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How MV3 delivers growth infrastructure.

Three integrated phases: discovery, build, operate. AI-accelerated content with human editorial QA. A compounding organic asset your company owns forever, run by our team of SEO professionals, engineers, and auditors.

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Quick Answer
How does MV3 deliver growth infrastructure?

Every MV3 engagement runs the same five-stage protocol: Diagnose (audit the citation, technical, and content gap), Design (build the 90-day plan), Deploy (ship llms.txt, schema, and gap-closing content), Deliver (async standups plus a monthly review), Iterate (re-sweep AI models and reset the backlog). AI accelerates the drafting layer. Our team of SEO professionals, engineers, and auditors runs the strategy, editorial QA, and technical build. Every deliverable is client-owned and lives inside your CMS the day it ships.

Instant Proof

A repeatable playbook, not a bespoke experiment.

5 Days

From kickoff to your first audit deliverable

90 Days

Standard engagement to first citation lift

3 Phases

Discovery, Build, Operate - same protocol every time

100%

Deliverables owned by the client, hosted on the client CMS

“The intake to first ship was faster than any agency we’ve worked with. Week two we had llms.txt live, schema patched, and the first three gap articles queued. By week twelve AI Overview inclusion moved from 0 to 28 percent on our tracked queries.”

DK
Dana · VP Marketing
Vertical SaaS, Series C (composite persona).
Complete Package Itemized

Every retainer includes the same core deliverable stack.

Tiered by volume and scope, not by capability. The Starter, Growth, and Scale retainers ship from the same delivery playbook. Bigger tiers add reach: more content, more channels, more research depth.

What ships every month, regardless of tier
Monthly citation sweep + delta report$497
llms.txt + schema maintenance (Article, FAQ, Organization)$397
Content editorial QA + on-page SEO (per article)$297
Ahrefs + GSC + GA4 data layer & monthly reporting$597
Slack channel + weekly async standup$397
Monthly analyst-led review call, 60 min$497
Team access: SEO, content, technical, analytics$897
Retail value if purchased individually$3,579 / mo
Included in every retainer from$2,997 / mo

Value stack references the retail cost of purchasing each layer standalone from specialist vendors. Actual deliverables scale with tier volume.

Deliverables

Six categories of work run on every account.

The delivery playbook covers strategy, content, technical, authority, analytics, and program management. Tier decides volume. Playbook stays constant.

01
Strategy & Research

Category thesis, ICP validation, competitor intelligence, keyword and citation-prompt research. Refreshed quarterly. Owned by our SEO strategy lead.

02
Content Production

AI-accelerated drafting with human editorial QA. Long-form articles, comparison pages, glossary hubs, and FAQ depth built to earn AI citations and organic rank simultaneously.

03
Technical SEO

llms.txt, JSON-LD schema, entity graph, robots and sitemap discipline, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering audits. Delivered by our tech SEO operations team.

04
Authority & Digital PR

HARO plus Featured plus Qwoted plus manual placement work. Two to five earned links per month targeting the pages that drive citation lift.

05
Analytics & Attribution

GA4 setup or repair, server-side tagging, GSC integration, custom dashboards, monthly performance reporting. Delivered by our analytics lead.

06
Program Management

Slack channel, weekly async standup, monthly review call, quarterly business review. One point of accountability, our delivery lead, on every account.

Strategy + Implementation

We diagnose the gap. Then we run the fix.

Consulting-only shops hand you a PDF and disappear. Implementation-only shops build without a strategic thesis. MV3 pairs the diagnostic audit with the implementation team ready to close every gap the audit surfaces.

Strategy: The Audit

Where AI recommends your competitors, and why.

The $997 GEO Audit is the diagnostic. Five business days from kickoff to a defensible thesis, sequenced by effort and impact.

  • 1Category thesis: which 30 to 60 prompts define buyer research in your vertical.
  • 2Competitor benchmark: numeric citation delta versus your top 3 rivals.
  • 3Root-cause diagnosis: llms.txt, schema, entity coverage, content depth, backlinks.
  • 490-day roadmap: fix, publish, earn, re-measure, week by week.
  • 5Delivered as Notion doc plus 45-min analyst-led review call.
Implementation: The Retainer

Our team runs the 90-day plan so citations actually shift.

Convert to Starter, Growth, or Scale AI inside the review call. We credit the $997 audit against your first month and execute the plan.

  • 1Technical fixes shipped in weeks 1 and 2: llms.txt, JSON-LD, entity graph.
  • 2Content production, weeks 2 through 12: gap-closing articles, comparisons, FAQ hubs.
  • 3Authority signals: Digital PR, earned links, entity-linked sameAs coverage.
  • 4Monthly re-sweeps of eight AI models plus sentiment logging and delta reporting.
  • 5Team access: dedicated Slack, weekly async standup, monthly review, QBR.
Our Guarantees

Written into every engagement.

