The Proximity Economy · Agentic Commerce Strategy

America's cornerstone
businesses deserve
to win.

Today's customers don't browse — they send AI on a mission to find the best option. ChatGPT decides who gets recommended. Perplexity decides who gets the call. We make sure that's you. Then we make sure you convert and retain every customer they send.

The reach of the national players — brought to the businesses that built America.

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Trades & HVAC Property Management Retail & Commerce Accounting / CPA
The quiet majority · The shift

The cornerstone economy
is being left behind.

01 / 03
The quiet majority is invisible to AI agents
ChatGPT recommends the national chain. The VC-backed upstart. Not you — even though your customers love you and have for years.
02 / 03
Your trust doesn't transfer digitally
Reputation built over years — invisible to machines. AI agents read signals, not history. Your track record simply doesn't exist in a language they understand.
03 / 03
The gap is growing, not shrinking
While you've been serving customers, AI-native competitors have been training models on their data. The window to act is 12–18 months. After that, the gap is structural.
The evidence · Why now

The numbers
don't lie.

58%
of consumers used AI to find a local business this year
BrightLocal, 2025
73%
of AI-referred customers arrive with purchase intent
vs. 31% from Google · Salesforce, 2025
See the full data breakdown by vertical →
Window of opportunity — closing
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"The businesses that establish AI presence in the next 12 months will be the default recommendation for years."

The proximity economy is the last major segment without AI presence. That is the problem. It is also — right now, for a short window — the opportunity.

Trades · PM · CPA · Retail data →
The opportunity

Now is the time to own your
category — before AI locks the door.

The businesses that establish AI presence in 2026 will be the default recommendation for years. The proximity economy is the last major segment to move — which means the first movers in your category take everything. Your competitors haven't moved yet. Your customers already have.

See where you stand — free → Read the evidence →
Three ways we work together

Built for
the whole journey.

Getting found. Converting when found. Running the operation that delivers. These three problems are connected — solving one without the others leaves money on the table.

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01 · Source
Become the answer AI agents give.
We audit and rebuild your AI presence — schema, structured data, citation signals, AEO content — so when a customer asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for the best in your category, you're the name they get.
From $3,500Visibility Sprint · 5 days
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02 · Convert
Turn AI-referred intent into revenue.
AI-referred customers arrive mid-mission with high purchase intent. We design the experience that meets them exactly where they are — and closes. Mission-based optimisation, monthly attribution reporting.
From $5,000/moConversion Retainer · 90-day min
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03 · Retain
Build the infrastructure that keeps them.
The agentic funnel breaks when operations can't deliver. We design the automation layers, data systems, and operational infrastructure that let you scale without friction — and keep customers coming back.
From $35,000AI Infrastructure Program · 8 weeks
Pricing · No surprises

Priced for real businesses,
not venture-backed ones.

Whether you want a clear plan to act on yourself, or a team to do the work with you — we have both. Advise gives you the diagnosis and roadmap, yours to keep. Action means we're in the work alongside you. No annual contracts either way. Three illustrative examples:

$2M HVAC company
Zero AI presence. National chains dominating every local search query.
Advise · Visibility Sprint
Full AI audit, competitor map, prioritised action list. Delivered in 5 days.
$3,500
Flat fee · 5 days
200-unit property manager
High vacancy. Renters using AI to shortlist — and not finding them.
Advise → Action · Audit + Fix
Named in Perplexity within 6 weeks. 14 faster-filled vacancies in quarter one.
$20,500
Audit + Visibility Fix · 8 weeks
8-location retail group
Complex ops. AI agents sending customers to competitors with cleaner data.
Action · Full Infrastructure Program
Full visibility + ops automation across all locations. Catalogue cited in 34 AI responses per day.
$55,000
Infrastructure Program · 8 weeks
* Illustrative examples based on typical engagements. Actual scope and pricing confirmed after a discovery call.
Advisory
Sprint, Audit & Roadmap
from $3,500
Implementation
Visibility Fix & Conversion
from $12,000
Infrastructure
Full AI Operations Program
from $35,000
Not sure which applies to you?
The pricing calculator recommends a starting point based on your vertical, revenue, and goals.
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The process

From invisible to recommended
in 90 days.

Day 0 · FreeYou see exactly where you stand.
60-second AI audit across five pillars. Your score, your competitors' scores, your gaps — before any money changes hands.
Free AI Visibility Check
Days 1–14You know exactly what to do next.
Full competitor analysis. 32-signal readiness score. A prioritised roadmap with effort/impact ratings — yours to keep, no matter what.
Agentic Readiness Audit · from $3,500
Weeks 3–8AI agents find you. By name.
Schema, structured data, citation signals, AEO content. The technical and content work that puts you in the answer — not the also-rans.
Visibility Fix · $12,000 flat
Day 90+AI-referred customers convert — and come back.
Monthly optimisation against real attribution data. Source, convert, retain — the full loop, running continuously.
Conversion Retainer · from $5,000/mo
The default recommendation
in your category. For years.
About Rhyton

Built by someone
who already
shipped this.

A product leader who spent years building agentic commerce infrastructure at one of the world's largest retailers. Not advisory from the outside — someone who shipped it and measured the outcomes.

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+35% AOV for agent-assisted purchases
Measured, attributable lift from agentic commerce infrastructure built and shipped at scale — millions of weekly active users.
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Patents pending on agentic retail UI/UX foundations
Original IP on the architecture of agentic retail interfaces — the same framework adapted for the proximity economy.
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Built at one of the world's largest retailers
The infrastructure that serves hundreds of millions of customers annually. That's the playbook we bring to your business.
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