Visibility Monitoring
See exactly where you show up in AI answers, tracked per engine, month over month.
- Per-engine share-of-answer: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI
- Competitor & description benchmarking
- Citation-source tracking & reclamation targets
- Monthly movement in your portal, tied to the fix
In the retainer · baseline in the audit
Organic Growth & SEO
Traffic you own, not traffic you rent. Keyword architecture, content, and technical SEO that compounds.
- Technical SEO & site health (Core Web Vitals, indexing)
- Keyword & topical-cluster strategy
- Content production with your voice
- Backlink strategy & digital PR
Foundation Build + both retainers
SEO auditing services (start here) → · Full details on SEO →
Shopify SEO
Shopify-specific SEO from an operator who runs a Shopify Plus store, not a plugin and a blog post.
- Collection & product page architecture
- Duplicate variant and faceted URL fixes
- Google Merchant Center & Shopping feed health
- Content and AI search visibility for stores
Foundation Build + both retainers
Web Design, Hosting & Domains
Fast, secure, bilingual-ready sites built to sell, book, or showcase, and hosted so you never think about it.
- Design & build (or rebuild) with conversion in mind
- Managed hosting, SSL, backups
- Client Site Editor: update your own text & images right from your portal, one-click publish, every version restorable
- Blog Studio: answer a short questionnaire; we draft and illustrate the posts, you approve and publish from your portal
- Professional email & deliverability (SPF/DKIM/DMARC)
- Analytics: GA4, Search Console, Tag Manager
Foundation Build · hosting included in retainers
App Development
Android apps, installable iPhone web apps, games and internal tools, built from one codebase by the same founder who builds your site.
- Release-signed Android apps and Google Play listings
- iPhone web apps that install to the home screen and work offline
- Branded games and seasonal experiences
- Client portals, dashboards and automations on SEMPITE infrastructure
Custom quote after a scoping call
Paid Social Advertising
Paid campaigns on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, from the offer and the creative through to the tracking and the monthly report.
- Campaign strategy, offer and budget structure
- Vertical video and static creative produced in house
- Structured testing with written kill and scale rules
- Pixel, Conversions API, GA4 and plain-language reporting
Campaign build from $1,200 · management from $750/mo plus ad spend
Photo & Video Production
Commercial photography and video: product and portrait stills, brand films, and vertical video cut for social feeds and paid ads.
- Product, commercial and lifestyle photography
- Headshots, portraits and press images
- Short-form vertical video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
- Retouching, plus filenames and alt text written for search
Half day from $900 · full day from $1,600 · product photography from $40 per image
Social Media Management
The daily work: calendar, captions, scheduling and posting, plus the replies in the comments and the inbox, reported every month.
- A monthly content calendar you approve in advance
- Captions written in your voice and posted on schedule
- Community management with a written escalation path
- Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and X
One platform from $650/mo · three platforms from $1,200/mo
Graphic Design & Brand Creative
Logos and complete identity systems, ad and social creative, decks and one-sheets, and web, app and product graphics.
- Logo design and the full variation set
- Color, type and usage rules, with source files handed over
- Ad creative and reusable on-brand templates
- Decks, one-sheets, EPKs and print-ready files
Projects from $300 · identity systems from $1,200 · design retainer from $450/mo
Accessibility & ADA Compliance
Make your site usable by everyone, and cut ADA/WCAG legal exposure, with a one-line accessibility toolbar and a compliant statement.
- Drop-in accessibility toolbar: dyslexia-friendly font, text resizing, spacing, high contrast, link highlighting, reduce-motion
- Visitor settings saved across visits; keyboard & screen-reader friendly
- WCAG 2.1 AA review & fixes (headings, alt text, contrast, focus states)
- Accessibility statement page + a channel to report issues
À la carte add-on · included in Foundation Build
Personal Brand Building
For actors, musicians, athletes, and artists: own your own name in search and AI before someone else does.
- Name-ownership SEO (own page one for your name)
- Industry profiles: IMDb, Spotify, casting & booking sites
- EPK, press & reputation architecture
- Wikidata / knowledge-graph groundwork
Audit → Foundation → Visibility Partner
eCommerce & Marketplace Operations
Operator-grade catalog and channel management for product brands, the pillar-2 specialty.
- Catalog & SKU management at 100K+ scale
- Multi-channel listing: Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy
- Inventory & fulfillment pipelines (ShipStation, Matrixify)
- Marketplace SEO & content optimization
- AI answer-engine visibility (AEO) for your products
Growth Partner · scoped to your catalog
Full details on eCommerce & marketplace ops → · Shopify SEO →
Agentic-Commerce Readiness
Make your store buyable by AI shopping agents, not just visible in the answer.
- Agent-crawlability audit (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot)
- Machine-readable catalog & product feeds
- Transaction-ready Product & Offer schema
- Reviews, trust signals & agent-surfacing tracking
Our study: only 52% of readable stores are transaction-ready
Custom Tools & Automation
Software that removes busywork, built around your exact workflow and hosted on our private infrastructure.
- AI Chat Assistant: a lead-capturing, question-answering chatbot in your brand, hosted on our GPUs (the one in the corner of this page is ours)
- Content pipelines (blogs, social, imagery)
- Client portal with live visibility metrics
- Privately-hosted AI, your data never leaves our servers
Included where scoped · powers every retainer
We publish the research behind this
Every engagement runs on measurements we make ourselves and release publicly, under CC BY 4.0. These are the findings that shape how we work.
Honest Pricing, Designed To Scale With You
Everything starts with the audit (your clear, sourced baseline) and the audit fee credits 100% toward your first retainer month.
