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Team Empathy  ·  Search & AI for ecommerce

Become the brand
AI recommends.

The AI & Search Transformation, a six-month done-for-you build you then own

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Prepared for SheShed NZ · August 2026 · Confidential

The offer in one minute

Simple by design. One thing, done properly. We spend six months building your Search and AI foundations for you, get you certified AI-ready inside 90 days, and then hand you the system to own and run. No lock-in, no platform to learn, and you keep everything we build.
90 days
to Certified AI-Ready, the first milestone
80 / 100
the AEO standard we build you to
6 months
done-for-you, then the system is yours
1-2 hrs
of your time a week after setup

What you get

Three outcomes. We sell the outcome, not a pile of deliverables.

01
Stop renting your traffic
Capture the demand already searching, in Google and in AI, so you own a channel you control instead of paying for attention every month.
02
Be the brand AI recommends
When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI for the best cabin, sleepout or she shed in New Zealand, yours is the brand that shows up, gets quoted and gets clicked.
03
Own the system, not a vendor
We install a compounding asset your team can run. You are never stuck with an agency you cannot leave, because the whole thing is yours to keep.

The four pillars we build

Around 70 to 80% of this is proper SEO, done well with AI. Four pillars, scored out of 100 so progress is objective. The scores below are yours, from the strategy report.

PillarWhat we build, for youYou today
1 · TechnicalSite health, schema, Core Web Vitals and AI crawler access, so engines can find, read and trust you. For you that means the mobile speed scores Google's lab test puts well below its thresholds, stripping the previous agency's Australian schema template off every page (including its self-rated five stars and AUD pricing), retyping the shop and category pages that are currently marked as articles, and adding the FAQ markup your 27-question FAQ has never had.10 / 25
2 · ContentKeyword and AI-prompt research into topic clusters, then the content that answers every question a buyer asks, in your voice. Your map is 112 keywords, 130 buyer questions and 12 territories, cross-checked against your own Search Console and GA4 so nothing the tools miss gets passed by. Unusually, most of the raw material already exists: your 160 posts and 28 use-case pages get reshaped into the answers engines cite, then we fill the white space, led by the consent hub and the sleepout and kitset cabin hubs.15 / 25
3 · AuthorityThe backlinks, digital PR, round-up placements and communities AI actually cites. You already lead every specialist in your field on authority, so the play is extending that lead: the she shed story into lifestyle press, the consent and granny-flat conversations, and the "best cabin" round-ups nobody in the category owns yet.10 / 25
4 · MeasurementOne dashboard tying your WooCommerce orders, GA4, Search Console and AI visibility together, so the work is visible month to month. For you this starts with the attribution rebuild: $1.87M of your revenue currently credits no channel at all. Your weakest pillar and the fastest to fix.5 / 25

40 out of 100 today. Certified is 80, which is Professional on all four. The evidence behind each score is in Appendix B of the strategy report.

How the six months run

1First 90 days: foundations + certified

We capture your baseline, fix the speed, schema and attribution foundations, stand up your content engine and start your authority. Content production itself begins inside these first 90 days too: as soon as everything is calibrated to your tone of voice and brand guidelines, the pieces start shipping. Your AEO score starts moving from 40 straight away and you can see it move. By day 90 you are Certified AI-Ready at 80 out of 100, verified against a documented audit and Google's Rich Results Test. That milestone is yours to keep.

2Months 3 to 6: content + authority at pace

We build your content and authority hard: around 100 to 140 pieces across the six months, reshaped and new depending on your needs, plus the links and citations. Your visibility starts compounding across search and AI, and by month six you are transformed, ready to hand over.

3Month 6 onward: you own it

The foundations, the content, the links and your certification are yours, on your own low-cost platform login rather than a big agency retainer. From here it is your call how much support you want.

After the six months, it is yours

You keep everything and choose how to run it. Three ways forward, all on your terms.

