# The Method Crew

> The Method Crew is an AI consultancy that builds AI automation, custom AI agents, SEO and GEO programs and websites for companies with 10 to 500 staff. Prices are published for all 20 services. Contact: contact@methodcrew.com.

Key facts:

- Founded: 2026.
- Where: Remote-first, working worldwide.
- What we do: Strategy and advisory, Automation, AI systems, Search and visibility, Web platforms, Care and retainers. 20 services in total, each with its own page and price band.
- Who we work with: Companies with roughly 10 to 500 staff. Usually an operations, finance, sales or marketing lead who owns a process that takes hours every week.
- How we work: The Method, in 4 stages. Map (1 to 2 weeks), Prove (1 to 3 weeks), Build (2 to 8 weeks), Run (monthly, for as long as it helps).
- Prices are published: project work $1,500 to $90,000 per project, retainers $1,500 to $15,000 per month, workshops $3,000 to $12,000 per session. Change requests $175 an hour. Prices are reviewed every 6 months. Last reviewed October 2026.
- Commitments, the full list from the home page (https://methodcrew.com/#terms):
  - 5 working days: From the scoping call to a written scope with a fixed price for each phase. You decide after each phase whether the next one goes ahead.
  - 1 working day: The longest you wait for a reply to any message, including when the answer is that someone else fits the job better.
  - A demo every week: Each week of a build ends with a demo of working software on your data.
  - Rules before models: If rule-based automation does the job, we build that instead. It is cheaper to run.
  - You own everything: Code, workflows, prompts, accounts and data. We build on your accounts from the first commit.
  - Usage at cost: OpenAI, Anthropic, Twilio and vector database bills are passed to you with no markup. Changes outside the scope are $175 an hour, quoted first.
  - A pass mark up front: Every pilot is measured against a bar we agree first. If it misses, we stop and you keep the findings.
  - Runbook at handover: Documentation, a runbook and training for the people who will use the system.
  - Three things we turn down: Consumer apps, cybersecurity audits and general digital marketing. We will point you to someone who does them.
- Not offered: consumer app builds, cybersecurity audits and general digital marketing.
- Contact: contact@methodcrew.com. Request a 30-minute scoping call at https://methodcrew.com/contact.
- Markdown: every page has a markdown version at its path with /md in front and .md at the end, for example https://methodcrew.com/md/index.md for the home page and https://methodcrew.com/md/pricing.md for pricing. Any page URL also returns markdown when requested with the header "Accept: text/markdown". The full site in one file: https://methodcrew.com/llms-full.txt.

## Company

- [Home](https://methodcrew.com/md/index.md): The Method Crew is an AI consultancy that builds AI automation, custom AI agents, SEO and GEO programs and websites for companies with 10 to 500 staff.
- [Approach](https://methodcrew.com/md/approach.md): Every engagement runs Map, Prove, Build and Run: a priced plan, a pilot on your real data, a production build with weekly demos, then monthly care.
- [Pricing](https://methodcrew.com/md/pricing.md): Published price bands for every service, from $1,500 a month care plans to $90,000 agent builds. Fixed price per phase, usage billed at cost.
- [About](https://methodcrew.com/md/about.md): An AI consultancy that builds what it recommends, for companies with 10 to 500 staff. What we do, what we turn down and how we charge.
- [FAQ](https://methodcrew.com/md/faq.md): Direct answers on pricing, ownership, data security, timelines, AI models and search results, for teams deciding whether to hire an AI consultancy.
- [Contact](https://methodcrew.com/md/contact.md): Request a 30-minute scoping call or email the team. We reply within 1 working day and send a written scope and fixed price within 5 working days.

## Services: Strategy and advisory

- [Corporate AI consulting](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/corporate-ai-consulting.md): Use cases ranked by return, the best 1 or 2 piloted on your data, then a costed roadmap. $12,000 to $40,000 per project, 3 to 8 weeks per phase.
- [AI readiness audit](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/ai-readiness-audit.md): An assessment that ranks your AI opportunities by return and prices the first build. $3,000 to $15,000 per project, 1 to 2 weeks (snapshot) or 3 to 4 weeks (full audit).
- [Fractional AI lead](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/fractional-ai-lead.md): An AI lead in your leadership meetings 2 to 5 days a month, owning the roadmap and budget. $4,000 to $15,000 per month, 3-month initial term, then month to month.
- [AI workshops and team training](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/ai-workshops.md): Sessions where staff practice on their own emails, documents and spreadsheets. $3,000 to $12,000 per session, 2 weeks of preparation, then a half-day or full-day session.

