The BoFu Map · $1,500

Every search your buyers make.Not a sample.

Five business days. The complete bottom-of-funnel keyword set for your category — usually 40 to 80 terms — scored, prioritized, and checked against what the AIs are already saying about you.

The premise

Bottom-of-funnel is finite. You can count it.

Here's the thing about bottom-of-funnel: it's finite. There are only so many ways a buyer in your category searches when they're close to deciding. Alternatives, versus, pricing, best-for, switching, integrations. You can count them.

Most companies have never counted them. They're producing content against a list someone assembled from a keyword tool in an afternoon, with no idea how much of the board they're leaving to competitors.

The Map counts them.

What's in it

Seven deliverables. Five business days.

01

The complete term list

Every BOFU search in your category, not a top-10 sample.

02

Difficulty and intent

Scored per term, with the winnable ones flagged.

03

Your coverage gap

Which terms you rank for, which a competitor owns, and which nobody owns yet. The third column is usually the surprise.

04

AI citation baseline

Ten buyer-intent questions run against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Claude. Who gets named for what, per term — not a summary.

05

Technical blockers

Whether you're accidentally blocking AI crawlers, whether your schema is readable, how deep your pages are buried.

06

The priority order

Which 15 terms to claim first, and why that sequence.

07

45-minute readout

We walk you through all of it.

$1,500. If you go on to the 90-day build, it comes off month one — the Map is the first thing we'd build anyway.

What happens if you don't continue. You keep the Map. Plenty of companies take it and run the plan with their own team. That's a fine outcome and we'd rather you have the board than not.

Free call or the Map

Five terms, or all of them.

Free 15-min callThe BoFu Map
Terms5All of them, usually 40–80
ScoredNoDifficulty + intent, every term
Competitor coverageNoFull gap analysis
AI citation checkA quick look10 questions, 4 platforms, per term
Technical auditNoCrawler access, schema, link depth
PriceFree$1,500, credited
Resources

Notes on the keyword set.

01

Sell the Outcome for Your Customer's Customer

Your buyer has to explain the purchase to their own customer. Bottom-of-funnel content should tell that story, or the champion has to invent it.

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02

Generic AI Pipeline Promises All Sound the Same

Buyers hear 'AI that builds pipeline and closes deals faster' every day. A specific solution is what gets a reply, a shortlist spot, and an AI citation.

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03

Random Acts of Marketing: Why Disconnected Activity Doesn't Produce Pipeline

Conferences, ads and posts with no strategy behind them rarely create pipeline. Here's how to tie marketing activity to the buyers who are ready to buy.

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04

Build Personas Around Buying Drivers, Not Channels

Most B2B personas describe where buyers hang out, not why they buy. Here's how to build personas around each buyer's real drivers and content needs.

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05

If You Can't Name the Problem You Solve, Your Content Won't Rank or Convert

Teams that can't name the problem they solve write vague content buyers skip. Here's how to find the problem in buyers' words and build pages around it.

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06

How to Measure Which Deals Your Influencers, Analysts and Partners Actually Touched

Influence is hard to track, so it gets cut first. Here's a simple way to measure which deals analysts, influencers and partners touched.

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07

Me-Too Positioning Gets Ignored: How to Differentiate When Your Product Sounds Like Everyone Else's

If you sound like every competitor, buyers and the experts they trust tune you out. Here's how to find a real point of difference and say it plainly.

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08

Mass Media Is Fading. Where B2B Marketing Should Go Instead

Broad-reach channels keep losing attention. Here's where B2B buyers go instead, and how to show up in the searches and AI answers that decide deals.

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09

Marketing to Buyers Who Don't Know Your Category Exists

When buyers don't know a product exists for their problem, they keep patching a homegrown fix. Here's how to show up in the searches they make instead.

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10

Writing Content Technical Buyers Won't Dismiss

Technical buyers sniff out marketing fluff fast and dismiss the brand. Here's how to write B2B content engineers and technical leaders actually trust.

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11

Build Distribution Before You Launch: Why a Founder's Public Presence Matters

Launching without an audience means starting from zero. Here's how founders can build public presence and distribution before the product is ready.

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12

Stop Branding on Gut Feel: Simple Ways to Find Out What's Right

Too many companies do what they think is right instead of finding out. Here's how to use quick, cheap buyer research before your next brand decision.

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13

Afraid to Niche Down? Why a Narrower Market Makes Marketing Easier

Niching down feels like shrinking your market. In practice it makes buyers recognize you faster and makes bottom-of-funnel content far easier to win.

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Bottom-of-funnel search is a list you can finish

Bottom-of-funnel searches in a B2B category are finite: alternatives, versus, pricing, best-for, switching and integrations. The BoFu Map counts that list.

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15

Empathy Loops Beat Guessing What Converts

Guessing what buyers care about produces pages nobody cites or forwards. Run a loop of interviews, product use, and visits so the copy stays honest as you scale.

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16

Earn Fans by Solving the Problem Before the Paywall

A trial wall asks for trust before you've earned it. Solve the buyer's problem on the page first, then ask for the call.

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17

Local Implementation Beats Trying to Be the Next McKinsey

Buyers do not search for the next big-firm AI brand. They search for a specific local job, with the constraint still attached. Put that implementation on the page.

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18

Most of the Market Still Hasn't Tried AI, So Don't Write for the Bubble

Trying a chat window, then an IDE, then a coding assistant puts you in a tiny corner of the market. Write bottom-of-funnel pages for buyers who are not there.

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