Espo Studio/Design × AI discoverability

Looks likenothing else.Found by AI.

Espo Studio designs custom websites for established service businesses — editorial design that stands out, engineered so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI actually read and recommend you.

AI-discoverability target
95/100

AI-discoverability target

P0 issues at launch
0

P0 issues at launch

live builds, by name
4

live builds, by name

The dual moat

01

Looks like nothing else

Custom editorial design. Never a template.

02

Found by AI

Built to a 95/100 AI-discoverability target.

Nobody sells both. This site is the proof.

01The switch

See the difference.

Most service-business sites are a 2021 template an AI engine can’t read. Here’s the same firm — same content — built two ways. Drag the handle.

Hartwell.
Wealth, managed quietly
We’ve grown $400M
for families who
hate surprises.
$400M
assets managed
28 yrs
average client tenure
0
surprise fees
Hartwell Advisory
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Generic templateEspo Studio

Drag the handle. Same firm, same content — one was built from a template, one was built by Espo Studio.

02The problem

Most service-business websites are invisible — a recycled 2021 template, with the words trapped in JavaScript the AI engines never run.

01

They look like everyone

The centered hero, the three-card grid, Inter, a stock handshake. Indistinguishable from a thousand others.

02

AI can’t read them

No schema, no server-rendered content, no llms.txt. To ChatGPT and Google’s AI, the page is nearly blank.

03

So they get skipped

When a buyer asks an AI for a recommendation, sites that can’t be read don’t get named. You lose before the shortlist.

03 / Found by AI

How much of your site can AI actually read?

Most templates were built for 2021 search — human-readable, machine-opaque. Every Espo build is engineered from day one for the way AI crawlers, large language models, and AI Overviews actually index the web.

AI-discoverability target

95/100

The score every build is engineered to — across server rendering, structured data, llms.txt, answer capsules, semantic HTML, and descriptive alt text.

Across 6 AEO dimensions

  • Server-rendered content
  • JSON-LD schema
  • llms.txt
  • Answer capsules
  • Semantic HTML
  • Descriptive alt text

Score out of 10 per dimension — Espo target vs. typical template

Espo build targetTypical template (illustrative)

Espo build target shows the score each build is engineered to achieve — not a promise, but the measurable standard we hold ourselves to. Typical template is an illustrative baseline drawn from common off-the-shelf starters, not a measured competitor score.

AI Discoverability Scores — Data Table

Comparison of Espo build target (score engineered to) versus typical template baseline (illustrative) across 6 AEO dimensions, scored out of 10.

AI-discoverability scores by dimension. Espo build target: 95/100 overall. Typical template scores are illustrative, not measured competitor data.
DimensionEspo build target (/ 10)Typical template, illustrative (/ 10)Why it matters
Server-rendered content102AI crawlers can only read HTML that ships in the initial response — JS-rendered content is invisible to most.
JSON-LD schema91Structured data tells AI agents exactly what your business does, who it serves, and what each page means.
llms.txt101A machine-readable brief for LLMs — the robots.txt of the AI era. Most templates ship without one.
Answer capsules92Concise, self-contained paragraphs structured so AI can lift and cite them directly as answers.
Semantic HTML103Correct heading hierarchy, landmark elements, and sectioning so AI understands document structure.
Descriptive alt text92Every content image described for crawlers and screen readers — not "image.jpg" or left blank.

Watch

Is SEO dead? Optimize for AI instead.

AI agents now read your site and decide whether to recommend you. Here’s the shift we build around — and how to become the name they surface.

04In every build

The parts nobody else ships.

Both products run the same engine. This is what “found by AI” actually means under the hood — not a buzzword, a checklist.

01

Server-rendered content

Your words live in the HTML, not trapped in JavaScript AI engines never run.

02

A complete schema matrix

JSON-LD on every page so search and AI know exactly what each page is.

03

llms.txt for AI crawlers

A plain-language file that tells ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity who you are.

04

Answer capsules

A direct, quotable answer under every key heading — the text AI cites.

05

A signature design move

One memorable, opinionated element per page. Never the template look.

06

Audited to 0 P0s

Every build is checked against 9 non-negotiable rules before it goes live.

05By the numbers

95/100

AI-discoverability score every build targets

0

P0 issues at the Minted Settlement Planning launch

4

live builds in production, by name

~100/yr

sites the engine is built to ship at scale

06Recent builds

Proof on the wall.

See all work
wealthwatchadvisors.com
The Wealth Watch Advisors website built by Espo Studio — A registered-advisory firm that needed to read as established and be quotable by AI assistants researching advisors.

Wealth Watch Advisors

Wealth Advisory

07 / AI Engines

Found by every engine buyers ask

Seven AI surfaces. One build that speaks each one's language.

  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)Schema + answer capsules it can quote.
  • Claude (Anthropic)Server-rendered content, no JavaScript walls.
  • Gemini (Google)Structured data Google’s models parse.
  • Copilot (Microsoft)Semantic HTML Bing indexes cleanly.
  • Grok (xAI)Fresh, fact-dense pages it can cite in real time.
  • PerplexityCitable, source-clean pages.
  • AI Overviews (Google)llms.txt + a clean entity graph.

The film

From invisible to recommended.

Most websites are invisible to AI. We build yours to be read — and named when a buyer asks an engine who to trust. Here’s the whole idea, start to finish.

08The offer

Two products. One ladder.

Start with the company site. Then give every executive their own. The monthly on each is the discoverability moat — as a service.

Company Website Build

Flagship

A full custom marketing site — editorial design, native AI chat, and ongoing AI-discoverability.

$1,500setup+ $100/mo

About $3 a day to stay found by AI.

Company Build details

Individual Build

Own your name

A ~4-page personal site for one executive, on their own name as the domain, cross-linked to the company site.

$750setup+ $50/mo

About $1.65 a day to own your name with AI.

Own your name

Month-to-month — or pay yearly and save 20%. See full pricing →

09For the C-suite

Own your name.

For an executive, your name is your reputation. Own the canonical source AI reads about you — a site on your own name — so engines quote what’s true and what you control, instead of scraping the web to guess who you are.

See the personal-site play
canonical source

yourname.com

Ready to look like nothing else?

Tell us about the business. We’ll show you exactly what we’d build — design and discoverability both.