## Services: Automation

- [AI automation](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/ai-automation.md): Workflows where a language model reads and sorts, and your existing systems do the rest. $4,000 to $35,000 per project, 3 to 12 weeks.
- [Business process automation](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/business-process-automation.md): One cross-team process, such as client onboarding, rebuilt so the hand-offs run on their own. $5,000 to $40,000 per project, 4 to 12 weeks.
- [Sales and CRM automation](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/sales-crm-automation.md): Leads routed to the right rep within minutes, with a follow-up draft waiting after each call. $5,000 to $25,000 per project, 3 to 8 weeks.
- [Intelligent document processing](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/intelligent-document-processing.md): Invoices, contracts and forms turned into clean, checked data. $12,000 to $40,000 per project, 6 to 12 weeks.
- [n8n, Make, Zapier and API integrations](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/workflow-integrations.md): Records moved between your CRM, inbox and finance tools without CSV exports. $1,500 to $20,000 per project, 1 to 6 weeks.

## Services: AI systems

- [Custom AI agents and copilots](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/custom-ai-agents.md): Agents that look things up in your CRM or helpdesk and take the next step, with approvals. $15,000 to $90,000 per project, 6 to 12 weeks.
- [RAG and knowledge systems](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/rag-knowledge-systems.md): Your documents turned into an assistant that cites its sources. $15,000 to $75,000 per project, 5 to 12 weeks.
- [Voice AI and call automation](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/voice-ai-agents.md): Phone agents on your existing number that book into your calendar and hand off to staff. $6,000 to $40,000 per project, 3 to 8 weeks.

## Services: Search and visibility

- [SEO and GEO](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/seo-and-geo.md): Technical SEO plus pages written to be quoted by ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. $3,500 to $15,000 per project, 6 to 10 weeks for the audit and sprint.
- [Answer engine optimization (AEO)](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/answer-engine-optimization.md): 10 to 25 pages rewritten so AI answers can quote them, tracked on 30 to 50 buyer prompts. $6,000 to $15,000 per project, 4 to 7 weeks.
- [Content operations](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/content-operations.md): A pipeline from keyword to CMS draft, with an editor approving every piece. $8,000 to $25,000 per project, 6 to 9 weeks.

## Services: Web platforms

- [Web design and development](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/web-design-development.md): Custom Next.js sites, server-rendered so search engines and AI crawlers read every page. $18,000 to $80,000 per project, 8 to 16 weeks.
- [Landing pages and conversion sites](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/landing-pages.md): Single-goal pages for campaigns and launches, wired to your CRM and tracked to the lead. $3,000 to $8,000 per project, 10 to 15 working days.

## Services: Care and retainers

- [Automation care plans](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/automation-care-plans.md): Monitoring, fixes and small changes for the automations you rely on. $1,500 to $6,000 per month, 1 to 2 weeks to onboard, then monthly.
- [AI ops monitoring and improvement](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/ai-ops-monitoring.md): Quality checks, cost control and model updates for live AI systems. $1,500 to $5,000 per month, 2 to 4 weeks to set up, then monthly.
- [SEO and GEO retainers](https://methodcrew.com/md/services/seo-geo-retainers.md): Monthly fixes and new pages, with a report on rankings and AI citations. $3,000 to $8,000 per month, monthly, with a 6-month minimum term.

