Integrated Marketing Consultant · AI Search Visibility · Detroit

The playbooks are breaking. The next ones get built here.

FRDT Lab is integrated marketing consulting for the AI search era. I connect search, paid media, data, technology, and revenue into one operating system that finds, validates, and scales growth. What I'm doing in-house, I'm helping other companies do.

Find the signal Build the system Compound the growth
Amanda Friedt, founder of FRDTLAB, outside a historic brick home in Detroit Detroit-rooted · Future-facing
Built from real operating experience
US Search Awards 2026
4× WINNER

Four wins in one year, for the systems behind the work.

28.51% → 83.43%

Search visibility in one quarter, April to June 2026.

1,820

Products rebuilt across 3 sites with one ruleset, in about 90 days.

~20 yrs

Growth marketing, search, analytics, operations, and leadership.

From live client work: organic Shopping purchases +408% · product disapprovals 43% → ~4% · feed quality score 28 → 59.

Stages: SMX Advanced · BrightonSEO · Pubcon · HeroConf · Engage · Zenith · MN Search Summit

The Thesis

Everything else decays. A few things compound.

01 / Campaigns

Campaigns expire.

02 / Systems

Systems learn.

03 / Evidence

Evidence compounds.

The strongest growth teams do not start over every quarter. They build marketing infrastructure that gets smarter with every campaign, customer, search, test, and decision.

What is FRDTLAB

FRDT Lab is where marketing strategy becomes infrastructure.

Most companies have plenty of marketing data, platforms, campaigns, and dashboards. What they lack is a system that connects them.

I work across search, paid media, content, analytics, customer behavior, merchandising, technology, and operations to find the signals that matter, validate them across independent sources, and turn them into decisions teams can act on. Cross-validation prevents expensive decisions based on incomplete evidence.

The work combines nearly 20 years of growth marketing and operating experience with modern AI, automation, and agentic systems.

The technology is new. The operating logic is not.
  • 01Integrated Marketing StrategyOne plan across search, paid, content, and email
  • 02Marketing Campaigns on One DatasetEvery channel learns from the same signals
  • 03Search + AI VisibilityFound by Google, recommended by AI
  • 04Agentic Marketing SystemsOperating knowledge into workflows
  • 05Measurement + Decision SystemsMarketing reporting reconciled to revenue
Integrated marketing consulting

What integrated marketing consulting looks like here.

Integrated marketing used to mean every channel saying the same thing. Now it means every channel learning from the same data. That is the work: one marketing strategy, run as a system, built for how people and AI search actually find you.

Integrated marketing strategy

One plan across search, paid media, content, email, and your website, so channels stop competing for credit and your marketing budget goes where the evidence says it works.

Marketing campaigns that share one dataset

Campaigns that read the same customer, product, and revenue signals. What paid search learns this week shapes the content, the landing page, and the email next week.

AI search visibility

Your brand found in Google and recommended in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. How AI search visibility works, or get the audit.

Measurement you can defend

Reporting reconciled across platforms and tied back to revenue, so decisions come from cross-checked evidence instead of whichever dashboard is loudest.

How We Build

A loop, not a launch. Each pass compounds the last.

No channel gets read alone. Search, paid media, customer behavior, competitive intelligence, product data, and revenue reconcile into one picture before anything ships.

AI does not rank content. It calculates confidence.
→ 01

Sense

  • Customers · search
  • Competitors · performance
→ 02

Structure

  • Validate across sources
  • Model the opportunity
→ 03

Build

  • Systems · content
  • Workflows on evidence
→ 04

Measure

  • Cross-validate results
  • Learn
→ 05

Compound

  • Every cycle makes the
  • next decision smarter
Work with me

Ways to work with FRDT Lab.

Work With Me

Free · The Signal Report

What changed. What matters. What to do next.

Research on AI discovery, search, marketing systems, agentic workflows, customer behavior, and growth infrastructure. No trend-chasing. No dashboard theater.

Or download the Signal Report now →

Not sure where you stand? Take the 2-minute AI Visibility Scorecard →

Want it done for you? The AI Visibility Audit →

From idea to a body of work
Amanda Friedt presenting on the main stage at SMX Search Marketing Expo On stage · SMX

This is already real, and already moving.

Client engagements, research, publishing, speaking, and a studio are live now. The agentic systems running in-house are becoming the systems clients hire. See what's active, what's forming, and where it's going.

See what's in motion →
The Studio

Some ideas need to be seen before they can be explained.

Original acrylic painting of an eye in deep purples with roses Studio · Original work

People feel a painting before they can explain it.

That first feeling is a signal.

The studio is where FRDT Lab explores how visual thinking, storytelling, and creative experimentation help people understand complex systems. Original work, available to collect.

Studio drops coming soon · Subscribe for first look →
Beyond the client work

Better systems should create more room for people, not less.

FRDT Lab also supports research, education, creative work, and leadership initiatives built on that idea.

Explore Unapologetic Leadership
Questions

Integrated marketing, answered.

What does an integrated marketing consultant do?

An integrated marketing consultant connects the parts of your marketing that usually run separately: search, paid media, content, email, your website, and reporting. The goal is one strategy where every channel works from the same customer and revenue data, so campaigns reinforce each other instead of competing for budget and credit.

What is integrated marketing?

Integrated marketing is coordinating all of your marketing communications so they work as one system: one message, one plan, and one set of data across every channel. In the AI search era it also means making sure the same facts about your brand show up consistently everywhere machines look.

How is working with a consultant different from hiring an agency?

An agency typically sells execution hours across channels. Here you work directly with the operator who builds the system, alongside your team, so the strategy and the measurement stay with you after the engagement ends.

Where does AI search fit into integrated marketing?

AI search is now one of the channels, and it depends on all the others. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews recommend brands they can read clearly and see corroborated across the web. Integrated marketing is how you give them that consistency.

How do I choose an integrated marketing consultant?

Ask to see results tied to revenue, how they measure across channels, what they would change first, and how they work with your existing team or agency. Specific answers beat a polished deck.

How do engagements start?

Most start with the AI Visibility Audit, a fixed-price, one-week look at where you stand, credited in full if you move into advisory. You can also start with the free Scorecard.

Amanda Friedt, founder of FRDTLAB
"I've spent nearly 20 years watching where growth teams lose signal, context, time, and revenue. FRDT Lab is where those operating lessons become systems that learn and compound."
Amanda Friedt · Founder, FRDT Lab · 4× US Search Awards Winner 2026 Search nerd. Systems builder. Revenue-focused operator.

The old operating system

Platforms reward clean signals, not your org chart.

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