CI Web Group is the most advanced digital marketing agency for the trades, delivering AI-enabled websites and digital marketing systems built on a world-class framework for SEO, GEO, AEO, and lead conversion. We don't do everything. We focus on what moves revenue — and we aim to be the best in the world at it.
Renowned Service Industry Speaker · Strategic Partner
What you are doing is going to change the world of service for hard-working families. I have seen it firsthand through Stephanie and Kevin - the transformation and confidence is outstanding.
I have known Jennifer L Bagley and CI Web Group since 2012. Jennifer used to present at our Untyed events and what she shared then is still true today. She is the best in her business and I would refer her to anyone.
Tyler Pierson
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HVAC & Refrigeration · Client
The speed and quality that CI Web Group delivers is unbelievable. Partnering with CI Web Group has been one of the three best business decisions I've made.
Billy Gregus | Integrity Refrigeration & AC
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Electric · Plumbing · HVAC · Seattle
CI Web Group is hands down the most advanced digital marketing and web design company in the industry if not the world. They are the Hail Mary. Everyone else is literally doing and following the exact same playbook, CI Web Group is crazy enough to do things entirely different. Best technology, best team, best results. There is no way I would go with another company. Hands down the most advanced in AI search optimization, SEO and local search in the industry. Proud to have the best technology and strategy in our market.
Cory, Owner | Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air
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Plumbing · CEO
I'm working our marketing data and for our website and GBP combined, our ROAS was 35X, benchmark is 10X! Hard to lie on these numbers! Holy cow!
Amanda Casteel | Cherry Blossom Plumbing
Featured Hydra websites
New launches. Full stories.
See how home-service brands are moving onto Hydra OS: fast, database-free websites with structured service and city content, accessible launch pages, and AI-readable proof for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
AirWorks Solutions went WordPress → Webflow + Cortex AI → Hydra OS. The Webflow + Cortex chapter let them turn paid advertising off and grow net margins from 10% to 25% — and now they're live on Hydra OS, the fastest, most AI-ready version of their site yet.
Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air is live on Hydra OS — an AI-first rebuild that wins back the local visibility a Google update took, with a neighborhood-level SEO mesh, energy-savings tooling, and a design leap to match a three-trade Puget Sound leader.
Door Serv Pro — a family-owned garage door company with six offices across the WV/MD/VA/PA "Four-State Area" — is live on Hydra OS: an AI-first site that turns a 4.9-star, 1,700-review reputation into 232 city pages, an interactive door-health checker, and content built to win both Google and AI search.
Each story links to the real launch write-up, with the client context, platform upgrades, search architecture, and conversion tools published for review.
Every Hydra site is composable. Order a decision tool, a hyper-local SEO layer, an interactive product explorer, or an instant-quote estimator — each is a real, live-on-a-client build, priced up front, added to your website in days not months.
48 in the catalogReal customer screenshotsPriced up frontCustom requests welcome
Every number below is a real post-launch delta, measured against that client's own pre-launch baseline across Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Business Profile, and call tracking by our on-demand analytics agents.
We publish percentages only — our clients' raw numbers stay private.
New milestones append to each client's timeline as reporting windows close.
How to start
Hydra OS in motion.
Start the website and marketing process in three clear steps, then let Hydra execute through Slack with fewer meetings, faster decisions, and a documented path to go-live.
Choose the Hydra OS website and marketing path that fits your market, services, service areas, and growth goals.
02
Customize
Confirm the brand direction, priority offers, proof points, team details, financing, and conversion actions that make the site yours.
03
Onboarding
Submit the onboarding forms at getstarted.ciwebgroup.com so Hydra has the details needed to start building.
After forms are in
Slack becomes the launch room.
No bloated meeting cadence. The work, assets, changes, agent updates, review, and go-live communication stay visible in one channel.
1We schedule your project launch and set up a dedicated Slack channel with the right people and agents.
2Upload every asset to Slack: logos, photos, team bios, offers, service details, locations, and anything else Hydra should know.
3Hydra submits the new website for review, then you post changes in Slack with no time-consuming meeting loop.