## Blueprints

- [Inbound lead qualification agent](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/inbound-lead-qualification-agent.md): 4 to 6 weeks, $12,000 to $25,000 per project. Every form fill, inbound email and chat transcript is enriched, scored against your ideal customer profile, assigned to the right rep and answered with a draft the rep approves. Built in n8n or Make on your own CRM and accounts.
- [AI receptionist voice agent](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/ai-receptionist-voice-agent.md): 5 to 7 weeks, $12,000 to $30,000 per project. A voice agent picks up your calls, answers routine questions from an approved knowledge base, books into your calendar and passes anything it should not handle to a person, with a summary.
- [Invoice processing pipeline](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/invoice-processing-pipeline.md): 6 to 9 weeks, $15,000 to $35,000 per project. Invoices arrive in a shared inbox and leave as checked, approved bills in your accounting system. People only see the ones that fail a check, with the PDF and the reason side by side.
- [Support knowledge assistant](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/support-knowledge-assistant.md): 6 to 12 weeks, $20,000 to $60,000 per project. Your support team gets a drafted reply on every ticket, written from your help center, policies and past tickets, with a citation for each claim. Customers can be answered directly once the drafts earn it.
- [Sales call follow-up automation](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/sales-call-follow-up.md): 4 to 6 weeks, $7,000 to $18,000 per project. A reference build for B2B sales teams that already record their calls. The transcript goes in. CRM fields, next steps, a drafted follow-up email and dated tasks come out, and the rep approves anything that matters before it is saved or sent.
- [AI search content engine](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/ai-search-content-engine.md): 6 to 8 weeks, $12,000 to $25,000 per project. The system behind a content program aimed at Google rankings and citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Software handles research, briefs and first drafts. Your experts check every claim before anything goes live.
- [Contract review assistant](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/contract-review-assistant.md): 8 to 12 weeks, $20,000 to $40,000 per project. A first-pass reviewer for the NDAs, MSAs, order forms and vendor agreements your team sees every week. It works from your own clause playbook, and a lawyer makes every call.
- [Weekly ops report automation](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints/weekly-ops-report.md): 3 to 6 weeks, $8,000 to $20,000 per project. Every Monday at 7am, numbers from finance, CRM, support and project tools arrive in Slack or email as a short summary of what moved and why, after being checked against last week and the source systems. Nobody spends Friday afternoon building the spreadsheet.

## Industries

- [Professional services](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries/professional-services.md): Your firm sells expert time, and too much of it goes to finding last year's clause, chasing clients for documents and retyping intake forms. We build the systems that give those hours back, inside the confidentiality rules you already work under.
- [Ecommerce and retail](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries/ecommerce-retail.md): If your support queue is mostly people asking where an order is, and your catalog was written in a hurry before launch, both are fixable with systems that read your order data and product data directly.
- [Healthcare and clinics](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries/healthcare-clinics.md): Front desks in busy practices spend the day on the phone and the evening on paperwork. We build voice agents and intake automation that take the routine part of both, and hand anything clinical to your staff.
- [Real estate](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries/real-estate.md): Portal leads go cold while agents are at showings, and tenants email the office about every dripping faucet. We build the systems that answer leads in minutes, book showings and keep property managers out of the maintenance inbox.
- [Insurance and financial services](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries/financial-services.md): Applications, statements and policy documents arrive as PDFs and someone retypes them. Renewals depend on a CRM nobody has time to update. We build systems that read the documents, keep the CRM current and log every AI-assisted step for your compliance team.
- [SaaS and technology](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries/saas-technology.md): When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a shortlist in your category, the answer names a handful of products. We work to get yours named accurately, then build the site and the support assistant those buyers land on.