Three commitments in the master services agreement. Miss any of them and the terms are enforceable at contract.

Deliverable Ownership

Every asset we build, article, schema, llms.txt, dashboards, is 100% owned by your company. Hosted on your CMS. Portable if you leave. No lock-in, no dependency on our stack.

5-Day First Ship

First deliverable, the GEO Audit or the technical fix bundle, ships within 5 business days of kickoff. Miss the ship date and the first month is free.

Cancel Any Time, 30 Days

No annual lock. Cancel any retainer with 30 days written notice. You keep everything we shipped, plus the strategy doc, plus the schema, plus the content, plus the dashboards.

Sample Deliverables + 90-Day Timeline

What a typical 90-day engagement looks like.

Three phases: Discovery (weeks 1 to 2), Build (weeks 3 to 8), Operate (weeks 9 to 12 and beyond). Every phase produces client-owned deliverables inside your CMS.

Standard 90-Day Engagement
Discovery. Build. Operate.

Each phase produces defined ship artifacts. Every artifact is owned by the client, hosted on the client CMS, and portable if the engagement ends.

Weeks 1–2 · Discovery
Diagnose the gap.
  • GEO Audit: 8-model citation sweep
  • llms.txt + schema audit
  • Competitor delta and content gap map
  • ICP + prompt-fleet validation
  • Ship artifact: 30 to 40 page Notion audit
Weeks 3–8 · Build
Deploy the fix.
  • llms.txt live, JSON-LD patched
  • 4 to 12 gap-closing articles shipped
  • Digital PR: 3 to 5 earned links
  • Analytics dashboard live
  • Ship artifact: content library + dashboards
Weeks 9–12 · Operate
Re-sweep and iterate.
  • Full 8-model re-sweep
  • Citation delta report month 3
  • Next 90-day backlog scoped
  • QBR with your leadership team
  • Ship artifact: delta report + next-quarter plan
Deliverable Ownership Guarantee

Every artifact shipped, every article, every schema block, every llms.txt line, every dashboard, is written into the MSA as your intellectual property. Hosted on your CMS. Portable the day the engagement ends. Never locked behind our stack, our login, or our reporting tool.

Methodology

Five stages. Same protocol on every account.

Reproducible against future re-sweeps so you can measure lift, not just point-in-time visibility.

01
Diagnose

Category thesis, competitor set, prompt fleet, technical baseline. Locked in the kickoff call with your marketing lead. Deliverable: audit brief.

02
Design

90-day backlog sequenced by effort and impact. Content editorial calendar, technical fix list, authority-building targets. Deliverable: 90-day plan.

03
Deploy

llms.txt, schema, JSON-LD, entity graph shipped in weeks 1 to 2. Content production and Digital PR kick off week 3. Deliverable: live assets.

04
Deliver

Weekly async standup, monthly analyst-led review, monthly performance report. Slack open channel. Deliverable: reporting + working comms.

05
Iterate

Full re-sweep at week 12. Delta report. Next-quarter backlog rebuilt from live data, not the original hypothesis. Deliverable: delta report + Q2 plan.

Composite Outcomes

What buyers report after the 90-day cycle.

Outcomes reported by MV3 retainer clients after they implement the full 90-day plan. Personas are composite illustrations of role, stage, and category.

The methodology is what sold us. Every ship had a defined artifact and a defined owner on their side. Week twelve we walked out with a 4.1x lift in AI citations and a plan for Q2 that read like a McKinsey deck.

SP
Sarah · VP Marketing
Series B B2B SaaS (composite persona).

What surprised us was the ownership piece. We came from a vendor who locked us into their reporting tool. MV3 shipped everything into our CMS. 90 days later we owned the entire asset library and could have run it ourselves if we wanted to.

MH
Marcus · Head of Growth
PLG DevTools company (composite persona).

Kickoff to first ship in six business days. First re-sweep at week twelve. AI Overview inclusion moved from 0 to 28 percent on our core 12 queries. The process is the product.

PN
Priya · CMO
Enterprise SaaS platform (composite persona).

Composite illustration, not a verified client account.

What Discovery Typically Finds

Aggregate findings from every discovery phase we’ve run.

Data pulled from MV3’s composite GEO Audit + technical discovery output across B2B SaaS accounts, trailing 6 months.

