Hydra Build Components are 51 pre-engineered, drop-in website components — calculators, estimators, troubleshooters, trust walls, city-page engines, and agent-actionable interfaces — each mapped to the strategy pillar it moves: SEO, AEO, GEO, AI Search, CRO, AXO (Agent Experience Optimization), or SXO (Search Experience Optimization). They're add-on options for your website, can be added at any time, and are available exclusively to Hydra OS customers.
51 components8 strategy pillars47 agent-actionable (AXO)831 instances deployed across 171 client builds20 with live customer proof51 shown running on real customer sitesFrom $425 · $5 = 1 AI credit
What you're looking at
Hydra Build Components are add-on options for your website. They can be added at any time — and they are available exclusively to customers running on Hydra OS.
Every component below is sold on the live order catalog at getstarted.ciwebgroup.com/build — priced in AI Credits at the published $5 = 1 credit rate, with its turnaround stated up front. Not on Hydra OS yet? Start with a Hydra OS website build.
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Pick your outcome
Shop by the number you want to move — SEO, AEO, GEO, AI Search, CRO, AXO (Agent Experience Optimization), or SXO (Search Experience Optimization) — then pick the components engineered for it. This page maps every component to its pillars.
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Add to your order right here
Every card below has an add-to-order button. Build your cart, tell us what we need for each component, and submit — nothing is billed until we confirm scope and you approve the quote.
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We ship it into your site
Components ship production-ready into your existing Hydra OS build — schema, mobile-first design, and CRM wiring included — in the published business-day window.
Deployed, not theoretical
How many Build Components are actually out there?
831 component instances are running across 171 client builds in the Hydra portfolio — 593 mapped to this catalog plus 238 fully custom components built for individual customers. These aren't projections: every count below was measured by mining the source of every client build.
Measured across the Hydra portfolio, July 2026 — mined from every client build in the Hydra monorepo.
Spotlight · Most component-rich buildLive
AirWorks Solutions, Inc. runs 13 catalog components — plus 9 custom builds.
No client build in the Hydra portfolio carries more of this catalog than AirWorks Solutions, Inc. (airworkssolutions.com) — Camarillo's family-run HVAC and plumbing team. Every chip below jumps to that component's card; the captures are the components running in production on their live site.
Why do components map to pillars instead of features?
Because a component is only worth buying for the strategy it powers. A glossary isn't “a glossary” — it's AEO and AI-search real estate. A city-page engine isn't “more pages” — it's GEO. Every component in this catalog is tagged with the pillar (or pillars) it moves, so you invest in outcomes, not features.
AAO · AXO · Agent-actionable web
SEO makes you rank. AEO makes you the answer. GEO gets you cited. AAO / AXO gets you booked.
Call it AAO (Agent Actionability Optimization — the acronym Yext coined and pushes) or AXO (Agent Experience Optimization — the acronym competitors coined and push). The industry hasn't settled on a name yet, but the discipline is the same: designing your website so AI agents can actually do things on it, not just read it. ChatGPT operators, Claude Computer Use, Gemini agents, Perplexity's browser mode, and autonomous booking agents don't just cite your business anymore — they transact on a homeowner's behalf. They drive calculators to a real numeric answer. They submit leads. They book appointments. They complete financing pre-qualifications. SEO (ranks + clicks), AEO (be the direct answer in snippets, voice, and AI Overviews), and GEO (be cited inside generative responses from ChatGPT and Perplexity) got you found. AAO / AXO gets you the booking.
It is not enough for Cortex Pulse to show a contractor gets cited in AI answers — the next question a prospect asks is “can an AI agent book a service call with me?” That is schema, LSA and citation integration, and structured booking data — territory Hydra already occupies. 49 of 51 Hydra Build Components are agent-actionable today, each exposing at least one of the four modalities below.
endpoint
Endpoints
Forms, checkouts, booking, quote submissions, and financing pre-quals AI agents can POST to on a user's behalf — no manual copy-paste.
What is SEO, and which build components improve it?
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the discipline of making every page on your site crawlable, fast, and unmistakably relevant so Google ranks it for the high-intent local searches your customers actually type.
For a trades contractor, organic search is the cheapest durable lead channel you can own: a page that ranks for a city + service query keeps producing calls long after an ad budget stops. Structured, indexable pages are also the raw material every other pillar builds on.
