CI Web Group
A trades web shop rebuilt around autonomous AI agents
- HQ
- Houston, United States
- Founded
- 2006
- Team
- 51-200
- Regions
- North America
- Pricing
- From $600 Published on its own site: website builds $500-$50,000, marketing retainers $600-$3,000/month, AI consulting $2,000/month, and Hydra OS tiers from $2,500 to $235,000. Clutch records a $5,000 minimum and $100-$149/hr.
- Stack
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- Hydra OS
- Cortex AI
- Synapse
- Pulse
- ClickHouse
- Model Context Protocol
- Industries
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- Home Services
About CI Web Group
CI Web Group has built websites and search visibility for HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing companies since 2006, and has rebuilt that practice around a platform it calls Hydra OS. The description goes past the name: coordinated autonomous agents that research the market, write and optimize content, monitor rankings and citations and audit the site, coordinated over Model Context Protocol, with Cortex AI watching whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity cite the client. The agency states the delivery split as roughly eighty percent agents executing and twenty percent people steering.
The client evidence is unusually plentiful for this ranking, with nine trade businesses named and figures attached to each. It is also unusually hard to audit. The case studies page returns a 404, so every figure sits on a marketing page without a date or a method, and the record differs from the one Clutch holds.
Ratings elsewhere
Our verdict
CI Web Group suits a contractor that wants its site, its local search and its AI citations handled by one team on a fixed monthly fee.
It names nine trade clients with figures, including Cherry Blossom Plumbing at 104 percent more leads and JMAC Plumbing & Air at 25 times traffic in 28 days, and it publishes prices from a $600 monthly retainer, which most agencies in this ranking withhold. Hydra OS is described down to named components, Model Context Protocol coordination and citation monitoring.
All of that is the agency's own account of its own platform. Clutch tells a plainer story: 4.2 across five reviews, a service breakdown of search, web design and advertising with no AI line in it, and one review at 1.0 from an electrical contractor describing years of SEO spend gone wrong.
Pros
- Nine named trade clients with figures, including Cherry Blossom Plumbing at 104 percent more leads and THE Water Heater Company at 88 percent more leads per day
- Publishes prices on its own site: marketing retainers from $600 a month, website builds from $500, and Hydra OS tiers from $2,500
- Describes its AI delivery down to named components, with Cortex AI monitoring citations and Model Context Protocol coordinating the agents
Cons
- The headquarters conflicts across sources: Houston, Texas on its own site against Bremerton, Washington on Clutch.
- Team size conflicts too, at 38 people on its own site against a 50 to 249 band on Clutch.
- Clutch records the service mix as search, web design, advertising and social with no AI line, so the platform claim rests entirely on the agency describing itself.
- 4.2 across five Clutch reviews, one of them a 1.0 from an electrical contractor.
- The case studies page returns a 404, so every client figure sits on a marketing page with no date and no method.
Where CI Web Group ranks
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Ranked #4 in AI Marketing Agencies No change since 21 October 2026
Top three by industry
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