12 months in, nothing moved. Worse — your data, your accounts, your domain might be locked up by the agency you fired. We've onboarded dozens of recovery clients. We know the playbook.
Agencies that underperform often own more of your stuff than you realize. Domain registration. GBP ownership. Google Ads account ownership. CMS admin. Citation logins. Content drafts. Even when you fire them, leaving the relationship doesn't automatically return the assets.
Step one: get the keys back.
Then — find out what they actually did vs. claimed. Most agency post-mortems reveal that 30-60% of the promised work was never delivered. Citations claimed never built. Content drafted, never published. Schema "implemented" that doesn't exist. The audit shows the truth.
Truth before recovery.
Recovery engagements are common — we've onboarded clients from dozens of failed agencies. The playbook starts with assets, moves to audit, then ramps into operations.
The handover playbook — getting domain, GBP, ad account, CMS, and citation logins back into your control. Then the audit: what they actually did vs. claimed, what's recoverable, what needs to be redone.
Geo-grid baseline scan, real conversion tracking setup, accurate reporting. Most prior agencies' reporting hides as much as it shows; we tear it down and rebuild it honestly.
The full methodology — Diagnose, Operate, Track, Expand — from a known-good baseline. No carryover of bad assumptions. No inherited junk debt. The work you should have been getting all along.
Bad agencies fail in predictable ways. Citation contracts they can't show. Content factories with no quality control. White-label resellers who don't know your business. We've inherited dozens of these engagements; the recovery playbook is documented.
We tell you straight what's salvageable, what needs to be redone, and what was never done. No defensive posture about prior work — we just document the reality and move forward.
Account ownership stays with you, not us. Citation logins stay with you. Content drafts stay with you. If you ever fire us, you walk away with everything. We don't keep clients through lock-in.
The patterns in failed engagements are knowable. We don't waste your money rediscovering what we already know. The recovery plan is faster than the original engagement was.
A competitor jumped past you in the map pack.
Your visibility cratered. Recovery starts here.
Always close, never in the 3-pack.
Opening new markets. Map-pack from day one.
Algorithm shifted. Position vanished.
Walk in knowing the truth.
SEO across every organic surface — the compounding asset that widens the lead on its own.
Immediate visibility — the fast strike across every paid surface while the asset builds.
Organic and paid visibility, fully integrated and run by one specialist team. The fast start and the compounding moat, together.
30-minute strategy call. We scope the recovery, identify what's salvageable, and tell you honestly what it'll take to get the engagement back on track.