CI Web Group and Hydra OS Featured in USA Today
USA Today features the launch of Hydra OS — CI Web Group's AI-first website operating system — built so businesses show up first when customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google for a recommendation.
CI Web Group and Hydra OS were featured in USA Today following the launch of Hydra OS — the first AI-first operating system for small business websites. Built from the ground up for the age of AI-driven search, Hydra OS is engineered so that when customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google for a recommendation, the business shows up first.
“The way people find local businesses has fundamentally changed,” said Jennifer Bagley, CEO of CI Web Group. “If an AI assistant can't verify your data, your business doesn't exist. Hydra OS was built to solve that problem.”
Rather than leaving AI tools to guess what a business does, Hydra OS feeds them structured, verified data directly, notifies search engines and AI platforms the moment a site is updated, and optimizes content to match how real people ask for help. Its database-free architecture also makes sites dramatically faster and far harder to hack than traditional WordPress builds.
The coverage highlighted early results from American Plumbing Heating & Cooling, a Sarasota, Florida contractor that launched on Hydra OS and saw a 3,240% increase in organic website traffic, a #1 Google ranking within one week of launch, and near-instant indexing of all new service and location pages.
CI Web Group is an AI-first marketing company built exclusively for the home-service trades. Since 2006 it has helped 1,000+ HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing businesses across 48 states and Canada grow — today powered by Hydra OS, its proprietary AI website and marketing platform.