Ecommerce Search Specialists

Be The Brand
Customers Find First.

Search is fragmenting across Google, Shopping, ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. We make ecommerce brands the obvious answer in every place a buying decision begins.

Search Visibility

Own the surfaces your buyers actually use to discover products.

AI Discoverability

Be the brand ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews recommend.

Category Authority

Win the share of attention competitors are still buying with ads.

Positioning01

The future of ecommerce growth is search visibility.

Buyers no longer start at a single search bar. Discovery has spread across a fragmented set of surfaces - and your brand has to exist on each one, or the next click goes to a competitor that does.

01

Google Search

Still the largest discovery surface - but no longer the only one.

02

Google Shopping

Where high-intent product comparison happens before checkout.

03

ChatGPT

Increasingly the first step in considered ecommerce research.

04

Perplexity

Cites brands as sources - visibility here defines credibility.

05

AI Overviews

Compresses the SERP and rewards entity authority over keywords.

06

Recommendation Engines

Algorithmic merchandising on platforms you don't own.

We help ecommerce brands build presence wherever buying decisions happen - not just on the channels that fit a quarterly media plan.

Our methodology02

The Search Visibility Framework

A search-first operating model for modern ecommerce. Each stage unlocks the next - and the compounding effect is what most agencies never reach because they skip straight to traffic.

We use it as a diagnostic on day one, and as the roadmap for every quarter that follows.

  1. Visibility

    Stage 01

    Show up on the search surfaces your buyers actually use - Google, Shopping, AI engines, marketplaces.

  2. Authority

    Stage 02

    Become the entity engines, editors and algorithms treat as the credible source in your category.

  3. Traffic

    Stage 03

    Convert presence into qualified sessions from high-intent buyers, not undifferentiated volume.

  4. Conversion

    Stage 04

    Turn intent into purchase with merchandising, product narrative and category-specific UX.

  5. Revenue

    Stage 05

    Compound acquisition into category share - durable demand that doesn't reset when ads pause.

Who we work with01

Built for ecommerce brands ready to lead their category.

We work exclusively with product-market-fit ecommerce businesses that want to own buyer demand - not just rent it back from ad platforms every month.

  • Shopify and Shopify Plus brands
  • WooCommerce and headless commerce
  • DTC and digitally-native brands
  • Ecommerce companies between $1M–$15M+
  • Operators reducing single-channel dependency
  • Teams ready to invest in category authority
The plateau03

Most ecommerce brands don't have a traffic problem. They have a visibility problem.

Six patterns we see in nearly every stalled ecommerce brand. Most are fixable - once you can see them clearly.

Paid dependency

Acquisition stops the moment spend stops. The business is renting demand instead of owning it.

Missing on commercial queries

Invisible on the exact bottom-of-funnel terms your buyers use to choose a brand.

Leaky funnel

Traffic arrives - and the product, narrative or merchandising fails to convert it.

Stalled technical foundation

Outdated architecture, thin product pages and weak entity signals cap the ceiling.

No AI search presence

ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews name a competitor in your category - not your brand.

Single-platform risk

The entire business sits on a channel you don't control, with an algorithm you can't appeal.

What we do02/03

Search marketing, specialized for ecommerce.

Three disciplines, one operating system. We deploy what fits your category and stage - and quietly remove what doesn't.

Our Services

SEO

Earn category presence on the surfaces that compound. Technical SEO, product and collection optimization, and content built around real buyer intent.

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Google Ads

Acquisition that accelerates growth instead of replacing it. Search, Shopping and Performance Max engineered for margin - not vanity ROAS.

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AI Optimization(AEO/GEO)

Be the brand generative engines cite. We build the entity, authority and reference signals ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews actually trust.

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Run one discipline. Or run the system end-to-end.

We diagnose against the Visibility Compound - then deploy what creates the most leverage.

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What separates us

Built for ecommerce brands serious about owning their category.

Ecommerce-only

Every account, every hire, every playbook - built for product-led ecommerce.

Search-first methodology

We start with how buyers discover, not how budgets get allocated.

AI search expertise

Early specialists in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews visibility.

Performance execution

Senior operators on the work - not junior pass-throughs on your account.

What we do04

The four disciplines we go deep on.

