SEO and website design that gets New York businesses found — on Google and inside ChatGPT.

Software built for how your business actually works, when nothing off the shelf fits: an inventory tool that knows your cost and your shelves, a booking calendar with your durations, buffers, deposits and intake questions, a quoting tool driven by your real pricing rules. We scope it in writing — a numbered list of what’s in and what isn’t — before your deposit clears, so “within reason” is never a guess. You own it.

Because the engagement is exclusive and complete: a bespoke premium website, the premium custom-built system your operation runs on, a custom CRM with AI agents, the year-one search and AI-visibility program, launch production — and a written commitment that Meridian will not take another client in your category in your area. The exact fee is scoped per client in a written proposal, and every audit fee you’ve paid is credited in full.

Each physical location is its own Done-For-You engagement — its own proposal, its own signed agreement naming that location, and its own project fee starting at $100,000. A restaurant group or event-space brand with two or three locations signs one agreement per location, not one for the whole brand, and each location gets its own category exclusivity in its own neighborhood.

From your assessment. The $1,000 Website AI Assessment benchmarks your top three competitors and produces a prioritized roadmap; from those findings Meridian prepares a written proposal with scope options at different investment levels, starting at $100,000 per location. The assessment fee you’ve paid is credited in full against the project.

Done-For-You is paid across four milestones, never all at once — a deposit at signing, then design approval, pre-launch, and a final payment after go-live — so a meaningful portion is always withheld until you approve the launch. The 90-Day Evaluation is $2,500 a month for three months, or $6,750 up front (10% off). The assessment is paid once, and it credits forward in full. Refund terms for signed agreements are in our Refund Policy.

The project is a one-time engagement paid on the schedule in your accepted proposal, with a meaningful portion always withheld until you approve the launch. The 90-Day Evaluation never auto-renews. Ongoing service after year one is optional and quoted separately in writing — nothing renews automatically.

Your first website draft is delivered in less than 72 hours, not weeks — and you review and approve every page before anything goes live. Nothing publishes without your say-so.

We can’t promise rankings — no honest company can. What we can do is build your site the way AI search engines reward: a direct answer on every page, FAQ structure, schema, an llms.txt file, topical authority, and the keywords your customers actually search. That gives you a strong, structural chance of being found and cited — far better odds than a generic template.

SEO gets you found in classic Google results. AIO (AI optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) get you cited inside AI answers like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. We build for all three on every page.

Yes. The Done-For-You project includes Google Business Profile setup and monthly management through year one — posts, updates, and review responses — so you compete for the local Map Pack in your neighborhood.

A CRM is one place that captures and tracks every lead. Ours adds AI agents that score each lead hot, warm, or cold, draft a reply in your voice, and alert you instantly — so no inquiry goes cold. You always review before anything sends.

No. Your project ships with its AI agents configured and running. Prefer to run them on your own provider account — Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Groq, or Grok? We set that up for you, you pay your provider directly, and we never mark up API costs.

None. If you can use email, you can use Meridian. You answer a few questions about your business and review the pages we build — we handle the technical side.

Yes. Your site comes in English, Spanish, and French — written in the right register, not machine-translated — with a built-in language switcher. For markets where you need to rank in each language, we build separate indexed pages with hreflang.

Yes — venues are a specialty. Garnett has spent thirty years in live production as a lighting designer and AV technician, with training at The Juilliard School through its professional stage lighting technician internship — so for New York City restaurants and event spaces the $1,000 assessment can add an in-person room walk: sound, lighting, and video assessed alongside the digital diagnosis. A room that’s too loud or too dark produces short visits, flat reviews, and no guest photos — and reviews and photos are exactly what Google and AI search read. Where the room itself needs work, we can refer independent AV technicians; that work is quoted separately and is never part of the Meridian agreement.

Almost. Per Google’s terms, if Garnett has left a review for your business as a Google Local Guide, Meridian cannot provide it services. Check the reviews list ↗ — if your business isn’t there, you’re good to go. The focus for now is Harlem, ZIP codes 10026, 10027, 10029, 10030, 10031, 10035, 10037 and 10039; customers elsewhere come by referral.

All of it, and only it for now: Central Harlem, East Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Sugar Hill, Manhattanville and Morningside Heights — ZIP codes 10026, 10027, 10029, 10030, 10031, 10035, 10037 and 10039. We work in person, walk the block, and keep a page for each part of Harlem. A business elsewhere in New York City or beyond comes to us by referral from a Harlem client, and we take those one at a time.

The same way it gets found on Google Maps, done thoroughly. An AI engine names a business when it can read plain facts about it in several consistent places: your website says what you do, where you are and which neighborhoods you serve in words a machine can quote; your Google Business Profile matches your website exactly — name, address, phone, hours, categories; your pages answer real questions the way people ask them; your reviews mention the neighborhood and the service; and the site carries structured data and an llms.txt file that hand the engines those facts directly. We build every page in English, Spanish and French, so a question asked in any of the three finds you. Then we check: each month we ask Claude about your category in Harlem and show you whether it mentions you.