Every question buyers actually ask before they sign.

Onboarding (our automated six-layer audit and setup) is normally $1,000, and it's waived when you join via the waitlist. Against 2026 industry benchmarks for the deliverable, $1,000 is a fair price; verify against WebFX, FirstPageSage, or any reputable agency.

We can waive it because onboarding is automated: near-zero marginal cost to run, full value to you. The waitlist is free and takes no card. From there, membership starts at $199/month, month-to-month — email human@emaration.ai to start today.

Onboarding (our automated six-layer audit and setup, normally $1,000) waived. With membership, the senior people do your work — no junior account-manager hand-off. Named in our public case study library with your permission. First look at new services. A voice in the methodology: your audit findings shape the next version of Emaration's six-layer methodology. The waitlist is free and takes no card, and membership starts at $199/month, month-to-month — email human@emaration.ai to start today.

The audit is automated: the six-layer methodology and multi-AI checks run the same way for every business, so giving it away costs us near nothing and never thins the work.

Andrew still personally reviews the findings and signs off on every report. Automation does the heavy lifting; the senior person stands behind what lands in your hands. The waitlist is free, and membership starts at $199/month, month-to-month — email human@emaration.ai to start today.

No. Same audit. Same six layers. Same scoped remediation plan. Same 30 days of monitoring. Waitlist members get the full $1,000 onboarding for free; the only thing waived is the fee, never the work.

You probably hired the senior person, got handed off to a junior account manager, and watched the work get worse. Here, a human reads and signs off on every deliverable, and with membership the senior people do the work themselves. The audit shows you the work and the prices before you commit to a retainer, and the retainer is month-to-month, so if the work doesn't produce, you leave without a fight.

And everything is delivered and yours to keep: the six-layer audit, the scoped remediation plan, and 30 days of monitoring. You see exactly what you receive before you ever pay for membership.

The audit ends with a dollar number on every finding: the estimated monthly revenue you're losing to each leak. You see the math before you pay anything, because onboarding is free for waitlist members.

Membership starts at $199/month, month-to-month, and the work is scoped from those findings, so you only pay for line items mapped to real losses. On the benchmarks we audit against, a typical SMB is leaking several times that in untracked conversions, schema gaps, and AI-search invisibility. The audit's job is to prove that or disprove it in writing, for your business specifically.

Most agency pain comes from generalists pretending to be specialists. We're honest about which verticals we have deep experience in (multi-location healthcare, professional services, accessibility-focused e-commerce) and which ones we'd be learning on your time. If your industry is outside what we've worked in, we'll tell you up front.

The audit methodology itself is industry-agnostic: it surfaces leaks, AI-search gaps, and measurement breaks the same way whether you sell veterinary visits or violins. What changes is the benchmark set we hold your numbers against, and we name that benchmark in the audit.

No. Retainers are month-to-month: cancel any time, no minimum and no notice period. That's it.

We don't offer annual discounts because annual contracts at this band read as lock-in dressed up as savings. The only reason for a client to stay with us is that the work is producing. If it isn't, the contract shouldn't be the thing keeping you.

No. Percentage-of-ad-spend pricing creates an incentive to recommend bigger budgets, not better outcomes.

We charge flat monthly retainers scoped from your audit findings, with line-item prices you can see before you sign. If your audit says paid search is leaking money, we'll show you the fix, and the fix might be to spend less, not more. Our retainer doesn't move when your ad budget does.

Share the audit page and the pricing page. Onboarding (our automated six-layer audit and setup) is normally $1,000, and it's waived when you join via the waitlist, with a defined deliverable in 10 business days. Everything you pay for is yours to keep: the audit, the scoped remediation plan, and 30 days of monitoring. You see exactly what you get before you pay for membership, which starts at $199/month, month-to-month.

We've also written a one-page summary you can forward. Request it through the audit form and we'll send it within a business day.

You can, but the audit isn't something you're committing a quarter to; it's 10 business days. Most of what we find is already costing you money every week it's not fixed: untracked conversions, AI engines pointing customers elsewhere, ad campaigns optimizing against wrong signals.

If the timing is genuinely wrong, join the waitlist now — free, no card — take the findings, and start membership next quarter with a plan already scoped. The audit's findings don't expire.

