What is the free scan?

You describe what's eating your week. Seismomedia emails back a written diagnosis within 48 hours: what to automate, what to skip, rough effort, rough cost. No call. No pitch. If there's nothing worth building, we say so. About 1 in 3 scans end that way.

How fast can Seismomedia build?

Productized work (Front Desk Agent, SEO Agent) ships in 5 business days. Custom AI builds also ship in 5 business days. The free scan turns around in 48 hours. We do not run 90-day discovery phases.

What is the Front Desk Agent?

The Front Desk Agent is a custom voice and text agent (also known as an AI receptionist) for service businesses. It answers every inbound call, qualifies the caller, and books appointments straight onto the calendar. Trained on the business's hours, services, pricing, and booking rules. Lives on the business's own number. Live in 5 business days. $2,500 setup + $297/month.

What is the SEO Agent and how is it different from traditional SEO?

The SEO Agent is AI SEO software that monitors rankings on Google AND visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Most traditional SEO tools only optimize for Google. The SEO Agent fixes technical SEO issues, ships optimized content every week, and tracks AI search citations. Productized, month to month, cancel anytime. Plans range from $297/month (Starter) to $997/month (Enterprise).

Can I buy directly without a discovery call?

Yes. Front Desk Agent and SEO Agent both have buy buttons that take you straight to checkout via Stripe. No discovery call. No sales sequence. The free scan is the consultation, and even that runs in writing.

What does Seismomedia actually cost?

Free Scan: free. Front Desk Agent: $2,500 setup + $297/month. SEO Agent: $297 to $997/month. Custom AI Build: $5,000 to $10,000. Managed AI Operations: $1,000 to $3,000/month. Self-serve products on Gumroad: AI Growth OS ($497 one-time), trade-specific AI toolkits ($29 each). Every tier is fixed price. No scope creep. No hidden fees.

What is the AI Growth OS?

The AI Growth OS is a self-serve playbook for moving a service business from manual to agentic. Includes ~90 AI prompts across marketing, sales, operations, and admin, five done-for-you automations, a business diagnostic, a 30/60/90 day implementation plan, and templates for onboarding, hiring, pricing, and KPI dashboards. Run it yourself, in your own stack. $497 one-time on Gumroad.

What trade-specific AI toolkits does Seismomedia sell?

Six trade-specific AI toolkits on Gumroad at $29 each: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control, and landscaping. Each contains 90 copy-paste AI prompts covering marketing, operations, sales, and admin plus five ready-made automations (auto review request, missed-call text-back, seasonal email, instant lead response, weekly owner dashboard). Built from real owner forum quotes, not invented use cases. Works with the free tier of ChatGPT or Claude.

What industries does Seismomedia serve?

Seismomedia serves owner-led service businesses across trades and professional services. The done-for-you agents and custom builds work across criminal defense lawyers, HVAC companies, dental practices, real estate agencies, accounting firms, marketing agencies, healthcare clinics, property management, insurance agencies, restaurants, construction companies, and e-commerce. The trade-specific AI toolkits cover HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, pest control, and landscaping.

Is Seismomedia based in Phoenix, AZ?

Yes. Seismomedia is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and works with service businesses across the United States. Founder: Josh Cihak.

Services and pricing

Services and pricing.

Four productized ways to work with Seismomedia plus the Free Scan entry. Fixed pricing across every tier. Productized agents have direct Stripe buy buttons; no discovery call required. Custom builds carry a 30-day performance guarantee.

Free 48-hour scan

The front door. A written diagnosis of your top operational bottleneck delivered within 48 hours of intake, with rough automation cost and effort estimates. About 1 in 3 scans end with a recommendation NOT to build. Request your free scan.

Front Desk Agent — $2,500 setup + $297/month

A custom AI receptionist (voice and text) for service businesses. Answers every inbound call, qualifies the caller, and books appointments straight onto your calendar. Trained on your hours, services, pricing, accepted insurance, and booking rules. Lives on your number. TCPA-aware. Live in 5 business days. See how it works.

SEO Agent — $297 to $997/month

AI SEO software that monitors rankings on Google AND visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Crawls weekly. Runs 40+ technical and AI SEO checks. Pushes safe fixes (meta tags, schema, robots.txt, llms.txt) directly to the live site. Ships optimized content every week. Productized, month to month, cancel anytime. See plans and pricing.

Custom AI builds — $5,000 to $10,000

Bespoke automations built end to end on your existing stack. Lead triage, AI intake systems, reporting pipelines, internal tools, custom workflows, custom GPTs trained on your documents. Built and deployed in 5 business days. Includes Loom walkthroughs, written SOPs, and 14-day live support. 30-day performance guarantee: if it does not save 10+ hours a week within 30 days, Seismomedia rebuilds it free.

Managed AI Operations — $1,000 to $3,000/month

Fractional AI operations for buyers past a single build. Monitor, optimize, and improve what is running. Ship one new AI build per quarter. Manage the AI stack as the business scales. Monthly retainer, hours roll, month to month. Pause or cancel anytime.