The agency for businesses your neighbors can walk into.
Octopolis is a search and AI visibility agency in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 2026 by Elijah Kleinsmith. It helps local businesses appear in Google results, Google Maps, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and voice assistant answers through SEO, GEO (generative engine optimization) and AEO (answer engine optimization). Octopolis charges a fixed $500 for a visibility audit and $100 per hour for fixes, with no retainers or long term contracts.
Who runs Octopolis?
Octopolis was founded in 2026 by Elijah Kleinsmith, who lives and works in Kansas City. It is deliberately small: the person who audits your visibility is the person who answers the phone.
The pitch is simple. Search stopped being ten blue links and started being one written answer, and most local businesses have no idea what that answer says about them. Somebody in Kansas City should check, explain it in plain English and charge a fair, published price for fixing it. So that is the business.
Why an octopus?
Eight arms, one brain. That is the job: one business, yours, with an arm on every surface your customers ask. Google, Maps, ChatGPT, voice. Different questions, same answer.
The name is also a hedge against ego. It is hard to take yourself too seriously when your logo has tentacles.
How we work
Three steps, each optional, each priced up front: a free 60 second visibility check, a $500 fixed price audit and $100 per hour fixes. No retainers, no 12 month contracts, no dashboards for dashboards' sake.
- Local only. We work with Kansas City area businesses your neighbors can walk into, from the Crossroads to Waldo to Overland Park. No national accounts.
- Plain English. Every audit finding says what is broken, what it costs you and how to fix it. If a sentence needs an acronym, it gets a definition.
- Testable claims. We do not guarantee rankings and we do not fake testimonials. Every claim in your audit can be checked by asking the same tools we asked.
- Yours to keep. The report belongs to you. Work it yourself, hire us hourly or take it elsewhere.
The details, with numbers: pricing. The services, in plain English: Kansas City SEO, GEO and AEO.
Where to find us
Octopolis is based in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, MO, and works with businesses across the Kansas City metro, from the Crossroads to Overland Park to Lee's Summit. Email hello@octopolis.ai or call (417) 299-3785. A person answers.
