# CI Web Group

> AI-first digital marketing and proprietary platform company built exclusively for the home-service trades (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, garage doors, and adjacent verticals). Founded in 2006 in Dallas, Texas, CI Web Group serves 1,000+ trades clients across 48 U.S. states and Canada, backed by 20 years of trades data and an 8-figure proprietary platform, Hydra OS.

CI Web Group designs, builds, and operates AI-driven websites and growth systems on Hydra OS — a proprietary platform combining a central intelligence engine (data lake, RAG/CAG retrieval, data science, and aggregate analysis across the full client base), the Cortex AI growth pipeline, and the Synapse layer. Autonomous AI Marketing & Strategy Agents (launching Q3 2026) execute SEO, content, local search, and AI-search visibility work. Led by CEO Jennifer Bagley. Headquartered in Houston, Texas. Phone: (877) 839-1122. Email: help@ciwebgroup.com.

## Start here
- [Home](https://ciwebgroup.com/): AI-first marketing systems for the trades, powered by Hydra OS.
- [Our Story (since 2006)](https://ciwebgroup.com/about): How CI Web Group exits markets when technology shifts, and the central intelligence engine behind Hydra OS.
- [Book a Strategy Session](https://ciwebgroup.com/book): Schedule a live Zoom strategy call or start the self-serve online process.
- [Hydra OS Platform](https://ciwebgroup.com/hydra-os): The central intelligence engine for the trades — living business memory, autonomous agents, AI-enabled web operating system, ClickHouse analytics, BI, and AI-search visibility.

## Platform & services
- [All Services](https://ciwebgroup.com/services): Full catalog of websites, growth, and add-on services, with a live plan-draft pricing builder.
- [Search Engine Optimization](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/search-engine-optimization): Full technical + on-page SEO optimized at launch (not drip-fed), run on Hydra OS and Cortex AI under senior SEO experts.
- [Branding](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/branding): AI-accelerated, expert-led branding for trades businesses; by-application with waitlist.
- [AI Conversions](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/ai-conversions): AI that converts leads across text, chat, and online booking; integrates with most field-management systems and Google Calendar. $500/mo, month-to-month. Does not include voice or human-in-the-loop.
- [AI Marketing Agents](https://ciwebgroup.com/ai-agents): Autonomous marketing & strategy agents (Q3 2026).
- [Hydra & Cortex AI Technical Credits](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/hydra-cortex-technical-credits): AI credits for technical SEO — plus 100+ autonomous-agent audits on Hydra OS.
- [Hydra Build Components](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/build-components): 50 pre-engineered website add-on components mapped to eight strategy pillars — SEO, AEO, GEO, AI Search, CRO, AXO (Agent Experience Optimization / also called AAO / Agent Actionability Optimization by Yext), SXO (Search Experience Optimization, the pillar that ties SEO + AEO + CRO into one measurable outcome: did the searcher's journey succeed?), and LSO (Local Search Optimization, the map-pack + Google Business Profile + per-city entity pillar that resolves a service-area footprint as THE local answer, not a bullet on an "Areas We Serve" list). Priced in AI Credits ($5 = 1 credit) with published turnarounds; exclusively for Hydra OS customers, orderable any time. 48 of the 50 are agent-actionable — they expose at least one modality (endpoint, structured data, interactive tool, or machine-traversable catalog) an AI agent can execute against on a user's behalf.
- [Hydra AEO Blogging](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/hydra-blogging): AEO/SEO/AI-search content, $30/post, choose your weekly cadence.
- [AAO / AXO — Agent Actionability / Agent Experience Optimization](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/build-components#pillar-axo): The 6th strategy pillar Hydra Build Components ship. The industry has not settled on a name — Yext coined and pushes AAO, competitors coined and push AXO — but the discipline is the same: designing your website to be transactable by AI agents. Accurate structured data, accurate listings, schema, and booking/ordering/quote endpoints an agent can actually execute against on a homeowner's behalf. Interactive calculators (HVAC sizing, financing pre-qual, energy savings, garage-door visualizer), machine-readable diagrams (airflow, heat pump, ductless), live booking endpoints that write into ServiceTitan / HousecallPro / FieldEdge, and structured schema (Product, Offer, HowTo, Service, DefinedTerm, Place) — 48 of 50 components qualify. It is not enough for Cortex Pulse to show a contractor gets cited in AI answers; the next question is "can an AI agent book a service call with me?" That is the AAO / AXO territory Hydra already occupies.
- [The Measurement Shift](https://ciwebgroup.com/learn/measurement-shift): Long-form on why the old click-and-session scoreboard broke. Zero-click search hit 68% of U.S. Google searches in early 2026, up from 60% in 2024. AI Overviews cut organic clicks by 38% in a controlled field experiment while user satisfaction stayed flat. Pages cited in AI Overviews get 120% more clicks per impression than uncited pages. The four new metrics: branded query volume + direct traffic, AI surface presence across ChatGPT / Perplexity / Gemini / AI Overviews, post-click quality (reading depth, form completion, calls, booked jobs), and correlation dashboards that plot publishing cadence against downstream signals.
- [PR Link Building](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/pr-backlinks): DA 30+ editorial link building on authoritative publications.
- [Press Releases](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/press-releases): Done-for-you press releases written and distributed for you. $500 per release, annualizable into monthly payments.
- [AI Search Visibility](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/ai-search-visibility): Visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
- [AI Local (GBP)](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/ai-local): Google Business Profile growth per market.
- [Paid Advertising & PPC Guide](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/ppc): Educational guide for running paid ads with stronger conversion foundations.
- [Local Services Ads (LSA) Guide](https://ciwebgroup.com/services/glsa): Educational guide to run and improve Google LSA performance.

