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Marketing built to win the Age of Intelligence.
Normandy is a digital marketing agency for brands that want to be found, remembered, and chosen — by search engines, by AI assistants, and by the people who matter most. Strategy, content, and production under one roof.
What we do
Four ways we move the needle
Every engagement is tailored, but most of our work lives in four disciplines — and they compound when you run them together.
Flagship
AI Marketing
Get your brand recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI search. We build the content, structure, and signals that large language models cite — plus AI-accelerated production across the board.
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Be found
SEO & AI Search
Classic technical and content SEO fused with generative-engine optimization, so you rank in Google and surface inside AI answers at the same time.
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Be seen
Social Media
Short-form video, community, and paid social that build a brand people actually follow — strategy through daily execution.
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Be heard
Video, Podcast & Streaming
Full-service video production, podcast studios, and streaming commercials on connected TV — broadcast-quality storytelling at modern budgets.
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And more
The full stack
AI app development, branding, web design, digital advertising, graphic design, photography, and email & SMS — the rest of what a modern brand needs.
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A studio that thinks like a strategist and ships like a producer.
Most agencies either think big and outsource the making, or make fast and skip the strategy. Normandy does both. We’ve been building for the web since before Google was a verb, and we’ve rebuilt the studio around AI — not as a gimmick, but as the fastest way to produce sharper work.
2008
Building brands online since
1
Team, one roof — strategy to production
AI
Native to how we work, not bolted on
360°
Search, social, video, and streaming
Who’s behind it
Led by Brian Tresp.
Normandy is led by Brian Tresp — a classically trained artist turned technologist who has built web applications and marketing systems for Fortune 100 companies and government agencies since before Google. He brings a maker’s eye and an engineer’s discipline to every brand, backed by a trusted bench of specialists for production at scale.
The result: senior-level thinking on your account, and a studio that can actually build what it recommends.
The AI-search questions everyone’s asking
How to get found in the age of AI
Straight answers to what business owners are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google about getting discovered now that AI answers so many questions directly.
Is AI really changing how customers find businesses?
Yes. A growing share of people now ask an AI assistant — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overviews — and act on the single answer it gives, without ever scrolling a list of links. If your brand isn’t in that answer, you’re invisible to those customers no matter how good your website is.
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
Generative engine optimization is the practice of getting your brand cited inside AI-generated answers. Where SEO aims to rank your pages in search results, GEO aims to make AI systems find, understand, and trust your brand enough to recommend it. The two reinforce each other and are strongest run together.
Do I still need traditional SEO if AI is answering questions?
Yes. AI systems draw heavily on the same signals that power search — crawlable pages, helpful content, structured data, and third-party authority. Good SEO makes your brand easier for AI to find and quote, so the smartest programs do both SEO and GEO at the same time rather than choosing between them.
Can a small business compete in AI search, or is it just for big brands?
Small businesses can absolutely compete. AI assistants recommend brands they can find, understand, and trust — not just the biggest ones. Clear content that answers real questions, clean structured data, and genuine third-party mentions let a focused local business earn a place in AI answers alongside far larger competitors.
How much does an engagement with Normandy cost?
It depends on scope. We scope each engagement to your goals — a single project like a website or video, or an ongoing program across AI marketing, SEO, social, and production. Tell us what you’re trying to achieve and we’ll propose a plan and a clear price before any work begins.
How do you measure whether AI marketing is working?
We ask the assistants the questions your customers ask and track whether — and how often — your brand appears in the answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, alongside traditional search rankings, traffic, and leads. It’s less precise than a rank tracker, but it measures the thing that now matters most: visibility inside AI answers.
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Let’s make your brand impossible to miss.
Tell us where you want to be found — on Google, inside AI answers, on screens and speakers — and we’ll show you how to get there.
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