Signals from the new search era
GEO, LLM visibility, technical foundations and the craft of running a modern agency — written by people who've done it for 20+ years.
LLMs: Everyone Quotes Parameters, Tokens, Context Window Counts. Almost Nobody Knows What That Means.
Parameters, context windows, licenses and benchmark scores measure four completely different things — and only one is about quality. Explained by hiring a cook, with a verified 2026 comparison of six open-weight models.
Everyone Benchmarks AI Coding. Nobody Checks the Code. So We Made 9 Engines Build a Real App.
Same 2,600-character spec, one shot, no help. Nine engines, hand-clicked apps, statically analyzed codebases, every token and cent counted — twice per engine.
Free Has a Ceiling: The Day My $0 Lovable Alternative Froze — and the Five Lanes Out
One real day, one real app, a 16 GB MacBook Air and a $0 model budget — the three species of rate limit, the hardware threshold, and the five lanes out.
Lovable vs. a $0 Alternative: An Honest Deep-Dive from Someone Who Uses Both
A year of paying $480 a month vs. a month of self-hosting the same experience for nothing — cost tables, model line-up and a category-by-category scorecard.
Lovable Alternative: Free Vibe Coding with VSCode, Cline, Ollama & Supabase
Build a local, private, free Lovable-style vibe coding setup on your Mac — with all the pitfalls hit while doing it.
How many prompts should I track?
Prompt count × engines × iterations × frequency drives your LLM-tracking bill. The two jobs of visibility data — and the funnel math that right-sizes your package.
Let us do the SEO/GEO tech stuff! Focus on customer relations.
Agencies burn 5–10 hours per client per month on manual data and reporting. The division of labor that gives that time back to your clients.
How to sell GEO services: the agency playbook
Clients expect their agency to lead on GEO — most agencies have no delivery model. The five-step playbook from first pitch to recurring retainer.
The technical GEO audit as a door opener
Win new clients with their own data: what the audit checks, the white-label report, and the now / next week / next month action plan.
Schema, chunkability, bot access: the technical GEO checklist
Why a green classic audit can still mean zero AI visibility — the checklist that closes the gap, and the pipeline order to fix it in.
From SEO agency to AI visibility agency in 90 days
A playbook for repositioning your agency around GEO — packaging, pricing and the first three clients.
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