Roadies AI
You know AI can help your business. You don't have time to figure out how.
Roadies gives you your own AI team that learns your business first and keeps a current read on your competitors. The people behind it are named, with real backgrounds. They set it up with you and make sure it delivers what you ask for.
Tell us your website and what you're trying to solve. A person reads every message and replies inside one business day.
What do clients say about Roadies?
“They provided real insights backed by data and actionable recommendations that have helped us tremendously.”
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“What impressed me most was that they didn't just tell us what we wanted to hear. They provided real insights backed by data and actionable recommendations that have helped us tremendously.”
“Roadies has shifted my perspective.”
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“I am a self-described AI skeptic, and my previous experience has often been that AI offers a lot and delivers little of substance. Roadies has shifted my perspective. I view Roadies as a very powerful, yet accessible tool, one that is particularly relevant to my challenges as a small business owner.”
“In return these changes are helping increase foot traffic and sales.”
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“I have been exploring new ways to increase business and build public awareness for my brewery. Roadies took time to learn my current business model and then gave me lots of new ideas that improved my website and social media tactics. In return these changes are helping increase foot traffic and sales.”
“Their site review analysis provided incredibly insightful conclusions and practical recommendations that gave us a clear roadmap for improvement.”
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“Working with Roadies for our website optimization was an absolute game-changer. Their site review analysis provided incredibly insightful conclusions and practical recommendations that gave us a clear roadmap for improvement. We are thrilled with the results and highly recommend their expertise to anyone looking to elevate their online presence.”
We don't publish our clients' names. It's the same reason they trust us with their information.
Who is behind Roadies?
AI does the work. Experience knows what good work looks like.
Roadies combines an AI operating team with the experience of the operators who built it. Between us, we have led large-scale enterprise organizations, developed competitive intelligence functions, served complex clients and delivered technology and services inside highly regulated industries.
How we work with you
You set the direction. Your Roadies team does the work. And the people behind it, who have spent decades running organizations, make sure that work is practical, relevant and ready to act on.
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Executive Leadership · Enterprise Operations · Transformation
Brian Schwanebeck
Brian has spent more than three decades building, leading and transforming large organizations, including more than 25 years at Fiserv, more than 15 of them in Senior Vice President roles.
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Client Success · Competitive Intelligence · Market Strategy
Jeff Murnane
Jeff has spent decades helping organizations understand their customers, competitors and markets across financial services, technology and a broad range of consumer and commercial businesses.
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How do I stay ahead of my competitors?
Stop finding out last.
Roadies keeps your competitors, your customers and your market in view and tells you in plain language what changed and what it means for your business. You hear about a competitor's new offer while you can still respond, not after it shows up in your numbers.
Your Roadies team learns your market, your customers and your competitors, and it learns you: the direction you set, how you like to work, and what you have already ruled out.
The same read helps before you buy a company or back one: who it really competes with, where it stands, and what is changing around it.
More customers. Better decisions. Time back to run the company.
Who you compete with, where each one stands, and what changed since your last update, kept current by your Roadies team.
Competitive landscapePage 1Competitive landscape for Oxbend Heating & Air
Who is around you, and how close they come.
Swipe sideways to see the whole map. Every business on it is also listed below.
Filled dark circle: direct local competitor. Outlined circle: national chain. Teal: a different kind of business competing for the same customers or the same work. Gold square: you.
- Pellstone Heating & Cooling · Direct local competitor · Head to head. Now advertises same-day furnace replacement across the whole service area.
- Wrenfield Comfort Co. · Direct local competitor · Head to head. Leads with financing on new systems.
- Evercourt Home Services · National chain · Close to head to head. Wins the broad searches, rarely the emergency ones.
- Brightmere Heating & Air · Commercial buildings only · Same work, other customers. Moved after a correction.
- Brindlecove Plumbing & Air · Plumber adding heating and air · Your customers, other work. New to your landscape.
What do I get from Roadies, and in what order?
Start small. Go as far as you need.
Every Roadies engagement starts with the free Opening Act and goes only as far as your business needs.
Opening Act. Start here
A free read of who is winning your customers and how AI sees you.
Sound Check.
The complete outside read of your website, marketing and AI visibility, ranked by what each problem costs you. It finds, it does not fix.
Tune-Up.
Decisions on your top priority, using what only you know, with people who help you decide what to ask for, and the work that follows.
Your Roadies team, on call.
Your own crew, working on the priorities you set, with people making sure it delivers what you ask for. We keep watch on the competitors you actually face, and tell you what it means for your next move.
Questions business owners and leaders ask us
- Who am I actually competing with when customers search for what I sell?
- You are competing with whoever gets named when your buyer searches or asks an AI assistant for what you sell, and that is often a different list from the one you have in mind.
- Why doesn't my business show up when people ask ChatGPT?
- AI assistants name the businesses that the sources they read describe clearly and consistently, so a business can look fine to a person and still be passed over in an AI answer.
- Do I need to know anything about AI to use Roadies?
- No. You need to know your business, and you already do.
- I'm trying to decide between a fractional CMO, a marketing agency and an AI tool. Which one does my business need?
- Start with what you're missing: someone to decide what to do, someone to do it, or both.
- Is it safe to give Roadies my business data?
- Your data is yours: nothing material happens without your approval, and the free Opening Act starts with nothing but your website and never asks you to connect an account.
How do I start?
Tell us what you're up against.
Send us your website and the question on your mind. A person on the Roadies team reads it and replies inside one business day, in plain language.
No demo gate. No scheduling link.