Digital engineering for the AI-search era
Your customers are searching in places your business doesn't show up.
Google's AI Overviews. ChatGPT. The Map Pack. While your current site or agency is still fighting last decade's SEO battle, that's where the sale is actually happening. Tropical Wave Global audits your entire tech stack, then engineers a website, search presence, and ad system built for how people search today — including AI-driven search.
What We Do
Four service lines. One engineering standard.
Every engagement is delivered in defined, tangible forms — not open-ended “management.”
Web Engineering
Custom-built sites engineered to convert, not just exist.
Search Dominance
SEO, AEO, and GEO — built for how search actually works now.
Social Media Management
Omnichannel content, scaled to your tier — not a generic calendar.
Paid Advertising & Data
Lead-generation ads with the tracking most agencies skip.
What Makes Us Different
The four pillars we lead with
Engineering-first delivery
Every engagement starts with a technical audit — site, tracking, search, AI-search visibility — not a content calendar.
Real AI-search capability
Schema, entity structure, and citation tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews — not SEO copy with "AEO" added to the header.
Transparent, published pricing
Three tiers, real inclusions, no "request a quote" wall, benchmarked openly against market rate.
Direct access, no handoff
You work with the person actually building your site and running your campaigns — not a rotating account manager.
Our Work
What engineered work looks like
As a Founding Partner cohort, our public portfolio starts as labelled concept work — real client case studies get added as they land.
Local Trades Site Redesign
A speculative rebuild concept for a Moreton Bay trade business running on a slow, template-built site — reimagined with conversion-first UX and Core Web Vitals in mind.
Clinic AI-Search Visibility Audit
A sample AI Search Visibility Report showing what a Brisbane clinic's citation footprint looks like across ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews today — and what closing the gap would take.
Retail Paid Ads Structure
A concept campaign and tracking structure for a local retailer, built around GA4 and Meta Pixel from day one instead of bolted on after launch.
Founding Partner Pricing
Three tiers. Published rates.
Silver
The Local Foundation
$1,960/mo
Gold
The Growth Engine
$4,060/mo
Platinum
AI Dominance & Scale
$7,000/mo
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