RankVisibly
Growth Proposal

Clark Fork Custom Homes · Trout Creek, Montana

30 Years of Craft.
Found First.

Custom homes built the right way since 1993. Now found first in Google and in the AI tools your next clients ask before they ever call a builder.

The Short Version

From Invisible to the Name They Find.

The Problem

Your buyers are in California and Washington, planning a Montana build months before they visit. When they search Google or ask ChatGPT today, you are not what they find. The live check on our call found you in none of the AI tools.

The Strategy

Become the builder they find first. We repair your online foundation, publish the answers movers are already asking under your name, and make you the builder Google and AI hand them.

The Outcome

A steady flow of the right out-of-state buyers, feeding the five signed builds you asked for, with next spring's season taking shape before winter.

The Risk Control

Six months, then it is entirely your call. Continue, or stop with no penalty. Everything we build stays yours.

01
The Problem

Your Next Clients Are Three States Away.

The families planning a $100,000 to $750,000 Montana build are mostly not in Sanders County. They are in California and Washington, the two states that send Montana more new residents than any others. They plan for months. They search Google. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity who to trust. On our call we checked live: you are not in any of those answers. Not one.

The search happens without you

Out-of-state buyers research a builder long before they visit. If you are not in the results, the phone simply never rings. There is no missed call to notice.

The local seat is empty

We checked who does show up for Montana builder searches. One competitor's website is dead. The other's is nearly empty. Nobody owns this ground yet.

The season raises the stakes

Building pauses October through March. The pipeline for next spring gets built now, or the slots sit empty. An invisible month is a slot you cannot get back.

Your new website reads well. It is also alone. It went live two months ago with an unoptimized Google business listing, no reviews anywhere on the internet, and none of the structure Google and AI need before they will recommend a builder. That is the whole gap, and it is fixable.
02
The Strategy

Be the Builder They Find First.

One engine, two places: Google search and AI answers. We start where you can win fastest. The questions your buyers ask, like what it really costs to build in northwest Montana, have no good answer online today. You have 30 years of real numbers. We publish them under your name.

Fix the foundation

Your Google business listing, your reviews, your profiles on Houzz and the builder directories, and your business details made consistent everywhere. This is what lets Google and AI trust that you exist.

Answer what movers ask

Real cost guides, land and build guides, and winter building answers for families moving from California and Washington. Written from your numbers, published under your name.

Show the proof you already have

30 years of builds. A Fine Woodworking feature. Work in four countries. A Montana license. It is all real, and almost none of it is visible online. We put it where buyers and AI can see it.

Pre-qualify before the phone rings

Every page and form is built to filter for budget, land, and timeline. Fewer tire kickers. More of the five families a year you actually want.

Not Another Lead Site

Rented Leads Burned You. This You Own.

You have paid the home-improvement lead sites before: real money for shared leads that never signed. This is the opposite model. No pay-per-click. No shared leads. We build visibility that belongs to Clark Fork Custom Homes and keeps working after the work is done.

You own every asset

The pages, the listings, the reviews, the rankings. If we part ways at month 6, all of it stays yours and keeps pulling.

Rankings do not bill per click

Paid ads in your market run $5 to $10 every single click, signed job or not. A ranking and an AI answer cost the same whether 10 people find you or 10,000.

Buyers call you directly

No middleman reselling the same family to five contractors. They see your work and call your number.

First mover matters here. Our research found that nobody has claimed these answers for northwest Montana. The builder who publishes them first becomes the name AI repeats. That seat is open today. The first builder who claims it keeps it.
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The Outcome

A Full Season. Booked in Advance.

A system that brings the right out-of-state buyers to you, on purpose, and proves it. At your own 10-to-1 close rate, a steady flow of qualified inquiries becomes the five signed builds you need, with next spring's slots filling before the ground freezes.

Predictable pipeline

The right buyers find you first, in Google and in AI.

The right buyers

Out-of-state families with land, budget, and a timeline. Filtered before they reach your phone.

Ahead for spring

Next season's builds take shape before the fall pause, so you start the year with work already lined up.

Proof, not opinion

Every call and form is tracked. You see exactly what the engine produced.

The Proof

We Don't Just Promise This.

Two real RankVisibly engagements. Different industries, same play: own the answers buyers already search for. We run 12 clients with a hard cap of 20, and none has ever left.