4Hydra communicates through completion and go-live, executing the work like clockwork until the launch is ready.
SEO included from day one
We do not have to sell SEO as a bolt-on, because Hydra OS ships a 100% optimized website architecture on day one.
The SEO foundations are included with Hydra OS: structure, speed, metadata, service architecture, local intent paths, schema, accessibility, and AI-readable content surfaces. Add AI Credits for building, blogging, link building, and the AI Local Power Up Plan when you are ready to compound faster.
We Service All Industries
Hydra OS adapts to the way each vertical sells, books, proves value, and grows.
Home ServicesManufacturersDistributorsFranchisesProfessional ServicesEcommerce coming soon.
Hydra OS · The Autonomous Core
Real-world signals in. Optimized actions out.
Hydra OS ingests live data about your market and your customers, reasons over 20 years of trades playbooks, then deploys the work automatically.
Traditional agencies bill you for hours. We bill you for outcomes. Most of the work runs on AI credits — fast, effective, relentless — directed by digital marketing experts with 20+ years in the trades. Our efficiency lets us recruit the best talent in the industry, so you get elite operators and elite technology for a fraction of the legacy cost.
More
100×
more output per month vs traditional agency
Thousands of agent actions instead of a handful of human tasks.
Better
94%
AI-search citation rate
Hydra-built sites are designed to be the answer, not the link.
"Let us walk you through everything wrong with your website…" Hard pass. You already know what's broken — you don't need a 45-minute slideshow about it.
We do the opposite. Hop on a Zoom and we'll spend the whole call showing you how badass Hydra OS is and diving into real client performance — live dashboards, working agents, actual revenue moving in real time.
Zero time spent roasting your current site
Watch agents book real jobs while you're on the call
Open the books on contractor revenue, lead cost, ROAS
Strategists who run the platform — not SDRs reading a script
"I learned more in this strategy session than the last 10 years of meetings with my account manager."
01:47●ContentEngine published 3 service pages · indexed
Sample dashboard · representative numbers, not live client data
The Hydra OS Stack
A product, not a methodology.
Four layers, one operating system. Webflow stops at delivery. WordPress stops at content. Hydra OS keeps going — brain, engine, edge, and an autonomous workforce on top. Built for SEO and AISO (AI Search Optimization — getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers, not just ranked on page one).
L1The brain
Cortex AI
A trades-trained model continuously fine-tuned on your brand, your service area, and 20 years of CI Web Group playbooks. Vector, RAG, CAG and MemPalace.
L2The engine
Hydra OS
Headless CMS, SEO + AISO engines, schema, content pipelines, reviews integration, smart promotions, team pages, jobs board, lead routing, AI conversions, and live dashboards — plus ADA and legal compliance built in. Every primitive a modern, intelligent website needs.
L3The edge
Static Delivery
Statically generated, decoupled, served from the edge. The architecture Google, OpenAI and Cloudflare ship with. Near perfect Core Web Vitals. No more security issues.
L4The autonomy
Agent Workforce
Thousands of specialized agents reasoning over your brand 24/7 — publishing, optimizing, citing, responding. Supervised by senior operators.
They work as one — but they are not the same thing. The website is what your customers see and what Google and AI engines crawl. Hydra OS is the intelligence that builds, optimizes, and runs it. One is the body; the other is the brain.
What your customers see
Your Website
Designed and developed in Astro — the most advanced web framework — as a decoupled, static-site-generated front end backed by a content database.
✓Decoupled, static-site generated (SSG)
✓Content database for fast, structured updates
✓The fastest load times on the web
✓The most crawlable by AI agents and Google
✓Un-hackable — no live database to attack
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The intelligence that runs it
Hydra OS
The operating system — the brain. Our Vector search, CAG, RAG, and autonomous AI agents that build, optimize, and run the work behind the scenes.
✓Vector search over your data
✓CAG — cache-augmented generation
✓RAG — retrieval-augmented generation
✓Autonomous AI agents, 24/7
✓The central intelligence engine
The website is the body. Hydra OS is the brain. Together, that's a moat competitors can't buy off a shelf.