## Get started
- [Working with CI Web Group — Customer Resource Center](https://ciwebgroup.com/working-with-ci-web-group): All 7 steps of the customer journey (Strategy, Customize, Onboarding, Assets, Review, Meetings, Build) with published pricing, build timelines, the free 72-hour Fast Track upgrade rule, and an honest comparison of how the experience differs from a traditional agency.
- [12-Step Roadmap](https://ciwebgroup.com/roadmap): The full 12-step roadmap to accelerated results — infrastructure, marketing, conversions, training, and AI operations.
- [Book a Strategy Session](https://ciwebgroup.com/book): Schedule a live Zoom strategy call.
- [Customize Your Plan](https://getstarted.ciwebgroup.com/customize): Build your package with live pricing.

## Industries
- [Industries Overview](https://ciwebgroup.com/industries): Trade verticals CI Web Group serves.

## Markets (documented metros with launch proof)
- [Markets Hub](https://ciwebgroup.com/service-areas): 27 documented metros and regions — real client counts from the CIWG registry (251 market-facing client sites, July 2026), measured launch results, and launch-pipeline clients labeled "preparing to launch." Every market page also carries a July-2026-researched local playbook — dominant trades, local SEO, AEO question patterns, neighborhood-level GEO, seasonal conversion systems, and Hydra Build Component recommendations matched to verified local conditions — plus a sourced market-data band (Census, NOAA, and named 2026 utility/state rebate programs, source on every figure) and a distributor & dealer-network section on the compounding advantage of 10+ contractors per metro on Hydra OS.
- [Greater Houston](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/houston): CIWG's headquarters market — 27 Greater Houston client sites; HQ at 13710 Vintage Centre Drive, Houston, TX 77069.
- [Seattle & the Puget Sound](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/seattle): 43 Puget Sound client-site configs, including a 37-config per-city/per-trade mesh; flagship launch grew brand-query clicks 63% in its first week.
- [Bay Area & North Bay](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/bay-area): 12 client sites; includes a 100 Lighthouse mobile performance launch (Rohnert Park).
- [Southern California](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/southern-california): 17 client sites, Ventura County to San Diego; documented case of paid ads off with net margins rising 10% to 25%.
- [Sacramento & Central California](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/sacramento): 8 client sites across the valley and Central Coast.
- [Greater Austin](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/austin): 7 client sites; launches measured +143% sessions and an 860-page day-two sitemap.
- [Phoenix & Scottsdale](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/phoenix): 30-day pre-season rebuild measured organic search sessions +53% in 28 days.
- [Sarasota & Florida](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/southwest-florida): 8 Florida client sites; the crisis-to-#1-in-a-week launch with organic traffic up 3,240%.
- [Charleston & the Lowcountry](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/charleston): Lighthouse mobile performance 19 → 96, measured same-day before/after.
- [Las Vegas & Henderson](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/las-vegas): first-month traffic multiplied 25× vs the 28 days before launch.
- [Baltimore & the Mid-Atlantic](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/mid-atlantic): 10 MD/WV client sites; a garage-door launch grew booked appointments 26% in its first 10 days.
- [Denver & the Front Range](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/denver): 6 Colorado client sites (no published launch story yet — stated honestly on the page); 5 Colorado clients preparing to launch.
