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Questions business owners and leaders ask Roadies, answered.

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About Roadies

What is Roadies AI?

Roadies, also written Roadies AI, gives business owners and leaders of small and midsize businesses their own AI team that learns the business first, and the people who built it to set it up, show them what it can do, and make sure it delivers what they ask for. It gives you a current view of your competitors, your customers and your AI visibility, delivers the work that follows, and starts with a free Opening Act.

About Roadies AI

Your competitors

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. A Roadies competitive read shows you who those businesses are and labels each one, so you can see which are actually in your fight and which only look like it.

What the Opening Act shows you

How do I keep up with my competitors without spending hours on it?

Have someone keep the read current for you and tell you only what changed and what it means for your business. Your Roadies team does that against the priorities you set, in plain language, so you can respond to a competitor's move while it still matters.

Your Roadies team

How is a Roadies competitive read different from a SWOT analysis?

A SWOT analysis is a snapshot of what you already know on the day you write it, while the read your Roadies team keeps tells you how sure it is and gets revised when the facts move. It also tells you where each claim came from and names what would change the conclusion, so it can show you what you didn't already know.

See a sample landscape

How can a small business compete with bigger competitors?

Compete on the ground a bigger competitor doesn't defend: the specific customers, services and searches where it is generic and you can be specific. A Roadies competitive read shows you where that ground is, which larger players actually show up for your buyers, and where you are already winning.

What a Tune-Up gives you

Showing up in AI answers

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. The free Roadies Opening Act shows you who gets named instead of you and what on your website is keeping it from being you.

What the Opening Act shows you

Is AI visibility the same thing as ranking on Google?

No. Ranking puts you in a list a person scans, while AI visibility is whether an AI assistant names your business in the answer it writes, and a business can rank well and still be left out of that answer.

What a Sound Check finds

What does the free Opening Act show me?

It shows you which businesses come back when your customers search or ask an AI assistant for what you sell, what on your website is keeping AI from recommending you, and a score out of 100 with where the missing points are. It starts with nothing but your website, and it's free because whether customers can find you is something you should be able to know for nothing.

See a sample Opening Act

What you get at each step

How do I know if my marketing is actually working?

Look at it from the outside: what a stranger, a search engine and an AI assistant can see and conclude about your business. A Roadies Sound Check gives you that complete outside read of your website, marketing and AI visibility, with every finding ranked by what it costs you in revenue or trust; it finds, it does not fix.

What a Sound Check finds

What happens after a Sound Check?

If you want to act on what it found, a Tune-Up turns your top priority into decisions, using what only you know, with people who help you decide what to ask for, and delivers the work that follows. From there, your own Roadies team stays on call, working on the priorities you set.

What you get at each step

Your own AI team

Does Roadies learn my business?

Yes: your Roadies crew is assembled for your business alone and learns your market, your customers, your competitors and you, including the direction you set, how you like to work and what you have already ruled out. Everything the system learns about doing the work well, you get. Everything it learns about you stays yours.

Your Roadies team

Who decides what my Roadies team works on?

You do. Your team works on the priorities you set, keeps you current on what changed, and delivers the work those priorities need.

Your Roadies team

Working with the people behind Roadies

Do I need to know anything about AI to use Roadies?

No. You need to know your business, and you already do. The people behind Roadies set up your team and show you what to ask for.

Who is behind Roadies

What if I don't know what to ask for?

That's normal, and it's what the people behind Roadies are for. We show you what your team can do for your business and help you put what you need into words it can act on.

Who is behind Roadies

Are you consultants?

No. You are the expert on your business, and we will not tell you how to run it. Our job is to make sure your Roadies team works for you and gives you what you ask for.

Who is behind Roadies

How do I know my team is giving me what I asked for?

Checking that is part of what the people behind Roadies do: we look at whether what your team delivered is what you asked for, and if it isn't, we get it there without you having to learn how. Whether the substance is right for your business is your call, because you're the expert on it.

How it works

Does Roadies do the work, or teach me to do it?

Your Roadies team delivers the work, and you direct it. The people behind Roadies make sure you know how to direct it and that it delivers what you ask for, so you never have to learn how AI works.

How it works

How Roadies compares

How is Roadies different from using ChatGPT myself?

A general-purpose AI assistant answers the questions you think to ask, and it's up to you to know what to ask and to check what comes back. Roadies starts from your business instead: your team learns your market, your customers and your competitors, tells you what's worth doing, and delivers the work that follows, and the people who built Roadies make sure it delivers what you ask for.

How it works

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. An agency or an AI tool does work you already know you need and a fractional CMO brings judgment for part of the week, while Roadies puts deciding and delivering on one team, with the people who built it making sure it delivers what you ask for.

What you get at each step

How is Roadies different from an all-in-one AI marketing platform?

All-in-one platforms run tasks inside the tools they control, and many do real marketing work well. Roadies decides what is worth doing in the first place, from a current read on your competitors, your customers and your AI visibility, then delivers the work that follows alongside the platform you already use.

How it works

Can I keep my agency and the software I already use?

Yes. Roadies works alongside your agency and the tools you already pay for and replaces none of them, and a clear read on your competitors and best customers gives your agency better direction on what to work on.

Who Roadies is for

Your data and cost

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. We don't publish our clients' names, for the same reason they trust us with their information.

How we handle your data

How much does Roadies cost?

The Opening Act is free. A Sound Check is a one-time fee, a Tune-Up is scoped to your business, and your Roadies team is an ongoing engagement, so talk to us for current pricing.

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