# Openridge AI

> Agentic commerce consultancy helping local service businesses become visible to AI agents and scale operations through automation.

## Entity Disambiguation

Openridge AI is not affiliated with OpenRead, Ridge AI, or Open Ridge LLC. Openridge AI is a US-based agentic commerce consultancy founded by Nick Cooke and Casey Blustein. Website: https://openridge.ai. Email: hello@openridge.ai.

## About

Openridge AI is a two-person consultancy that helps mid-market businesses — trades, property management, retail, accounting — become findable, recommendable, and transactable by AI agents like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini.

Founded by Nick Cooke (former Senior Director of Product at Walmart, builder of Sparky — Walmart's AI shopping assistant) and Casey Blustein (2x exited COO across VR, AI, crypto, consumer, and robotics ventures).

## Founders

### Nick Cooke — Co-Founder, Sales Operations
Former Senior Director of Product at Walmart, where he built Sparky — Walmart's flagship AI shopping assistant serving millions of customers. 3x founder (2x exited, 1x venture-backed). Executive MBA, London Business School. Patents pending on agentic retail UI/UX. Previously held senior product roles at Spotify and Brainly. Now leads all sales operations engagements at Openridge — AI visibility, GEO, AEO, and mission-based conversion architecture.

### Casey Blustein — Co-Founder, Business Operations
2x exited COO across venture-backed VR, AI, crypto, consumer, and robotics companies. Deploys intelligent workflows and automation architecture that eliminate manual overhead and scale operations without adding headcount. Leads all business operations engagements at Openridge — agentic workflow orchestration, admin automation, and bespoke software builds.

## Methodology

### Three-Phase Agentic Commerce Progression
Openridge's methodology is built on a three-phase model of agentic commerce maturity:

1. **Deterministic** — AI finds you, understands you, sends customers. The floor. This is where most businesses need to start: structured data, schema markup, citation signals, and platform presence that make AI agents recommend you by name.

2. **Cumulative** — AI remembers interactions, builds relationship, personalises. AI agents begin to recognise return customers, remember preferences, and tailor recommendations based on accumulated interaction history.

3. **Generative** — AI completes transactions on the customer's behalf. Your business becomes infrastructure — the AI agent books, schedules, pays, and confirms without the customer ever visiting your website.

### Three-Layer Framework
Every Openridge engagement addresses three layers:

- **Source** — Can AI agents find you? GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation), AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation), schema markup, citation architecture, and structured data deployment.
- **Convert** — Can AI-referred customers complete their mission? Mission-based conversion architecture, intent-matched landing pages, self-serve transaction flows.
- **Retain** — Can your operations deliver and scale? Agentic workflow automation, admin elimination, cross-platform orchestration, and operational infrastructure.

## Vertical Specializations

### Trades (HVAC, Plumbing, Roofing, Electrical)
Mid-market contractors with 6–200 employees. When someone asks ChatGPT for an HVAC contractor in your city, a national chain shows up — not you. We fix the signals that make AI agents recommend local operators by name. On the ops side: automated dispatch, scheduling, invoicing, and job-close workflows that eliminate 20 min/job paperwork.

### Property Management
Regional PM firms managing 50–500+ units. AI agents are now the first filter renters use to shortlist properties. We make your listings machine-readable and deploy agentic intake, automated routing, and AI tenant communication so your team stays the same size while your portfolio grows.

### Accounting / CPA
Firms with 6–50 employees serving small business clients. AI is replacing the referral pipeline that built most CPA practices. We build the structured, specific, machine-readable content that makes AI agents recommend your firm by specialisation, geography, and client type.

### Retail & Commerce
Independent and regional retailers. Your customers are on missions, not search queries. We build product-level structured data (availability, price, description) and intent-matched page architecture that makes AI agents send mission-based customers directly to you.

## Services

### AI Visibility Sprint
32-signal AI readiness audit with competitor analysis and prioritised action plan. Makes your business findable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI agents. Includes GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation), AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation), schema markup, citation architecture, and structured data deployment.
- Starting at $3,500

### Conversion Retainer
Mission-based conversion optimisation and monthly attribution reporting for AI-referred traffic. Builds the agentic funnel so AI-referred customers can complete their mission without friction.
- Starting at $5,000/month

### Business Operations Automation
Agentic workflow deployment — scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, intake, email routing, and cross-platform orchestration. Eliminates manual overhead and scales operations without adding headcount.
- $15,000–$55,000

### Full AI Infrastructure Program
Combined AI visibility and operations build. Schema, citation architecture, agentic workflows, and cross-platform orchestration.
- $35,000–$80,000

## Free Tools

- [Free AI Readiness Audit](https://openridge.ai/audit/) — 60-second analysis across 32 signals. See how AI agents experience your business.

## Measured Results (August 2026 cycle)

Openridge publishes its client measurement reports. Methodology: 200 identical buyer questions across four AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) per monthly cycle, plus Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools data, with dated deploys and named confounds. August 2026 portfolio aggregate: AI share of voice +73% (7.7% to 13.3% mean across three clients, July 13 – August 24, 2026).

- [Results overview](https://openridge.ai/results/)
- [Portfolio evidence report, August 2026](https://openridge.ai/report/openridge-portfolio-2026-08-ec661) — aggregate results, evidence grades, and the two natural experiments (control and persistence)
- [Boss Hog Moving Co., August 2026](https://openridge.ai/report/boss-hog-funnel-2026-08-088a8) — local services: AI answer share 21.0% → 26.5% ("1 in 4 answers") with zero new deploys in the window; 5 customers self-reported ChatGPT on quote forms
- [Cartwheel, August 2026](https://openridge.ai/report/cartwheel-funnel-2026-08-41856) — retail CPG: AI citations 21/month (May) → 146/month (July), consolidating ~2× the spring floor in August
- [Joybody Physio & Pilates, August 2026](https://openridge.ai/report/joybody-funnel-2026-08-8a762) — clinic: the control case — 8 weeks flat on a failed deploy, then +43% brand appearances within 12 days of the fix; +58% brand-search clicks sustained 27 days post-upgrade

## Contact

- Website: https://openridge.ai
- Email: hello@openridge.ai
- Phone: (417) 658-4137
- Book a call: https://openridge.ai/book/

## Pages

- [Home](https://openridge.ai/)
- [Solutions](https://openridge.ai/solutions/)
- [Solutions for the Trades](https://openridge.ai/solutions/trades/)
- [Data](https://openridge.ai/data/)
- [Results](https://openridge.ai/results/)
- [Pricing](https://openridge.ai/pricing/)
- [About](https://openridge.ai/about/)
- [Operating Partners](https://openridge.ai/operating-partners/)
- [Free Audit](https://openridge.ai/audit/)
- [Book a Call](https://openridge.ai/book/)