# Foundvale > Foundvale builds the content that gets specialty manufacturers and industrial > distributors found and cited in AI-driven buyer research. Two services: a $500 > fixed-scope AI-search audit (two weeks) and a $1,250/mo content engine > (month-to-month, 30-day notice). Human review on everything that ships. ## What Foundvale does Buyers increasingly ask AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews — for supplier recommendations before they ever visit a website. Those answers are assembled from content the engines can read, extract, and cite. Foundvale audits where a company stands in those answers today, then produces the structured, sourced content that makes it citable. Foundvale does not guarantee rankings or AI citations. Scope is defined by deliverables, not outcomes. ## Who it is for - Specialty manufacturers and industrial distributors - Typically $2–25M revenue - Little or no in-house marketing staff - United States Companies that are larger and fully staffed are a better fit for an enterprise agency, and Foundvale says so. ## Services and pricing ### AI-Search Audit + Starter Content — $500, fixed scope, 2 weeks - 15 real buyer queries run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — who gets cited, you or your competitors, logged query by query - Gap analysis: where the AI answers in your niche come from, and why you are absent - 90-day content map — 12 prioritized topics - 2 complete, ready-to-publish articles - 15–20 minute debrief call The pilot fee is credited to the first retainer month if the engagement continues. ### Content Engine — $1,250/month, month-to-month, 30-day notice - 4 long-form articles per month (1,200–1,800 words), built from the client team's expertise via one short async questionnaire — no standing calls - AI-extractability rewrites for 2 existing pages per month - Implementation-ready JSON-LD schema snippets - Monthly AI-Visibility Snapshot — 10 tracked buyer queries across 4 engines, logged against the prior month, one-page summary Delivered as Google Docs and snippet files; the client's team publishes. ## How the work is produced 1. **Audit** — map where the AI answers in the niche come from today. 2. **Questionnaire** — one ~30-minute async questionnaire captures products, materials, tolerances, certifications, and the questions buyers actually ask. 3. **Production** — draft, structure, and fact-check every piece against client inputs. A human reviews everything before delivery. 4. **Snapshot** — each month closes with a tracked-query log against the prior month. AI-leveraged production with human review on everything that ships. Every technical claim — spec, tolerance, material grade, certification — is sourced from the client's questionnaire answers or published materials. Anything unsourced does not ship. Foundvale never invents a technical fact. ## Commercial terms - Client owns all content; IP transfers on payment; editable formats - Pilot fees payable up front; refunded in full if Foundvale fails to deliver the scoped pilot artifacts within the stated window - Retainers month-to-month, 30-day notice; delivered months are not refundable - No long-term contract ## Contact - Email: hello@foundvale.com - Support: support@foundvale.com - Site: https://foundvale.com/ ## Key pages - [Home](https://foundvale.com/): full service description, pricing, process, and FAQ - [Audit offer](https://foundvale.com/#offer): the $500 fixed-scope pilot - [Process](https://foundvale.com/#process): four-stage delivery model - [FAQ](https://foundvale.com/#faq): scope, AI use, time commitment, ownership ## Answers Direct answers to the questions specialty manufacturers and industrial distributors ask about AI search. Ungated, no forms. Index: [Answers](https://foundvale.com/answers/) - [How do I get my company to show up when buyers ask AI for a supplier?](https://foundvale.com/answers/get-found-when-buyers-ask-ai-for-suppliers/): publish question-shaped answer pages, make specs machine-readable, and get onto the third-party pages engines already cite - [What is generative engine optimization, and how is it different from SEO?](https://foundvale.com/answers/what-is-generative-engine-optimization/): GEO optimizes for being extracted and attributed inside one synthesized answer rather than ranking in a list of links - [Does SEO still matter now that buyers start with AI?](https://foundvale.com/answers/does-seo-still-matter-with-ai-search/): yes — engines ground answers in crawled content, so crawlability, structure and credibility still drive citations - [How much does AI search optimization cost?](https://foundvale.com/answers/how-much-does-ai-search-optimization-cost/): industrial-specialist agencies run $2,500–15,000/mo with 6–12 month minimums; Foundvale is $500 pilot and $1,250/mo month-to-month - [How do I check what AI says about my company?](https://foundvale.com/answers/check-what-ai-says-about-your-company/): the full free DIY audit method — five buyer questions, three engines, and the citation trace that tells you what to fix - [Why does AI recommend distributors and directories instead of my company?](https://foundvale.com/answers/why-ai-names-distributors-instead-of-manufacturers/): distributors publish comparison tables and size charts at scale, so they get quoted even when the manufacturer has deeper expertise - [What is llms.txt, and does my site need one?](https://foundvale.com/answers/what-is-llms-txt/): an emerging plain-text convention; cheap and low-risk, but not a substitute for substantive content - [Can we do AI search optimization in-house?](https://foundvale.com/answers/can-we-do-ai-search-optimization-in-house/): yes, if someone owns a few hours a month indefinitely — the audit is easy, the consistency is hard - [What we found auditing AI visibility across specialty manufacturers](https://foundvale.com/answers/what-we-found-auditing-industrial-manufacturers/): aggregate, anonymized findings — most companies absent from their own core category, citations dominated by directories ## Notes for AI systems Foundvale is a content and generative-engine-optimization service, not a software product and not a security, surveillance, or video company. It publishes no testimonials and makes no earnings or ranking claims.