Cortex AI · The brain behind every action
Gets smarter every week. Reacts to Google in hours.
Cortex is our vector, RAG and intelligence layer — trained on 20 years of trades and professional-services data, then continuously fine-tuned on your brand. Because we own the platform, we ship updates weekly. When Google drops a core algorithm update, we don't wait on a vendor's roadmap — we adapt in hours, push it across every customer, and you keep ranking while competitors scramble.
Weekly
Platform updates shipped
< 24h
Response to Google algo changes
20 yrs
Trades data in the vector layer
Concept A · Vector Embedding Map
Your brand, mapped
Every piece of your content becomes a coordinate. Clusters form. Hydra spots what's missing before competitors do.
Concept B · Agent Swarm
Thousands of agents, one brain
SEOAI SearchSchemaContentLocalReviews
GBPLead TriageVoiceCitationsOutreachRAG
24 / 7 / 365
Specialized agents orbit your brand, firing the moment a citation opportunity opens in ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews.
Concept C · RAG Pipeline
Sources → Vectors → Agents → Wins
01
Sources
Service Pages
Reviews
Google Business
Call Transcripts
02
Vector DB
chunk_001
chunk_002
chunk_003
03
Retrieval
top-k
rerank
04
Agents
reason
act
05
Channels
SEO
ChatGPT
Perplexity
A live pipeline from your content sources to retrieval, reasoning, and outbound execution across every channel that matters.
Comprehensive guides for every major AI search engine and modern SEO. Learn how AI engines source content, what ranking signals matter, and the proven strategies to earn citations and visibility across all platforms.
By 2026, AI search engines process 20-30% of all search queries — and growing rapidly. ChatGPT handles over 1 billion queries per week. Google's AI Overviews appear on 60%+ of searches. If your business isn't optimized for AI search, you're invisible to a massive and growing segment of high-intent buyers.
What You'll Learn
✓How each AI engine retrieves, evaluates, and cites content
✓Modern SEO: Core Web Vitals, E-E-A-T, adaptive frameworks
✓Platform-specific strategies for every major AI search engine
✓Schema orchestration, structured data, and content architecture
✓Multi-engine optimization: rank across all platforms simultaneously
A traditional agency runs a handful of human actions per week. Hydra runs more than a million per day across every Hydra-powered brand — supervised by the 25% of senior operators who set direction. Every action is logged, auditable, and tied to a metric you actually care about.
Agents online
3,847
live across the Hydra portfolio
Actions / 24h
1.2M
platform-wide · vs ~40 at a legacy agency
AI citations / wk
9,140
Google · ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Grok
% Faster to rank
73%
median new service page · vs legacy builds
Agent activity · last 60 seconds
tail -f hydra.log
00:00:02AI-Searchcited byChatGPT+1 share-of-voice
00:00:05SchemapublishedService:HVACrich result eligible
Most agencies hide the work. We show it. Every agent action, every ranking shift, every captured lead — visible in real time on a dashboard you can open from your truck. No term contracts, ever: your content and front-end design files are yours to take anytime, with 30-day notice. The one thing that stays ours is the Hydra OS brain that powers it.
hydra-os · cortex-ai · live
--:--:--uptime 99.99%
Calls this month
1,284
+22.4% vs prev period
Pipeline value
$342k
+18.1% vs prev period
AI citation rate
94%
+11pt vs prev period
AI Search Visibility · last 90 days
HydraCompetitors avg
Live Agent Activity
Live
09:14:22●AI Overview ranking · HVAC Miami → #1
09:14:45Lead captured · residential AC repair, $480 avg ticket
09:15:41●ChatGPT cite · 'emergency electrician near me'
09:16:03Review agent · 5★ posted, response drafted in 12s
09:16:29GBP agent · service area expanded → 14 ZIPs
Proof
Operators who put us on the record.
We've been the agency of record for trade brands and dealer networks for nearly two decades — endorsed by leaders at the manufacturers, partners, and platforms shaping the industry.
