The Kudos Blueprint
Become the business AI recommends, and the one customers choose.
In one focused interview, we uncover the truth about your business. Then we turn it into the exact assets you need, so AI and your future customers finally understand who you are, who you serve, and why you are the right choice.
Founding 10 · Greenville and the Upstate · October 2026Book a quick 15-minute call to see if the Founding 10 is a fit. If it is, you will get everything you need to join.
Your best customers are asking AI who to hire. Right now.
The way people find local businesses is changing faster than most owners realize. Instead of scrolling through Google, more of your customers simply ask AI: who is the best in my area. In that moment, AI recommends someone. The only question is whether it recommends you, recommends a competitor, or does not know you exist at all. Most owners have never checked. When they do, the answer is usually uncomfortable.
This is not about gaming AI. It is about being understood.
AI recommends the businesses it understands best. Not the loudest, and not the ones with the most tricks. The ones whose story is clear, consistent, and true across the web. Most owners carry that story in their head. They have never written it down in a way that AI and customers can actually find and trust. That gap is the whole problem, and it is fixable.
The Kudos Blueprint
One interview. Everything after it, built for you. In a single focused conversation, I draw out the truth about your business: what you do best, who you serve, and what makes you the obvious choice. Then I turn that truth into a complete set of assets you own forever, designed so both AI and your future customers understand exactly who you are.
Real businesses. Real results.
A local business now named by AI, and the kind of transformation that gets you there.
Joakim was always excellent. AI just did not know it.
Joakim Johansson has always built beautiful outdoor spaces, and always at a fair price. His work was never the problem. The problem was that ChatGPT, Gemini, Google, and the rest did not clearly understand what he did or who he was right for. To AI, he was a question mark. And AI does not recommend a question mark.
Then we completed his Kudos Blueprint.
We drew out the truth about his business and put one clear, consistent explanation of exactly what he does everywhere it mattered across the internet. Nothing invented, nothing exaggerated. Just his real story, told the same way everywhere, so AI could finally understand him. Once it did, the results followed.
Now AI names him directly.
Today, when someone searches for a patio builder in Travelers Rest, Johansson Builders ranks near the top and is named directly in Google's AI Overview. The same signals that earned that ranking are the ones AI uses to decide who to recommend. He is no longer a question mark. He is the answer.
More businesses. The same transformation.
These are other clients we have helped, in different trades and different markets. Same story every time: from invisible to found.
Everything you get
Instant AI Recommendation Report and Personal Review
$200See exactly where you stand across the six major AI engines, your local ranking, and the gap between you and your competitors. Then we walk through it together, live, so you understand precisely what it means and what to do next.
Business Identity Document
$499The complete, confirmed record of who you are. The facts, verified and consistent, and the truth beneath them: what you do, what you do best, and what you deliberately do not do. The foundation every AI and every customer needs to understand you correctly. Yours to keep and feed into any AI tool, forever.
Ideal Customer Intelligence Document
$499Most owners carry this in their head and never take the time to think it through. In your interview, I draw it out: not just who spends the most, but who you do your best work for, who you enjoy, and who you should be attracting. And just as important, who you should not. This is what helps you win higher-value customers, avoid the difficult ones, and stop wasting time on leads that were never a fit. Clients tell me this is the most valuable thing they walk away with.
Brand Voice and Story Document
$499Your voice, your positioning, and your story, written down clearly, along with the colors and fonts drawn from your brand. A branding document like this can cost thousands at a large firm. It sets the tone for everything you publish from here forward, so your message stays consistent everywhere someone finds you.
Interview Transcript
$299Your entire interview, captured and organized into a clean, usable document. Not a raw recording. A reference you can feed into any AI tool to generate content that actually sounds like you.
12-Point AI Visibility Audit
$300A clear, numbered scorecard of how ready your business is to be found and recommended by AI, and to rank in your local market. You will know exactly what is working, what is holding you back, and what to fix first.
Your 90-Day Action Plan
$700This is where clarity becomes results. A specific, prioritized plan for the next 90 days, paired with the exact affordable tools to carry out each step and the documents we built to power them. Every step gives you two paths: do it yourself with simple guidance, or hand it to me. Your roadmap to a stronger 2027, starting now.
A One-Time Founding Offer
This is the only time the Kudos Blueprint will be offered at a founding price, to a founding group. Once these ten seats are filled, this offer will not be repeated.
Founding 10 Bonuses
These two founding bonuses are only for businesses that book a call and join the Founding 10 before seats close on October 13. After that, they are gone.
Premium Greenville Kudos Listing
$499Greenville Kudos is my independent directory of more than 2,333 Upstate businesses, built so both people and AI can find the real story behind each one. As a founding member you get a featured, premium listing in it, recognized as a Founding Business. An independent, trusted local source telling your true story is exactly the kind of corroboration AI looks for.
Founding Member Group Access
IncludedDirect access to me while you put it all to work. A live Founding 10 kickoff call on Friday, October 23, plus monthly group implementation sessions through December, so you are never left to figure it out alone.
Total value: $3,495
Your founding price: $997
Founding seats close October 13
I personally deliver each Blueprint, so I can only take ten founding businesses.
Book a quick 15-minute call to see if the Founding 10 is a fit. If it is, you will get everything you need to join.
The Clarity Guarantee
You will finish your Kudos Blueprint with more clarity about your business and your ideal customer than you have ever had. If you do not, keep everything and pay nothing.
Why I am only taking ten
I am opening the Kudos Blueprint to just ten founding businesses from the Greenville and Upstate area this October. There is a personal reason for the timing, and I will be honest about it. My wife and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary. We are away until October 5, I am speaking at MomentumGVL on October 6, and I will be with family from October 14 to 21. When I return on the 21st, I am clearing my calendar to pour into these ten businesses, giving each one the full interview, the documents, the action plan, and the tools to set up an incredible 2027 by doing the right things in November and December.
That is why there are only ten. I want to do this right, for a small group, with my full attention.
Your founding cohort journey
- 1Now through October 13: Book a 15-minute call to see if the Founding 10 is a fit.
- 2The moment you enroll: Your instant AI Recommendation Report is generated automatically.
- 3Friday, October 23: We kick off together on a live Founding 10 Zoom call.
- 4Late October into November: Your interview, your documents, and your 90-day plan, built and delivered.
- 5November and December: Monthly group sessions as you put it all to work, building momentum into 2027.
Book a quick 15-minute call to see if the Founding 10 is a fit. If it is, you will get everything you need to join.
Frequently asked questions
Ten founding seats. Closing October 13.
If you want AI and your future customers to finally understand who you are, this is the moment, and the group, to do it with.
Book a quick 15-minute call to see if the Founding 10 is a fit. If it is, you will get everything you need to join.