Strategy
Read the market, size the opportunity and map the competition. Then decide what to build and how to win.
Market analysisCompetitive analysisPositioningGo-to-marketRoadmap
STRATEGY TO MARKET · THE WHOLE NINE
From problem to market. In days.
Bring us the problem. Strategy, design, engineering, AI, brand, marketing, sales and delivery come from one team, for founders, small businesses and enterprises alike.
PROBLEM IN
MARKET OUT
disciplines under one roof
brands we built and run
+
years each, building systems for large companies
Days
from approved concept to launch
WHY A9
Most ideas die between vendors.
Getting one idea to market usually takes nine firms. Every hand-off costs weeks, context and someone to hold accountable. We took the hand-offs out.
THE USUAL WAY
Nine vendors. The idea goes sideways at every hand-off.
re-briefwaiting on accessscope changeback to designnew contractStrategy consultantUX agencyDev shopAI contractorHosting providerBrand agencyMarketing agencySales teamSupport desk
YOUR IDEA ↓
re-briefscope changeback to designStrategy consultantUX agencyDev shopAI contractorHosting providerBrand agencyMarketing agencySales teamSupport desk
YOUR IDEA ↓
9 contracts8 hand-offsMeasured in months
THE A9 WAY
One team. One straight line. One owner.
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IN MARKET · DAY 5
StrategyDesignEngineeringAIPlatformsBrandMarketingSalesDelivery
1 contract0 hand-offsMeasured in days
THE WHOLE NINE
Nine disciplines. One team.
Use one or all nine. The same team runs every one, from the first conversation to the product in market.
9disciplines, one owner
Design
Research, UX, UI and prototypes, approved before a line of code is written.
UX and UIPrototypesDesign systems
Engineering
Web, desktop and phone software, integrations and data, built to production standard.
Web appsDesktopMobileAPIs
AI and automation
Voice AI, assistants and AI agents that do the work and stop at a human approval.
DictationMeeting notesAssistantsAgent workforces
Platforms
Cloud, security and operations: checks that block a bad build, isolated customer data, backups you can restore.
Cloud and edgeCI/CDSecurity
Brand
Brand strategy, naming, identity, guidelines and films that make a new product look established on day one.
Brand strategyNamingIdentityGuidelinesProduct films
Marketing and advertising
Get found by people and by AI, then turn the visit into a call: search, answer engines, content and paid advertising.
SEOAEOGEOContentAdvertisingPaid media
Sales
Prospecting, outreach and pipeline systems that run every day, with a person approving every send.
ProspectingOutreachPipeline
Delivery and growth
Launch, onboarding and care, plus the systems that keep customers calling and coming back.
Websites and careGoogle review engineMissed-call text-back
STRATEGY · MARKET AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
Most strategy ends in a deck.
Most strategy ends in a deck.
Ours ends in market.
Before we build anything, we study your market from the outside in: your competitors, your buyers and what Google and AI assistants say about you. You get the findings, the strategy and a 90-day plan. Then the same team builds it.
22competitors reviewed across five metro markets
11websites audited page by page for speed, structure and content
5AI assistant answers tested, including what they say about the client
2 daysof research, from kickoff to findings
One recent assessment · A regional services company · Client details withheld
Sample pages · Client details removed
From a 27-page assessment
The short version
Five findings
01A regional company with a startup-sized web presence
02A rebrand left most of its Google history behind
03Buyers can't find where they now look
04The local field is beatable
05One competitor already pitches 's strengths
Details and sources followA9 Solutions · 03
The competition
From fourth to last in Google reach
Competitor A1,959
Competitor B1,056
Competitor C848
old site522
Competitor D293
Competitor E199
Competitor F132
new site9
Google searches each site ranks forA9 Solutions · 13
Strategy
The first 90 days
DAYS 1–30RecoverRedirect the old pages
Fix titles and contact details
Claim Google profiles
Fix titles and contact details
Claim Google profiles
DAYS 31–60RebuildA site that sells every service
Proof pages and case studies
Structured data for AI
Proof pages and case studies
Structured data for AI
DAYS 61–90GrowContent aimed at AI answers
Vendor-network listings
First monthly report
Vendor-network listings
First monthly report
WEEK ONERedirects, clean titles and a phone number on every page. No rebuild needed to start.
WHAT YOU GET
Six answers, in plain language.
No inside access needed to start. Everything comes from what your buyers, Google and AI assistants can already see.
The market
How big it is, where it's heading and how buyers choose before they ever call.
The competition
Every serious rival's reach, reviews, offers and website, side by side.
How you're found
What Google, Maps and AI assistants say about you today, and what they leave out.
The openings
The gaps no competitor has claimed yet, and which to take first.
The strategy
Where to play, how to win and a 90-day plan, in order.
The baseline
The numbers we'd move, measured from day one and reported every month.
A strategy firm hands you a deck.
Then you brief an agency to build it and another to market it. The plan loses context at every hand-off.
Measured in monthsThe team that wrote the plan builds it.
Site, brand, campaigns and systems come from the same people. One monthly report shows whether it's working.
