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    For Israeli Founders

    You raised. Now you need a site that proves it.

    Brand-led websites and AI-search visibility for Israeli founders post-round. Shipped in 4 weeks — before your next investor update, customer pitch, or hire announcement.

    Trusted by Israeli VCs, founders, and the brands building next-generation business.

    Why this is different from your last website project

    The Israeli founder market is unlike any other. You ship fast, raise globally, sell internationally, and your customers are increasingly discovering you not on Google but inside ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Most agencies can't keep up with all three at once.

    I can. I run a small studio that does one thing well: brand-led websites that look like they belong to a US-based Series B, ship in 4 weeks, and rank where AI engines look. I build directly for funded Israeli startups, and on selected projects I collaborate with established branding consultancies — including Capri (London / Tel Aviv / New York) — when a brief calls for heavyweight brand strategy upstream of the build.

    You get the speed and technical execution of my vetted network of partner specialists, with the brand sophistication of an international consultancy when the project needs it.

    Built for the way Israeli founders actually work

    Speed

    Israeli founders work in weeks, not quarters. A normal agency runs a 3-to-4-month engagement to launch a marketing site. I ship a site that looks better, performs better, and converts better — in 4 weeks. Most of my work goes live before competitors finish their kickoff meeting.

    Investor-ready

    Your VC will Google you in the 10 seconds before they open your deck. The site they land on either confirms or contradicts what your pitch claims. I build sites that look like the company you're raising to become — not the company you were last quarter. That gap is what closes rounds.

    AI-search visible

    In 2026, more than half of B2B buyers begin vendor research inside an AI assistant. If your site is invisible to ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity, you don't exist in that conversation. AEO — Answer Engine Optimisation — is what makes your brand the named answer when an AI summarises your category. I build it into every site from day one. Most agencies, including the ones servicing the Israeli market, don't.

    How I work — a 4-week sprint

    1. 01Week

      Strategy & content

      We start with a working session: who you are, who you're for, what your buyer needs to feel after 30 seconds on your site. By end of week we have a site map, the messaging hierarchy for every page, and a content brief sharp enough to write against. If your brand isn't yet defined and the project calls for heavyweight strategy upstream, we'll loop in a brand-consultancy partner.

    2. 02Week

      Brand & design

      Visual system, type, colour, components. We design every screen for every breakpoint. By Friday you've signed off on a complete design that looks like the company you'll be in 18 months — not a refresh of where you are now.

    3. 03Week

      Build & AEO setup

      Site goes into the platform that fits your needs (Webflow for content-heavy marketing sites, custom React for sites that will integrate AI products later). In parallel: full AEO setup — schema markup, robots configuration for AI bots, content structuring, citation-ready content, sitemap, OG metadata. By Friday the site is live on a staging URL, ready for QA.

    4. 04Week

      Launch & handover

      QA, polish, performance tuning, accessibility checks, analytics setup, legal pages. Site goes live mid-week. Your team gets a 60-minute training session on how to update content yourselves. We hand over a site that doesn't need us to maintain it — but stays available for the next 30 days for any post-launch fixes.

    What you get

    • A site that looks like a US-based Series B, even if you're pre-seed in Tel Aviv

    • AEO foundation: schema, structured data, AI bot allow-list, citation-ready content

    • Founder and team profiles with proper Person and Organization schema for entity recognition

    • A CMS so your team updates content without engineering involvement

    • Analytics, conversion tracking, and CTA event funnel wired up from day one

    • A 30-day post-launch support window for any fixes or small additions

    Built by a Webflow Accredited Partner for B2B — every site shipped is on the Webflow platform with full CMS, AEO foundation, and conversion tracking from day one.

    Pricing

    I publish numbers because Israeli founders prefer not to dance for them. All prices are in USD, fixed-fee, with scope explicitly defined.

    AEO Audit

    from $1,500

    one-time · range $1,500–$3,000

    For founders who want a defensible read on where their brand stands in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity before committing to a programme.

    • Full AEO visibility scan vs your competitive set
    • Schema, bot access and content-architecture diagnostic
    • Prioritised 90-day roadmap
    • Credited against the first 3 months of any retainer

    Best fit pre-round or between raises — you want the picture before you spend on the programme.

    Most popular

    AEO Retainer

    from $2,500/mo

    month-to-month · range $2,500–$4,500 · cancel anytime

    Senior-led AEO programme, month-to-month. The compounding version of AI-search visibility.

    • Ongoing schema and structured-data maintenance
    • 1–2 anchor articles per month, AEO-optimised
    • Monthly citation monitoring across the four major AI engines
    • Quarterly strategy review with the senior lead

    Best fit once your site is live and you want AI-search visibility to compound before your Series A raise.

    B2B Website

    from $15,000

    Webflow project · range $8,000–$20,000 by scope

    A brand-led B2B website on Webflow, shipped in a defined sprint with AEO foundation built in.