Six layers in 10 business days. We look at:

(1) the technical and indexing problems pulling your Google rank down, (2) the keyword and content gaps where competitors are outranking you, (3) how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are answering questions about your business and whether they're citing you, (4) the leads and sales your measurement stack isn't capturing, (5) a scoped plan with real line-item prices for every fix, and (6) an accessibility read on your site against WCAG AA.

You get a PDF, a dashboard view, an audio variant, and the scoped remediation plan.

Get the audit anyway. It's the cleanest way to find out whether your current agency is leaving money on the table, and it gives you a second opinion with real prices attached, not vibes.

A lot of SMBs part ways with their agency inside the first year, and most do it because they couldn't tell what they were paying for. The audit makes that visible. What you do with it (renegotiate, replace, or stay) is your call. We're happy to share the findings directly with your existing agency if you'd rather have them implement the fixes.

A new site is the highest-leverage moment to run an audit, because the cost of fixing structural problems is lowest before they're baked into a year of content.

We'll cover the same six layers, weighted differently: measurement stack, schema, AI-search visibility, and accessibility get more attention; competitive keyword gap analysis gets less, because you don't have a track record to compare yet. The scoped plan focuses on what to build first, not what to tear out.

Yes. Emaration is US-wide. We're based in Portland and our outreach and community-support initiative starts with Oregon partners, but the audit and retainer work is remote-first. We've designed the engagement to run cleanly over video and async updates.

If you're outside the US, write us. We'll tell you honestly whether we can serve you well in your time zone.

There's nothing to pay up front — the waitlist is free and takes no card, and onboarding is waived. When membership opens, Stripe is the default for the monthly fee; it handles card and ACH. For larger plans or clients with procurement requirements, we accept ACH/wire by invoice and can issue net-30 terms after the first month.

We don't take crypto. We don't take checks (it slows everyone down). If your accounting team needs a W-9, COI, or a specific vendor onboarding form, send it with your audit intake and we'll have it back the same week.

Those tools hand you a 200-item checklist and leave you to guess which five items actually move money. Our audit ranks every finding by the dollar cost of the leak, tests how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are answering questions about your business, and ends with a scoped plan that has real line-item prices on it.

We also use those tools, plus a measurement-stack review, a hands-on accessibility check, and a manual AI-search citation audit you can't get from any platform. The tool gives you data. The audit gives you a decision.

Yes. We're publishing an illustrative sample audit — a full walkthrough built on a composite, anonymized business profile (we're pre-launch, so it isn't a real client), so you can see the work before you commit a dollar.

Request it through the audit form and we'll send a link within one business day. The format, the depth, and the scoped-plan section are exactly what you'd receive.

Everything is delivered and yours to keep: the full signed six-layer audit, the scoped remediation plan, and 30 days of monitoring. Onboarding is free for waitlist members, so you see exactly what you receive before you ever pay for membership.

And you're always in the driver's seat. Membership is month-to-month: cancel anytime, in a click or a quick email, and you won't be billed again. You're never billed for a month you didn't choose, and everything you've already paid for stays yours.

We'd rather earn the membership with the work itself than sell you on a pitch deck, so we put the whole deliverable in your hands before you pay a dollar.

Nothing automatic. No card on file, no auto-renewal, no surprise bill.

If you've decided to hire us, we start the scoped plan from your audit. If you haven't, monitoring stops on day 30, you keep every deliverable, and we don't chase you.

You can come back later; your audit findings don't expire. Onboarding is free for waitlist members, and everything it delivers is already yours to keep.

Yes, and that's a feature for you, not a bug.

Emaration is currently a founder-led operation: Andrew runs the technical and client work, Jordan leads accessibility and our outreach and community-support initiative. Behind us is a vetted vendor stack we orchestrate for specialized work (paid search specialists, content production, design, development) at agency-quality without the agency overhead.

What you get with membership: the senior people doing the work themselves — no junior account-manager hand-off — and prices that aren't paying for a sales team. What you don't get: a 24/7 support desk or a roster of named specialists on your account. We name the trade-off out loud because it matters to some buyers more than others.