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Why $49.99

Why do agencies charge $800 a month for AI visibility?

The short answer

Because it is priced as a retained service delivered by people — audits, strategy calls, monthly reports someone assembles by hand. The underlying work is a one-time build plus an automated measurement loop. Neither requires a standing team, which is why the same outcome does not require a four-figure retainer.

Typical agency retainer$800 a month
What it mostly buysAccount management
Setup fee hereNone
$800 A MONTHAN ACCOUNT MANAGERA MONTHLY CALLA SLIDE DECKAND THE WORKAUTOMATEDANALYSE THE REVIEWSBUILD THE RECORDSUBMIT AND PROBEREPORT WEEKLY
What each price actually buys
01 · Why

Why it matters

Most of the invoice is labour, and most of that labour is reassurance.

What the retainer is actually paying for

Mostly labour, and mostly labour spent on reassurance rather than on the thing itself. A discovery audit. A monthly strategy call. A slide deck assembled by an account manager. A report that is largely a screenshot of a dashboard with commentary.

None of that is fraud, and some agencies do genuinely good work. But it is worth being clear about what portion of an $800 monthly invoice is the mechanism and what portion is the ceremony around it.

WHAT YOU PAY FORDISCOVERY AUDITMONTHLY STRATEGY CALLA SLIDE DECKAN ACCOUNT MANAGERWHAT HAS TO HAPPENANALYSE THE REVIEWSGENERATE THE RECORDSUBMIT FOR INDEXINGPROBE AND REPORT
The retainer, beside the work

Starting at the wrong end

The deeper issue is sequencing. A lot of AI visibility work starts with content — blog posts, landing pages, articles written to be cited.

That is starting at the wrong end. The most trusted material about your business already exists and you did not have to write it: what your customers said. Structuring what is already there is both cheaper and more credible than generating more of what everybody else is generating.

Structuring what is already there is cheaper and more credible than generating more of what everybody else is generating.

02 · What

What it actually is

What the work actually consists of.

What the work actually consists of

  • Pull and analyse the existing review corpus — done once, refreshed automatically

  • Generate the structured record and the site — automated

  • Register a domain and deploy — automated

  • Submit to the indexes — automated, on a schedule

  • Probe the models weekly and report — automated

  • Answer questions when the customer has them — human, and rare

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The work, and which parts are automated

Which is why the price is what it is

One new customer covers years of it. That is the arithmetic on every industry page, using each trade's own published job value — and we deliberately show the two numbers side by side without dividing them, because a business owner can do that division themselves and resents being walked through it.

03 · How

How it works

Three questions to ask any provider, including us.

How to judge any provider, including us

Three questions worth asking whoever you talk to.

Can you show me the exact prompt and the exact answer? If measurement cannot be audited, it is a claim.

Do I own the domain and the data? If the asset disappears when you stop paying, you were renting a hostage.

What did the numbers do last month, including where they fell? Anyone whose reporting only goes up is not reporting.

ONE RECORDSHOW ME THE PROMPTAND THE ANSWER THAT CAME BACK01DO I OWN IT?DOMAIN AND DATA02WHERE DID IT FALL?REPORTING THAT ONLY RISES ISN'T03
Three questions worth asking anyone
04 · Questions

Common follow-ups

Is $49.99 too cheap to be real?

It is the correct price for work that is genuinely automated. What it does not buy is a standing account team — if you want monthly strategy calls, an agency is a reasonable purchase and we are not one.

What is not included?

Ongoing content production, paid advertising management, and human strategy consulting. The build, the record, the submissions, the weekly probe and the reporting are.

Do you charge setup or a contract?

No setup fee, no contract, and a 14-day money-back on the first month.

Start where AI starts

Try it for 14 days. If it isn't what we said, we refund your first month in full and take the site down.