Deaven Vollmer, founder of GR8ER2

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Deaven Vollmer

Founder of GR8ER2. Based in Cape Town. Working globally.

GR8ER2 is the AI visibility company that publishes the standard for measuring it. Based in Cape Town, working globally. We make sure that answer is you — and then make everything behind it work harder.

The principle behind the name

We're built on one principle: 1 + 1 > 2 — "Greater than the sum.". Combine the right capabilities intelligently and the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. AI shouldn't simply add another layer of technology to your business. It should make everything around it more capable.

AI Visibility is the work, and the standard behind it is what makes the work checkable. The same principle extends to the select integration and bespoke-system work we take on for existing clients: making what a business already runs more capable, rather than replacing it with something unproven.

Why this, why now

GR8ER2 was founded in 2026, into a category that's itself only a couple of years old. That's not a knock on anyone in it — it means nobody, anywhere, has a decade of experience running this kind of work, including the people who built the models it depends on. What exists instead is a method: measure honestly, do the work, re-run the number, and say plainly when something hasn't moved. That's the standard GR8ER2 holds itself to.

That standard cuts both ways. If a claim on this site can't be checked, it shouldn't be on this site — every statistic carries where it came from, every limit is stated rather than buried, and the method itself is published rather than kept as a black box. If you're the kind of person who checks before you buy, that's who this site is written for.

Where we are, who we serve

GR8ER2 is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and works with businesses globally. Most of our work is with small and mid-sized businesses and their marketing leads who want a straight answer to "why doesn't AI recommend us?" — and with agencies looking for a partner who can do this work under their own name.

The starting point for almost everyone is the same: the free AI Visibility Audit — a real, measured baseline before any work begins, not a sales pitch dressed up as one.

What we won't do

  • We won't promise a placement, a ranking, or that a specific engine will recommend you. No one controls that, and we say so plainly rather than imply otherwise.
  • We won't name a client or publish a case study without their written permission — every result on this site is anonymised until that permission exists.
  • We won't publish a number we can't source. Every statistic on this site carries where it came from and when it was checked.

GR8ER2 — greater than the sum. >2

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