B2B services firm · 3 offices
1,319
inbound calls generated for one client

Outranked national names in its market by owning the local answers. The exact play that is sitting open for you in Montana.

Commercial services firm · 120 days
$214K
pipeline in 120 days, 5x the baseline

Went from invisible to a measured $214,000 pipeline by publishing the answers buyers were already searching for.

Both cases are anonymized for client confidentiality, with named references available on request. The work is front-loaded. For a local business, the first meaningful inbound typically shows within the first few months, then it compounds.

The Roadmap

A Foundation Now. A Loud Spring.

Two phases, one direction, matched to your building season. Build the engine through the fall. Turn it up when out-of-state buyers start planning spring builds. With a decision point at month 6 that is fully yours.

01
Phase 1 · Months 1 to 3

Build the foundation

Google business listing, reviews, builder directories, your details fixed everywhere, the first answer pages live, and tracking on every call and form. Google and AI take about 90 days to trust a new presence. We use that clock.

02
Phase 2 · Months 4 to 6, and beyond if you choose

Own the spring

January to March is when California and Washington families plan spring builds. By then your answers have age and trust behind them, ranking right when the searching peaks, so next spring's builds are lining up before the season starts.

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Month 6 · Your decision

A fair off-ramp

By now the foundation is built and producing. Continue with confidence, or step away. No penalty. Everything stays yours either way.

The Guarantee

You Don't Pay Us to Hope.

You told us plainly: no debt, and pay as you go. We built the terms around exactly that.

Everything we build is yours

The pages, the listing, the reviews, the rankings. If we ever part ways, all of it stays with Clark Fork Custom Homes and keeps working for you.

A fair off-ramp at month 6

Continue, or step away with no penalty. No strings on the way out.

Return you can count

Every call, form, and signed job is tracked. The return is a number, not a story.

The Investment

One Rate. Held for You.

The market rate for this scope is $3,700 a month. On our call we came down to $2,900 for you, and this proposal locks it there for the full engagement. One tier does everything described in these pages. The second exists for later, and we do not recommend it now.

Recommended
AI Visibility
AIV · The full engine. No paid ads anywhere in it.
$2,900
per month, locked for the engagement
  • Google and AI visibility strategy built around out-of-state buyers
  • Google business listing built out and managed
  • Review engine: 30 years of happy clients, finally visible
  • Houzz and the builder directory profiles, consistent everywhere
  • Cost guides and moving-to-Montana answer pages under your name
  • Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity visibility tracking
  • Call and form tracking with plain-English monthly reports
  • Lead forms that pre-qualify budget, land, and timeline
  • You own every asset we build
Total Visibility Framework
TVF · The amplifier. For later, if ever.
Later
scoped only when you want it
  • Everything in AI Visibility, plus
  • Paid search and paid social campaigns
  • Social media managed for you
  • Follow-up ads to people who already visited your site
  • Built for owners preparing a business for growth or sale
  • We will not pitch this until the foundation pays
No paid ads anywhere in this plan. You said the lead sites and pay-per-click burned you. We agree with you. There is not one paid click in this engagement.
The Math

The Real Math on One Signed Build.

Your projects run $100,000 to $750,000. Take a mid-range build at $400,000 and set it against this engagement.

Your monthly investment
$2,900
Six months, all in
$17,400
One mid-range signed build against the full engagement
Covers it 23 times

You do not need a flood of leads for this to work. You need five signed builds a year, and the first one repays the engine many times over. One signed build carries the entire fee. That is pay as you go.

Illustrative planning math, not a promise. Plug in your real project values and the picture only gets clearer. What we control is building the visibility and the qualified calls that make the numbers real.

Moving Forward

Let's Get You Found.

We have had our call, and you have seen where you stand: not in the answers yet, in a market where the seat is open. From here it is simple.

Step 01

Say the word

Reply to this proposal, or bring your questions to the follow-up call next week.

Step 02

Kickoff week

We claim your Google listing, fix your details everywhere, and set the tracking baseline. You send project photos and the stories behind them.

Step 03

We build

The foundation goes live in the first 30 days. Answer pages follow. You see every step in a plain-English monthly report.

Ready when you are.

Spring buyers start searching in January. The 90-day clock to be in their answers starts the day we do. The earlier the start, the louder the spring.

Reply and lock your start date