As an agency for founder-led businesses, we rebuild your website, set up AI automations and keep optimising both. That way, you win new customers, become more visible and raise productivity in your business.
From one business owner to another. Founded by Nils Ehrenfried, who previously grew a property development company to over 250 employees in three countries and could have used an agency just like The Presence along the way.
An ordinary Tuesday. Five people are looking for exactly what your business offers. None of them gets in touch, and you never find out.
A potential customer searches Google for your service in your town. Three other businesses come up first, yours only further down. He calls the first one.
Calls another businessYour website
A customer opens yourbusiness.com on her phone. The page takes ages to load and isn’t made for a small screen. She taps back.
Back to searchChatGPT
Who’s recommended for your service in your town?
Good options include Business A, Business B, Business C and Business D.
Someone asks ChatGPT who it recommends for your service in your town. The answer names four businesses. Yours isn’t one of them.
Not namedGoogle Maps
A potential customer looks at your Google profile. It still shows your summer opening hours: closed today. He messages the next business instead.
Enquiry to another businessAfter hours
Someone wants to send a quick enquiry. On yourbusiness.com there’s only a phone number. So she enquires online with another business.
Enquired elsewherePeople in your area are already searching for your service. Use your own figures to work out how much revenue goes to other businesses when those enquiries land there.
Enter your own figures.
We work to get your business on that list.
For 324 businesses, we asked an AI search engine the question their customers ask. 104 were named. Businesses in Google’s top three were named in almost three out of four cases; those at position 11 or lower, or not ranking at all, in fewer than one in five. That’s why we work on both: your Google ranking and a website that AI search uses as a source.
Our measurement in Germany, 8 Sep 2026: one recommendation question each to Perplexity. Gelbe Seiten AI visibility report 2026: on average 4.81 businesses per answer.
Our services: website
To get there, we rebuild your website and then keep optimising it every month.
your own design, built for mobile, with copy written by us and a short path to an enquiry, even after hours.
We see where visitors drop off and keep optimising your website to convert more of them.
Keyword research, on-page and off-page SEO and a well-kept Google Business Profile, so people in your area find you.
We prepare your information so ChatGPT, Perplexity and others can read it, and work on the Google ranking that counts there too.
Each article answers a question your customers ask on Google and in AI search. We write it, you approve it, and it appears on your website. After a year, that’s over 40 answers on Google leading to your business.
Every month you see what we’ve done and what it achieves.
Our services: AI automation
Recurring processes can be automated with precision, so tasks get done faster, your team works more productively and the cost per task falls.
Taking calls, booking appointments, writing quotes, preparing the bookkeeping: we automate tasks like these with AI, in the tools you already use or with custom software.
30–107%
more output per department
with as many employees as before
over124h
productive working time a week, gained through AI
equal to more than three 40-hour full-time roles
Every month you see what your website brings in, what we did for it and what happened in the past month.
The dashboard shows your website’s visitors, your Google rankings, whether AI search names your business, how often your Google profile was viewed and what we improved that month. We measure with the same searches as before launch, so you can follow your progress month by month.
Client work
Makosch AfricaNew website for Makosch Africa: the FX advisory, which helps African businesses save more on international transactions, now wins enquiries through its website.
LaufbahnFinanzBefore: a self-built one-page site. Now: a professional presence with clear messaging for its niche and a structured path to a first consultation.
Naturheilpraxis GeuenichBefore: a website with eleven subpages that mainly explained the treatments. Now: a calm, high-quality presence that starts with what patients want and leads them to an appointment.One business owner to another
In around two and a half years, I grew a property development and investment company to over 250 employees in three countries, through to the exit. As in many businesses, our websites were built and then nobody checked whether they worked, and nobody optimised them. What we lacked was someone to do exactly that every month. That’s why I founded The Presence. I learned the craft at my digital marketing agency, which I ran from 2017 to 2021.
We answer other questions by email: hi@the-presence.io, within 24 hours
No. Google itself says: ‘There’s no way to request or pay for a better local ranking on Google.’ We work on what Google names as the basis: complete information, a well-kept profile, links from other sites. You’ll see what moves in your dashboard every month.
Whatever should stay, we carry over to the new website. Once it’s ready, your domain is switched over to it: you change one setting, or we do it with your login. Your email addresses stay as they are.
14 days after the kick-off, as long as your logo, photos and logins reach us in time. We write the copy.
We work for founder-led businesses with 1 to 50 employees, for example tradespeople, estate agents, clinics, law firms, driving schools, property managers and consultancies. A new website pays off above all when your customers look for you locally; AI automation, when the same work comes up every week. We’ll see in the consultation whether it fits your business.
We show you what customers find about your business on Google, in Google Maps and in AI search, what work AI could take on for you and what we’d improve first.