When to prioritize SEO
Prioritize SEO components when your service pages are thin, your city coverage has gaps, or competitors outrank you for the services that pay your bills.
The kind of work this covers
▸City + service combination pages with unique local proof
▸Commercial and specialty service hubs
▸Title, heading, and schema hygiene across the whole site
▸Modern image pipelines (AVIF/WebP), critical CSS, and speculative prefetch
Failure modes — what skipping SEO looks like
✕One generic services page trying to rank for every trade in every town — and ranking for none.
✕City pages that are copy-paste duplicates with the town name swapped, which Google filters as thin content.
✕Slow, unoptimized pages whose Core Web Vitals quietly cap how high they can rank.
✕Titles and headings that never mention the service or the city a buyer is searching.
What is AEO, and how do components win the AI answer box?
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is structuring your content as direct, question-shaped answers — definitions, comparisons, Q&A blocks with schema — so answer engines like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity quote you instead of a competitor.
A growing share of homeowners never see a classic list of blue links: they read the answer at the top and call whoever it names. Trades queries — “heat pump vs AC and furnace,” “what SEER rating do I need” — are exactly the questions answer engines love to summarize.
When to prioritize AEO
Prioritize AEO components when you already have baseline rankings but competitors keep getting cited in AI Overviews and answer boxes for the questions your customers ask.
The kind of work this covers
▸Glossary and definitions layers with DefinedTerm schema
▸Comparison hubs (e.g. heat pump vs AC + furnace) with consistent comparison tables
▸City-specific Q&A blocks on service-area pages
▸Troubleshooters and explainers engineered for citation
Failure modes — what skipping AEO looks like
✕Content written as sales copy instead of answers, so engines can't lift a clean quotable response.
✕No glossary or definitions layer — the long-tail “what is X” queries all go to national publishers.
✕Comparison content without consistent tables or schema, unreadable to machines.
✕Q&A that lives in a PDF or an image where no engine can parse it.
What is GEO, and how do components help you own your service area?
GEO (Geographic Optimization) is proving — page by page, review by review — that you genuinely serve each city and neighborhood in your footprint, so local searches and the map pack favor you over lead brokers three states away.
Trades businesses win or lose by radius. A homeowner in one suburb doesn't care that you rank downtown; they want evidence you work on their street. Neighborhood-level depth and location-attributed proof are what separate a real local company from a directory page.
When to prioritize GEO
Prioritize GEO components when you serve many towns but only rank in your home city, or when your service-area pages all say the same thing with a different city name.
The kind of work this covers
▸Neighborhood-level content depth for your top cities
▸Location-attributed review schema on city pages
▸City-context layers: local rebates, climate, and permit guidance
▸Per-city proof: jobs completed, local team, local photos
Failure modes — what skipping GEO looks like
✕A single “Areas We Serve” list standing in for real local pages.
✕Programmatic geo variants with zero local proof — a classic doorway-page pattern search engines demote.
✕Reviews with no location attribution, wasting the local trust they could be building.
✕No city context — rebates, climate, permit rules — that only a real local company would publish.
What is AI Search visibility, and which components make you citable?
AI Search visibility is making your business machine-readable — citable stat blocks, FAQPage schema, an llms.txt manifest, and entity-consistent naming — so large language models can verify who you are and recommend you in generated answers.
When a homeowner asks ChatGPT or Gemini “who should replace my furnace near me,” the model recommends businesses it can verify. Consistent entities, structured facts, and citable proof are the difference between being the recommendation and being invisible.
When to prioritize AI Search
Prioritize AI Search components when you want to show up inside generated answers — especially in markets where competitors are already being named by AI assistants.
The kind of work this covers
▸Citable stat blocks with published sources
▸FAQPage schema on every question-led section
▸llms.txt and llms-full.txt manifests
▸Entity-consistent naming across every page and profile
Failure modes — what skipping AI Search looks like
✕Inconsistent business naming across pages, so models can't resolve you as one entity.
✕Claims with no structured, citable source — LLMs skip what they can't verify.
✕No llms.txt or schema layer, leaving AI crawlers to guess what you do and where.
✕Authority signals (press, credentials, reviews) buried in images or third-party silos.
