About

I'm Kate.

I help hair salon owners get found in Google and AI search. Behind the chair since 2005, and I know what it costs to be the best-kept secret in town.

Kate, founder of Hive Beauty Design

I've been behind the chair since 2005. For most of those years, I was also the one piecing together my salon's back end at eleven pm. A booking system that wouldn't talk to my notes. Client records on three different platforms. A new content tool every other month, and never enough time to actually use any of them.

Then I started teaching myself where salons actually show up, and where they quietly do not. On Google, on the map, and now in the answers people get when they ask an assistant for a salon near them. I worked it out on my own salon first. Then for the stylists I knew. Now it is what I do for salon owners full time.

I'm still doing hair. I'm just also doing this.

What I do now comes down to one question.

What I do now

One thing, done properly.

I find out where your salon actually shows up, and what it would take to be the name that comes up instead.

For salon owners and beauty businesses

The Salon Visibility Audit.

Salons, studios, and independent beauty professionals.

See exactly where clients can — and can't — find you: on Google, on maps, and when someone asks ChatGPT for a recommendation. Written findings, your 30/60/90-day plan, and a walkthrough within five business days. If you want the fixes done for you afterwards, I build them.

See what's included

I also write monthly content for working stylists over at the Hairstylist Hub. Different job, same hands.

You don't have to become a marketing person. If you'd rather just know where you stand and what to fix first, that's what the audit is for.

hello@hivebeautydesign.com