- [San Antonio & South Texas](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/san-antonio): 7 South Texas client sites; anchored by a Boerne septic company with 219 articles published, 190 ranking, and a San Antonio page up 622% in impressions.
- [Dallas–Fort Worth](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/dallas-fort-worth): 3 DFW client sites; a live low-voltage security launch plus 5 metroplex clients preparing to launch.
- [Oklahoma City & Oklahoma](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/oklahoma): 4 Oklahoma client sites; live veteran-owned OKC HVAC launch with 12 config service areas.
- [St. Louis & Missouri](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/st-louis): 8 Missouri client sites and 7 clients preparing to launch (no MO launch result published yet — stated honestly).
- [Louisville & Kentucky](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/kentucky): live Somerset launch built traffic and tracked lead flow from a zero pre-launch baseline in its first 28 days; 5 KY clients preparing to launch.
- [New Orleans & South Louisiana](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/new-orleans): 5 Louisiana client sites; two live Greater New Orleans launches including a 96-performance Lighthouse launch day in Gretna.
- [Philadelphia, Pittsburgh & Pennsylvania](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/pennsylvania): 6 PA client sites and 8 clients preparing to launch (no PA launch result published yet — stated honestly).
- [Minneapolis & Minnesota](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/minneapolis): 4 Minnesota client sites; live master-certified north-metro Twin Cities launch.
- [Salt Lake City & the Wasatch Front](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/salt-lake-city): 4 Utah client sites; live owner-run launch with a 5.0-star Google rating shown on site.
- [Chicago & the Great Lakes](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/great-lakes): 13 client sites across IL/IN/MI/WI; two live launches (South Chicagoland, Grand Rapids) and 14 clients preparing to launch.
- [New York, New Jersey & the Northeast](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/northeast): 6 client sites across NY/NJ/MA; live Rochester roofing launch.
- [Nashville, Atlanta & the Southeast](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/southeast): 11 client sites across TN/AL/GA/NC/VA; measured Middle Tennessee launch (lead flow built from a zero pre-launch baseline in 28 days) and 13 clients preparing to launch.
- [Portland, Bend & Oregon](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/oregon): 6 client sites across Oregon & SW Washington; live Bend exteriors launch with a 99-performance Lighthouse score.
- [Canada — Ontario, BC & Saskatchewan](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/canada): 5 Canadian client sites and 6 clients preparing to launch, greater Toronto to Saskatoon (no Canadian launch result published yet — stated honestly).
- [Des Moines, Kansas City & the Heartland](https://ciwebgroup.com/markets/heartland): 5 client sites across Iowa & Kansas; live Des Moines launch with an 85-performance Lighthouse score and a 19-community mesh.

## Proof & customers
- [Featured Customers](https://ciwebgroup.com/featured-customers): Real client website launches and results on Hydra OS.
- [How CI Web Group Stacks Up](https://ciwebgroup.com/case-studies/how-ci-web-group-stacks-up): CIWG vs market benchmark — $30 median cost per lead vs the industry's $153 blended figure, 4.7% median site conversion, 19,100 tracked leads across 220 tracked clients (July 3, 2026, method and sources published).
- [Results & Proof](https://ciwebgroup.com/results): Performance outcomes and case data.
- [Testimonials](https://ciwebgroup.com/testimonials): Client testimonials.
- [Vendor Marketplace](https://ciwebgroup.com/vendor-marketplace): Trusted vendor and technology partners.