We resist the agency-of-everything model. These are the levers that move ecommerce - and the ones we've gone deep enough on to take a real position.

SEO

Earn category presence on the surfaces buyers actually use to discover products.

01
  • Technical SEO
  • Ecommerce SEO
  • Category Optimization
  • Product SEO
  • Content Strategy

Google Ads

Paid acquisition that accelerates the business - not one that replaces it.

02
  • Search Campaigns
  • Shopping Campaigns
  • Performance Max
  • Retargeting

AI Search Optimization

Be the brand generative engines cite when buyers ask the category question.

03
  • ChatGPT Visibility
  • Perplexity Visibility
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Brand Authority Building

Conversion Optimization

Turn the demand you already have into purchase, not just into sessions.

04
  • Landing Pages
  • Funnel Audits
  • UX Improvements
  • A/B Testing
AI Search Optimization05

Your next buyer is asking ChatGPT, not Google.

The discovery layer of ecommerce is being rebuilt around generative engines. We were early to the category and we operate inside it every day - not as a side practice, but as a core discipline.

Buyer research has moved into the chat window

Considered ecommerce decisions - beauty, home, supplements, apparel - increasingly start with a prompt, not a query. Whoever the model names first wins the consideration set.

ChatGPT now functions as a recommendation engine

Users ask for brand suggestions, comparisons and shortlists. The output is shaped by entity authority, citations and the web footprint engines can verify.

AI Overviews are reshaping organic clicks

Google increasingly answers commercial questions on-SERP. The brands cited inside the overview capture the remaining intent - everyone else loses traffic silently.

Visibility now lives beyond Google

Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and product-aware assistants each surface brands differently. A single-channel SEO program no longer covers the buyer journey.

Most brands will discover this market shift after their organic traffic curve has already bent. The ones that lead the category in five years are building AI visibility now.

Market shift06

Search is evolving. Most brands haven't adapted.

Discovery is no longer a Google-only motion. Buyers move between classical search, generative engines and platform-native answers - often inside a single research session. The brands that win the next decade will be visible across all of them.

Foundational

Google

Still the largest channel - but increasingly an answer engine. Position One isn't a blue link anymore.

Fastest growing

ChatGPT

Hundreds of millions of weekly users running brand research, product comparison and shortlisting inside the chat.

Authority signal

Perplexity

Citation-based search. Whoever the model trusts as a source is named - and that authority compounds.

SERP reshaping

AI Overviews

Compresses commercial SERPs into a single synthesized answer. Brands not inside it lose impressions silently.

Demand evidence

YouTube

Long-form intent layer. Review-and-comparison queries that increasingly feed back into AI-generated answers.

Why UT Ventures08

An ecommerce search firm - not a generalist agency.

Ecommerce-only

We don't take SaaS, B2B or services work. Just product-led ecommerce - and the playbooks specific to it.

Search-first thinking

Every engagement begins with how the buyer discovers, not with which channel has remaining budget.

AI search specialists

Early operators in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews visibility. It's a core practice, not a side note.

Compounding playbooks

We invest in the assets that build durable category presence - and refuse the work that doesn't.

Transparent operations

Same dashboards, same decisions, same rationale. No black box, no monthly mystery deck.

Senior operators only

The people you hire are the people doing the work. No junior layer learning on your account.

How we work09

A six-step engagement, built for operators.

Predictable cadence, clear ownership, no theatre. The same process we'd want if we were the client on the other side of the table.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We learn the business - margins, products, category dynamics and the real constraint behind the ceiling.

  2. 02

    Visibility Audit

    A deep audit of how the brand currently shows up across Google, Shopping, AI engines and competitors.

  3. 03

    Strategy

    A 90-day roadmap mapped to the Visibility Compound - owned by us, reviewed with you.

  4. 04

    Implementation

    Senior operators on the keyboard. The strategists who scoped the work are the people doing it.

  5. 05

    Iteration

    Weekly experiments, monthly reviews, quarterly re-investment into the surfaces actually moving demand.

  6. 06

    Category share

    Compound the assets that earn it - and quietly cut the ones that don't.

FAQ10

Frequently asked questions.

If you don't see your question here, write to us directly. We answer every inbound personally.

Be the brand customers find first.

We'll map where your buyers are searching today, where they'll be searching next, and what it takes to be the brand they choose in both places.