A&E Heating & Cooling runs Permits and Code Education Center — twin Cities metro permits + codes hub live on the A&E Heating & Cooling build
Avatex Service Company runs Repair or Replace Decision Tool — three-question repair-or-replace check (system age, repair cost, recent breakdowns) that renders an honest verdict, live on the Houston build
Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air runs Hyper Local SEO Boost — puget Sound service-area hub with neighborhood + community coverage under every city, live on the Seattle-area build
CEC Lifestyles runs Interactive Products & Services Explorer — interactive Colorado-home panorama with Nest (indoor), Alfresco (outdoor), and Charge (energy) marker layers — live on the stg build ahead of go-live
What is CRO, and which components turn traffic into booked jobs?
CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization) is engineering the on-page moments — calculators, quote capture, booking, sticky call rails — that turn a visitor you already earned into a lead in your CRM, instead of a bounce.
Traffic is only half the equation: the median CI Web Group client site converts 4.7% of visitors versus the industry's 2–3%, and that difference is built from components, not luck. For a contractor, one extra booked job a week usually pays for the component that captured it.
When to prioritize CRO
Prioritize CRO components when your traffic is healthy but calls and form fills lag — the highest-leverage lever once visibility exists.
The kind of work this covers
▸Exit-intent quote capture
▸Journey and consumer-state selectors (“Where are you with your home?”)
▸Seasonal promotion engines tied to live weather
▸SMS/text-first contact, sticky call rails, and financing calculators
Failure modes — what skipping CRO looks like
✕“Call for pricing” as the only next step, bouncing the majority who want a ballpark first.
✕One generic contact form doing the work of a quote builder, a booking flow, and an estimator.
✕No mobile thumb-reach actions — the call button lives in a hamburger menu.
✕Leaving abandoning visitors unrecovered when a low-friction exit offer would have captured them.
What is AAO / AXO, and which components let AI agents transact on your site?
AAO / AXO is 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. The industry hasn't settled on a name yet: Yext pushes AAO (Agent Actionability Optimization), competitors push AXO (Agent Experience Optimization), and both describe the same discipline — the transactional layer that sits underneath SEO (ranks + clicks), AEO (be the direct answer in snippets, voice, and AI Overviews), and GEO (be cited inside generative responses from ChatGPT and Perplexity). SEO / AEO / GEO make you readable and citable; AAO / AXO makes you executable. It is not enough for Cortex Pulse to show a contractor gets cited in AI answers — the next question a prospect asks is “can an AI agent book a service call with me?” That is schema, LSA and citation integration, and structured booking data — territory Hydra already occupies.
The next generation of AI assistants doesn't just cite your business, it acts on behalf of a homeowner — asks your site for a heat-pump sizing, requests a financing pre-qualification, books the actual appointment. Contractors whose sites are pure content will get read past. Contractors whose sites expose real endpoints, real configurators, and real schema will get the booking — regardless of whether the market ends up calling the discipline AAO or AXO.
When to prioritize AXO
Prioritize AXO components when you want AI agents (and headless browsers driven by them) to reach a machine-readable outcome on your site — a price range, a system recommendation, a booked slot, a financing decision — without a human being manually copy-pasting from a search result.
The kind of work this covers
▸Financing calculators wired to soft-pull pre-qualification (GreenSky / Synchrony / Wisetack) with an instant credit decision
▸HVAC sizing and system-by-home-type recommenders whose numeric outputs are machine-readable
▸Garage-door and home-exterior visualizers where the agent can drive the configurator and get a rendered preview back
▸Live booking endpoints that write into ServiceTitan / HousecallPro / FieldEdge in real time
▸Filterable product, brand, and service-area catalogs an agent can traverse programmatically
Failure modes — what skipping AXO looks like
✕Body-copy-only pages that read well to a human but expose no configurable input, no submission endpoint, and no structured facts an agent can extract.
✕Prices, availability, and specs locked inside images or unlabeled tables an agent can't parse.
✕“Call for a quote” as the only action, forcing every agent-assisted homeowner to drop out of the AI flow.
✕Calculators that render results client-side but never emit them into DOM in a machine-readable shape.
✕Booking / quote endpoints that require a CAPTCHA before an agent could ever submit on a user's behalf.
What is SXO, and which components make the whole search journey succeed?
