{
  "generated_at": "2026-05-12T22:59:17.415Z",
  "$schema": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/schemas/llms/v1",
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "source_of_truth": {
    "markdown": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/llms.txt",
    "sitemap": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/sitemap.xml",
    "rss": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/feed.xml"
  },
  "company": {
    "name": "Garnet Grid Consulting LLC",
    "short_name": "Garnet Grid",
    "domain": "garnetgrid.com",
    "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com",
    "founded_year": 2024,
    "hq_city": "New York City",
    "positioning": "Engineer-led, owner-operated platform for AI-search visibility, architecture audit, Discord-resident operations, and on-prem MLX inference. Sub-100ms P95, sovereign by default. Same engineer every month — no staff augmentation tier, no account-manager wall.",
    "operating_pattern": "platform-priced monthly subscriptions, not staff-augmentation hours",
    "cadence": {
      "daily": "passive instrumentation",
      "weekly": "engineering follow-through (merged PRs)",
      "monthly": "executive PDF"
    },
    "founder": {
      "name": "Jakub Rezayev",
      "role": "founder / sole engineer",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/architect",
      "experience_summary": "15+ years across $500M+ production systems"
    },
    "contact": {
      "email": "info@garnetgrid.com",
      "response_sla": "≤1 business day, engineer-replied",
      "form_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/contact"
    }
  },
  "lanes": [
    {
      "id": "geo",
      "name": "GEO — Generative Engine Optimization",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/geo",
      "methodology_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/geo-methodology",
      "vs_alternatives_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/geo-vs-alternatives",
      "onboarding_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/onboarding-walkthroughs/geo",
      "summary": "Daily citation polling across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Schema PR packs delivered as merged GitHub pull requests, not slide decks.",
      "outcomes": [
        "Citation-share lifts from <5% baseline to 30–60% top-3 within 90 days"
      ],
      "tiers": [
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "monthly_usd": 1999
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale",
          "monthly_usd": 4999
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "monthly_usd": 14999
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "audit-retainer",
      "name": "Audit Retainer",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/audit-retainer",
      "methodology_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/audit-retainer-methodology",
      "vs_alternatives_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/audit-retainer-vs-alternatives",
      "onboarding_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/onboarding-walkthroughs/audit-retainer",
      "summary": "Architecture under continuous watch. Daily passive snapshots (schema, IAM, secrets posture, cost, latency), weekly drift diff, monthly executive PDF. Engineering tickets shipped as merged PRs, not recommendation slides.",
      "tiers": [
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "monthly_usd": 4999
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale",
          "monthly_usd": 9999
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "monthly_usd": 24999
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sentinel-aas",
      "name": "Sentinel-as-a-Service",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/sentinel-aas",
      "methodology_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/sentinel-aas-methodology",
      "vs_alternatives_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/sentinel-aas-vs-alternatives",
      "onboarding_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/onboarding-walkthroughs/sentinel-aas",
      "summary": "Discord-resident operations bus. Webhook ingestion, alert routing, slash-command suite, integration health probes.",
      "outcomes": [
        "Lead-to-operator latency under 60s on hot leads"
      ],
      "tiers": [
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "monthly_usd": 2999
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale",
          "monthly_usd": 5999
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "monthly_usd": 14999
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cluster-ops",
      "name": "Cluster Ops",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/cluster-ops",
      "methodology_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/cluster-ops-methodology",
      "vs_alternatives_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/cluster-ops-vs-alternatives",
      "onboarding_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/onboarding-walkthroughs/cluster-ops",
      "summary": "Mac Mini MLX cluster operations. Hot-swap models, automated eviction, hardened deploys, monthly cost-per-token report.",
