Work.
Four live builds you can open and audit in ninety seconds. One in development. And primary research on 130 firms with no relationship to me.
Four live sites, one builder, nothing subcontracted and nothing bought in. Open any of them, view source, and read the JSON-LD block in the head. Then do the same on the site of whoever else you are considering. That comparison is the argument, and it does not require me to be in the room.
Four live builds
Each link opens the client’s live site.
Kraus Law is written up at length: read the case study →
Northwest Lagotto is the one with the live AI-query evidence: read the case study → · read the evidence file →
In development. Ecologic Spray Foam, a certified spray-foam insulation contractor in Canada, and a company I co-founded twenty years ago with a partner who still runs it. The link appears here the day it ships and not before, which is why there is no link here now.
The research
I audited 130 independent advisory firms drawn from the SEC’s own registrant feed, scored their structured data and their AI visibility, and published the method, the sample, the raw findings, and my own conflict of interest.
Ninety-five percent scored the lowest possible mark for author and credential structure. Not one had linked its regulatory registration into its data in a form a machine could verify.
No relationship of mine had anything to do with any of those 130 firms. It is the arm’s-length evidence on this page, and it happens to be about the category of firm this studio was built to serve. Read the audit →
How I met these clients
Every site above came to me through a personal relationship, or it is my own business — family, in-laws, a company I co-founded twenty years ago, a nonprofit I donated the work to. No one has yet paid Clarion its published rate.
I could list six names in a row, call them clients, and let you fill in the rest. That is what a work page usually does, and you would probably never check. But this studio’s whole argument is that a claim is worth less than the evidence behind it, so here is the evidence and here is how I came by it. When someone outside that circle writes a check, this page will say so, with a name.
None of these is an SEC-registered advisor, and none has been through a compliance review. The method is built for that setting and the research was conducted in it. These builds were not. Weigh that.
What to check when you open them
The structured data is either present or it is missing. The entity graph either holds together across every page or it comes apart on the second one. The site either loads in under a second on a phone or it does not. All three are inspectable from your side of the screen, in the browser you already have open.
You would be buying a method you can read before you commit, a body of work you can open without asking anyone’s permission, and research published with the sample and the conflict of interest in the open. You would not be buying a client list that vouches for me, because there isn’t one. Better you had that from this page than assembled it yourself in the second meeting.