A small, senior team. On purpose.
2 Steps Ahead is an AI Search as a Service agency for B2B tech and software companies: a small team of senior AI visibility (AEO/GEO) experts, not a fifty-person agency with a bench of juniors billed at senior rates. You work with the people who do the work and sign the report.
Senior only. No juniors, no account layer.
We built this around one observation.
Search moved into the answer, and most of what agencies were selling (keyword lists, backlink counts, monthly blog quotas) stopped being the thing that decided whether a brand got named. We build the audits, set the baselines, do the technical work, and write the reports ourselves. When a specialist is brought in for something outside that, you keep dealing with the same senior person.
That does not scale to fifty clients, and it is not meant to. It scales to being direct, fast to reach, and honest about a number that says a change did nothing, which is a harder thing to promise the bigger an agency gets.
Small enough that nothing gets lost in a handoff
Senior operators, not an account layer
You work with the person doing the work, not a junior account manager relaying it from someone more senior. Every report, every recommendation, every "do nothing this month" comes from that same person.
A small bench, brought in on purpose
Specialists join for what they are actually needed for: a technical crawl issue, a paid media setup, a structured-data problem, instead of a fixed team of people padding out a retainer.
Small enough to say no
A fifty-person agency has utilisation targets to hit. A small team does not, which is the entire reason it can tell you a package is not worth it yet and mean it.
Want to know who you'd actually be working with?
Send the domain and what you think the problem is. You will hear back from a senior person doing the work, not a coordinator.