SXO (Search Experience Optimization) is optimizing the whole search-to-satisfaction journey — not just where you rank, but whether a searcher lands, engages, completes a task, and comes back. It ties SEO (getting found), AEO (being the answer), and CRO (converting) into one measurable outcome: did the searcher's journey actually succeed? Google's Page Experience signals, engagement metrics, and downstream task completion are all part of the ranking algorithm now, so ranking optimizations that clash with intent don't hold.
A #1 rank means nothing if 80% of visitors bounce back to the SERP within seconds. Google measures that pogo-stick behavior and demotes results that fail it — which means the ranking budget you spent on SEO can be undone by a slow, distracting, or intent-mismatched page. Contractors optimizing for the search-experience layer keep their rank AND convert the visits it earns.
When to prioritize SXO
Prioritize SXO components when your rankings are healthy but calls, forms, and booked jobs lag — or when a competitor with worse rank is beating you on the same query because their page satisfies the visit and yours doesn't.
The kind of work this covers
▸Task-completion tools — sizing calculators, financing pre-qual, visualizers, booking endpoints — that let the visit end in a real outcome
▸SERP CTR primitives — rich-result schema (Product, Review, FAQ), review-star surfacing, honest pricing bands in meta
▸Engagement + dwell — interactive diagrams, symptom checkers, learning centers that reward the click with substance
▸Return-visit design — bookmarkable pages, saved-configuration links, email capture that gives them a reason to come back
▸Exit-recovery paths — exit-intent quote capture, sticky call rails so a leaving visitor still becomes a lead
Failure modes — what skipping SXO looks like
✕Ranking for high-intent queries with a page that reads like a corporate brochure instead of a service dispatch — the visit ends before the phone rings.
What is LSO, and which components win the map pack + Google Business Profile?
LSO (Local Search Optimization) is winning the map pack, the local pack, and the city-anchored SERPs — the search surfaces where a homeowner in your service area asks Google, ChatGPT, or Gemini for a contractor near them. It combines a canonical Google Business Profile, NAP consistency across citations, per-city entity clarity, location-attributed proof (reviews, licenses, team, permits), and city-specific service content into one coordinated signal that resolves your business as THE local answer.
For a home-service contractor, local search is where the money is: a homeowner at 6 a.m. with a broken furnace types "heating repair Delano" — and the businesses in the top three map results book that job. Ranking downtown when you serve suburbs is a lost lead. LSO is the pillar that turns your service-area footprint into a per-city entity graph the search engines can resolve.
When to prioritize LSO
Prioritize LSO components when your Google Business Profile is thin, your service-area coverage has gaps, competitors dominate the map pack, or reviews don't carry the city name they were left in. Also whenever you enter a new market — LSO is what turns "we technically serve that town" into a citation the AI can name.
The kind of work this covers
▸Service Area Pages Generator — up to 50 city pages with per-city LocalBusiness + Place schema
▸Hyper Local SEO Boost — GBP optimization + neighborhood clusters + NAP cleanup
▸Per-City Testimonial Rotation — city-matched reviews with location-attributed schema
▸Permits & Code Education Center — per-city permit rules as local-authority content
A&E Heating & Cooling runs Permits and Code Education Center — twin Cities metro permits + codes hub live on the A&E Heating & Cooling build
Flow Pro Plumbing runs Service Area Pages Generator — east Bay service-area hub on the live build
Air It Up Air Conditioning & Heating runs Emergency / After-Hours Router — emergency HVAC service landing with 24/7 routing live on the New Orleans build
All 51 components, grouped the way the catalog sells them — Conversion, Education, Trust, Operations, and Local. Prices mirror the live order catalog; where a component is already running on a real Hydra customer site, the card opens with a real screenshot of it in production and links to that customer's launch story. No mockups — every image below is a live capture.
Conversion
17 components
Calculators, quote capture, and booking moments that turn visitors into leads.
A branded membership page with tiered pricing and live Stripe checkout, so customers sign up and pay for your maintenance plan in one flow — recurring revenue on autopilot.
A sticky monthly-payment calculator wired straight into your lender's soft-pull pre-qualification (GreenSky, Synchrony, Wisetack, Service Finance) — every calculation is a captured lead.
