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: This was the biggest month of the engagement so far. The FAQ sections are now live on your corporate and non-profit pages, complete with client testimonials, your MWBE certification in plain sight, and formatting AI platforms can quote directly. Your company details that AI reads got significantly richer, and the founding year is now correctly stated as 2018 everywhere, including the AI navigation file, per your note. Your new articles carry your full byline. One earlier fix (the sitemap) was undone by a Squarespace update and is queued for repair. The July visibility report is live at hudson-nine-visibility.pages.dev, and the August report is in preparation.
Every item marked Live below was verified against your published site on August 9, 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. Updated this month: founding year corrected to 2018, verified live August 9. 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’ve expanded this from your two core pages to six — now covering corporate events, non-profit galas, weddings, social celebrations, corporate gifting, and your full capabilities overview. Live and verified across all six.Now live on /corporate, /non-profit, /weddings, /celebrations, /corporate-event-gifting, and /capabilities.
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.
The corrected sitemap we shipped in July was undone by a Squarespace regeneration: our August check found the main pages missing from it again. We caught it and a re-fix is queued. This also makes question 6 below (search console access) more valuable, since resubmitting directly speeds up the correction.
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.
Fixed the “1,000,00” typo to “1,000,000 sq.ft.” One quick confirmation needed — see question 5.
We are revising the draft to match your corrected company history: founded 2018, with your twenty plus years of personal experience credited to you rather than the brand. The updated draft comes to you for review this month.
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. Verified live August 9. 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.
The corporate page carries named case studies, and your Best Friends Animal Society story is now published as a full article showing the $1.6 million raised. Next step is featuring it on the non-profit page itself. For weddings and celebrations we still need your call on naming clients versus describing events anonymously.
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 August report is in preparation and will reflect this month's site improvements, which AI platforms need a few weeks to pick up.
Four quick answers unlock everything still outstanding. Most take a minute.
Are the 300+ events and $100M+ raised your career totals, or Hudson & Nine totals?
Your non-profit page currently ties these numbers to a "15+ years" claim that predates Hudson & Nine. Following your founding year note, we want to restate them with the right attribution. If they are Hudson & Nine numbers since 2018, they are even more impressive stated that way.
Confirm the IN-N-OUT square footage
We set it to 1,000,000 sq.ft. Please confirm that is the true figure before it stands as a public stat.
Weddings and celebrations case studies: name clients or keep anonymous?
Private clients require your call. An anonymous version like "a 200 guest Hamptons wedding" works well if naming is off the table.
Google & Bing access, now recommended
Squarespace undid the July sitemap fix, so after we repair it, resubmitting directly through Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools gets your pages re-crawled fastest. Add us as a user on each, or share credentials.