ABOUT
A one-person practice, on purpose
This practice is one person, on purpose. The person who audits your site is the person on the call and the person doing the work — no handoffs, no juniors, no account layer. Pricing is published, sources are named, and anything that doesn't work gets said out loud.
We'll run your market's prompts live on the call.
Be Named First is run by Shivam Gupta, and it is one person by design. The person who audits your site is the person on the call is the person doing the work. There is no account manager between you and the practitioner, and nothing is delegated to a junior you never meet.
Solo scale is also why the pricing works: no agency overhead, no minimum-retainer theater. Engagements are capped at what one person can do well — a small number of clients, measured honestly, with every number traceable to a logged prompt run.
Principles
Transparent pricing
Bands published on every service page, explained, and held. You see the number before any work starts.
No guarantees sold
Nobody controls AI engine output. We guarantee scope, delivery and honest measurement — never specific citations.
Sources on every number
Every statistic on this site names its source inline. Numbers without provenance are how this industry lies.
We name what doesn't work
llms.txt ships on every engagement and gets honestly labeled a non-lever. Concessions like that are the point, not the exception.
Measured, or it didn't happen
Every engagement reports mention rate and citation share monthly — including the prompts where nothing moved.
Most agencies in this category start their retainers at $3,000–8,000 a month and publish nothing. This practice works in a published $2,000–10,000 monthly band, with a fixed-scope audit at $1,500–3,000 to establish where you stand before anyone commits to more. Mid-market pricing guides put credible AEO/GEO retainers in exactly this range (Digital Elevator); the difference here is that you can read the numbers before the first call.
Find out where you stand.
Bring one question your customers would ask an AI. We'll run it live on the call.