Web of Trust growth for SaaS & AI
Build the trust layer around your growth.
Charlotte helps SaaS companies and AI consultancies become the name buyers keep seeing, hearing about, and trusting before they ever book a call.
SaaS companies
AI consultancies
AI product & service companies
Technical B2B
Starting at
$6,000/month
After the spend stops
Paid ads vs. Web of Trust
Illustrative
Paid ads
Web of Trust
Paid reach is rented: it ends the day the budget does. A thread, a review, a founder interview or an AI-search citation keeps being found long after. Illustrative shape, not client data.
Table view
| Month | Paid ads | Web of Trust |
|---|---|---|
| M1 | 58 | 8 |
| M2 | 62 | 14 |
| M3 | 60 | 21 |
| M4 | 63 | 28 |
| M5 | 61 | 35 |
| M6 | 60 | 42 |
| M7 | 4 | 46 |
| M8 | 1 | 49 |
| M9 | 0 | 52 |
| M10 | 0 | 55 |
| M11 | 0 | 57 |
| M12 | 0 | 59 |
Where buyers decide who to trust
Rented vs. owned
Ads create reach. Trust creates demand.
Traditional advertising is linear. You spend money, you receive attention. When the spending stops, the attention stops.
Google Ads
Clicks stop
Turn off Google Ads and the clicks stop.
LinkedIn Ads
Impressions disappear
Turn off LinkedIn Ads and the impressions disappear.
Web of Trust
Compounds
Every thread, review, citation and expert mention stays where buyers find it, and the next one builds on it.
Illustrative: each channel's reach before and after the spend is switched off.
A Web of Trust is different.
Charlotte builds a network of third-party authority around your company: communities, trusted voices, search visibility, reviews, creators, directories, media and organic mentions.
None of it switches off when a budget does. The result is a marketing asset that compounds over time, instead of attention you rent by the month.
Ads expire. Trust compounds.
The research path
What is a Web of Trust?
Nobody signs a SaaS contract or hires an AI consultancy off a single ad. By the time they book a call, the decision is mostly made.
Technical buyers do their homework.
They search Google for the category and for you.
They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini who to shortlist.
They read Reddit threads and ask in Slack and Discord communities.
They check G2, Capterra and directories.
They listen to the founder on a podcast and see who vouches for them.
They ask a peer who has already bought.
Charlotte makes sure your company is there at every one of those stops, and that the people talking about you there are not you.
We map the communities, voices, review ecosystems and search surfaces your buyers rely on, then build a presence inside each one and connect them, so every source points to the others.
That network of independent validation is the Web of Trust.
Where buyers look
Your company, inside the research
Illustrative
Every independent source a buyer meets while researching is another path back to you, and another reason to believe you.
Table view
| Touchpoint | What buyers do there |
|---|---|
| Google search | They search Google for the category and for you. |
| AI answers | They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini who to shortlist. |
| Reddit & communities | They read Reddit threads and ask in Slack and Discord communities. |
| Reviews & directories | They check G2, Capterra and directories. |
| Founders & experts | They listen to the founder on a podcast and see who vouches for them. |
| Peers they trust | They ask a peer who has already bought. |
Who we work with
Built for companies where trust decides the deal.
Charlotte is not a general agency. We work with SaaS companies, AI consultancies and technical B2B teams whose buyers need to trust the brand before they convert.
Core focus
SaaS companies
Trust before the demo or the signup.
Your buyer compares five tools in an afternoon. The shortlist is decided by what other people say about you, not what your homepage says.
Product launches and category awareness
Demand generation and user acquisition
Founder authority
Competitive positioning
Trust before demo or signup
Search and AI visibility
Core focus
AI consultancies
Credibility a buyer can verify.
Everyone claims AI expertise now. Enterprise buyers look for proof that someone other than you has seen the work, and that your people are worth listening to.
Credibility and differentiation
Thought leadership
Case-study amplification
Authority around founders and executives
Enterprise buyer trust
Technical reputation and lead generation
Also
AI products & service companies
A name that survives the hype cycle.
