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Group of Dots
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How Group of Dots works.

How does a project actually run? Four stages - audit, design, build, refine - kept tight so the work keeps moving and you're never paying for agency theatre. You get clarity, speed, and systems documented well enough that you could run them without us.

Kick-off
Week 1
Typical build
4-8 wk
First value
Day 10
Review cadence
Weekly
The four stages

One cycle, four stages, zero theatre.

Each stage has a clear output. Each handover is documented. Nothing drags.

  1. Step 01

    Audit

    Score the AEO baseline and surface the gaps.

    We score where you stand across the four AI surfaces and map the gaps: where you're missing from answers, which pages AI models can't parse, and which buyer questions go unanswered. You get the commercial priorities, not a checklist of everything that could be tweaked.

  2. Step 02

    Design

    Map the schema and the content plan.

    Per-page JSON-LD schema, a clean entity model, and content plans shaped to how buyers actually ask. We define exactly what ships before anything is built, so the build is execution, not guesswork.

  3. Step 03

    Build

    Ship the schema, the content, and the agent.

    We implement: the schema bundle goes live, the content gets written and shipped, and the multilingual answer agent goes onto your site, qualifying and routing from day one. Working assets, not recommendations.

  4. Step 04

    Refine

    Track citations and close the question loop.

    Citation tracking across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini shows what's landing, and every question the agent cannot answer feeds the next content priority. The roadmap keeps moving, driven by real buyer questions, not assumptions.

Principles

Working principles.

Simple rules that keep the work honest and the scope tight.

Principle · 01

Clarity over complexity

Fewer moving parts. Clear ownership. Work you can explain in a sentence.

Principle · 02

Outcomes over features

Every decision ties back to being found, chosen, and converting.

Principle · 03

Speed with standards

Ship fast without shipping brittle. Modern tools, sensible architecture.

Principle · 04

Systems over scattered fixes

Joined-up thinking that solves root causes, not symptoms.

Start here

A better process usually creates a better outcome.

Bring the problem. We'll bring the structure. The first conversation is free and short.