This is the current Carbacio Group service model: build qualified pipeline, make the company visible in AI answers, and help clients hire the operators the plan depends on. Hiring work is supported through our sister companies Carbacio Search and Max Q Automotive.
Business Development creates the conversations. AI Visibility makes the company findable when buyers ask AI who to call. Hiring closes the operator gap when the plan depends on a better person in the seat.
Founder-led content, outbound, referral development, and buyer conversation systems. Built around actual meetings and relationships, not impressions for their own sake.
See the program → 02 · AI VisibilityBaseline the buyer questions, fix what AI systems cannot read, publish answer-ready content, monitor citations, and re-test monthly so movement is measured.
Read the method → 03 · HiringRole scorecards, sourcing, screening, and written candidate narratives. Delivered with hiring support through sister companies Carbacio Search and Max Q Automotive.
Start a search →These capabilities still exist, but they support the three primary lanes rather than replacing them. We scope them when the problem requires deeper operating, technical, or leadership work.
The Carbacio Stack℠, monthly AI search optimization across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google. Citation monitoring, schema and entity work, AI-ready content. Month-to-month, no annual lock-in. Delivered by Carbacio Group.
Read the method → Support · ExecutiveEmbedded fractional CEO, COO, CTO, or CMO leadership. Founder-level judgment and hands-on execution across strategy, operations, technology, and growth, without the salary or the year-long search. Delivered directly by Nick and Jeff.
See the roles → Support · Business DevelopmentFounder-led business development and outbound producing qualified inbound meetings. 8–12 posts shipped monthly. Founder time-budget capped at 90 minutes a month.
See the program → Support · TechnicalHosting, DNS, redirects, schema, monitoring, AI crawler permissions, lead-capture integrity. The technical layer behind every marketing dollar. Delivered by Carbacio Group.
Audit scope → Support · DesignSix-week sprint. Current-state mapping, future-state org chart, transition plan. Accountability charts, role clarity, operating rhythm — wiring built around where the business is actually trying to go.
Sprint structure → Support · InstrumentsCustom operating instruments — the weekly CEO scorecard, the pricing what-if, the headcount calculator, the exit-readiness model. Built per business, handed over to own. Also available as an Optimization Retainer post-capture.
Instrument types →We don't sell engagement bundles. The diagnostic produces the recommendation, the recommendation produces the engagements, in the order they're needed.
The 30-day diagnostic. It's the lowest-risk way to find out whether Carbacio Group is going to be useful to your business — and if we're not, we'll say so by week three, not at the end.
If you already know the problem — you need a Service Manager search, you need an AI SEO program, you need a scorecard built — engage that specialty directly. Discovery call still applies.
Most clients eventually engage in two or three specialties over 12–24 months. The diagnostic produces the roadmap; the firm executes the roadmap. We won't sequence work that doesn't make sense just to fill capacity.
For long-term relationships where the operator wants the partners in their loop on an ongoing basis — proposed at engagement-end when it's appropriate. Not the default.
The services above apply across any industry. Where we've published industry-specific pillar pages, you can read how the operating discipline translates into the specific KPIs that industry uses. The industries overview lists the verticals we serve.
Single rooftops and multi-rooftop groups. PVR, F&I penetration, fixed-ops productivity, used velocity. Dealer-vertical engagements served through Max Q Automotive.
Read the pillar → Deep-dive · PublishedMulti-unit operators. Prime cost discipline, traffic-engineered labor, manager-by-manager variance, and the operating cadence the group runs on weekly.
Read the pillar → Deep-dive · PublishedHVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing. Call-to-book conversion, technician productivity, first-time fix, membership penetration at the truck.
Read the pillar →Additional industry deep-dives publish over time. The diagnostic + capture wedge works the same regardless of industry.
A short call. We confirm fit, identify the right entry point, and quote scope. No commission-driven sequencing.