    • Strategy, design and Webflow build under one roof
    • Full AEO foundation — schema, bot access, prerendering
    • CMS + founder/team profiles + conversion tracking
    • 4-week sprint · fixed price agreed up front

    Best fit if your site is now the bottleneck — for the raise, the hire, or the enterprise sale.

    Prefer one project rather than a retainer? An AEO Sprint (60–90 day fixed-scope project, $5,000–$9,000) ships the AEO foundation as a defined engagement. White-label / agency-partner engagements are priced on request.

    Why us

    I run a small studio. I, Russel Shalom Davis, founded BrandingLab in 2019, after building brands and B2B websites since 2012 — working with everything from Israeli scale-ups to London-based creative brands. The studio is deliberately small, deliberately senior, and deliberately specialised in the venture-backed segment, with a vetted network of partner specialists for delivery.

    Three things make me different in the Israeli market:

    I do AEO, not as an afterthought but as a core competency. This is the wedge. Most agencies servicing Israeli startups in 2026 still treat the website as a static brochure. I treat it as the asset that determines whether AI engines cite your brand or your competitor. That's a meaningful difference for any startup whose customers will discover them through ChatGPT or Perplexity.

    I work alongside established branding consultancies when a brief calls for it. On projects like Protego, Jewish Climate Trust and Bethnal Threadworks, the build was delivered in collaboration with Capri (London / Tel Aviv / New York). When you arrive with a brand already defined — by Capri, another agency, or your in-house team — I plug in and ship. When you don't have one, I'll either handle it myself or recommend a partner depending on the brief.

    I ship in weeks, not quarters. Israeli founders work fast and I work fast back. 4 weeks from kickoff to launch is my standard pace, not my stretch goal.

    Frequently asked questions

    We design and build in English by default — your site will likely target US, UK and EU customers and investors first. We can build a Hebrew-language version (RTL layout, Hebrew typography, Hebrew SEO) as an add-on, typically $3,000–$8,000 depending on content volume. Most clients launch English-only, then add Hebrew when local customer demand justifies it.

    Great — we work alongside other studios all the time. We're a build-and-AEO specialist, not a brand-strategy shop, so the most common pattern is: your brand agency leads identity and positioning, then hands off to us for the website, schema, AEO setup and launch. We've shipped projects this way with Capri (London / Tel Aviv / New York) and several in-house brand teams. If you don't have a brand agency yet and want one, we can recommend a few — including Capri — depending on the brief.

    Both. Google still matters and we build for it (proper SEO, schema, performance, sitemap, indexability). What's new in 2026 is the AEO layer — making your site readable and citable to AI engines that don't always crawl the same way Google does. We build both into every site as standard.

    Yes. AEO is a programme, not a one-off. Our AEO retainer runs $2,500–$4,500/month, month-to-month, cancel anytime — senior-led, no long lock-in. It starts after the build for clients who want their AI-search visibility to compound. If you'd rather ship the AEO foundation as one defined project, our AEO Sprint (60–90 days, $5,000–$9,000) does that instead.

    We work in 4-week sprints with clear scope. If your timing changes, we can pause between sprints with no penalty. We'd rather pause than rush — you'll only get one chance to launch this site.

    Yes, send it over with your booking. We sign mutual NDAs as standard for first calls with funded startups.

    Yes — Capri has clients across London and New York, and we've built for clients in the UK, US, EU, and South Africa. The studio is set up to work across time zones and we'll often have weekly syncs at hours that work for both sides.

    Our 30-day post-launch window covers any small fixes free. After that, you can either update content yourselves via the CMS we set up, or come back to us for a discounted rate on additional work. Most of our clients update their own content for the first 6–12 months and then come back when they need a meaningful change.

    We're a different scope. The big branding consultancies do brand strategy — the upstream work that defines who you are as a company, typically a 6-to-12-week engagement with a corresponding budget. We do execution — the downstream work that makes that brand real on the web, fast. Our pricing reflects that. Many of our best engagements are a brand agency leading strategy and our studio shipping the site.

    Yes — Israeli tech raised a record $15.6 billion in 2025, with the median round size at an all-time high of $10 million. Capital is more concentrated, not less. The founders who got funded have more runway, more urgency, and more pressure to look the part. They're spending — they're just spending more deliberately.

    Our sector mix is intentionally broad. What we bring is consistent across every project: brand-led design, AEO so your buyers find you when they're researching vendors via AI, and a 4-week sprint that matches the cadence funded teams actually move at. We've shipped sites for sectors we'd never touched before — the playbook holds. Happy to walk through the closest analog on a strategy call.

    Book a strategy call

    Tell me about your raise, your team, and your timeline. I'll come back within one business day to confirm a slot.

    Or — if you'd rather email first — russel@brandinglab.io

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