94%

of B2B sites entered the audit with no llms.txt file live

0–3

Median AI citations pre-engagement across 30 category prompts

21

Median schema and technical issues surfaced per discovery phase

12–40

New citations earned within 90 days when the full plan runs

Individual results vary by category maturity, DR, and existing content depth.

Pricing

Two paths in. Three retainer tiers.

Enter with the $997 GEO Audit or convert directly to a retainer. Retainer tiers scale volume, not capability. The delivery playbook stays constant.

Starter AI
$2,997 / mo
3-month minimum · 30-day cancel

GEO plus AIO plus SEO fundamentals for a single product line. Best for post-Series-A B2B SaaS with a clear ICP.

  • 4 gap-closing articles per month
  • Monthly citation sweep + delta report
  • llms.txt + schema maintenance
  • Monthly analyst-led review call
  • Slack + weekly async standup
Start Starter AI →
Growth AI
$5,997 / mo
3-month minimum · 30-day cancel

Full-funnel SEO + GEO + ABM 500/month + LinkedIn Ads oversight. Best for Series B/C SaaS with an SDR team.

  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • ABM lead gen, 500 accounts/mo
  • LinkedIn Ads campaign management
  • Weekly reporting cadence
  • Digital PR: 3 earned links/mo
Start Growth AI →
Scale AI
$9,997 / mo
6-month minimum · 30-day cancel

All Growth deliverables plus Digital PR at scale plus custom n8n automation buildout. Best for Series C+ or PLG at scale.

  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • Digital PR at scale, 5+ links/mo
  • Custom n8n workflow buildouts
  • AI agent development
  • Dedicated delivery lead
Start Scale AI →

Enterprise engagements start at $15K/mo. Request a custom proposal →

Qualification

This is not for you if…

We hold a hard fit bar on every retainer. If any of the below is true, we’re not the right vendor, and we’ll say so on the intro call.

  • You want to keep the playbook opaque. Our process is documented, our deliverables are yours to own, and our reporting lives in your stack. If a black-box vendor is what you want, keep looking.
  • You need results in 30 days. AI citation lift compounds over 90 days minimum. First measurable delta lands week 8 to 12. Pre-launch product? Wait until you have content and category presence.
  • You want an offshore content mill at $500/mo. Our editorial QA is done by senior operators. Cheaper vendors exist. They will not surface what we surface or ship what we ship.
  • You are pre-revenue or pre-product. GEO and SEO lift requires content depth and category presence for models to have something to cite. Retainer ROI compounds with existing scale.
  • You want to skip discovery. Every retainer starts with a diagnostic. Either the $997 GEO Audit or a 2-week technical baseline. Skipping discovery is how vendors ship the wrong thing for six months straight.

If you’re a fit, keep scrolling. Or start with the $997 audit →

Frequently Asked

Questions buyers ask before signing.

Do I have to start with the GEO Audit?
No. The $997 GEO Audit is the recommended entry point because it produces a defensible 90-day thesis before you commit to a retainer. If you already have that thesis, you can convert directly to Starter, Growth, or Scale AI.
What happens after the audit?
The audit ships as a Notion doc plus a 45-minute analyst-led review call. Inside that call your team either converts to a retainer (we credit the $997 against month one) or takes the plan and executes it internally. Both paths are valid.
How long does a typical engagement run?
Retainers run in 90-day increments. Starter and Growth have a 3-month minimum. Scale AI has a 6-month minimum. All retainers cancel with 30 days written notice after the minimum.
Who is on my account team?
Every retainer gets an SEO strategy lead, a technical SEO operator, an editorial content lead, and an analytics lead. Scale AI adds a dedicated delivery lead. All named on your Slack channel from day one.
Do I own the content and the schema?
Yes. Every asset our team ships, every article, every schema block, every llms.txt line, every dashboard, is owned by your company under the master services agreement. Portable to any CMS the day the engagement ends.
How do you handle AI-generated content quality?
Every article ships through a two-stage editorial QA: a senior editor reviews structure, factual accuracy, and voice; a technical SEO operator reviews on-page schema, internal linking, and heading hierarchy. Nothing publishes without both signoffs.
What if the plan is not working at 90 days?
If AI citation delta or organic traffic has not moved meaningfully by the end of month 3, we re-scope the retainer at no additional cost. If the re-scope also fails to move the delta by month 6, we refund month 6 in full.
Can you work with our existing SEO or content team?
Yes. Roughly half our retainers augment an internal team. We slot in as the GEO plus technical plus authority layer while your team runs the day-to-day content operations. Scope is negotiated on the intro call.
Vance Moore, Chief Growth Officer, MV3 Marketing
Program Owner
Vance Moore

Vance oversees the MV3 team; every engagement is delivered by the team, and Vance signs off on every deliverable.

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