      "outcomes": [
        "Cost-per-million-tokens runs 5–15× below frontier API for equivalent quality"
      ],
      "tiers": [
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "monthly_usd": 3999
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale",
          "monthly_usd": 9999
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "monthly_usd": 24999
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "free_tools": [
    {
      "id": "audit",
      "name": "Free AI Citation Audit",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/audit",
      "summary": "Public 1-query AEO citation audit. Paste URL + buyer question → Gemini-with-Search runs the query, response parsed for cited domains, visitor's domain flagged. Returns in ~3 seconds.",
      "relates_to_lane": "geo"
    },
    {
      "id": "tco-calculator",
      "name": "Cluster Ops TCO Calculator",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/tco-calculator",
      "summary": "On-prem Mac Mini MLX inference vs frontier API total-cost-of-ownership calculator. Inputs: monthly tokens, model class, latency target, peak/avg ratio, horizon. Outputs include mini count, capex, monthly opex, cost-per-million-tokens, TCO, break-even vs cheapest API. Pure client-side JS, assumptions and math visible.",
      "relates_to_lane": "cluster-ops"
    },
    {
      "id": "schema-audit",
      "name": "Schema PR Pack Inspector",
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/schema-audit",
      "summary": "Paste-a-URL JSON-LD schema audit. Server-side fetch + parse. Scores Organization / WebSite / BreadcrumbList / Service / FAQPage / Article / WebPage / HowTo against required + recommended fields, returns overall grade A–F and PR-shaped paste-ready JSON-LD snippets.",
      "relates_to_lane": "geo"
    }
  ],
  "open_data": [
    {
      "id": "ai-citations",
      "name": "AI bot crawl activity",
      "page_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/ai-citations",
      "dataset_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/assets/data/crawler-public.json",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "refresh": "daily",
      "summary": "Daily aggregate counts of AI training and retrieval bot fetches on garnetgrid.com, by vendor, bot, purpose, and page."
    },
    {
      "id": "geo-self-case-study",
      "name": "In-house GEO case study (live 30-day arc)",
      "page_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/case-studies/garnetgrid-geo-self",
      "dataset_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/assets/data/garnetgrid-geo-self-case-study.json",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "refresh": "daily",
      "summary": "Live four-engine citation measurement on garnetgrid.com itself. Baseline 2026-05-10 → Day-30 comparison 2026-06-09."
    },
    {
      "id": "a11y-status",
      "name": "Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) scan status",
      "page_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/a11y-report",
      "dataset_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/assets/data/a11y-status.json",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "refresh": "daily",
      "summary": "Daily axe-core scan of garnetgrid.com against WCAG 2.0/2.1 A + AA + best-practice rules across desktop and mobile viewports. Per-rule and per-URL breakdowns."
    },
    {
      "id": "changelog",
      "name": "Shipped-change log (last 120 days)",
      "page_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/changelog",
      "dataset_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/assets/data/changelog.json",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "refresh": "daily",
      "summary": "Reverse-chronological log of every shipped change on garnetgrid.com, classified by category (feature / fix / a11y / aeo / perf / content / revenue / data / infra / audit). Auto-generated from git log."
    },
    {
      "id": "engine-benchmark",
      "name": "AI Engine Citation Benchmark",
      "page_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/engine-benchmark",
      "dataset_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/assets/data/engine-benchmark.json",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "refresh": "daily",
      "summary": "Daily four-engine (ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity / Gemini) citation panel across 8 mid-funnel consulting category queries. Per-engine top-cited domains and cross-engine consensus. 30-day rolling."
    },
    {
      "id": "schema-pr-packs",
      "name": "Schema PR Pack Registry",
      "page_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/schema-pr-packs",
      "dataset_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/schema-pr-packs/packs.json",
      "license": "CC0-1.0",
      "refresh": "as packs are added",
      "summary": "Anonymized JSON-LD PR packs Garnet ships to GEO subscribers, made public. Covers Organization (site-wide), Service+Offer with tier pricing, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, Article-with-Person-author. Paste-ready blocks with placeholders, engine-impact notes, verification steps."