- 20+ page founder-reviewed report
- AI search visibility scored per engine (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI)
- Backlinks + citation reclamation audit
- Industry-aware, prescriptive recommendations
- 12-month growth forecast + 30/60/90 plan
- 45-min strategy call included
- Fee credits 100% toward your first retainer month
- Scoped line-by-line from your audit findings. You see exactly what you're paying for
- Site build or rebuild, schema & entity work
- Profile unification & name-ownership groundwork
- Email deliverability + full analytics stack
- Payment plans: split across 3 months
- You own everything we build, always
- 15 tracked keywords: movement measured monthly
- Monthly AI Search Visibility report (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI)
- Google Business Profile optimization + 2 posts/mo
- 4 citations & directory listings/mo
- 1 AEO-format blog post/mo (FAQ + schema built in)
- Public digital profile page + schema maintenance
- Live portal metrics + 45-min strategy call each month
- Month-to-month, cancel anytime
- Everything in Visibility Partner, plus:
- 40 tracked keywords + 3 competitors tracked in AI engines
- Weekly GBP posts + review templates · 8 citations/mo
- 2 blog posts/mo (bilingual ES option)
- SEMPITE chatbot embedded on your site
- Custom builds: web edits, automation, eCommerce ops
- Direct line to Jacob
- Everything in Custom Partner, plus:
- 100 tracked keywords: weekly AI-engine tracking + competitor set
- 4 blog posts/mo + 1 pillar guide per quarter
- 12 citations/mo + directory corroboration program
- Press-quote pitching, journalist requests answered in your name
- Knowledge-graph entity program (the trail that gets AI engines citing you)
- Full GBP + review response management
- Weekly progress digest + monthly strategy call
Compare the Retainers, Every Deliverable
| Visibility Partner$349/moStart with an Audit | Custom Partnerfrom $899/moTalk to Jacob | Market Leader$1,999/moTalk to Jacob | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Single locations & personal brands | Established brands, moderate competition | Competitive markets, multi-surface dominance |
| Setup & Baseline | |||
| Brand Audit baseline ($199, credited) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics stack (GA4, Search Console, Bing) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public digital profile page + schema | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tracking & Reporting | |||
| Tracked keywords | 15 | 40 | 100 |
| AI-engine visibility (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI) | Monthly | Monthly | Weekly |
| Competitors tracked in AI engines | – | 3 | Full set |
| Live client portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reporting cadence | Monthly report | Monthly report | Weekly digest + monthly report |
| Strategy access | 45-min call / month | Monthly call + direct line to Jacob | Monthly call + direct line to Jacob |
| Google Business Profile | |||
| Profile optimization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GBP posts | 2 / month | Weekly | Weekly |
| Review request templates | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review responses managed for you | – | – | ✓ |
| Q&A management | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Citations & Directories | |||
| New citations & directory listings | 4 / mo | 8 / mo | 12 / mo |
| NAP consistency cleanup | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apple Maps, Bing Places & Yelp setup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Directory corroboration program | – | – | ✓ |
| Content | |||
| Blog posts (AEO format: FAQ + schema built in) | 1 / mo | 2 / mo | 4 / mo |
| Bilingual Spanish option | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quarterly pillar guide | – | – | ✓ |
| Content calendar | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Entity & Press | |||
| Schema & sameAs graph maintenance | Profile page | ✓ Full graph | ✓ Full graph |
| Knowledge-graph entity program | – | – | ✓ |
| Press-quote pitching in your name | – | – | ✓ |
| Builds & Automation | |||
| Web edits & custom development | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| eCommerce operations (product brands) | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| SEMPITE chatbot on your site | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chatbot trained on your knowledge base | – | – | ✓ |
Every tier: founder-executed · proprietary tools included · no long-term contracts · the $199 audit credits toward your first month. Keyword counts are tracking scope: movement we measure and report, never a ranking guarantee.
Fair Questions, Straight Answers
Why does every engagement start with the audit?
Because every brand's gaps are different. The audit gives us a sourced, cited baseline, and its findings become the scope for everything after it, so you only ever pay for work your data says you need. The $199 fee credits 100% toward your first retainer month.
Does SEMPITE only do SEO and AI visibility?
No. Alongside the search and visibility work, SEMPITE runs paid social advertising on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, shoots commercial photography and video, manages day-to-day social media posting and community replies, and designs logos, identity systems and ad creative. All of it is produced in house by the founder rather than subcontracted, which is why the creative is built from the same data as the search work.
What is AI Search Visibility?
Whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews actually mention and correctly describe your brand when people ask. We measure it per engine, then fix it with schema, entity, citation, and content work, and track movement monthly.
Do I need the Foundation Build?
Only if your audit says so. If your site and profiles are structurally sound, you can go straight to a monthly plan. When foundational work is needed, we scope it line-by-line from the audit findings: most builds land between $2,500 and $5,500, and payment plans are available.
Are there contracts?
No. Retainers are month-to-month and you can cancel anytime. You own your website, domain, content, and every account we touch, always.
Who actually does the work?
Jacob Gerrish, SEMPITE's founder: an operator who runs $25M+ in eCommerce by day. Your account is never handed to junior staff.
How many clients do you take at once?
SEMPITE is founder-executed, so retainer seats are genuinely limited and new clients are taken on a few at a time. That cap is why the work stays hands-on instead of being handed to junior staff.
Are the keyword counts a ranking guarantee?
No, no honest agency can guarantee rankings. Keyword counts are tracking scope: the terms we measure, report, and optimize against every month, so you always see real movement instead of vague summaries.
What does the eCommerce operations pillar cover?
Catalog and SKU management at scale, multi-channel listing across Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy, inventory and fulfillment pipelines, and marketplace SEO: scoped to your catalog inside a Growth Partner engagement.