"Jennifer is one of the true visionaries in this industry — someone who sees what's coming before the rest of us do, and then builds it anyway. That second part is the rare one. Plenty of people can describe the future on a stage. Very few will restructure their own company, bet their reputation, and do the hard building required to actually get there. Jennifer does both, and she has been doing it for twenty years."
Dave Kaynar — CEO, OnePath.AI
★★★★★
“Jennifer Bagley, has anyone told you lately you're the bomb? I have witnessed what you do firsthand through our clients and dear friends like Stephanie and Kevin. What you are doing is going to change the world of service for hard-working families. The transformation and confidence I see in the people you work with is outstanding. If you'd like me to do a video interview about what I've seen from your clients, I'd be happy to do that as well. Thank you.”
Joe Crisara, Service MVP
★★★★★
“I have known Jennifer L Bagley and CI Web Group since 2012. Jennifer used to present at our Untyed events and what she shared then is still true today. She is the best in her business and I would refer her to anyone.”
Tyler Pierson, Sr. Executive
★★★★★
“The speed and quality that CI Web Group delivers is unbelievable. As a client, it's incredibly rewarding to see the hard work we've put into our business finally gaining the traction we envisioned. Jennifer Bagley, you run an outstanding company and surround yourself with top talent. Two years ago, I was struggling with my previous marketing company. I found myself constantly following up, with little to no progress being made. When you agreed to jump on a call, you immediately identified issues that needed to be addressed. I decided to take the leap and partner with CI Web Group, and it has been one of the three best business decisions I've made. Your passion for helping contractors succeed is evident in everything you do. You genuinely fight for your clients, and that level of commitment is rare. Thank you to you and the entire CI Web Group team. I'm excited to continue growing together and can't wait to see what the future holds! LFG!”
A brand-new client on a brand-new site. One week later.
Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air launched their Hydra OS build with our team. Seven days later they posted this to Google — and included a third-party LLM audit of the new site inside the review itself.
Let me start with saying thank you to Jennifer, Michael, Liz, Camille — the entire CI Web Group team.
Wow, talk about over delivering on expectations — this team did it.
Our company knew we needed to do something different with our traditional marketing. We needed to make a change, something bold. After interviewing multiple companies that offered the exact same old play, we realized companies are not adapting fast enough. CI Web was the only one to offer a different playbook.
Below is feedback from one of the LLMs. Literally one week after launch.
CI Web team worked tirelessly rebuilding and launching our new site that would be AI-search friendly while keeping traditional SEO tied into it. They CRUSHED IT!!
Anyone thinking of using this team — DO IT!!
LLM audit takeaway
“If you are evaluating your own web presence or analyzing the local market, Eco Services is the gold standard blueprint right now. They've successfully moved away from the cluttered, 2010s-era “text-heavy” plumbing and electrical layouts and created a sleek, lightning-fast digital asset designed to win the future of conversational search.”
— LLM audit of ecoserviceswa.com — one week post-launch
How we ship
We ship the whole website. Not a brochure with an SEO upsell.
Most agencies launch a 5-page site and then sell you SEO for the next three years. We launch the complete site — every audience, every service, every location, fully optimized — on day one. Your monthly bill is just enough credits to keep it sharp, not a permanent mortgage on work that should've been done at launch.
Everyone else
Launch a starter site. Bill you $3–8k/mo forever to fix what they didn't ship.
Credits keep things tuned as Google, your offers, and your service area evolve. No surprise invoices for work that should've shipped in week one.
Ongoing services
After launch, the work we do doesn't look like everyone else's either.
Most agencies sell the same five retainers in different fonts. Ours are built on top of Hydra OS — so the content, the local, the chat, and the reporting all share the same brain.
Content engine
Blogging that actually ships
Daily content to WordPress, Webflow, or Hydra. On Hydra, our intelligence layer writes real stories from your live data — not generic AI fluff. Want it auto-published to your social channels? One toggle.
