AI-powered growth · websites · ads · search
When your customers ask,
you show up first.
Every customer starts with a question — on Google, on Instagram, and now inside ChatGPT. Show Up First is the growth agency that makes your business the answer: websites that close, ads that pay for themselves, and AI-search visibility most of your competitors don’t know exists yet.
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Example: asked “who’s the best AC repair company near me,” an AI assistant recommends one business by name. If it isn’t yours, you were never in the conversation.
of consumers now ask AI for business recommendations — up from 6% one year ago.
BrightLocal, 2026
of local businesses ever get recommended by ChatGPT. The other 99 are invisible.
SOCi Local Visibility Index, 2026
higher conversion from AI-referred visitors than standard organic traffic.
Semrush, 2026
of Google searches now end without a single click. Being listed isn’t being found.
SparkToro / Similarweb, 2026
Your customers changed how they find you. Most businesses haven’t noticed.
For twenty years the game was simple: rank on Google, run some ads, collect the calls. That game isn’t gone — but a new one started next to it, and it’s moving fast. Nearly half of consumers now ask ChatGPT, Google’s AI, or Perplexity who to hire, where to buy, and what brand to trust.
Here’s the part that should keep you up at night: AI doesn’t show a list of ten blue links. It gives one answer. Maybe two. If that answer isn’t your business, you don’t lose a ranking spot — you simply never existed in that conversation.
And when AI does mention businesses like yours, it gets the details wrong a third of the time — wrong phone numbers, wrong hours, wrong address. Customers don’t blame the AI. They just call someone else.
SOCi 2026: 1.2% recommendation rate · ~68% data accuracy
this is the whole first page now.
One team. Four ways you show up.
AI Search VisibilityFlagship
Being the business ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity recommend by name. We scan how you show up today, fix the sources AI actually reads, and track your share of the answers month over month. This is what SEO was in 2005 — the ground floor.
Websites that close
Fast, conversion-first sites built by AI systems and finished by people with taste. Structured so both Google and AI engines can actually read them — because a beautiful site nobody finds is a brochure in a drawer.
Ads that pay for themselves
Meta campaigns run with discipline: brand-exact creative, small tests before real spend, and a dashboard where you approve every ad before it runs. No spray, no pray, no mystery invoices.
SEO that compounds
The classic game, played with modern machinery — pages, schema, local signals, and content that keeps shipping while you sleep. Google still sends the most customers. We don’t let you lose that while winning the new game.
Scan. Fix. Own the answers.
See where you stand
We ask the AI engines the questions your customers ask — dozens of them, multiple times each — and show you exactly who gets recommended, who gets ignored, and what the machines get wrong about you.
Fix what’s costing you
A focused sprint on the things that actually move the needle: your site, your listings, your reviews, the sources AI reads. Priced as a project, delivered in weeks — not a retainer that drifts.
Stay the answer
Content, ads, and tracking that compound month over month — reported as one number you actually care about: how often you’re the business that gets named. Month to month. Results are the retention strategy.
04 · Straight talk
What we won’t sell you.
llms.txt filesHalf the industry sells these “AI instruction files.” Independent data shows 97% of them are never read by any AI bot — and Google ignores them entirely. We don’t sell paperwork for machines that aren’t reading it.
“Floods of AI traffic”AI referrals are still a small slice of total visits today. What’s true: they convert 2.5–4× better and they’re roughly doubling every year. We sell being the answer early — not fantasy traffic charts.
One-shot “AI rank” reportsAsk an AI the same question twice and you’ll get two different answers. Single-run scans are lottery tickets. We run every question multiple times across four engines and report a share — with an honest confidence range.
Long contractsSprints are priced as projects. Growth plans are month to month. If the number we report every month doesn’t earn the next month, we didn’t deserve it.
Operators, not account managers.
“Every system we sell, we run on our own companies first. If it doesn’t make the phone ring for us, it never gets pitched to you.”
Show Up First is run by two partners who build and operate their own portfolio of AI-powered businesses — storefronts, service companies, and software. The website factory, the ad systems, the AI-search tooling: all of it runs live on our own brands before a client ever touches it.
That means you’re not funding our learning curve. You’re renting a machine that’s already running — with a person who answers the phone attached to it.
Find out if you show up.
The scan is free, takes us a day, and it’s yours to keep whether or not we ever work together. Worst case: you learn exactly where you stand. Best case: you get there first.