Nespola — Engagement Proposal

From
Cristofore Perrone · Node AI
In partnership with Ana Palombini
Prepared for
Tommi Pedruzzi & Nic Della Pina
Nespola — nespola.io
Date
28 April 2026
Companion document to the AI Visibility Audit

The Diagnosis, In 30 Seconds

The full audit lives in the companion document. If you're reading this in isolation, here is the version that lets you make a decision about scope.

What the data showed

8.6% recognition across both names. AI is currently routing your customers to Publishing.com.

  • Both names hit the same accuracy ceiling. Nespola and PublishingOS perform identically (8.6% / 8.6%). AI doesn't yet understand they're the same entity.
  • Gemini and Perplexity attribute PublishingOS to the Mikkelsen Twins. Confidently and repeatedly. Every one of those answers is a customer handed to your largest competitor.
  • 75% of buyer-intent prompts don't mention you at all. When users ask AI to recommend a KDP community or coaching, you're absent.

This is fixable. AI models cite a small, specific set of venues when answering questions in your category — the audit's citation map is the inventory. Where you're present and well-represented in those venues, AI gets you right. The rest of this document is what closing that gap looks like in practice.

What 90 Days Looks Like

The shape is mostly a citation-density problem, not a discoverability one. Your moat in AI search isn't "we rank #1" — it's "every venue AI cites about our category mentions us correctly." That's a structural fix, and it follows a known sequence.

Foundation

Weeks 1–3

Resolve entity ambiguity and anchor the Nespola / PublishingOS relationship across the structured-data layer. Founder LinkedIn anchored. Trustpilot claimed. Organisation & Person schema deployed. The plumbing AI search reads from.

Citation density

Weeks 4–8

Build presence where AI looks for evidence in your category — Reddit, YouTube, Trustpilot, KDP forums. The Nespola vs Publishing.com comparison page goes live. We publish articles answering the questions AI is currently getting wrong. We start posting in r/KDP and r/selfpublish on a regular schedule.

Monitor and adapt

Week 9 onward · continuous

The work shifts from setup to monitoring. We re-scan against the audit baseline regularly, watch which prompts and platforms are moving, and adapt the next month's focus to what's actually shifting. AI training cycles are uneven and outside our control — we don't promise a specific recognition number by week 12. What we promise is that you see what's changing in real time, and that the strategy responds to it.

Why It's Four Layers, In Sequence

Backlinks and articles still matter, but they're a fraction of the surface area. AI visibility is a different discipline from traditional SEO — different surfaces, different feedback cycles, different failure modes. Most of the work AI search responds to lives at layers traditional SEO doesn't touch.

The layers must be sequenced. Citation density built on top of an unresolved entity graph reinforces the wrong relationships in AI memory. Counter-misinformation deployed without measurement is invisible. Each layer depends on the one below it being right first.

Why the timeline isn't compressible

AI models update training and retrieval signals on cycles that range from continuous-but-throttled (Perplexity, ChatGPT search) to quarterly retraining (Gemini, Claude). The 90-day shape isn't padding — it's the realistic cycle in which AI search starts noticing the work, regardless of how fast we move.

The Hidden Cost Of Figuring This Out In-House

Three predictable failure modes when brands attempt this work without specialist support:

Who Runs This

This isn't solo work. AI search visibility is a citation-density problem that splits cleanly into a technical side and a content / SEO authority side — and the work compounds when both move in lockstep. SEO and AI search are not separate problems; they share the same evidence base. Fixing one feeds the other.

Partnership
Cristofore Perrone
Technical · Node AI

Builds and runs the AI visibility platform you've seen in this audit. Owns the entity engineering, schema markup (Organization, Person, Course/Product), technical SEO, founder-profile anchoring on LinkedIn, third-party listings (Trustpilot, ALLi, Writer Beware), monthly re-scans, and the dashboard you'll get read-only access to.

Ana Palombini
Content & SEO Authority

Has worked with Coca-Cola and similar enterprise brands. 90%+ of her clients have ranked on Google's first page across multiple high-intent keywords. Owns the cornerstone content (comparison pieces, SEO-optimised long-form), Reddit / community placements, YouTube outreach, and on-page SEO implementation.

Three Ways To Run It

Three options. Each is a complete product, not a stripped-down version of the next one up. SEO is included throughout — page-1 Google rankings and AI search recognition share the same signal infrastructure. Read-only dashboard access on every tier; you see the same numbers we see, updating live as scans run.

Tier 1 · DIY · One-Time
Strategy Pack
€2,500

A complete 90-day implementation roadmap you execute yourselves, plus every template and asset you'd need to do it. Right if you have content capacity in-house and just want the plan, the priorities, and the measurement.

Includes
  • The audit + a 90-day implementation roadmap, week-by-week, prioritised by impact
  • Templates & assets: comparison-article structure, schema markup snippets ready to paste, Reddit AMA outline, Trustpilot review-request copy, LinkedIn founder-profile checklist
  • 50 prioritised comparison-content topics with target keywords, drawn from the citation map
  • Technical SEO action list with Core Web Vitals + on-page priorities
  • 1-hour walkthrough call to align on execution sequence
  • 30 days of async Q&A access (Slack or email)
  • 90 days of read-only dashboard access
Tier 2 · Done-With-You · Monthly
Advisory Partnership
€1,500/mo

We handle the technical and authority work; you and your team handle the content. Right if you have writers and content capacity in-house and don't need us doing the writing too.

We do
  • Schema markup audit + full entity-graph implementation across nespola.io (Organization, Person, Course/Product, FAQ). The structured-data layer AI models read first when disambiguating who you are.
  • Founder-profile anchoring on LinkedIn (company page + Tommi & Nic's personal profiles), plus structured "About / Team" pages on nespola.io that AI crawlers can parse cleanly.
  • Technical SEO implementation (Core Web Vitals, indexability, sitemap, internal linking)
  • Trustpilot profile claimed and optimised. ALLi and Writer Beware applications prepared and submitted on your behalf
  • Monthly full re-scan + written summary of what moved and why
  • Monthly 30-min strategy call to brief your team on the next priority
  • Async Slack channel for content review and SEO questions
  • Read-only dashboard access throughout
You do
  • Write the cornerstone comparison articles (we provide structure, target keywords, and review)
  • Run the Reddit AMAs and YouTube outreach (we provide playbooks and copy)
  • Trustpilot review acquisition (we provide the campaign)

The Fine Print

What We'd Do If We Were You

Tier 3, with eyes open about Month 1.

Month 1 is strategy and plan — deep work, low visible volume. From Month 2, output ramps and the dashboard numbers start moving. The reason this phase carries its weight: skipping it is how agencies end up shipping eight generic blog posts a month that nobody cites. If €3,000/mo feels heavy this quarter, the Strategy Pack is a clean €2,500 way to start with no monthly commitment — and credits against Month 1 of Tier 3 if you upgrade within 60 days.

A 30-Minute Working Session

If you want to walk through scope, timing, or anything else — or just talk through the data itself — book directly:

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— Cristofore (Node AI) & Ana Palombini