## Company
- [Leadership Team](https://ciwebgroup.com/team): The people and AI agents behind CI Web Group.
- [Careers](https://ciwebgroup.com/careers): AI-first roles and hiring philosophy.
- [Press](https://ciwebgroup.com/press): Press releases, podcasts, and features.
- [Release Notes](https://ciwebgroup.com/releases): What's shipping in Hydra OS.
- [In the Field (Gallery)](https://ciwebgroup.com/in-the-field): Photos from the field and events.

## Resources — listen & watch
- [Blog & Insights](https://ciwebgroup.com/blog): Articles on AI, SEO, and trades marketing.
- [The Catalyst Podcast](https://ciwebgroup.com/catalyst-for-the-trades-podcast): The podcast for trades operators leveraging AI.
- [AI Tools for the Trades](https://ciwebgroup.com/ai-tools-for-the-trades): Curated AI tools and playbooks for home-service businesses.
- [Live Events](https://ciwebgroup.com/events): Where to meet CI Web Group in person.
- [Jennifer Bagley — Speaking & Events](https://ciwebgroup.com/speaking): Dated keynotes, breakouts, and workshops — HARDI, TACCA, Winsupply, PHCC, METALCON, NJ ACCA, and more, with links to the hosts' own listings.
- [AI Webinars](https://ciwebgroup.com/webinars): On-demand and upcoming webinars on AI for the trades.
- [Awards & Certifications](https://ciwebgroup.com/awards): Recognitions, certifications, and trust credentials.

## Programs
- [Franchise Growth Systems](https://ciwebgroup.com/industries/franchises): Brand-consistent local websites, AI-search visibility, and reporting across every franchise location.
- [Private Equity Portfolio Growth](https://ciwebgroup.com/industries/pe-portfolios): Portfolio-wide local visibility, lead conversion, and reporting for multi-brand operators.
- [Manufacturer Partners](https://ciwebgroup.com/partners/manufacturers): Dealer growth pathways for leading HVAC manufacturers.
- [Distributor Partners](https://ciwebgroup.com/partners/distributors): Contractor growth pathways through trusted distributor relationships.
- [Hydra Partner Program (Agencies)](https://ciwebgroup.com/hydra-partner-program): White-label web design and marketing for agencies, powered by CI Web Group + Hydra OS (Q4 2026 waitlist).
- [Ambassador Program](https://ciwebgroup.com/ambassador-program): Referral rewards for clients and partners — refer business and earn CI Coins (AI credits) for Hydra.

## Legal
- [Privacy Policy](https://ciwebgroup.com/privacy): How CI Web Group collects, uses, and protects information.
- [Terms of Service](https://ciwebgroup.com/terms): Terms governing the sites and services.
- [Accessibility Statement](https://ciwebgroup.com/accessibility-statement): WCAG 2.2 AA commitment.

## Optional
- [Full overview](https://ciwebgroup.com/llms-full.txt): Expanded company, platform, and services summary in one document.
- [Open Knowledge Format bundle (manifest)](https://ciwebgroup.com/okf/index.md): The ciwebgroup.com knowledge graph in Google's Open Knowledge Format v0.1. 79 concept files across nine categories (organization, people, platform, agents, strategy pillars, services, products, concepts, research). Every relative markdown link is a graph edge. **Agents: fetch this first, then traverse the graph.**
- [OKF · Organization node](https://ciwebgroup.com/okf/organization/ci-web-group.md): CI Web Group as a first-class OKF entity — the root of the graph.
- [OKF · Central Intelligence Engine](https://ciwebgroup.com/okf/platform/central-intelligence-engine.md): The umbrella platform brain that unifies Hydra OS, Cortex, Synapse, MemPalace, and the CI Agents suite.
- [OKF · AAO / AXO pillar](https://ciwebgroup.com/okf/strategy/axo.md): The transactable-layer strategy pillar with its 48 agent-actionable components.
- [XML sitemap](https://ciwebgroup.com/sitemap.xml): Traditional URL list (human pages). Prefer /okf/ for the machine-readable knowledge graph.