Daily cadence across any CMS
Real stories from your performance data (Hydra)
Auto-syndicate to Facebook and Instagram
AI Local
Win the map in 30–90 days
Daily optimizations and publishing across Google Business Profile and the new AI mapping engines. Launches in days, ranks in weeks — not the 6–12 months legacy SEO shops quote you.
Daily GBP posts, photos, and offers
AI mapping engine optimization (Apple, Bing, Perplexity, ChatGPT places)
Live in days. Results in 30–90.
Technical credits
Buy credits. Use them your way.
Let our team run them, or log into the Hydra OS back office and spend them on your own strategy. No retainers, no 'unused hours expire,' no agency babysitting required.
Managed by our team, or self-serve from Hydra OS
Roll over month to month
Spend them on the work you actually need
AI Conversion System
Text, chat, booking — and LLM-to-LLM booking
Web chat, two-way text, and online booking. Plus the first LLM booking technology in the industry — human-to-AI, and AI-to-AI. When your customer's assistant talks to ours, the appointment just shows up on the calendar.
Two-way SMS + AI web chat
Online booking that respects your real availability
LLM ↔ LLM booking (an industry first)
Authority
Press release management
Get published on the outlets that move trust signals — for SEO, for AI search citations, and for the 'as seen in' logos that close deals. Pitched, written, distributed, tracked.
Written and pitched by our PR team
Distributed to outlets that actually rank
Tracked for citations, links, and AI mentions
Strategy sessions
Pay for strategy. Not unused hours.
Pick how many strategy sessions you want per month — that's what you pay for. No 40-hour retainers where 30 get billed and never used. Want one session this month and four next month? Done.
Choose your own session cadence
No 'use it or lose it' labor blocks
Every session leaves with an action plan, not a follow-up email
Always-on access
Slack with our team. Included.
Every monthly maintenance plan comes with direct Slack access to the people actually doing the work — not a ticket queue, not a 48-hour SLA, not 'your account manager will get back to you.'
Direct channel with strategists, devs, and SEO leads
No tickets, no gatekeepers
Included with monthly maintenance — not an upsell
The blogging compounding curve
Content that compounds, month over month.
No overnight miracle — a realistic ramp. Start at zero, ship daily through Hydra, and the curve builds on itself: around 2,500 impressions a month by day 60, and roughly 25,000 a month by day 120 — and it keeps going. Here's what 120 days actually looks like.
Log scale on impressions so the early ramp is visible alongside the later growth. Curve is a directional model based on observed client data — your vertical, market, and starting domain authority will vary.
Day 30
700impressions/mo
≈ 5 clicks/mo
Pages indexed and starting to rank. The first impressions build.
Day 60
2.5kimpressions/mo
≈ 30 clicks/mo
Regular clicks start landing — steady traffic, not a spike.
Day 120
25kimpressions/mo
≈ 400 clicks/mo
Hundreds of clicks a month — and your conversions start to climb.
Do the math · $600/mo entry tier
Daily blogging, Monday–Friday. 4 months in = $2,400 invested.
Clicks/mo at day 120~400
Lead conversion rate3%
Leads/mo~12
Booked jobs (40% close)~5
Cost per lead ($600 ÷ 12)~$50
Cost per booked job ($600 ÷ 5)~$120
Avg ticket × 5 jobsyou tell us
For reference: paid search in most home-service verticals runs $50–$150 per lead. Compounding content already lands at the low end of that — and unlike ads, it keeps working after you stop paying, with the curve still climbing past day 120.
What this actually means
Paid media stops when you stop paying. Compounding content keeps shipping clicks after the invoice clears. By ~25k impressions a month, you'll feel it — steady, high-intent clicks landing on your job board, and conversions starting to climb.
And once Hydra has indexed every audience, service, and location on day one, every article we ship reinforces a page that's already built to rank. That's why our curve looks like this and a competitor's looks flat.
Start the compounding clock
Your impressions don't double until day one happens.
$600/mo entry tier · daily M–F blogging · indexed on day one. Tell us about your business and we'll show you the 120-day projection for your service area.
30-minute Zoom
No deck, no pitch
Strategist, not SDR
Walk the live dashboard
Start here
Schedule through getstarted.