## Insights

- [What AI consulting costs in 2026: rates, packages and price drivers](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/ai-consulting-cost.md): AI consulting costs $3,000 to $15,000 for an audit and $15,000 to $90,000 for agents or RAG. Market rates, our prices and what moves the number. Strategy, updated 2026-10-28.
- [How to get your company cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/get-cited-by-chatgpt-perplexity-ai-overviews.md): What ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews read, which crawlers to allow, how to write quotable pages and how to measure citations. Search, updated 2026-10-28.
- [GEO vs AEO vs SEO: what is actually different](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/geo-vs-aeo-vs-seo.md): GEO, AEO and SEO share most of their work. Plain definitions, where each term came from, a side-by-side table and a 12-week plan that covers all three. Search, updated 2026-10-28.
- [AI agents vs workflow automation vs chatbots: how to pick](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/ai-agents-vs-automation-vs-chatbots.md): A decision rule for choosing workflow automation, a chatbot or an AI agent, with a 5-question checklist, cost and risk compared, and worked examples. AI systems, updated 2026-10-28.
- [n8n vs Make vs Zapier: choosing an automation platform in 2026](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/n8n-vs-make-vs-zapier.md): n8n, Make and Zapier compared on billing units, ease of use, AI agents, self-hosting and error handling, with plan prices checked in October 2026. Automation, updated 2026-10-28.
- [How to build a company knowledge assistant that cites its sources](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/build-rag-knowledge-assistant.md): A plain-language guide to a RAG assistant on company documents: preparation, retrieval, permissions, testing, costs and a 6-week rollout plan. AI systems, updated 2026-10-28.
- [AI readiness assessment: the checklist we use and how to score it](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/ai-readiness-assessment-checklist.md): Our 25-point AI readiness checklist, scored 0 to 2 across strategy, data, systems, people and risk, with score bands and what to do next at each. Strategy, updated 2026-10-28.
- [How to measure the ROI of AI automation, running costs included](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/measure-ai-automation-roi.md): The ROI formula we use for AI automation, with the running costs most calculators skip, a labeled hypothetical example and a monthly report template. Operations, updated 2026-10-28.
- [Fractional chief AI officer: what the role covers and what it costs](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/fractional-chief-ai-officer.md): What a fractional chief AI officer does, what one costs in 2026 ($3,000 to $30,000+ a month), a 90-day plan and the contract terms to agree first. Strategy, updated 2026-10-28.
- [AI acceptable use policy template for employees](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights/ai-acceptable-use-policy-template.md): A free AI acceptable use policy template for employees: approved tools, data classes, banned inputs, review rules and a 2-week rollout. Not legal advice. Strategy, updated 2026-10-28.

