Engagement & pricing
This is the first time we've put numbers to any of it. Everything is here — the floor, the ceiling, the tier we'd pick and the reason, and the prices of the pieces you can hand back to us if your team runs out of road. Nothing is held back for a negotiation, because the analysis was written to tell you what not to buy and it would be odd to change character at the invoice.
You own the bib. The next 90 days are about owning the argument underneath it.
How this works
On every workstream Searchflex owns the thinking — the audit, the roadmap, the briefs, the measurement. Bibado executes. That isn't a way of charging you less for less; it's the arrangement that suits a brand with an in-house team, a 250,000-person list and 300–500 micro-influencers already in hand. You have the distribution. What you don't have is someone whose whole job is deciding where to point it.
Where your bandwidth runs out, hand a piece back. Every workstream has an execution add-on priced below. They're additive, never a substitute for the strategy — and you can turn one on for a month and off again. Nothing here is a 12-month signature.
The five workstreams
Pink is us. Grey is you.
The centre of gravity.
An audit, and a sprint only if the audit says one is needed.
Making the expertise you already have retrievable.
Reddit, Mumsnet, and the dietitian and OT blogs. Consultancy — we shape it, you run it.
The pages search lands on. Not the checkout.
Choose your depth
Three tiers, each containing the one below it. All prices monthly and ex VAT — Searchflex is UK VAT-registered, and the inclusive figure shows on every total.
Execution, if you want it
Execution is on top of the package, never instead of it — and only for workstreams your tier already includes. Anything greyed out below isn't in the tier you've picked.
The sprint · 1 Oct – 31 Dec
£4,500
£5,400 inc VAT · 90 days
Monthly
£1,500
£1,800 inc VAT
Worth checking
Floor is Foundations with nothing added: £1,000/mo, £3,000 for the sprint. Ceiling is Category with execution on all five: £5,000/mo, £15,000. Everything between it is on this page.
How you'd know it worked
One number can't answer this. Presence, citation and revenue move on different clocks, and a programme that only reports the fastest of them is flattering itself.
The obvious one, and the first to move. Sessions arriving from AI surfaces, tracked month on month against the October baseline rather than against a feeling.
How many prompts return Bibado as a source — measured against the 150-prompt baseline re-run in September, not the diagnostic sample in the analysis. That sample found Reddit in 66 of the 76 answers that returned readable sources, which was enough to prove the problem exists. It is not enough to score ourselves against, and we would rather build the real baseline than grade our own homework on the subset that made our point.
Revenue from AI-sourced traffic, read across more than one attribution model — because a first session from a problem-led citation frequently doesn't buy that day. It comes back through search, email or direct and converts later, and last-click would hand that sale to another channel and call this workstream a failure. Expected behaviour for this kind of citation, so it gets measured for rather than discovered late.
All three are set up in the free September, before the sprint starts, so month one is measured against something real. The measurement framework is included at every tier.
The 90 days
Three months, but not three identical ones. Anything technical has to ship before trading peaks, or it earns nothing this quarter.
Sign in the week of 21 September and we begin before the agreement does. Not a setup week — real work, unbilled: access and tracking in place, the technical specification started, and the 150-prompt baseline re-run so the sprint has something honest to be measured against. The 90 days still run 1 October to 31 December. You get the fortnight in front of them for nothing.
The specification your developers build from — the entity block, the orphaned collections, the broken URLs and the template faults the analysis already named. The keep/kill/consolidate pass across the 475 posts, with the consolidation prompts handed over. Survey one designed and handed to your team to send, so November has something to analyse. This is the month with a deadline attached to it.
Subreddit rules of engagement and the micro-influencer guidance in your team's hands. The HARO play designed and handed over. Survey one's results analysed and turned into something publishable. Technical fixes from October measured, not just shipped.
Black Friday · 27 Nov · day 58 of 92All three measures re-read against the baseline. Quarterly technical re-audit. A plain read of what moved, what didn't, and what Q1 should be — including the case for stopping.
Included everywhere
One live address for the current plan, so nobody is version-hunting in an inbox.
Password-protected. Briefs, specs, roadmaps and the measurement history in one place.
The three measures above, agreed and instrumented before the sprint starts rather than assembled at the end of it.
What would count as failure
This is the answer to "the rankings moved and the sales didn't", and it's the same words you already have. We're not softening it now there's a price attached.
If in 90 days AI presence has moved and revenue hasn't, we'll say so plainly and tell you why we think that happened. One honest limit on that promise: about a third of your business is Amazon and none of this measurement can see it. So we score on Shopify revenue plus the leading indicators we do control — presence on the tracked prompts, non-brand click-through against the position curve, citations earned — and we say now that a win landing on Amazon will look like a miss in our own numbers. Agreeing that is the difference between this and what happened last time.
— from the analysis, bibado.searchflex.com
Next step
If Authority is the right shape, say so and September starts this week. If you think Foundations is enough for now, that's a reasonable read and we'll take it — we'd just rather you made it knowing Reddit sits outside it.
Bi-weekly calls are standard at every tier and cost nothing. No tier is time-limited, none of these prices expire, and nothing on this page gets cheaper if you decide on Monday rather than Friday.