Andy Braudway

I spent nearly two decades in the building materials industry before making the jump into digital marketing. That experience taught me what most marketers never learn firsthand — what a business owner's day actually looks like, and what they need when the phone stops ringing.

In 2016, I launched Absolutely Elite to help service-based businesses get found online and turn visibility into leads. Custom websites, WordPress development, local SEO — no templates, no gimmicks.

Running the agency, I kept hitting the same problem: building citations was a nightmare. So I built Citation Vault. It now serves 10,000+ businesses in nine countries. We're evolving it into Citation Vault 2.0 — shifting from volume to precision with entity-rich content that builds a business's identity for search engines and AI.