New category, sceptical buyers, and an AI answer engine deciding which vendors get named. Being cited by trusted sources is the moat.
Being named in AI answers and comparisons
Developer and practitioner communities
Reviews and directory presence
Expert and creator validation
01 · The strategy
Seven components. One web.
We do not sell a list of channels. Every engagement starts with the strategy, and each component is chosen because it strengthens the others.
Web of Trust Strategy
Map where buyers look before they book a call, and who they find there.
Start here →
Community & Third-Party Presence
Reddit, niche communities and industry groups, earned rather than bought.
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Founder & Brand Authority
Turn your founders and experts into the names buyers already recognise.
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Search + AI Visibility
Show up when buyers search, and when they ask ChatGPT or Perplexity.
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Reviews + Reputation
Review ecosystems, directories, and one score for how you read online.
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Creator / Expert Advocacy
Niche creators and industry experts your buyers already trust.
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Content That Compounds
Evergreen, third-party and community content that outlives any ad spend.
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Execution underneath
SEO
Paid media
Social
Web design
Analytics
Content production
These are capabilities, not the strategy. We use them where they strengthen the web, and never sell them as the point.
Our technology
We find where trust is actually formed.
Tracking every relevant thread, review, citation, creator and buyer question by hand is impossible at the scale a category conversation happens.
So we built our own technology to do it.
Charlotte uses proprietary crawling and our own custom-built AI to find where your buyers are already discussing the problem, your category, your competitors and you, including inside AI-generated answers.
It surfaces:
Subreddits and niche communities
Buyer questions and objections
Competitor mentions and comparisons
AI answers that cite (or skip) you
Review and directory gaps
Creators and experts buyers follow
Press, analyst and podcast coverage
High-intent research activity
That gives us a map of where trust is actually formed in your market, so the work goes where it changes a buying decision.
Our custom built AI
Our proprietary crawler
Charlotte trust map
1,240
sources mapped
Web of Trust programme
Pipeline, not impressions
This isn't brand awareness. It's demand.
Not the goal
Impressions.
Reach on its own does not move a technical buyer.
The goal
Trust.
Being the name buyers already believe when they are deciding who to shortlist, who to demo and who to sign with.
One buyer, six months
Technical buyers meet you many times before they ever talk to you.
Example journey
Every founder interview, thread, review, AI citation and expert mention adds to the trust a buyer brings to the first call.
Managed spend
$1.2M
Sources mapped
1,240
Median lift vs. control
+34%
Client retention
92%
The stronger the web, the shorter the sales cycle, and the harder you are to ignore.
Built to last
Stop renting attention. Build an asset.
Traditional advertising is temporary by design.
01
You pay for placement.
02
You receive traffic.
03
You stop paying.
04
The traffic stops.
A Web of Trust is built to persist.
A useful Reddit thread keeps ranking in search, and keeps getting quoted by AI answers.
A founder interview keeps introducing you to buyers years later.
A detailed G2 review keeps answering the question a buyer was about to ask your sales team.
A third-party comparison keeps showing up whenever someone researches your category.
Not every source lives forever. But the work is designed to create assets with a lifespan far beyond any single campaign.
Each quarter adds another layer of independent validation around your company, and each layer makes the next one easier to earn.
Each quarter adds a layer
Live sources, by quarter of work
Illustrative
Quarter 1 work
Quarter 2 work
Quarter 3 work
Quarter 4 work
Four quarters of work; nothing new placed in Q5 or Q6. Each layer is the sources from one quarter still being found. Illustrative shape, not client data.
Table view
| Quarter | Quarter 1 work | Quarter 2 work | Quarter 3 work | Quarter 4 work | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Q2 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Q3 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 31 |
| Q4 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 41 |
| Q5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 39 |
| Q6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 37 |
Become the name buyers already trust.
Charlotte builds the Web of Trust around SaaS companies and AI consultancies.
We start with a trust audit: where your buyers look, what they find, and where your competitors show up and you do not.
You keep the map whether or not we work together.