PresencePulse Marketing Engine
Five vendors. Four logins you've lost. One story nobody can tell you.
Your local presence isn't underperforming. It's unowned.
Ask your current vendors a simple question: if you left tomorrow, what would you take with you? For most local businesses the honest answer is a logo file and a phone number.
$250 — credited 100% toward any build.
Who owns what, today vs. after
You keep all of it every account is built in your name — including if you ever fire us.
The PresencePulse Marketing Engine runs your local presence as one connected system: website and content, directory listings, technical SEO, review collection, ads run inside your own ad accounts, and an AI concierge on your site that answers questions and books appointments. Everything is built in accounts your business owns, so the engine stays yours whatever happens to our relationship.
How a local presence usually ends up
Nobody chose this. It accumulated, one reasonable decision at a time.
A web host, an SEO agency, someone doing social, someone running ads. Four invoices, four reports, four stories about why the phone isn't ringing — and none of them responsible for the number that matters.
Your hours changed two years ago. They're still wrong on three directories. You find out when a customer drives to your address on a Saturday.
It was built by a vendor, on their account, and getting a change made takes a week and a support ticket. Leaving them means starting over, and they know it.
The part of this industry we think is indefensible
A lot of local marketing vendors build your website on their platform, run your ads inside their ad account, and manage your listings under their login. It's sold as convenience. What it actually is, is a switching cost.
When the work is good, ownership never comes up. When the work stops being good, you discover that leaving means abandoning your site, your ad history, your review profile and every bit of performance data you paid to generate.
We build everything in accounts that belong to you. Your domain, your ad accounts, your listings, your data. If you fire us, you keep the engine and hand the keys to whoever comes next. That is a worse business model for us and the right one for you, and we'd rather earn the next month than trap you into it.
Whatever you put in place, it should do these six things
Use this on us and on whoever you're paying now. The first item is the one most vendors quietly fail.
- Leave you owning every account. Domain, website, ad accounts, listings, review profiles, analytics. If leaving your vendor means starting over, you don't have a marketing engine — you have a hostage situation.
- Give you one accountable partner, not four. When the phone stops ringing there should be exactly one person who cannot blame another vendor for it.
- Cap the spend, always. Maximum spend per platform, agreed in advance, with no overage without your say-so. Ad budgets should never be a surprise.
- Show up where people now ask. Buyers ask ChatGPT and Gemini the same questions they used to type into Google. Your presence has to be legible to both, not just to a search engine.
- Report in plain English. A monthly report you can read in five minutes and act on. Impressions without interpretation are not reporting; they're decoration.
- Answer people when they arrive. Getting someone to your site is half the job. The site should answer their question and let them book — not present a contact form and hope.
What's inside the engine
PresencePulse also contains our lead-response and social-content systems in full, so the engine captures and follows up rather than just generating traffic. Spanish-language site capability is included as standard.
The site and its content
Hosting, ongoing content updates, technical SEO, service-area pages and long-form posts — produced at the rate the market rewards, not capped at a number in a contract.
Listings and reviews
Google Business Profile, Yelp, Apple Maps, BBB and the standard directories kept accurate, plus a review widget on your own site.
Ads in your accounts
Google, Bing and display run inside accounts you own, with geofencing around your locations, competitor locations and high-intent zones — and hard spend caps.
The Website AI Concierge
An agent on your site that answers business and product questions, captures leads, books showroom appointments, and escalates the hot ones to a human immediately.
Who this fits
It fits if…
- You serve a local area — one location or several — and most of your customers find you within it.
- You're currently paying separate vendors for hosting, SEO, social and ads, and none of them own the outcome.
- You already have a working lead-capture or follow-up system running, or you're moving off a full-service vendor with a proven baseline.
- You want to own what you pay for, and you'd trade a little convenience to get that.
It doesn't fit if…
- Your operations aren't stable yet. Sending more traffic into a business that can't answer the phone makes the problem louder, not smaller.
- You want us to take over an account you can't get access to. We'll help you reclaim it first — that's step one either way.
- You're looking for the cheapest possible monthly number. This is a coordinated engine, and it isn't priced like a listings tool.
- You sell nationally online with no local footprint. The local layer is most of the value here.
Questions operators actually ask
Do I really own the ad accounts?
Yes, and it's worth being concrete about what that means. The ad accounts are created under your business, with you as owner and us as a user. The same is true of your site, your listings and your analytics. If we part ways, we remove our access and everything stays exactly where it is, including the historical performance data that makes future campaigns cheaper.
What does it cost?
It's built as one bundled number rather than a stack of line items, and it varies with how many locations and service areas you're covering. There's a one-time investment to build the engine, then one ongoing number to run it. Ad spend is separate and capped — it goes to the platforms, not to us. We quote after the Assessment.
How is this different from what my current agency does?
Three things, usually. You own the accounts. One partner is accountable for the whole result instead of four each owning a slice. And the engine connects to how you actually capture and follow up on leads, rather than stopping at "we sent you traffic."
What is GEO or AEO presence?
It means being findable when someone asks an AI assistant instead of typing into a search box. Buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for a recommendation, and those systems read and cite web content differently than a search engine ranks it. We build for both, because right now most local competitors are only built for one.
Can you work with the website I already have?
Often, yes — if you own it and it's on a platform we can work in. If it's locked inside a vendor's system, the honest answer is that reclaiming or rebuilding it is usually cheaper over two years than paying rent on it forever. We'll show you that math rather than assert it.
How long before this does anything?
Listings and the concierge produce effects quickly. Content and search presence are slower by nature — that's the honest shape of it, and anyone promising rankings in 30 days is selling something. The monthly report shows what moved and what didn't, in plain English.
Find out what you actually own.
Bring your vendor list to the Assessment. We'll map who owns what, what it's costing you in total, and what you'd walk away with today if you had to.
$250 — credited 100% toward any build. If nothing needs building, we'll tell you that.