About Tradewinds Media

Tradewinds Media is an AEO agency for DTC ecommerce brands. We get your high-ticket products to show up when buyers ask ChatGPT, Google AI, and other AI tools for help with a big purchase.

What sets us apart: We've Built The Systems To Actually Get You Results

Tradewinds Media is a small team based in St. Louis. We help DTC brands with high-ticket products make more money from AI search, without relying so heavily on ads or constantly coming up with new content ideas.

Specialized in DTC

We specialize in DTC brands that sell high-ticket products. We know how buyers research, compare, and decide on a big purchase.

AEO first

Getting your products recommended by AI is our main focus. It isn’t an add-on to an old SEO package.

Measured in revenue

We track how often AI tools recommend your products and how much revenue that brings in. You see the numbers every month.

Completely done for you

We fix your site, build pages people link to, and get your brand on the review sites and lists AI reads. You don’t have to lift a finger.

How we work

Extreme Ownership

We take full accountability for doing what we say we're going to do. When we don't deliver, we own up to it and always make it right.

Full transparency, always

You get a monthly report, a monthly call, and a direct line to us. You can see what we worked on and what it did for your sales.

U.S. Based Team

Our team is based in the U.S. We don't hand your work off to offshore writers or outside agencies.

Anti-hype, numerate

AI search takes time to build. We give you realistic timelines and real numbers, and we won’t promise results we can’t back up.

Austin Ryder, owner of Tradewinds Media

Austin has been in organic growth for nearly a decade. Running campaigns at agencies like NP Digital and GR0, he led SEO and content for brands including Adobe, Dell, TB12 Sports, Universal Technical Institute, and over 50 others.

Then he watched shoppers start asking AI what to buy, and watched DTC brands get pitched by SEO shops that ignored AI, or “GEO” shops chasing a buzzword with no real work behind it. The brands he worked with deserved an honest partner who knew how to get them recommended by AI.

So he bottled up the enterprise-agency playbook, minus the bloat, into a single framework built for DTC e-commerce brands. That framework became the foundation of Tradewinds Media. Today, Tradewinds helps DTC brands get recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI, and other AI search tools, then shows the money it brings in.

Our services

Client results