Thirty Years of Design Experience.
Cite Runner is a founder-led marketing agency built for local service businesses. Every website, every SEO strategy, and every AI system is built and reviewed personally.
How Cite Runner was born
Cite Runner was founded on a simple idea: small, local businesses deserve the same quality of design and technology work that big companies pay agencies a fortune for — without the jargon, the bloated retainers, or the runaround.
30+
years of design and technology experience
Branding & identity
Three decades of hands-on design experience, now focused on giving local businesses a brand identity that actually looks and feels professional.
Website design
Every site is hand-built for speed, clarity, and results — not assembled from a generic template and left to rot.
1%
of local businesses get recommended when people ask ChatGPT
Why choose Cite Runner?
Unparalleled expertise and innovation.
Simplicity
Straightforward pricing, plain-English explanations, and a system you can actually understand.
Transparency
Real monthly reports showing what changed and why — never vague metrics standing in for results.
AI + Human Judgment
AI handles the heavy lifting, a real person reviews everything before it reaches your customers.
Direct Access
No account managers, no support tickets. You work directly with the founder, every time.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to common questions about our AI marketing services, pricing, timelines, reporting, and how we improve results over time.
We help local service businesses get found — on Google, and increasingly by AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity when people ask for recommendations. That includes website design, local SEO, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Google Business Profile management, and reputation/review systems.
Answer Engine Optimization is making sure AI tools actually recommend your business when someone asks a relevant question — the same way SEO makes sure Google does. It's a newer discipline most agencies don't offer yet.
Technical fixes (site speed, structured data, Google Business Profile) show up within days to a couple of weeks. Ranking and AI-citation improvements typically build over 60–90 days as the changes take hold.
Yes — a monthly report showing your search visibility, AI citation status, and review activity, in plain language, not a dashboard full of jargon.
Access to your website, Google Business Profile, and a short kickoff conversation about your business and customers.
Ongoing SEO/AEO work has a minimum term (currently 6 months) since real search and AI-visibility results take sustained work to build — but there's no indefinite lock-in beyond that.
Both. We tailor the plan to your stage—whether you’re launching your first campaign or scaling an existing one. The goal is the same: consistent leads and profitable growth.
Get found. Get called.
Get more customers.
Free AI Visibility Scan. No pitch, no pressure. Just a real look at where your business stands — and what it's costing you to be invisible.
