AI-search visibility retainer — copy AEO Engine
A monthly service that gets a company named when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's AI "who's the best X". It uses public data only, and AI does the work.
AEO Engine — 60 clients; $62k (Nov 2025) → $186k (Oct 2026) a month; prices $1,597 / $2,997 / $5–10k
- Rank Prompt (tracker tool)$43.5k MRR
- Peec AI (tracker tool)$10M ARR, 16 mo
- Launch Club (agency)$36k last 30 d ↓
- Luce (agency)$128k in 2026, now $0
The free audit is the main button on their site, with a results guarantee and an agency partner programme. Which channel brings the 60 clients is not disclosed — so we run the same hook through cold email, whose rates are published.
UK Shopify stores alone (Store Leads); plus UK/IE B2B SaaS, clinics, agencies — cold email to companies is legal in the UK and Ireland
Your 6 past clients + 1 intro each; 10 Bali/Phuket villa managers through your network; then 350 → 1,050 UK cold emails a month, each carrying that company's own snapshot.
- Product: tracking in 4 AI engines + content, schema and citation fixes + monthly report
- Price: 3 tiers anchored at $1,597 / $2,997 / $5k
- Hook: the free audit, turned into a one-page snapshot
- Script: "see where ChatGPT recommends your competitors and not you"
- Promise: a results guarantee
- Proof shown: before/after answers, not traffic charts
Sell by small cold-email sequences with the prospect's own snapshot inside (no strategy call needed), to UK/IE and our warm network; invoice by SWIFT or Payoneer.
Risk: Copies swing (Launch Club −60% in two months; Luce $0 last 30 days). 13+ agencies already appear on 'best AEO agency' lists. AI answers are slow to move, so the guarantee must be on a number we track ourselves.
Full evidence
Why it wins the test - Every gate is green except the original's channel, which is not disclosed. - Public data only: we read what AI engines say, and the client hands over nothing sensitive. - Monthly by nature: AI answers change every week, so the tracking never ends. - Fewest clients for $10k of any candidate (7). The DM setter needs 21 and the sold-price API ~245.
Tool layer. The same problem sells as a tool, which shows buyers pay for the measurement alone. - Rank Prompt: $8.3k (Nov 2025) → $45.5k (Sep 2026) a month, founder with 42 X followers. - Peec AI: $0 → $10M ARR in 16 months (press release).
We can rent such a tracker at first (€89–199 a month) instead of building one.
Copies that failed. These were late, tool-only entrants: GetMentioned at $1.1k and Analythos at $0. Reddit-seeding agencies such as Launch Club depend on Reddit's rules. We copy the agency and fold Reddit in as one tactic, not the business.
What AI does vs you - AI: the snapshot, emails, tracking, content drafts, schema, outreach for citations, the monthly report. - You: sign contracts and approve the first deliverables for each client. A call is optional, for the bigger tier.
Sources: AEO Engine TrustMRR · AEO Engine site · Rank Prompt · Launch Club · Luce · Moosend: 13 AEO agencies