What to Expect
You signed up — or you are about to. Here is the full process from day one to your first brief, in plain English. No surprises.
The Process
Five steps. Under a week to your first brief. You do the work once. RICK™ runs permanently.
Choose Watch, Dominate, or Command. All plans run on a 12-month commitment, billed monthly. No large upfront payment. Stripe handles the transaction securely.
A member of the team contacts you to start the intake. This is not a form — it is a real conversation. We want to understand your business at the root level: your customers, your best sellers, your biggest competitors, where you are winning, and where you feel stuck.
We walk you through connecting Google Search Console, Google Business Profile, and Google Analytics. Takes about 10 minutes. Read-only — we cannot post, publish, or change anything. You can revoke access at any time.
Using everything from the intake and your connected accounts, we build two things simultaneously: your custom monitoring setup — keywords, competitors, rankings, alerts — and your content foundation, including the messaging and copy your business needs to back a successful campaign.
Every Monday, your Run by RICK™ brief lands in your inbox. Rankings, competitors, demand signals, review activity, and one clear action item. Every Monday after that, same thing. RICK™ runs continuously in the background. You read the brief and run your business.
What We Need
Three tools. Read-only. We walk you through every step. Takes 10 minutes total.
Shows us exactly what searches bring people to your site, where you rank, and what Google is indexing. The foundation of your SEO intelligence.
Your local presence on Google Maps and search. We monitor your visibility, review activity, and how you compare to competitors in local results.
Real traffic data — where visitors come from, what they do, and what is converting. Actual numbers, not estimates.
We never post, edit, delete, or change anything in your accounts. You can revoke access instantly at any time from your Google settings.
Common Questions
We will help you set one up as part of onboarding. It is free and takes about 15 minutes. It is one of the highest-leverage things a local business can do for visibility.
We handle the setup. We send you a verification file or DNS record to add — it takes about 5 minutes on your end, and we walk you through it step by step.
We can still monitor your local search visibility, competitor activity, reviews, and market demand. Search Console will not apply, but everything else runs normally.
Your first brief arrives within a week. Meaningful trend data builds over 60 to 90 days. Most clients spot actionable opportunities in the first brief and see measurable movement in rankings within 30 to 60 days.
Yes. You can move from Watch to Dominate or Command at any time. We prorate the difference and expand your coverage immediately.
Run by RICK™ is powered by RICK OS — an AI Chief of Staff platform built by Vanguard Creative. The intelligence, analysis, and content are generated by the system and reviewed by our team before delivery. You get enterprise-level marketing intelligence without the enterprise price tag.
Ready?
Your first brief arrives the following Monday. No tech skills required.