VC Partnerships

Most portfolio companies are invisible in AI search and don't know it. We run portfolio-wide diagnostics and work with founders at terms that make sense for their stage.

How it works

Three Ways We Work With Funds

The common thread is diagnosis before spend. Founders shouldn't buy a retainer until someone has measured whether their category is even being asked about conversationally.

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Diagnostic

Portfolio audit

A benchmarked AI visibility snapshot across portfolio companies, so you can see who has a real problem.

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Advisory

Founder office hours

Sessions with founders on whether AI search matters for their category yet — often the answer is not yet.

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Delivery

Preferential terms

Reduced rates for portfolio companies where a full engagement genuinely makes sense.

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Diligence

Pre-investment review

Assessing a target's organic and AI search position as part of technical diligence.

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Education

Team workshops

Sessions for portfolio marketing leads on what changed and what to actually do.

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Reporting

Portfolio benchmarking

Comparative visibility tracking across the portfolio, reported to the fund.

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Our position

We'll Tell Your Founders When Not to Spend

Most early-stage companies shouldn't be buying an AI SEO retainer. If positioning is still moving or the category isn't being asked about conversationally, the money is better spent elsewhere and we'd rather say so.

What almost every portfolio company should do is cheap: make sure AI crawlers aren't blocked, deploy accurate Organization schema, and render server-side. That's an afternoon of work and it avoids starting from a hole at Series B.

A fund relationship where we upsell every founder into a retainer would be worth very little to you. Diagnosis first, honest recommendations, and delivery only where it pays back.

Talk to us

Tell us about the fund and portfolio size and we'll come back with what a portfolio diagnostic would look like.

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Find Out Where You
Stand in AI Search

We'll benchmark your brand against the questions your category actually gets asked, and show you who's being cited instead of you.

No commitment · 45 minutes · Immediate value