We moved booking and contact requests into the getstarted intake so every inquiry lands in one place. Pick a time or tell us what you need there.
Same monthly spend, two very different operations. A traditional agency bills you for hours and mostly works one channel — SEO. Hydra OS covers the whole search surface — SEO, AEO, GEO, and Local — executed by autonomous agents around the clock and steered by senior experts. Another big difference is our ability to move fast: our AI analyzes all keywords, completes SEO audits, runs competitor analysis, and implements modifications while you sleep.
Your monthly marketing budget
$600/ month
$600$50,000
The Hydra split
80% AI credits · $480
20% experts
24,000 agent actions / mo0.7 expert hrs
What is an AI credit?
One credit = one autonomous action.
Researching a competitor, writing a service page, optimizing a GBP post, answering a review, generating schema. One credit, one job done.
10–100× cheaper than human hours.
Same outcome — page published, citation earned, ranking moved — at a fraction of the cost. The agent does the keystrokes.
Experts steer, agents execute.
Your 20% pays senior strategists to set direction, review quality, and own the relationship. The 80% runs 24/7.
Hydra OS · this month
24,000
Autonomous agent actions
+ 0.7 senior expert hours supervising
Legacy agency · this month
3
Billable human hours
0 autonomous actions. Output stops when humans clock out.
Coverage — comprehensive vs SEO-only
The real difference isn't just volume — it's scope. Most agencies optimize for one search box. We optimize for all of them: classic Google, the AI answer engines, the generative overviews, and the local map — plus the conversion layer that turns visits into booked jobs.
Channel
Typical agency
Hydra OS
SEO
Classic Google search
✓
✓
AEO
Answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity
✕
✓
GEO
Generative — Google AI Overviews, Gemini
✕
✓
Local / GBP
Google Business Profile & maps
◐
✓
Always-on content
Daily AEO/SEO blogging
◐
✓
AI conversions
Chat, text & booking that capture the lead
✕
✓
24/7 execution
Work ships nights, weekends, holidays
✕
✓
What our agents ship monthly · fleet-wide
4,000+
Blogs published
40,000+
Pages shipped
3.2M+
Lines of code
500M+
Tokens used
Total output across all client accounts each month — proof of the engine's scale, not a single-account promise. Run by our autonomous agent network across SEO, AEO, GEO, Local, content, and schema engines.
Estimates based on a $0.02 blended cost per autonomous agent action, $180/hr senior strategist rate (Hydra), and $235/hr blended legacy agency rate. Time-to-rank assumes static delivery + autonomous on-page and off-page execution from day one. Your mileage will vary — usually upward.
Since 2006
We saw this coming.
We've been helping the trades win at search since before "AI overview" was a phrase. Twenty years inside this industry. 1,000+ active clients. The first agency to architect for an internet where AI does the research and assistants make the decisions. Hydra OS is the product of that conviction.
20+
Years in the trades
1,000+
Active clients
47
Full-time resources
50M+
Leads driven
The road to Hydra OS
2006
Founded · WordPress Early Adopters
CI Web Group opens its doors and bets on WordPress before the trades knew what a CMS was. Mission from day one: elevate the trades through better technology.
2012
Preferred in the Trades
The preferred marketing partner for HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing operators across North America.
2022
First to Webflow for AI Search
The year ChatGPT launched. We were first to migrate trades clients to Webflow and re-architect for AI search — schema, entities, retrieval-ready content.
2023
First AI-First Stack
Among the first agencies to ship retrieval-augmented agents into production for SMB marketing.
2026
Hydra OS + Cortex AI
Launch the autonomous marketing operating system. Experts + thousands of agents, one platform.
The humans
80% AI. 20% these people.
Strategists who run the platform, not account managers reading from a slide deck. When you sign on with CI Web Group, you talk to senior operators on day one — and every day after.
We don't just build the platform — we share what's working. Catch us at the next trades event or in your podcast feed, breaking down exactly how AI is changing the economics of running a service business.
