You’re no longer optimizing for one search engine. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google’s AI Mode, traditional Google, AI overviews — same buyer, six surfaces.
Review velocity, citation building, brand presence on the platforms LLMs cite from (Reddit, LinkedIn, niche forums), authority signals across multiple platforms — none of it on a 2022 SEO checklist.
Google and OpenAI publish nothing. The techniques that work shift week to week. Agencies and in-house teams don’t have the bandwidth to run the experiments.
Among customers already paying an agency, dissatisfaction is near-universal in our discovery calls. Not because agency teams aren’t good — the model itself doesn’t fit 2026.
Strategy, execution, monitoring, reporting. Plus the new surfaces an agency hasn’t added to its scope yet.
Anchored to agency retainer for the same scope. The platform does the operational work; one human can cover what an agency assigns three to.
A full site audit in under an hour — the same audit an agency runs in three days. And we run it continuously, not quarterly.
You connect Google Search Console, GA4, and your CMS. Berlin researches your brand, builds a strategy, runs the audits, generates the actions, pushes content updates to your CMS, executes technical fixes against the site, and keeps watching for new issues. No conversation required — you can talk to Berlin to steer it if you want.
Internally we call them Forward Deployed Marketers. They shape the strategy, review and approve Berlin’s output before anything ships, and handle the work no agent can — manual posting on LinkedIn or Reddit, judgment calls, anything that needs a human ear. They own the relationship, the same way an agency account lead does — except they have an AI platform doing the operational work underneath them.
What the customer lands on after sign-in
These are illustrative. Your portfolio is shaped to your brand.
Agentic processes read the watchers’ outputs on a loop, weigh new signal against existing findings, and decide what becomes an action — without you having to triage.
Once per quarter. Sometimes once at onboarding, then never again.
Continuous. Most workflows weekly, some daily. The audit report stays current as new signal arrives.
A regression that would have taken your agency 90 days to notice gets caught the same week it happens.
Watchers poll your SEO & AI Search surface on their own cadences. New signal lands constantly.
Signal becomes findings and prioritized focus areas. Stays current; doesn’t go stale the way an agency’s quarterly deck does.
Content updates push to your CMS. Technical fixes execute live. Human-judgment items route to the Review Center.
You’re not in the loop unless you want to be. Default mode: autonomous execution with your Dedicated Marketer reviewing what matters — you can review every action or only the categories you flag.
A custom-built runtime that holds 1,000s of agent executions in flight at any moment — no queueing, no degraded latency. Off-the-shelf orchestration frameworks ceiling out long before this.
Our in-house research team runs controlled experiments on what’s actually working in search and AI Search right now — and feeds the results into a knowledge base that every agent queries on every audit run. Your account benefits from what we learn on every other account.
Millions of keywords held in a fast query layer that agents hit directly — not stuffed into an LLM’s context window, not vector-guessed. The reason long, multi-step audit runs don’t fall over mid-flow.
Our own crawler watches your site and your competitors on a cadence. Every page is stored versioned and queryable to agents — so they always work against fresh state, with history when they need it.
This is why one Dedicated Marketer can cover the depth an agency assigns three people to — and why pricing lands at ~1/4 of agency cost without breaking unit economics.
| Dimension | Traditional agency | Berlin |
|---|---|---|
| Full site audit | 3 days, once per quarter | < 1 hour, continuous |
| Surface area | Blue links (Google) | Google + AI Search + reviews + authority + competitors |
| Cost | From $1.5K–$20K+ / mo (scope-based) | From $499 / mo (scope-based, ~1/4 of agency) |
| Marketer : client ratio | 1 : 4–8 | 1 : 10–15 |
| Reporting | Quarterly deck | Living document, updates as new signal lands |
| Time to shipped fix | 2–4 weeks | Same day on most actions |
| Commitment | 6–12 month retainer | Month-to-month |
Larger scopes ladder up from there — the agency-fraction anchor stays the same.
We’ll quote your tier on the next call, based on what we saw in discovery.
Included at every tier: the platform, your Dedicated Marketer, SEO + AI Search coverage, the audit + report + action loop, CMS integration, the Review Center. Month-to-month.