Consort Creative
consortcreative.com3.44/ 5
M1 · Own AI-visibility 2 · 9%
Absent from category recall on both engines. Brand recall split: ChatGPT — 'agency is clearly active, but nearly all discoverable information comes from its own site/social; no strong independent footprint (no established Clutch profile, significant press, or broad recognition)' (self-sourced-thin); Claude corroborated existence — 'real, long-established St. Louis firm; BBB confirms owner (Joseph Abellard), LLC + 2009 founding, Angi 5.0, plus Yelp/Clutch/LinkedIn' but 'independent review depth is light' (present-and-accurate). Existence corroborated; outside reviews thin. · provisional
M2 · Method transparency 4 · 16%
A clear staged method ("Growth Audit" week 1 / "Strategy Build" week 2 / "Refinement & Approval" ongoing / "Monthly Review" plain-English report) with concrete AI-SEO deliverables — "Structured data and schema markup implementation", "FAQ and entity content optimization", "AI-citation-ready content strategy", "Monthly AI search performance tracking". source ↗
M3 · Evidence verifiability 4 · 23%
Full-name, named-company testimonials with concrete claims — Kevion Weston (Shape2Tone): "We went from invisible on Google to fully booked in under 90 days"; Frank Fallon (Alternative Law Mediation): "now when someone asks ChatGPT about our service category… we come up" — plus stated metrics ("3x average traffic in 6 months"). No linkable case-study URLs or external verification. source ↗
M4 · Pricing openness 5 · 12%
Published prices — Discovery Session $350 one-time, free Brand Audit, SEO Foundations $650/mo (3-month minimum), and a full SEO + AI-SEO + content + social system at $2,750/mo. source ↗
M5 · AI reachability 4 · 10%
robots.txt does not block the key AI crawlers and the homepage is server-rendered (1555 words to a non-JS reader); no llms.txt. source ↗
E1 · Segment fit 4 · 12%
editorial — "AI search optimization agency built specifically for small business budgets… not enterprise clients" — clearly SMB-built; tempered slightly by 3-month minimums and a discovery-call entry rather than pure self-serve checkout. source ↗
E2 · Promise cleanliness 4 · 18%
editorial — Notably clean — no "guaranteed", "dominate" or ranking promises; softer, honest framing ("most likely to earn a high ranking", "measurable improvements"). No money-back or fake-review/AI-manipulation language. source ↗
◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: self-sourced-thin — active, but discoverable info mostly own site/social; no strong independent footprint · Claude: present-and-accurate (light) — BBB-confirmed (owner Joseph Abellard, est. 2009), Angi 5.0; thin review depth · recorded, not averaged
The strongest entry in this batch — a clear weekly method, fully published SMB-budget pricing, full-name testimonials with concrete claims, and unusually clean, guarantee-free copy. The main gaps are no linkable case-study artifacts (M3 capped at 4) and 3-month minimums on the managed tiers. A genuinely SMB-built AI-SEO shop whose marketing matches its evidence better than most. Own-visibility (M1) provisional.
Focus: generalist combine · -0.50 applied to composite
SMB-primary: pass
Self-serve offer: pass
GEO substance: pass
Live business: pass
What this ruler does NOT measure Track-record depth and the volume of named cases favour older incumbents we cannot fully see; NDA-bound outcomes are unscored. We weight reproducible, buyer-checkable signal on purpose — and we list ourselves on the same ruler.
Data as of 2026-06-30