https://marqueeos.co/guides Rubrics, checklists and decision frameworks for running AI inside a founder-led company. Written for the person deciding, not the person building. en-us Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/ai-visibility-baseline https://marqueeos.co/guides/ai-visibility-baseline Ten buyer questions, four runs, every answer stored verbatim. A firm ranking fine on Google was named in 2 of 10 AI answers and cited in 1. The full run, the audit behind it, and the method including what it does not measure. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/how-ai-engines-cite https://marqueeos.co/guides/how-ai-engines-cite OpenAI, Google and Anthropic publish how their crawlers work and what governs their answers. Six things that are written down, with a primary source on every claim, plus the named-versus-cited split most AEO reports average away. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/answers/what-is-marqueeos https://marqueeos.co/answers/what-is-marqueeos MarqueeOS is an AI operating system for founder-led companies of 5 to 50 people. It connects the systems a business already runs so lead capture, follow-up and reporting happen on a schedule instead of when someone remembers. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/answers/how-much-does-an-ai-consultant-cost https://marqueeos.co/answers/how-much-does-an-ai-consultant-cost Cost scales close to linearly with the number of systems the work has to connect. Ask for pricing per connected system rather than one flat number, because a quote given without that count has not been scoped. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/answers/how-long-does-it-take-to-see-results https://marqueeos.co/answers/how-long-does-it-take-to-see-results Connected systems run in weeks. AI search visibility takes 30 to 60 days to move and about 90 to compound. Anyone promising either one inside a month is selling a timeline, not a system. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/answers/do-i-need-a-consultant-if-i-already-use-chatgpt https://marqueeos.co/answers/do-i-need-a-consultant-if-i-already-use-chatgpt Usually not, if the work is a person prompting a chat window. The gap that needs outside help is different: work that has to happen on a schedule, across systems, when nobody is watching. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/answers/what-to-look-for-in-an-ai-consultant https://marqueeos.co/answers/what-to-look-for-in-an-ai-consultant Six things that predict whether the work survives contact with a real business, and the one question that most vendors cannot answer without checking. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/answers/what-happens-in-the-first-engagement https://marqueeos.co/answers/what-happens-in-the-first-engagement The Diagnostic: two weeks, a fixed fee, ending in a written scope and a fixed price. Designed so that walking away and building it yourself is a legitimate outcome. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/ai-help-options https://marqueeos.co/guides/ai-help-options In-house, SaaS, a hire, an agency, a freelancer, or us. Six criteria that decide it, a side-by-side table with the real trade-offs, and an explicit answer for each case. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/who-should-not-hire-us https://marqueeos.co/guides/who-should-not-hire-us Six situations where hiring us is the wrong call, each with the honest recommendation instead. Written so a disqualification costs you a page view rather than a quarter. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/agent-install-cost https://marqueeos.co/guides/agent-install-cost An agent is mostly a reusable renderer. The connectors are nearly all the hours. Where the time goes across five phases, and four questions that make two very different quotes comparable. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/ai-inventory https://marqueeos.co/guides/ai-inventory Four questions asked of four groups, in a specific order, that surface every AI tool actually running in a 5 to 50 person company, including the ones on personal accounts. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/build-or-buy-ai https://marqueeos.co/guides/build-or-buy-ai An honest decision framework for whether to build an AI system internally or bring in outside help, written by a vendor who loses deals to question one. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/connect-ai-safely https://marqueeos.co/guides/connect-ai-safely Your own permission settings don't govern code running on a vendor's servers against a session you handed over. Six checks to run before you connect anything that posts, replies, signs or sends as you. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/grade-ai-output https://marqueeos.co/guides/grade-ai-output Six checks a non-technical founder can run against AI output to produce a real error rate. No benchmarks, no tooling, just the last ten things you actually sent. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://marqueeos.co/guides/silent-failure https://marqueeos.co/guides/silent-failure The expensive failures keep running. A scheduled job can be enabled and failing every run, a report can succeed on stale input, and a hand-written value can quietly outrank live data. Four modes and the checks that catch them. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000