AI VISIBILITY SERVICES
The Authority Climb™
Building Industry Authority in the Age of AI Search
A five-step, evidence-led climb to help businesses dominate AI search results
Your best clients now ask AI tools who to hire before they ever visit a website. The Authority Climb is 500 Creative's method for making sure the answer is you: a five-step, evidence-led climb for service businesses that want to attract quality leads, and become the obvious choice across Google and AI search.
Each step is a standalone engagement and a stage in the climb.
The moment that decides who gets the call
Somewhere right now, a client you would love to work with is asking AI to recommend a firm that does exactly what you do. The answer they get becomes their shortlist. If AI cannot clearly see, understand, and trust your business, someone else gets the call, and you never know the conversation happened. You can be exceptional at the work and still be invisible in the moment that decides who gets it.
Expertise wins the work. Authority wins the chance to do it.
A method, not a menu
The climb is built on one principle: you cannot build authority before you have earned the foundation for it.
You cannot fix what you have not diagnosed, and you cannot diagnose what you have not measured. See before you understand, understand before you fix, fix on-site before you build off-site, build before you sustain. Each step depends on the one below it. That is what makes it a method, not a menu of disconnected services.
THE FIVE STEPS
The Five Steps
See it.
AI Discovery Scan — $97
Live evidence of how AI describes your business, scored, with the competitors it recommends instead.
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Live AI search evidence across the four major AI engines, tested with the top 3 high-intent queries your prospects would ask
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Your AI Visibility Score, explained in plain language
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The competitors AI recommends instead of you, and a direct recommendation on what to do next
What you get: documented evidence of where and how your business is being overlooked. The Scan establishes that a visibility problem exists. It does not yet diagnose what is causing it.
Understand it.
AI Visibility Audit — $1,500
The exact reasons you are being overlooked, and a prioritized plan to fix them.
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A comprehensive AI visibility audit: A 10 to 20-page strategic diagnostic covering how AI understands your business, your current strategic context, and your performance across the six core dimensions of AI visibility.
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A detailed technical, content, trust, and competitor analysis: An assessment of your schema, metadata, crawlability, content clarity, authority signals, and the gaps between your business and the firms AI recommends instead.
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A prioritized action plan with specific fixes for every identified gap, quick wins for the first two weeks, strategic priorities for the first 90 days, and a measurement framework to track progress
What you get: A detailed, evidence-based diagnostic report, plus a prioritized list of recommended changes ordered by impact and urgency.
Fix it.
Authority Sprint — 1 500 $ à 4 500 $+
The Authority Sprint turns your Audit findings into action.
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This focused engagement corrects the content, structural, and technical gaps identified through the diagnostic process.
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Depending on the Audit findings, the work may include refining your core messaging, restructuring priority pages, strengthening expertise and trust signals, improving content clarity, implementing technical enhancements, and making your website easier for search engines and AI tools to interpret.
What you get: You receive a Sprint Completion Report showing before and after, with your updated AI Visibility Score.
Extend it.
Offsite Authority Roadmap — $2,500
A six-month strategy for building the authority signals beyond your website, across the digital ecosystem.
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Digital footprint audit across seven authority categories
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Month-by-month execution roadmap with templates and systems ready to use
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Competitive authority comparison and prioritized opportunities
What you get: A complete six-month execution plan: every directory to claim, every media opportunity worth pursuing, a review generation system with ready-to-use templates, and the exact queries to track your progress monthly.
Sustain it.
Authority Building Program — from $750/month
The Authority Building Program turns the Offsite Authority Roadmap into ongoing action.
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Strategy, execution, monitoring, refinement, managed over time.
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Each month, priority initiatives are implemented to expand your authority, strengthen your visibility, and maintain the momentum created by the earlier stages.
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What you get: Month-over-month execution that allows authority to compound instead of fading after the initial work is complete.
Why the Order Matters
The climb follows the sequence required to build credible, durable visibility. Each step creates the foundation for the next.
See before you understand. The Scan captures live evidence of how your business appears across AI platforms, so the process begins with facts rather than assumptions.
Understand before you fix. The Audit identifies the specific gaps limiting your visibility, so the Sprint addresses the right issues in the right order instead of guessing.
Fix on-site before building off-site. Your website must clearly communicate, structure, and substantiate your expertise before external signals can reinforce it. Offsite authority pointing at an unreadable site is wasted effort.
Build before you sustain. The Roadmap defines the strategy. The Program puts it into action consistently, allowing authority, visibility, and credibility to compound over time.
How Each Step Connects
The steps are designed to feed directly into one another so evidence, decisions, and progress carry forward.
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1. The Scan becomes the Audit's factual record. Its live findings determine where deeper investigation is needed.
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2. The Audit becomes the Sprint's implementation plan. Its prioritized recommendations determine which on-site improvements are completed and in what order.
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3. The Sprint informs the Offsite Authority Roadmap. Any authority gaps that cannot be addressed on the website are documented and carried into the offsite strategy.
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4. The Roadmap becomes the Authority Building Program's execution plan.
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5. The Program implements the strategy month by month, adjusting priorities as authority and visibility grow.
Any platform. Same climb.
The climb is platform-agnostic. The Scan and the Audit analyze how AI sees your business, not what your website runs on. Wix, WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, custom builds, all of it climbs the same way.
Where you enter
The AI Discovery Scan is the required foundation and the one step no client skips, because every later stage depends on the evidence it produces.
You can start at any stage. You cannot skip the steps beneath it. Clients entering higher up complete the earlier steps first, so the climb always rests on evidence, not assumptions.