Can a development partner handle SEO and AI visibility under my brand?
Yes, and the technical half is where a development partner earns its keep. Site speed, crawlability, structured data, llms.txt and making a site readable to AI assistants are engineering problems. Keep the strategy, the keyword and content plan, and the client reporting in-house. Let the partner fix what's under the hood, under your name.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI answers pull from pages they can fetch and parse easily. Slow pages, content locked in JavaScript, missing schema and duplicate metadata all make a site harder for them to use. Those are fixes in the code, not in the copy.
Small-batch coffee, roasted on the harbor.
Package it as one service with your name on it:
We crawl the client's site the way search engines and AI assistants do, then grade every problem by what it costs, from P0 (fix this week) to P3 (fix when convenient). It covers speed, indexing, metadata, headings, structured data and whether an AI agent can read the content at all.
The report goes out under your agency's name, so you present the findings and set the priorities with your client.
We work through the audit in priority order, in the client's repo and your project tool. What blocks crawlers gets fixed first, then the slower wins like page speed and structured data.
You approve what ships, and you get a before-and-after to show the client when it's done.
AI answers shift as models update and competitors publish. Each month we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI answers the questions your client's customers ask, and track how often the client is named or linked.
It's the number clients are starting to ask about, and it gives the work a reason to continue after the fixes ship.
Proven industry tools, brought together by our own.
We start with the tools the industry trusts: Google Search Console, GA4, PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse and Ahrefs. Then our own tooling brings their findings together, tracks how often AI assistants name the client, and turns it all into a ranked list of fixes we can ship.
lbm.co runs on the same work: it publishes an llms.txt and a public MCP server that AI agents can query.
The reports are second to none. Clear enough for your client, detailed enough for their developers, and delivered under your name. There's a sample below.
Hire when development is steady and part of what you sell. Partner when the work comes in spikes.
You sell and manage the project; the partner builds it under your name.
You don't have to, but never hide it if they ask.
Price on the value of the outcome, not on your partner's invoice.
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