The people who plan the work do the work.
Thmpsn.digital is a performance marketing agency in Chicago, working across SEO, AI search, websites, and paid ads. The people who diagnose your site are the people who fix it, and the people who answer when you call.
Diagnosis before treatment.
Why the engagements run in that orderEvery engagement runs in the same order, and the order is the part that actually protects you.
- 01
Every engagement starts with the Two-Buyer Test.
You see what AI says about you, where people leave your site, and what to fix first, in order, before anyone touches anything. It is the stage designed to talk you out of the work: if it isn’t worth doing, it says so, and the plan is yours to keep.
- 02
The work is scoped from the plan, not open-ended.
The plan says what to fix and in what order, and that is what gets agreed in writing. You are buying a defined outcome rather than a monthly allowance of someone's attention, so the incentive to stretch the work out is not there.
- 03
Ongoing work renews, it does not roll.
No long contracts. Monthly work renews on results, with reporting tied to leads and revenue rather than rankings. A retainer that outlives its results is the single most common way this industry wastes money, and a renewal date is what stops it.
Results, not headcount.
Marketing engagements fail from diluted attention far more often than from a shortage of people. A larger team is not more thinking about your business; frequently it is less, spread across more juniors.
When a project genuinely needs more hands, such as a development sprint, digital PR, or photography, we bring in specialists we trust and manage them ourselves, while providing 100% transparent pricing.
The rules we work by.
Commitments, not preferencesNo guaranteed rankings.
Nobody can honestly promise a position they do not control. Anyone who does is either misinformed or counting on you not checking.
AI is a power tool, not a ghostwriter.
We use it for research, data work, and drafts we then rewrite. We do not publish machine-written pages at scale: that is precisely the pattern search and AI engines are learning to discount. The strategy and the words that ship are ours.
Bad news arrives early and in plain numbers.
If a bet misses you will read it in the monthly report, with what is changing as a result. You will never wait on a quarterly deck to find out where you stand.
A wrong fit gets a referral, free.
If your situation calls for a large agency team, or for ads instead of search, the Two-Buyer Test says so and you leave with the name of someone better suited.
Who this is for.
Owner-operators with real businessesSmall and mid-sized companies in the United States, most often in manufacturing, real estate and rentals, SaaS, and local service. Usually the businesses big agencies serve worst: too small for the senior team, too complicated for the junior one.
Not sure that describes you? That is what the Two-Buyer Test settles, before you commit to anything.