Results
The manufacturers we work with aren't new companies. They aren't starting from zero. They already have the expertise, the product, and the customer relationships. What they don't have is visibility. These are the results when that changes.
Featured Client
Industrial sensors manufacturer. Complex B2B product. Long buying cycles. The kind of company that wins on technical merit — once buyers can find them.
20 → 120
New customers, 2024 to 2025
+90%
Organic search traffic, year over year
29.7%
AI citation rate · liquid level sensors
"We always knew we had a superior product and decades of expertise. The challenge was getting buyers to find us online. The work Cobalt did helped make our expertise more visible and contributed to a significant increase in new customer acquisition." — Tim Walsh, ACT Sensors
The story behind the numbers: ACT Sensors had built something genuinely valuable. Their sensors are technically differentiated and their team has deep expertise. But when buyers searched for what they sold, they weren't finding ACT Sensors. They were finding competitors.
We rebuilt their online presence around what buyers were actually searching for — a new website, a Shopify storefront with a product configurator, technical SEO cleanup, and consistent publishing. Over the year that followed, organic search traffic nearly doubled, from 5,339 sessions in 2024 to 10,159 in 2025. New customers went from 20 to 120.
On liquid level sensors, Google's AI Overview now cites ACT Sensors in 29.7% of the buyer questions tracked — the most-cited supplier domain in that category, ahead of Gems Sensors at 5.8%.
More Client Results
7 → 137 first-page rankingsfour-slide stamping
2 → 61 first-page rankingsmetal stamping companies
A precision metal stamping manufacturer. When tracking began in April 2026, their four-slide stamping content held seven first-page Google rankings. Three and a half months later it held 137, and it is still climbing. A second pillar on metal stamping companies went from two first-page rankings to 61 over nine months.
1 → 72 first-page rankingssteel bushings
25.9% AI citation ratecenterless grinding
A precision manufacturer specializing in steel bushings, centerless grinding, and thrust bearings. When tracking began in May 2025, their steel bushing content held a single first-page ranking, at position nine. Fifteen months later it holds 72. On centerless grinding, Google's AI Overview cites them in 25.9% of the buyer questions tracked. No competitor we track in that category exceeds 0.1%.
≤4 → 106 first-page rankingsspray dryers
40.7% AI citation ratespray dryers
An industrial drying systems manufacturer. Across five months of tracking from June to November 2025, their spray dryer content never held more than four first-page rankings. It now holds 106. On the same pillar, Google's AI Overview cites them in 40.7% of tracked buyer questions — against 10.6% for GEA and 5.2% for SPX Flow. The first citations appeared within roughly a month of publishing.
0–2 → 48 first-page rankingspermanent mold aluminum casting
24.8% AI citation ratepermanent mold aluminum casting
An aluminum casting manufacturer. Their permanent mold casting content held between zero and two first-page rankings from September to December 2025. It now holds 48. On the same pillar they hold the highest AI citation rate of any company tracked in the category, at 24.8% — ahead of the nearest tracked competitor at 18.0%.
2 → 43 first-page rankingsnetwork downtime prevention
25.3% AI citation ratemanaged power distribution
A manufacturer of remote power management hardware. Their network downtime prevention content held two first-page rankings in late 2025 and holds 43 today. On managed power distribution, Google's AI Overview cites them in 25.3% of tracked buyer questions — ahead of Vertiv at 17.8% and Schneider Electric at 16.2%.
0 → 125 first-page rankingsindustrial wastewater treatment
A wastewater treatment systems manufacturer, known to its buyers as CWT Global. Across five weeks of tracking in mid-2025, their industrial wastewater content was ranking on pages two and three of Google and nowhere on page one. Thirteen months later it holds 125 first-page rankings.
AI citation rates are measured in Google AI Overviews against tracked competitor domains in each category. Ranking figures are counts of first-page Google rankings within a single named content pillar, not across a whole site. Every before-and-after describes one pillar, and the pillar is named beside the figure.
Ranking and citation figures current as of August 2, 2026. ACT Sensors' customer and traffic figures are for calendar years 2024 and 2025, confirmed directly with the client.
The Pattern
They had genuine expertise that buyers couldn't find. Not a product problem. Not an expertise problem. A visibility problem.
Once that expertise became visible — in Google, in AI search, in the content buyers encounter during their research — the results followed. Rankings improved. AI systems started citing them. New buyers started finding them. Opportunities appeared that would never have materialized otherwise.
Expertise doesn't create growth. Visibility does.
The Buyer Visibility Audit shows you exactly where you are — and what it would take to get results like these.
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