Progress Report
Where every deliverable in our signed scope stands today — what's live, what's drafted and waiting on your sign-off, and what we need from you to keep moving.
Where we are: Your homepage is done. The Featured Work section and the client testimonials you approved on 3 September are both live, the service tiles have been rebuilt around your categories, and the testimonials now carry machine-readable attribution so AI platforms can quote them with credit. Your non-profit page now names real case studies with the results attached. Behind the scenes, the AI-readable service descriptions expanded again, from six pages to nine. The September visibility report has been run. One thing is still open and we would rather name it than bury it: your sitemap is not listing seven of your most important pages. It is described below.
Every item marked Live below was verified against your published site on September 6, 2026.
Done before touching anything, so nothing could be lost.
Every page's content, custom code, and settings captured before any work began.
All site images downloaded, organized by page, and filed with clear names.
Behind-the-scenes changes that let AI platforms read and trust your site. No visible design changes.
Your name, address, phone, founding year, and services are machine-readable on every page, including exact map location for the studio. Upgraded this month: the machine-readable profile now also lists your areas of expertise, service area, price positioning, founder credit, and a full catalog of your service offerings, matching what the most-recommended agencies in AI answers publish. Founding year verified correct at 2018 on all pages.
Published and verified. It points AI crawlers straight to your service pages rather than letting them get lost in blog posts. Founding year stated correctly as 2018, re-verified live on 6 September. A further update is prepared that adds your founder story and links your new articles, ready to publish with the next site session.
Your overall business identity is readable by AI on every page. This goes one level deeper: your individual service pages now each carry their own AI-readable description, so platforms recognize and describe each offering on its own instead of blending everything into one general “events” company. Since the last report we have expanded this again, from six pages to nine. It now covers corporate events, non-profit galas, weddings, social celebrations, corporate gifting, your capabilities overview, and, added since August, your brand activations, pop-up events and fundraising pages. Live and verified across all nine.Now live on /corporate, /non-profit, /weddings, /celebrations, /corporate-event-gifting, and /capabilities, plus /nyc-brand-activation, /popup-event-nyc and /fundraising.
Eight questions and answers now live on your corporate page, written to match how clients actually ask ChatGPT and Perplexity about NYC event agencies. Includes your MWBE certification, your client roster (Disney, Microsoft, Universal Music, Rémy Martin), two client testimonials, and a founder introduction. Formatted so AI reads exactly what visitors see. Verified live August 8.
Six questions and answers now live on your non-profit page, covering gala production, fundraising event design, and what sets your approach apart, with the StartCare testimonial included. Verified live August 8.
Your sitemap is the file that tells Google and AI crawlers which pages you have. We re-checked it on 6 September. It lists 222 addresses, but seven of your most important pages are not among them: your homepage, corporate, non-profit, weddings, celebrations, fundraising and corporate gifting.
The pages themselves are healthy. We tested all seven and each one loads normally and is open to search engines, so nothing is broken. They are simply not being listed. What is listed instead are the longer duplicate versions of those same pages built by your previous provider, and those duplicates carry none of the AI-readable descriptions we added. So Google is being handed the weaker copy of each page and never told about the stronger one.
This is the single thing most likely to be holding back the rest of the work, and we cannot diagnose it from outside your site. Diagnosing it means looking at the page settings inside your site, so contributor access to Squarespace is what unblocks it.
Everything here is written and ready — but nothing publishes without your written sign-off.
Corrected across the corporate page so AI reads one consistent brand name. All six case-study blurbs updated. On re-checking this month we found one last instance still showing in a gallery caption on that page, which we will clear on the next site session.
Fixed the “1,000,00” typo to “1,000,000 sq.ft.” One quick confirmation needed — see question 5.
The changes you approved on 3 September are published. Featured Work now sits directly after Our Clients, with each piece written to establish authority in its category and the Rémy card pointing to the correct page. The client testimonials section is live beneath it, and carries machine-readable attribution so AI platforms can quote it with credit. The six service tiles have been rebuilt around your categories, with Brand Activations added and Fundraising Strategy retired, and the tile artwork has been corrected. Verified live on 6 September.
Your full bio is now published on the about page: Founder and Creative Director, the Princeton background, and your twenty plus years in experiential marketing, correctly credited to you personally. Re-verified live on 6 September. One small alignment left: your title reads differently in a few places (Founder and Creative Director, Founder and CEO, Chief Strategist), so tell us which one is official and we will make it consistent everywhere.
Your full name now appears as the credited author on your recent articles, both visibly and in the machine-readable author information AI relies on. Verified on the Best Friends gala case study and the corporate event planner hiring guide. A dedicated bio page is the remaining piece, which finishes once the founder bio above is complete.
Three client testimonials are now published: two on the corporate page and the attributed StartCare quote on the non-profit page. First time testimonial content has been visible on the site.
Your corporate page carries named case studies, and the non-profit page now does too, with Best Friends Animal Society, Free A Girl and CHLA named alongside the outcomes they achieved. This is the proof AI platforms look for when deciding which agency to recommend, and it is now on both of your largest service pages. Verified live on 6 September.
Delivered the first week of each month, July through December.
Shows how Hudson & Nine appears across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI for your 40 tracked queries. The July report is live at hudson-nine-visibility.pages.dev. The September run is complete and the written report follows shortly. These continue every month through December at no extra cost, and are already paid for under your existing scope.