▸Monthly payment slider with term and APR options
▸Promo plans (0% for 12 mo, deferred interest)
▸Lender API / deep-link integration
▸Soft-pull pre-qualification with instant decision
An interactive illustrated home where visitors tap trouble spots to build their own service list beside a lead form — the journey selector that asks “where are you with your home?” instead of “contact us.”
Guided inputs (system size, home age, ZIP) return a real price range with a financing preview — capturing the large share of visitors who bounce on “call for pricing.”
▸ZIP + system-based logic
▸Real price ranges
▸Financing preview
▸Book-now handoff
▸Lead scoring
Live on Hydra customers
Enviro Heating & Air — Operating-cost estimator and maintenance-plan value check, live in the North Bay
A Manual-J-lite sizing tool — square footage, climate zone, insulation — that captures leads from “what size AC do I need” searches and hands off to a proper load calculation.
▸Square-footage + climate-zone inputs
▸Tonnage / BTU output with range
▸Result-gate lead capture (zip + email)
▸Auto-CTA to book Manual-J
▸SEO landing per city
Live on Hydra customers
Avatex Service Company — AC-sizing calculator that estimates tonnage from square footage, live on the Houston build
Service Diagram Picker (Bathroom / Kitchen / Garage)
Tabbed blueprint diagrams with glowing pins that reveal common problems — visitors tell you what's happening room by room instead of abandoning a blank form.
Finds the right filter size and MERV rating from brand/model — high-volume long-tail SEO with a 60/90-day reorder reminder that feeds your maintenance-plan upsell.
Stacks federal, state, utility, and manufacturer rebates against financing in one view — a $14k system becomes $8,200 after rebates becomes a monthly number, in real time.
▸Federal + state + utility database
▸Manufacturer promos
▸Financing waterfall
▸Monthly payment preview
▸ZIP-aware
$2,975
595 AI credits
Preview design—
CRO
7–12 biz days
Home Comfort Quiz
On 3 client builds
A 6–8 question lead-magnet quiz (hot/cold rooms, humidity, allergies, energy bill) that scores comfort issues and emails a personalized report — feeding nurture and booking diagnostics.
A multi-trade project builder with a sticky live estimate — check off Furnace, AC, Plumbing, Insulation and watch the monthly payment, daily-cost framing, and bill savings update, then pre-qualify.
A scoring tool that grades a home's efficiency 0–100 from system age, tune-up cadence, thermostat, and insulation — then pitches upgrades ranked by ROI in an email-gated report.
Visitors tap upgrades to build a custom energy plan — a live efficiency score ring, per-upgrade $/yr savings, and their plan emailed as a PDF. Ideal for HVAC and electrification.
Detects mouse-to-close intent on desktop (scroll + idle on mobile) and slides in a low-friction 2-field quote offer — recovering visitors you already paid to earn.
A one-tap “text a photo of your unit” button — the SMS/text-first contact path — with inbound photos auto-tagged and routed to a live tech for fast triage.
Homeowners upload a photo of their house and preview door styles, materials, colors, and window layouts rendered on their own home — then request a quote with the design attached.
▸Upload-your-home photo preview
▸Swap door style, material, color, and windows live
▸Side-by-side compare and save/share
▸Pre-qualified quote lead with chosen design + photo
Four quick questions — system age, repair cost, breakdown history, refrigerant — return an honest repair-or-replace verdict with the math shown: the industry “$5,000 rule” (age × repair cost) made transparent, framed as “a starting point, not a diagnosis.” An anti-upsell trust builder that converts because it's honest.
▸Four-question assessment: system age, repair cost, breakdown history, refrigerant
▸Verdict banner with the reasoning spelled out line by line
▸The industry “$5,000 rule” (age × repair cost) shown transparently
▸“Starting point, not a diagnosis” framing with assessment CTA + click-to-call
▸Underlying repair-vs-replace Q&A content engineered for AI answer engines
Live on Hydra customers
Avatex Service Company — Three-question repair-or-replace check (system age, repair cost, recent breakdowns) that renders an honest verdict, live on the Houston build
Quoted in your session
Pricing on request
Education
14 components
Explainers, troubleshooters, and guides that earn rankings and AI citations.
A purpose-built explainer diagram for one product line (heat pump, mini-split, tankless…) with interactive callouts — written for both search engines and AI answer engines, priced per diagram.
