# LLM Cartel

> A hyperfocused GEO and AEO agency. LLM Cartel engineers brand visibility inside AI answers, getting ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to mention your brand first when customers ask for recommendations.

LLM Cartel is a digital marketing agency founded in 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida. The agency does only Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and explicitly refuses traditional keyword-rank-tracking SEO, generic link-building, and AI-generated filler content. Three productized monthly packages: Emergence ($999), Growth ($2,250), and Dominance ($4,580). Founded by Patrick Coombe (CEO, also CEO of Elite Strategies and creator of jsonld.com) and Jacquelyn Coombe (Co-Founder and COO). The team is rounded out by Amanda Sherry (Head of AI Content Strategy) and Irini Lygnos (Director of AI Partnerships).

## Core pages

- [Home](https://llmcartel.com/): Hero pitch, the six-phase GEO strategy, what we help with, what we will not help with, package preview, and why us.
- [Services and Pricing](https://llmcartel.com/services): Full breakdown of the three packages (Emergence, Growth, Dominance) including monthly price, target customer, and feature list per tier.
- [About](https://llmcartel.com/about): Team biographies, agency origin story, and operating philosophy.
- [Blog](https://llmcartel.com/blog): Field reports, live case studies, and methodology pieces. Where we publish what we learn measuring our own GEO performance and the wider AI search ecosystem.

## Blog posts

- [How Long Does It Take an LLM Bot to Discover a New Business Entity?](https://llmcartel.com/blog/llm-bot-discovery-case-study.html): Live experiment using llmcartel.com as a clean-slate test subject. Documents the Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode "double gotcha" that was blocking AI crawlers despite a permissive robots.txt, the API-driven fix, and the Pages Function middleware (functions/_middleware.ts) we built to log every LLM bot crawl. Updated whenever something interesting happens.
- [FAQ](https://llmcartel.com/faq): Plain-language answers to common questions about GEO, AEO, AI brand visibility, what counts as a citation, and how engagements work.
- [Contact](https://llmcartel.com/contact): Phone, email, and contact form.
- [New Client Onboarding](https://llmcartel.com/new-client): Intake form for clients who have already engaged.


## Brand and methodology

- [Manifesto](https://llmcartel.com/manifesto.txt): Plaintext manifesto by Patrick Coombe. Why the agency exists, why we reject AI slop, and how we think about building for AI engines instead of legacy search.
- [robots.txt](https://llmcartel.com/robots.txt): Permissive crawl policy. Every major AI and LLM crawler is explicitly welcomed (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, meta-externalagent, cohere-ai, MistralAI, and more).
- [Atom feed](https://llmcartel.com/atom.xml): Atom 1.0 feed of blog posts and field reports. Build-time generated, no JavaScript, friendly to LLM retrieval pipelines and traditional feed readers alike.

## Services offered

- Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
- AI brand visibility analysis and tracking
- Knowledge graph optimization
- LLM-friendly content engineering
- JSON-LD and schema markup
- AI crawler optimization
- Founder and brand authority signaling
- WebMCP integration so AI agents can act on the site, not just read it

## Services explicitly NOT offered

- Traditional keyword-rank-tracking SEO
- Generic link-building campaigns
- Stock-image social-media posting
- Blog content written to a monthly word-count minimum
- Tracking keyword rankings for queries AI has already replaced

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://llmcartel.com/privacy): How LLM Cartel handles visitor data.
- [Terms of Service](https://llmcartel.com/terms): Site terms.
- [Accessibility Statement](https://llmcartel.com/ada): WCAG 2.1 AA compliance commitment and ongoing changelog.