Do it yourself
Keep the platform for a low monthly fee (hundreds, not thousands) and run it in-house in an hour or two a week.
Do it with us
Join the ecommerce accelerator community: weekly coaching, other ecommerce brands on the same tools, strategy and back-end sessions.
We keep running it
Stay on a rolling retainer at the pace you choose and we keep the whole engine humming for you.
About the platform. We are building it right now for ecommerce brands, and refining the exact shape as we go. What is locked is the deal: you own the system, and the ongoing fee to keep and run it sits in the hundreds a month, not the thousands an agency charges. Because you come in during the build, you are one of the first clients on it, at this transformation rate, and the pricing will be the best in the industry.

How the engagement works

InvestmentWe will walk you through the numbers together on the call, once the scope is confirmed
After six monthsA low monthly platform fee to keep and run the system, or a rolling retainer if you want us on it
CommitmentA six-month build, then love it or leave it. No lock-in
If you leaveYou keep everything: the foundations, the content, the links, the strategy and your certification
Your timeOne to two hours a week during the foundations phase (access, calibration, sign-off), then a quick weekly check-in for the rest of the six months
What we are aiming for. A 5 to 10x return over twelve months, at minimum, and everything here is built to get you there. The mid case in your strategy report is +$136,700 a year in new non-branded revenue, about seven extra cabins at your average order. Because you keep everything and can leave anytime, the risk of trying it is low.

One honest note on timing, since a cabin is researched over weeks rather than bought on impulse: the revenue in the model is back-loaded. Judge the first six months on the click curve, enquiries and the AEO score, not on cash collected in period.

Why you can be confident

What comes next

You have your strategy report and the numbers sized on your own data. The next step is a conversation: we confirm scope and the WordPress access, set up payment and book your onboarding call, and the six months starts from there.

Appendix A: the transformation, line by line

This is the full task list behind the summary above. Approval points are marked, so you always know when something needs your sign-off.

Roughly 70 to 80% of it is proper SEO done well with AI, and the rest is what makes you the brand AI recommends.

Before we start: what we need from you

We already have Search Console and GA4 access, which is how this strategy was built. WordPress admin is the outstanding one, and it is already in motion.

Phase 1 · First 90 days: foundations, calibration and first production

This period establishes the foundations, calibrates the system to your brand, and ships the first wave of content. By the end of it the technical work is done and the content engine is running at pace.

Onboarding

Baseline and measurement

Research and strategy

Technical SEO and on-page

Platform onboarding and calibration

Content roadmap and first production

Authority, foundations

The goal we are driving at

Phase 2 · Months 4 to 6: production at scale and compounding

Foundations are in and the workflows are calibrated, so these months are about sustained output and building the authority that makes AI cite you. The mix each month is guided by the roadmap and adjusted for your seasonality and performance data.

Monthly content production

Authority and reputation

Being straight with you about the authority pillar: the engagement runs hardest on technical, content and measurement, because those are the three we can move reliably inside six months. The authority side of Notable, the off-site opportunity tracking, the community scanning and the digital PR tooling, is the newest part of the platform and we are building it out over the coming months. We are not going to promise you a dashboard that does not exist yet. What we will do is the foundational link work, tell you honestly where you stand on authority, and bring you the new tooling as it lands.

Ongoing technical

Reporting and strategy

What you end up with

OutputFirst 90 daysMonths 4 to 6Total
Use-case and category page refreshes8 to 14up to 2028 to 34
Product page refreshes6 to 10up to 915 to 19
Content reshaped into answer format8 to 20up to 3038 to 50
New content8 to 16up to 2129 to 37
Total pieces30 to 60up to 80100 to 140
Foundational backlinksProfile builtExtendedQuality-judged, not a quota
AEO scoreClimbing from 40Driving at 80 out of 100Yours to keep

Volumes depend on content complexity, your approval cadence and strategic priorities. The roadmap guides prioritisation, and we will always choose the higher-value piece over hitting a number.

Notable, the platform you end up owning

Notable is our own AI search platform, built for ecommerce brands, and it is the reason this leaves you with an asset rather than a folder of documents. During the six months we run it for you. After that it is yours.

After the six months, someone on your team spends an hour or two a week in Notable and the system keeps compounding. You can also join the ecommerce accelerator community for coaching and support, or keep us on a rolling retainer. Your call.

What is not included

Worth being straight about the edges, so nothing surprises anyone at month four.