▸One custom diagram per product line
▸Interactive part callouts and airflow/energy arrows
Jurisdiction-aware permit and code guides for every service you install — winning “do I need a permit for…” searches and proving you handle the whole process.
Transparent pricing-guide pages — low/average/high ranges and cost-factor breakdowns — that rank for the highest-intent “how much does X cost” queries and convert price shoppers.
▸Article + FAQPage schema for rich results and AI answers
$2,890
578 AI credits
Preview design—
SEOAEOCRO
12–18 biz days
Equipment Explorer
A hands-on visual explorer of the equipment you install — clickable hotspots, spec drawers, and per-model quote CTAs that rank for brand + model queries.
▸Interactive equipment viewer with clickable part hotspots
▸Filter by brand, system type, and efficiency tier
▸Get-a-quote CTA per model with pre-filled context
▸Product schema for rich search results
$3,060
612 AI credits
Preview design—
AEOAI SearchCRO
14–20 biz days
Symptom Checker Chatbot
A diagnostic chatbot that narrows the likely cause from the homeowner's symptoms, offers a safe DIY check, and books the right service tier — with underlying Q&A content LLMs cite.
An A-to-Z glossary where every SEER, MERV, BTU, and TXV entry gets its own indexable page with DefinedTerm schema — pure answer-engine real estate LLMs love to cite.
A branded resource hub — guides, videos, FAQs, gated buyer's guides — with search and category navigation. The authority layer that compounds across every other pillar.
A guided symptom-to-solution diagnostic — pick the system, select symptoms, step through branching questions — that surfaces likely causes and pushes a pre-qualified lead into the CRM.
▸Branching symptom → cause decision tree
▸DIY safety checks + when-to-call-a-pro guidance
▸Urgency scoring (no heat / no cool / comfort)
▸Pre-qualified lead capture with system + symptom payload
▸Mobile-first, embeddable on any service page
Live on Hydra customers
HVAC Repair Charleston — Free Home Checkup symptom builder — symptom-first intake live on the Charleston build
A room-by-room home safety and security audit — locks, smoke/CO, cameras, leak sensors, aging-in-place — that generates a scored report and a pre-qualified install lead.
Recommends the right system from home type, square footage, climate zone, and fuel source — a right-sized recommendation with an estimated install range and a full home profile on the lead.
▸Home type selector (ranch, two-story, townhome, condo, mobile)
▸Square footage + climate zone + fuel source inputs
▸Right-sized system recommendation
▸Estimated install price range
▸Pre-qualified quote lead with full home profile
$2,890
578 AI credits
Preview design—
AEOSEOAXOSXO
12–18 biz days
How Your System Works — Interactive Diagram
An animated cutaway of the home's HVAC, plumbing, or electrical system with clickable hotspots — plain-English explainers per component that educate before the sales ask.
A pan-zoom-clickable panorama of your customer's world — home, facility, or property — with a blue marker for every product and service you sell. Visitors explore what you offer visually instead of scrolling a long service list, and each marker opens the scoped story for that service.
▸Custom panorama commission (indoor, outdoor, and energy scenes)
▸Pan, pinch/scroll-zoom, and marker-click interaction (mobile + desktop)
▸Per-service popover: photos, includes, price/quote, and CTA
▸Category chips overlaid on the panorama (e.g. Indoor · Outdoor · Energy)
▸Structured Service + Place schema per marker for AI answer engines
Live on Hydra customers
CEC Lifestyles — Interactive Colorado-home panorama with Nest (indoor), Alfresco (outdoor), and Charge (energy) marker layers — live on the stg build ahead of go-live
The honest-pricing authority page — a deeply localized explainer of why a chatbot's price was never a quote for your market, written from your trade's real variables: codes, permit paths, labor rates, housing stock, and live incentives. It wins the AI citation, defuses the price anchor before your estimate conversation, and turns quote-anxious shoppers into booked visits. Live on 21 Hydra client sites across HVAC, plumbing, garage doors, roofing, and water heaters.