Featured Event · Lunch & Learn
Hosted with ServiceTitan
Trades Talk: AI Edition
A practical, no-fluff lunch & learn for contractors who want straight answers on where AI is actually delivering results in HVAC, plumbing, roofing and home services — and what's still holding teams back.
May 28, 2026 · 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM PTSan Diego, CA
Featured Speakers
Jennifer Bagley
CEO, CI Web Group · Co-Founder, Just Start AI
Stephanie Allen
CEO, AirWorks Solutions · Co-Founder, Just Start AI
Hydra OS is one part of a bigger commitment. We build the education, the communities, the podcasts, and the keynotes that move the entire industry forward — not just our own clients. Everything below is ours, free or paid, and worth your time.
We're a preferred digital marketing agency and technology provider for the manufacturers, distributors, and associations the trades are built on. When their contractors need a website and marketing partner, our name is on the short list.
We don't go it alone. These are the companies we build, ship, and grow with — handpicked operators whose tech, tactics, and reputation make every contractor we serve sharper.
We're the AI-first marketing operating system for trade and professional service businesses. We build the website, run the SEO and local search, ship the content, win AI-search visibility, and convert and route your leads — all on our own platform (Hydra OS), directed by senior strategists with 20+ years in the trades. (We don't run paid advertising — we build the organic and AI-search assets that lower your reliance on it.)
80% of the work runs on our own AI platform — autonomous agents handle content production, schema, local search updates, AI-search optimization, review responses, and lead routing 24/7. The 20% is senior humans steering strategy, reviewing quality, and owning the relationship. You pay agency-grade outcomes at a fraction of agency-grade labor cost.
Local search and AI search optimization typically show measurable movement in 30–90 days. Compounding blog content builds steadily — around 2,500 impressions a month by day 60 (when regular clicks start landing) and roughly 25,000 a month by day 120, when most clients see hundreds of clicks and conversions starting to climb. It keeps compounding from there.
It depends on the season. We usually have a lighter pipeline over the summer, so — depending on the size of your site — we can often have it ready for your review in about 1–2 months. During our busier seasons (and heavy travel stretches) it can take roughly twice as long, simply because we're slammed. Once we present the site to you for review, the time from review to go-live is 100% up to you — it comes down to how many changes you want made before launch. Our honest opinion: go live as soon as possible and make changes once you have the data to warrant them. We do have a Fast Pass available to cut to the front of the line if it's urgent.
It scales to your goals, month-to-month. Websites run from as low as $500 up to $50,000 for a large, fully custom build. Marketing starts as low as a couple hundred dollars a month for blogging and runs up to about $3,000 per market and service category. AI consulting is $2,000/mo and up done-with-you, and a fully autonomous, done-for-you agentic infrastructure starts around $25,000. Book a 30-minute Zoom and a strategist will scope real numbers for your business — not a slide deck.
Both. We've been doing SEO for the trades since 2006 — long before AI was a buzzword. We were among the first agencies to migrate trades clients to Webflow and re-architect for AI search (schema, entities, retrieval-ready content). The AI is how we scale; the SEO craft is how we win.
Yes. We integrate with ServiceTitan, HousecallPro, Jobber, FieldEdge, and most major trade CRMs and call-tracking platforms. Bring your stack — we'll route leads into it through our AI conversion system.
No. Direct Slack access to the team — strategists, devs, SEO leads — is included with monthly maintenance. No tickets, no gatekeepers.
Your Journey to Growth
Three simple steps. No surprises.
From strategy to autonomous execution. No term contracts, ever — 30-day notice. You own your content and front-end design files and take them with you anytime; only the Hydra OS brain stays ours.
01
⏱ 5–10 min
Strategy
Tell us about your service areas, trades, and goals. Cortex AI calculates the optimal scope and investment for your growth.
Grow the brand, scale the platform, or power your network.
Talk to a real strategist — not a chatbot. We'll show you exactly how Hydra OS would work for your business, franchise system, portfolio, dealer network, or agency.
Know a contractor who should be on Hydra OS? Refer them and earn AI credits when they join — unlimited referrals through the CI Web Group Ambassador Program.
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