Masterful Quarterly · Vol. XII The Visibility Issue · May 2026 Limited print run · $0.00
Where We Work

Based in Nairobi. Working with brands across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

The AEO landscape across these markets is wide open. Most B2B brands in the region have zero presence inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Google AI Overviews for their highest-intent queries.

Western AEO agencies have not built for the region. They do not know the local search behavior, the dominant communication platforms, or the citation sources LLMs trust here. We do. Citation work for African and emerging-market brands looks different in the details, even though the underlying mechanics are the same.


About Masterful

A studio that works
on one problem.

Masterful builds search visibility across three surfaces: Google, AI answer engines, and the entity data that models read when forming recommendations. One engagement. One retainer.


The search surface changed. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini now answer the questions that used to send buyers to your site. Most brands do not appear in those answers. That is the gap we fill.


Three months minimum. Flat rate. All organic. We publish what works in the journal.

The Audit

Find out how models see your brand right now.

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Disciplines
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Minimum contract
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Frontier models tracked
House Rules
I
Flat retainers only

Flat monthly fee. You know the number before we start.

II
Three months minimum

Three months minimum. We take on work we can see through.

III
One client per vertical

We work with one brand per competitive category.

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No ads

We don't run paid media. We have studio contacts who do. Ask, and we'll introduce you. Organic is the discipline we're built for.

V
Human replies only

The audit reply comes from a human. Your strategy call is with the person doing the work.

VI
We publish what works

The methods are public. The journal covers everything we'd usually bill for. Execution is what separates the results.

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