## Glossary

- [Agentic AI](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/agentic-ai.md): Agentic AI is the umbrella term for systems where language models plan steps and take actions through tools, with less step-by-step direction from people.
- [AI agent](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/ai-agent.md): An AI agent is a language model that chooses and calls tools in a loop, reading each result, until it finishes a task or hands off to a person.
- [AI copilot](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/ai-copilot.md): An AI copilot is an assistant built into software your team already uses that drafts and suggests work, while a person makes every final decision.
- [AI guardrails](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/ai-guardrails.md): AI guardrails are checks placed around a language model that block, rewrite or escalate inputs and outputs that break your rules on safety, accuracy, privacy or scope.
- [AI hallucination](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/ai-hallucination.md): An AI hallucination is output from a language model that is fluent and confident but false, such as an invented citation, policy, figure or product detail.
- [AI visibility (share of voice in AI answers)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/ai-visibility.md): AI visibility measures how often AI assistants mention or cite your business when answering the questions your buyers ask, compared with competitors over the same set of prompts.
- [Answer engine optimization (AEO)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/answer-engine-optimization.md): Answer engine optimization structures pages so a search engine or AI assistant can lift a direct answer from them, as a featured snippet, voice answer or AI citation.
- [Chunking](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/chunking.md): Chunking is splitting documents into smaller passages before they are embedded and indexed, so a retrieval system can find and return the exact part that answers a question.
- [Context window](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/context-window.md): A context window is the maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that a language model can read and write in one request, counting instructions, documents and its reply.
- [Embeddings](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/embeddings.md): Embeddings are lists of numbers that capture the meaning of text or images, so software can measure how closely related one item is to another.
- [Entity SEO](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/entity-seo.md): Entity SEO is making sure search engines and AI systems recognize your business as one distinct thing, with consistent facts about what it is, does and connects to.
- [Fine-tuning](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/fine-tuning.md): Fine-tuning is further training of an existing language model on your own examples, so it learns a specific format or task without long instructions every time.
- [Function calling (tool use)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/function-calling.md): Function calling lets a language model ask your software to run a named function, such as a CRM lookup, by returning the function name and arguments as JSON.
- [Generative engine optimization (GEO)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/generative-engine-optimization.md): Generative engine optimization is the work of making your pages likely to be retrieved, quoted and cited in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
- [Google AI Overviews and AI Mode](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/ai-overviews.md): AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries shown at the top of some Google results with links to sources; AI Mode is a conversational search view built on the same systems.
- [Human-in-the-loop (HITL)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/human-in-the-loop.md): Human-in-the-loop is a workflow design where a person reviews, corrects or approves an AI system's output at set points before it reaches a customer or a system of record.
- [Hybrid search](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/hybrid-search.md): Hybrid search runs keyword search and semantic search on the same query and merges the results, so it catches exact terms and paraphrased meaning together.
- [Intelligent document processing (IDP)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/intelligent-document-processing.md): Intelligent document processing uses OCR and AI models to read documents such as invoices, contracts and forms, extract the fields you need, check them and post them into your systems.
- [Large language model (LLM)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/large-language-model.md): A large language model is a neural network trained on huge volumes of text to predict the next token, which lets it write, summarize, classify and answer questions.
- [LLM evaluation (evals)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/llm-evaluation.md): LLM evaluation scores a language model system's outputs against a fixed set of real test cases, so you can tell whether a change made it better or worse.
- [LLMOps (AI observability)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/llmops.md): LLMOps is the operating discipline for language model systems in production: tracing every call, tracking cost and latency, monitoring quality, and managing prompt and model changes.
- [llms.txt](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/llms-txt.md): llms.txt is a proposed Markdown file at a site's root that gives AI tools a short site summary and a hand-picked list of links to its key pages.
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/model-context-protocol.md): The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI applications to outside tools and data, so a single integration works across compatible assistants and agents.
- [n8n](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/n8n.md): n8n is a workflow automation platform, self-hosted or cloud, that connects apps and APIs in visual workflows and supports custom code and AI agent steps.
- [Prompt engineering](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/prompt-engineering.md): Prompt engineering is writing and testing the instructions, examples and context given to a language model so it produces the output a task needs, consistently.
- [Prompt injection](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/prompt-injection.md): Prompt injection is an attack where text given to a language model, typed by a user or hidden in a document, overrides the instructions the system was built with.
- [Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/retrieval-augmented-generation.md): Retrieval-augmented generation is a method where a system first searches your own documents for relevant passages, then gives them to a language model to answer from.
- [Schema markup (structured data)](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/schema-markup.md): Schema markup is structured data, usually JSON-LD, that labels the facts on a page, such as organization, service, price or author, using the shared schema.org vocabulary.
- [Semantic search](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/semantic-search.md): Semantic search finds results by meaning instead of exact words, so a query can match relevant content even when they share no vocabulary.
- [Vector database](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary/vector-database.md): A vector database stores embeddings, the numeric fingerprints of text or images, and quickly finds the stored items whose meaning is closest to a query.

## Optional

- [Services](https://methodcrew.com/md/services.md): 20 services across strategy, automation, AI systems, search, web and care plans, each with a published price band and a fixed-price scope.
- [Industries](https://methodcrew.com/md/industries.md): Where AI pays off first in professional services, ecommerce and retail, healthcare and clinics, real estate, insurance and financial services, and SaaS.
- [Blueprints](https://methodcrew.com/md/blueprints.md): 8 reference designs for AI systems we build, from lead qualification and voice reception to invoice processing, with build time and cost.
- [Insights](https://methodcrew.com/md/insights.md): Guides on AI consulting costs, agents, RAG, n8n vs Make vs Zapier, GEO and automation ROI. Every article is dated and names its sources.
- [Glossary](https://methodcrew.com/md/glossary.md): Plain-English definitions of 30 terms buyers meet in AI and search projects, from RAG and embeddings to GEO, llms.txt and n8n.
- [Full site as one markdown file](https://methodcrew.com/llms-full.txt): every page above, concatenated
- [RSS feed](https://methodcrew.com/rss.xml): new and updated articles
- [Sitemap](https://methodcrew.com/sitemap.xml): every canonical URL with its last updated date
- [Privacy](https://methodcrew.com/md/privacy.md): How The Method Crew collects, uses and protects personal data sent through this website and in inquiries.
- [Terms](https://methodcrew.com/md/terms.md): The terms that apply to using the methodcrew.com website and the material published on it.