# Uppervox

> Solo design and AI digital intelligence studio. Two services in one founder: senior product design + front-end engineering for funded teams, and twenty productized AI digital services for small businesses and solo professionals. Remote-first, worldwide. One engagement slot opens each month.

Founded and operated by Alexander Costa. 20+ years across luxury hospitality, B2B sales, trust & safety at scale, UX research, and front-end engineering. Speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

The studio operates as two distinct tracks:

1. **Designer track** — Solo product design and front-end engineering for founders and growth-stage teams. Fixed-fee packages: UX Audit ($1,950 / 1 week), Design Sprint ($6,900 / 4 weeks), Embedded Designer ($9,900 / month, 3-month minimum).
2. **AI Studio track** — Twenty productized AI services for small businesses and solo professionals. Tiered pricing: Starter $297 per service, Growth retainer $897/month, Enterprise retainer $2,888/month. Most deliverables ship within 24–72 hours.

## Designer track — selected work

- [Helios — banking, rebuilt for trust](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#work) — Fintech product design and design system. +62% activation, 4.8★ App Store, −40% support tickets.
- [Aurora — wellness, daily](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#work) — Wellness iOS app UX research. 12,000+ reviews, 4.8★, +38% D30 retention.
- [Meridian — editorial CMS](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#work) — Editorial CMS product design. 3× content velocity.
- [Cascade — AI product founders trust](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#work) — Founding designer for an AI tool. $2.4M ARR, 1,200 hours saved weekly across customers.
- [Atlas — dashboards with shape](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#work) — B2B SaaS analytics dashboard. +38% MAU, −72% time-to-insight.
- [Lumen — cultural identity](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#work) — Cultural museum identity and wayfinding. +22% visitor engagement.

## Designer track — engagements

- [UX Audit · $1,950 / 1 week](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#services) — Heuristic review of one product surface, journey teardown, prioritized fix list, walkthrough call.
- [Design Sprint · $6,900 / 4 weeks](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#services) — One major product surface, end-to-end: research → wireframes → UI → motion. Includes a free UX audit and 2 revision rounds.
- [Embedded Designer · $9,900 / month](https://uppervox.com/portfolio#services) — 3 days/week with your team. Product design + front-end pairing. Slack, standups, design system. 3-month minimum.

## AI Studio track — services

- [Spanish-Ready Business Package](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — $1,297 one-time. Website, AI-receptionist scripts, and structured data localized into native-checked Spanish so the 60M-strong US Spanish-speaking market can find, understand, and buy from the business.
- [AI-Readable Business Setup](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — $497 one-time, 48-hour delivery. llms.txt, machine-readable pricing file, JSON-LD entity schema, FAQ markup, and AI-crawler access — the technical layer that lets ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity find and cite a business.
- [Lead Calculator Build](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — $797 one-time. A custom interactive calculator (ROI, cost-of-inaction, savings, pricing) styled to the client's brand and wired to capture leads. Live example: [Missed-Call Cost Calculator](https://uppervox.com/missed-call-calculator).
- [Premium Website Creation](https://uppervox.com/premium-website) — Agency-grade websites in 24 hours.
- [Instagram → Brand Website](https://uppervox.com/instagram-website) — Convert any Instagram profile into a professional brand site in 1 hour.
- [Full SEO Audit](https://uppervox.com/seo-audit) — Audit with scored HTML report and prioritized fixes.
- [GEO / AI Search Audit](https://uppervox.com/geo-audit) — FLAGSHIP. Also known as AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), LLMO, or AI SEO — same service, different vocabulary. Five scored pillars (Authority/citation share, Technical/semantic structure, Content/LLM indexability, Data/schema factuality, Trust/E-E-A-T) + competitor benchmark across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews. Standard $995; Bilingual EN+ES $1,495 — native-speaker Spanish tuned to US-Hispanic search behaviour, not generic "global Spanish". Free AI-visibility mini-check available (two findings by email, no payment details). Ongoing AI Visibility Monitoring: $197/mo standard, $297/mo bilingual — monthly report, citation-shift alerts, quarterly mini re-audit, cancel anytime.
- [Invoice & Billing Dashboard](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Upload PDF invoices, AI generates a visual financial dashboard.
- [n8n Workflow Automation](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Lead capture, onboarding, follow-up sequences in your n8n instance.
- [AI Client Prospecting](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Identify, score, and write personalized outreach for 50+ qualified prospects.
- [Digital Business Audit](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Full audit of website, social, offer, pricing, copy, customer journey, ads.
- [Paid Ads Audit — Meta & Google](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Meta + Google ad teardown, landing-page match scoring, new ad copies.
- [Call Rescue Setup](https://uppervox.com/call-rescue) — Done-for-you setup of a 24/7 bilingual AI receptionist on the client's own account: platform selection, English & Spanish scripts tested by a native speaker, calendar integration, documented handoff. One-time fee; the platform bills the client directly. Free tool: [Missed-Call Cost Calculator](https://uppervox.com/missed-call-calculator).
- [AI Website Chatbot](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — On-site AI assistant that answers, qualifies, and books, 24/7 with SMS handoff.
- [SEO Content Engine](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Ongoing SEO-optimized articles that rank and get cited.
- [Social Content Engine](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — A month of platform-specific posts in your brand voice.
- [Review & Reputation](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Automated review requests and AI-drafted responses to Google reviews.
- [Email Nurture Sequences](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Done-for-you drip, onboarding, and win-back campaigns with automation.
- [AI Branding Kit](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Logo, palette, typography, and on-brand visuals as one identity.
- [Custom AI Skill Builder](https://uppervox.com/services#services) — Custom AI workflows for your specific repeatable processes.