▸Long-form authority page localized to your trade, city, codes, and utilities
▸“What AI sees vs. what your tech sees” comparisons for your top services
▸Live incentive and rebate sourcing by utility — the detail stale AI answers miss
▸Good-vs-bad AI prompt guidance that positions you as the honest expert
▸Intent-chained links into your cost guides, estimate path, and second-opinion offer
Live on Hydra customers
Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air — The flagship multi-trade edition — Seattle permit paths (SDCI vs. state L&I), utility-by-address rebate sourcing, and the expired-25C-credit correction chatbots still get wrong
Tall Pines Roofing — The roofing edition — why “the deck decides” and no model has ever seen your decking
First Choice Garage Doors — The garage-door edition — AI prices the panel; the real job is the counterbalance system
$1,950
390 AI credits
Trust
9 components
Proof layers — catalogs, credentials, comparisons — that close the credibility gap.
A shoppable catalog of the equipment you install — specs, efficiency ratings, and estimated install price ranges — that turns spec shoppers into pre-qualified quote requests.
A branded newsroom — press mentions, awards, downloadable media kit — that signals authority to homeowners, journalists, and AI answer engines. Ships with a written-and-distributed press release plus a Catalyst for the Trades podcast interview.
▸Branded newsroom / press hub page
▸Press mention logo bar and featured coverage cards
▸Downloadable media kit (logos, bios, photos)
▸Included: written + distributed press release
▸Included: Catalyst for the Trades podcast interview
A filterable directory of every manufacturer brand you carry, with per-brand landing pages that rank for brand + service queries and build trust at the decision moment.
One trust wall of every certification, manufacturer partnership, and award — NATE, EPA, BBB, factory authorizations — grouped, filterable, and linked to proof.
A side-by-side comparison of you vs. lead brokers, PE-backed roll-ups, and franchises — consistent comparison rows with a highlighted “Recommended” column, readable by humans and answer engines alike.
▸Up to 4 competitor columns
▸Per-row check / warn / x icons
▸Highlighted recommended column
▸Editable in backoffice
▸SEO-friendly markup
$1,190
238 AI credits
Preview design—
CROSXO
4–7 biz days
Speed-to-Lead Promise Banner
A live “Average callback: 12 minutes” badge near every form, fed by real call-tracking data — and auto-hidden if speed slips, so the promise stays honest.
Twenty branded social designs — delivered as sixty ready-to-post files — that announce your new website's go-live and put every consumer-facing feature it ships in front of your followers: the estimator, online booking, Learning Center, reviews wall, financing, membership plan, and more. Your launch gets a feed's worth of proof, not one post.
▸Go-live announcement set — countdown, launch day, we're-live, review variant
▸A feature-spotlight graphic for every consumer-facing component on your build
▸Review, guarantee, and meet-the-team trust cards
▸Brand tokens baked in — your colors, fonts, and logo lockups
Live on Hydra customers
Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air — Launch-campaign creative built from the Eco brand system — the Energy Experts homepage takeover, Energy Savings Plan builder, Home Checkup, and Google-review proof cards
Built by the Trades — Stop-running-your-trade-business-on-gut-feel launch creative — the Built by the Trades brand voice carried into announcement graphics
$1,700
340 AI credits
Operations
6 components
Portals, pipelines, and engines that run the back office from your website.
A full recruiting hub — branded careers pages, Google for Jobs–ready role postings, and an on-site applicant pipeline — so hiring stops depending on job boards.
▸Branded careers landing page with culture, benefits, and video
▸Role pages with JobPosting schema (Google for Jobs)
▸On-site application with resume upload and screeners
A real-time slot picker that writes directly into ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, or FieldEdge — the homeowner books a real slot, dispatch stays clean, nobody double-books.
▸Real-time availability
▸ServiceTitan / HCP / FieldEdge sync
▸SMS + email confirmations
▸Reschedule self-service
▸Deposit capture
Live on Hydra customers
Flow Pro Plumbing — Schedule Engine online booking wired into the live build
Branded estimates customers approve, sign, and pay online in minutes — Good/Better/Best tiers, legally binding e-sign, and Stripe deposit capture end the estimate chase.
▸Good/Better/Best tiers
▸Legally binding e-sign
▸Stripe deposit capture
▸Auto follow-ups
▸Approval webhooks
$2,550
510 AI credits
Preview design—
CRO
8–12 biz days
Warranty & Registration Center
One place for customers to register equipment and file warranty claims — serial capture, claim intake, and auto-reminders synced to your CRM.
Automated post-job review requests routed to Google, BBB, and Facebook — happy customers go public, unhappy ones go to a private form, and reviews render on-site with schema.