    }
  ],
  "infrastructure": {
    "edge_platform": "Cloudflare Workers + R2",
    "deploy_model": "Garnet Workers deployed in customer Cloudflare accounts. Customer owns the infra; Garnet operates it. Cancellation removes Garnet's read access without breaking the deployment.",
    "stack": [
      "Cloudflare Workers",
      "Cloudflare Workflows",
      "R2 object storage",
      "Browser Rendering (PDF generation)",
      "Postal (sovereign mail, DKIM via Gmail SMTP relay)",
      "Discord-native operations bus",
      "Apple Silicon MLX cluster (optional)"
    ],
    "sovereignty": "Inference inputs/outputs, customer schema and IAM data, webhook payloads, and citation polling raw responses all stay in customer's R2 tenant. Garnet stores diffs in a control plane; never raw payloads.",
    "compliance_tracked": [
      "SOC 2",
      "ISO 27001",
      "HIPAA",
      "GDPR"
    ]
  },
  "differentiators": [
    {
      "vs": "SEO agencies",
      "lane": "geo",
      "summary": "SEO optimizes for ranked-list traffic; GEO optimizes for citation behavior in generative answers. Signal stacks diverge 30–50% on buyer-intent queries. SEO agencies typically don't engineer schema for the four-model retrieval temperaments individually."
    },
    {
      "vs": "Big-4 architecture audit",
      "lane": "audit-retainer",
      "summary": "Big-4 ships a 6–10 week, $120K–$400K slide-deck audit. Garnet Audit Retainer ships ongoing merged PRs at $60K–$120K/year — same headline number, but recurring engineering work instead of a one-shot deck."
    },
    {
      "vs": "Zapier / Make / N8N for ops bus",
      "lane": "sentinel-aas",
      "summary": "Zapier is great for 'trigger A → call B' but observability is shallow and cost scales badly past a few thousand events/month. Sentinel-aaS is purpose-built for the durable operator-bus pattern with full audit trail in customer R2."
    },
    {
      "vs": "Cloud GPU farms for inference",
      "lane": "cluster-ops",
      "summary": "Mac Mini M4 Pro hits the price/perf sweet spot for sub-frontier-model inference (7–70B class). For frontier models (full-precision DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4 class), GPU is the right answer; Cluster Ops is specifically Mac Mini MLX."
    }
  ],
  "pricing_summary": {
    "cadence": "monthly subscription, cancel any time",
    "pro_range_usd": [
      1999,
      4999
    ],
    "scale_range_usd": [
      4999,
      9999
    ],
    "enterprise_range_usd": [
      14999,
      24999
    ],
    "every_tier_includes": "monthly executive PDF",
    "pricing_url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/pricing"
  },
  "reading_order_for_agents": [
    {
      "step": 1,
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes",
      "purpose": "entry point, four-lane shape"
    },
    {
      "step": 2,
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/lanes/geo-methodology",
      "purpose": "most-developed lane, exemplifies the operator pattern"
    },
    {
      "step": 3,
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/pricing",
      "purpose": "tier comparisons, what each level includes"
    },
    {
      "step": 4,
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/architect",
      "purpose": "founder bio + decision-making philosophy"
    },
    {
      "step": 5,
      "url": "https://www.garnetgrid.com/case-studies/garnetgrid-geo-self",
      "purpose": "live in-house case study — proof Garnet practices what it sells"
    }
  ],
  "live_metrics": {
    "crawler": {
      "hits_yesterday": 605,
      "hits_30d": 1209,
      "distinct_bots_yesterday": 9,
      "days_collected": 3,
      "top_vendor_30d": "openai"
    },
    "a11y": {
      "state": "fail",
      "strict_violations": 1,
      "moderate_violations": 18,
      "pages_scanned": 10,
      "scan_ran_at": "2026-05-12T14:35:10.590Z"
    },
    "changelog": {
      "total_entries_120d": 80,
      "latest_day": "2026-05-11",
      "latest_day_count": 13
    },
    "geo_self_case_study": {
      "phase": "baseline-only",
      "baseline_day": "2026-05-10",
      "day_30_target": "2026-06-09",
      "days_elapsed": 2,
      "total_citations": 110,
      "mention_rate_pct": 0
    }
  }
}