Search, verified.
Search now happens in three places.
Google results, Maps, and AI answers — each with its own rules for who gets found. This practice covers all three: technical and content SEO, local search, and AI search optimization (GEO) — with claims traceable to primary data.
The three systems
Three systems, three sets of rules.
Google results
The pages your buyers search for, earning their place in competitive markets.
Maps & local
Presence and selection where near-me decisions close.
AI answers
ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and Perplexity answer by citing sources. Earning those citations is its own discipline, with its own data.
The audit reads all three for your market — and shows, from primary data, which one your customers are coming through.
Services
Engagements begin with an audit.
Diagnostic Audit
$2,500
Your position across the three systems, gaps ranked by commercial value, first 90 days mapped. Credited in full toward the first three months of a retainer.
Request the DiagnosticFlagship Audit
$7,500
The standalone strategic study: full competitor and AI-citation analysis, built for execution by your team.
Request the FlagshipBoth delivered within 7–12 business days.
Monthly programs:
$2,500/mo
Foundations: the pages, listings and signals that produce visibility.
$4,500/mo
Expansion into the searches that produce customers.
$10,000/mo
Category leadership across search, maps and AI answers, measured monthly.
Method
The monthly cycle.
Primary data
Pulled at the start of each cycle, dated.
Findings
Each traceable to its source, on the line where it appears.
Work orders
Prioritized and executable.
The ledger
The month closes with what shipped and what it did.
Results
Selected results.
+351%
Phone calls across a 100+ location franchise.
An account led directly — strategy, reporting, weekly client calls · ~7 months
+691%
Phone calls, year over year.
Personal-injury law firm
+414%
Phone calls.
Law firm, local-search campaign
Each figure comes from a published case study; the source is available on request.
Origin
Origin.
vhengine is the practice of Vjosa Hajdini — twelve years in search, grown through its layers: content SEO first — writing and earning placements in major publications. Then leading and growing SEO teams. Then managing client accounts directly, from single locations to multi-location and franchise operations — strategy, reporting, client calls, quarterly direction. And then building and running an agency's entire SEO operation — the division, its systems and training, the client agreements and commercial decisions that came with it.
The practice runs under one standard: a number is useful when it carries its source and its date — so the evidence stays attached to the decision.
Fit
Where this fits.
This work suits businesses where search matters commercially — where showing up, in the right places, moves real revenue. If I don't think I can help, I'll say so in the first reply.
Your customers are already searching.
Let's look at the data on what they're finding.