A landing page for every city you serve — up to 50 cities included — with city-matched reviews, jobs completed, and local proof, so geo pages read like a real local company, not a doorway. Neighborhoods and community-level depth are a separate add-on (see Hyper Local SEO Boost).
▸Up to 50 city pages included — auto-generated from your service-area list
▸City-matched reviews, jobs completed, and local trust signals
▸Per-city LocalBusiness + Place schema for the local pack
▸Sitemap auto-update as you add cities
▸Volume beyond 50 cities scoped in your session (per-city unit rate)
A state-aware, filterable rebate catalog — “Up to $X” headline cards, eligibility criteria, and program links — the city-context layer that proves you know the local incentive landscape.
Shows city-matched reviews on each city page — location-attributed review schema with nearest-metro fallback — for measurable local conversion lift and SERP stars.
One level deeper than city pages: neighborhood- and community-level authority under every city you cover. GBP optimization, NAP + citation cleanup, per-neighborhood clusters, and location-attributed proof — so you show up in the local pack and AI answer engines for every service in every neighborhood, not just every city.
▸Neighborhood + community landing pages nested under your city coverage
▸Google Business Profile optimization (categories, services, attributes, weekly posts)
▸NAP consistency audit + top-tier local citation cleanup
▸Neighborhood-attributed reviews rendered on-site with schema
▸Local pages built for AI Overviews (FAQPage + LocalBusiness + Place schema per neighborhood)
Live on Hydra customers
Eco Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Air — Puget Sound service-area hub with neighborhood + community coverage under every city, live on the Seattle-area build
$3,060
612 AI credits
Preview design—
SEOGEOLSOAEO
14–21 biz days
Franchise / Branch / Location Package
Stand up one franchise, branch, or additional location on Hydra — main services content, location pages across a 30-mile radius, and team / company information — so every market reads as a real local company, not a cloned doorway.
▸Content for your main services at this location
▸Location / service-area pages covering a 30-mile radius
▸Team and company information for the local market
▸LocalBusiness + Place schema wired to the location
▸NAP-consistent location entity ready for GBP and citations
$5,000
1000 AI credits
Beyond the library
What if the component you need doesn't exist yet?
The same order page scopes fully custom work in AI Credits — and much of the pre-built library started as a custom build for one customer. These are live, documented examples from real Hydra launches:
A live “Right now in Houston” weather module that routes hot, cold, and mild days to the matching services — a seasonal promotion engine tied to real weather.
Hydra Build Components are available exclusively to Hydra OS customers. They are add-on options for your existing website and can be ordered at any time — at launch, a season later, or whenever a new goal calls for one.
How are Hydra Build Components priced?
Every component is priced in AI Credits at the published $5 = 1 credit rate, with the exact credit and dollar price listed on the order catalog at getstarted.ciwebgroup.com/build. Prices on this page mirror that catalog; the catalog is always the source of truth.
How long does a component take to ship?
Each component publishes its own turnaround on the order catalog — currently ranging from about 4 business days for the smallest components (like Exit-Intent Quote Capture) to about 25 business days for the largest (like the Project + Financing Calculator).
Do components include content, schema, and CRM wiring?
Yes. Components ship production-ready: structured data (Product, FAQPage, DefinedTerm, JobPosting, and more depending on the component), mobile-first responsive design, and lead capture wired to your CRM where the component converts.
What if I need something that isn't in the library?
The same order page scopes fully custom jobs in AI Credits — new pages, custom tools, integrations, redesigns. Live examples include weather-driven service routers and AI search heroes built for individual Hydra customers.
Which strategy pillars do the components cover?
Every component maps to at least one of five pillars — SEO, AEO, GEO, AI Search, and CRO — so you can shop by the outcome you want to improve rather than by feature name.
Components pair naturally with the rest of the growth stack: Hydra & Cortex AI Build Credits fund ongoing website changes, additions, and new components, Conversion Intelligence explains the CRO discipline in depth, and the AI Search Guides cover how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews choose who to cite.
Ready when you are
Order new components for your website.
Pick the pillar, add components to your order, and submit right from this page — every price and turnaround is published up front, and nothing is billed until we confirm scope and you approve the quote. Add-ons for your website, orderable any time, exclusively for Hydra OS customers.
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