## AI Studio track — pricing tiers

- **Starter · $297 / one-time** — 1 service of your choice. SEO audit with report. Business digital audit. Google Business Profile setup. One revision round. Delivery within 24 hours.
- **Growth · $897 / month** — 3 services/month. Monthly SEO monitoring report. 1 automation setup. Brand analysis report. Business digital audit. Basic business systems setup. Monthly strategy call. One major revision/month + unlimited minor revisions.
- **Enterprise · $2,888 / month** — Pick & choose any service (unlimited). Monthly SEO/GEO monitoring. Quarterly business audit. Custom AI skill development. n8n automation suite. Weekly prospecting. Full brand kit + review. Priority response — same business day. AI website chatbot + reputation management. Dedicated account manager. Priority delivery.

## Project packages (one-time engagements)

- [Signal · $995–$1,995](https://uppervox.com/#pricing) — Diagnostics. The GEO / AI Search Audit ($995, or $1,495 bilingual EN+ES); Signal Complete ($1,995) adds a full SEO audit and digital business audit. Zero account access needed; prioritized roadmap included.
- [Amplify · from $2,995](https://uppervox.com/#pricing) — Reconstruction of an existing presence: AI-readable setup, answer-first page rewrites, SEO fixes, Google Business Profile, automation. Bilingual $4,495; Total $5,995. Collaborator access only, revoked at handoff.
- [Reborn · from $6,995](https://uppervox.com/#pricing) — Full AI-native build from zero: brand, website, payments, booking, AI receptionist, automations — GEO-audited before launch. Every account created in the client's name from day one. Reborn Total $9,995 includes 90 days of monitoring.
- AI Visibility Monitoring — $197/month ($297/month bilingual EN+ES): monthly report across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews; citation-shift alerts; quarterly mini re-audit. Attaches to any package.

## Guides (blog)

RSS feed: https://uppervox.com/feed.xml

- [How to check what AI says about your business](https://uppervox.com/blog/how-to-check-what-ai-says-about-your-business) — Free 10-minute method: five engines, six prompts, four grades, and what to fix after.
- [What is llms.txt?](https://uppervox.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt) — The plain-text file that makes AI engines read a website; what goes in it and honest expectations.
- [What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?](https://uppervox.com/blog/what-is-geo-generative-engine-optimization) — The discipline of being cited inside AI answers, and the Princeton research behind it.
- [How to get recommended by ChatGPT](https://uppervox.com/blog/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt) — Seven practical steps from crawler access to machine-readable pricing.

## En español

- [uppervox.com/es/](https://uppervox.com/es/) — Página en español: auditoría GEO, sitio legible por IA, recepcionista con IA bilingüe. El fundador es hispanohablante nativo; todo servicio puede entregarse en español, inglés o ambos.

## Contact

- Email: hello@uppervox.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/136954549
- Portfolio: https://uppervox.com/portfolio
- AI Services: https://uppervox.com/services
- Free AI-visibility check (instant scanner, six structural checks, no email needed): https://uppervox.com/free-ai-visibility-check
- Pricing (all tiers, human-readable): https://uppervox.com/pricing
- Pricing (machine-readable): https://uppervox.com/pricing.md
- Industries served (dentists, home services, restaurants, med spas, real estate, professional services): https://uppervox.com/industries
- Terms & refund policy: https://uppervox.com/terms
- Reply within 24 hours. One engagement opens monthly. Remote-first, US + global time zones.
- Workplace: fully remote, async-first — shared workspaces, written updates, and recorded walkthroughs instead of status calls. US-based, serving clients worldwide.

## Trust signals

- 14 products shipped · $2M+ in revenue impact across the portfolio
- Past clients available for reference calls (with their permission)
- Mutual NDA available within hours of intro call
- One revision round included in every package
- All deliverables include written documentation, not just verbal recommendations

## What this site is not

- Not a multi-person agency. Alex does all work himself, including front-end implementation.
- Not a hourly-billed consultancy. All work is fixed-fee or fixed monthly retainer.
- Not a generalist outsourcing shop. The two tracks are tightly scoped: senior design for funded teams, productized AI services for small businesses.

Last updated: 2026-09-01.