Measured in days
Start with an assessment
Fixed scope and a fixed fee, credited toward the build if you go ahead.
SERVICES
Five ways to work with us.
ASSESSSTART HERE
01 · 06 · 07
Market and strategy
An outside-in study of your market, competitors and buyers, with a strategy and a 90-day plan. Delivered in days, then built by the same team if you go ahead.
Best for leaders deciding what's next
What's in an assessment
- Market size and how buyers choose
- Competitors side by side
- How Google, Maps and AI see you
- Openings no rival has claimed
- Strategy, 90-day plan and baselines
LAUNCHALL 9
Concept to market
You bring an idea or a problem. We bring back a product in market, with the brand, site and campaign to sell it.
Best for founders and new business linesBUILD02 · 03 · 04 · 05
Software and AI
Apps, platforms, integrations and AI for a business that already runs and needs more built than its team can build.
Best for teams with a backlogGROW07 · 09
Growth systems
SEO, AEO and GEO visibility, the Google review engine, missed-call text-back, website AI assistants and websites.
For local trades: Atlas9.aiAUTOMATE04 · 05 · 08
AI workforce
Named AI roles inside your operation, each with one job, one output and a human approval at the end.
Best for operations buried in repeat workFounders and individualsAn idea, a deadline and no team yet.
Small businessesReal problems and no IT department.
Mid-size companiesA backlog bigger than the team, or a market that moved.
EnterprisesA pilot that has to prove itself fast.
OUR PRODUCTS
We run our own products, too.
Four products we conceived, built, branded and still market ourselves. Proof the whole nine works, because we run it on our own businesses first.
Growth services for local trades: missed-call text-back, Google reviews, local search and websites.
AI dictation and meeting notes for Windows, with no bot in the call.
Lister
Listings written, wording-checked and tracked.
Stockroom
Inventory for property maintenance teams, charged to the work order.
ATLAS9 · SHOWROOM SITES
summitridge.showroom
basaltridge.showroom
A9 VOICE · SAMPLE DATA
A9 Voice for Windows
A9 LISTER
a9lister.com
A9 Lister · New listingSAMPLE
Bright 2BR near the park, laundry and parking
Wording check passed
A9 STOCKROOM · SAMPLE DATA
a9stockroom.com
The same team and the same process, pointed at your market.
See five ways to work with us
OPERATING MODEL · NINE AI AGENTS
Agents do the work. People make the calls.
This is how we move in days. Nine named AI agents each own one repeatable job, with one decision, one output and a line it may never cross. Every agent ends at a human approval gate. We build the same for clients.
Nothing reaches a customer without an owner's approval. The rule is built into the software, not a policy binder.
Owner
approval EVERY OUTPUT
approval EVERY OUTPUT
Flint
Scout
Forge
Signal
Pulse
Ledger
Mason
Helm
Lantern
Your customer
FlintBrings in new customers, from research and ads to what to try next.
NEVER spends or publishes without approval.
ScoutFinds, verifies and scores businesses that need help.
NEVER contacts anyone.
ForgeBuilds the preview a business owner gets to see.
NEVER invents proof or sends it.
SignalSends approved outreach, logs replies, honors opt-outs.
NEVER sends anything unapproved.
PulseRanks who's warm and what's stalled.
NEVER acts. It only observes.
LedgerRuns billing: subscriptions, setup fees and costs.
NEVER changes a price or refunds without an owner.
MasonTurns a signed deal into a live site on the client's own domain.
NEVER goes live before the client approves.
HelmHandles change requests: build, preview, approve, deploy.
NEVER deploys without the client's approval.
LanternMakes clients findable in search and in AI answers.
NEVER invents proof or promises a ranking.
IN THE FIELD
Software you can see working.
Atlas9, one of our brands, catches missed calls, asks for reviews and gets local trades found. Here is one day of it.
Illustrative photography.See Atlas9 →
HOW WE WORK
Concept on Monday. In market by Friday.
Speed comes from the system, not from skipping steps. Every engagement runs the same five stages.
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MON
Frame
A one-page spec: the problem, the acceptance test, what's out of scope.
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TUE
Design
Screens designed and approved on a shared canvas before engineering starts.
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WED
Build in parallel
AI coding agents each take one task in an isolated workspace, side by side.
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THU
Prove
Nothing merges until every automated check is green. No overrides.
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FRI
Launch and sell
We verify it live, then brand, marketing and sales go to work from the same team.
FILMS
We make the films too.
Commercials, training lessons and product films, written, produced and edited by the same team.
LEADERSHIP
Founder-led.
Founder-led.
Owner-accountable.
Two technologists with thirty years each building and running systems for large companies, and one who has run trades crews and managed properties.
AI TEAM
BUILT IN-HOUSE
Yes, they're AI.
Sara and Megan are AI presenters we designed and direct ourselves. They front our training, demos and product video, and a founder approves every script.
We build them for clients tooBring us the problem. We'll take it all the way.
Tell us what's in the way. A founder reads every message and replies with a plan, not a sales sequence.
contact@a9solutions.com
Portland, Oregon
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