§01 / AUDIT
85% Auto
SEO & AEO Audit
Full technical, content, and citation audit. Delivered in forty-eight hours. No ninety-page PDFs nobody opens.
Citations, not rankings.
Thesis
AI-NATIVE SEO & AEO
BY APPOINTMENT
Never Ranked. Until now.
Google answers before it links. ChatGPT cites who it trusts. Perplexity quotes the source, not the ranking.
Search changed. Your visibility didn't. We build for the engines that already answer for you.
Start with a $500 audit
§01
The Problem
04 / cells
The blue link era is over.
Your current agency is still optimizing for a page of results nobody looks at. The traffic you used to own is being answered by a model instead. This is the shape of what replaced it.
§01 / Google
AI Overviews
The AI answers the question and keeps the click. Informational traffic on the queries you used to own is down 34 to 60 percent. Your rankings didn't change. Your visibility did.
Zero-click rate — 58.5%
§02 / Chat
Perplexity & ChatGPT
The new front page of the internet, and your site isn't on it. These engines don't crawl. They cite. They pick sources from a much shorter list, and that list is being written right now.
Monthly users — 800M+
§03 / Stack
Technical Debt
Schema written in 2018. Meta descriptions written for robots that no longer read them. An architecture built for the crawler era, at the exact moment the crawler era stopped mattering.
Legacy schema coverage — 12%
§04 / Agency
The Agency Trap
Your current agency is still selling rankings on a SERP nobody reads. They'll tell you AEO is coming. It's not coming. It's here. It was here last year. The playbook they sold you no longer works.
Still selling keyword reports — 97%
§02
Proof of Practice
01 / case
We built our
own AI-native
product.
Never Ranked ships its own software. Montaic is an AI-native listing generator we built for real estate professionals. It's a real product with real users, and it's also our lab. Every AEO technique we recommend to clients gets stress-tested on Montaic first.
We don't pitch what we haven't tried. When you hire us, you're hiring the team that runs the experiment on their own software before they run it on yours.
In-house / SaaS
LIVE
Montaic
AI-drafted MLS descriptions, social captions, and fact sheets for real estate agents and commercial brokers.
Visit montaic.com
§03
Services
06 / tracks
What we actually do.
Every track runs on a deliberate split of automation and human judgment. The percentage is not marketing. It's the part we let the machine handle so we spend our hours on the part it can't.
§02 / CONTENT
70% Auto
AEO Content
AI-drafted pieces built for citation. Brand voice trained on your existing work. Human-reviewed before delivery. Your voice, their speed.
§03 / SCHEMA
95% Auto
Schema Markup
Structured data that tells the model what you are, who you serve, and why you're credible. Generated, deployed, and monitored.
§04 / KEYWORDS
90% Auto
Keyword & Intent
Intent mapping across classic SERPs, AI Overviews, and generative answer engines. Three different games. Three different strategies.
§05 / CITATIONS
95% Auto
Citation Monitoring
Daily tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Yours and theirs. Share of answer, quote fidelity, sentiment.
§06 / REPORT
100% Auto
Live Reporting
Refreshes every morning. Not monthly PDFs nobody opens. Classic rankings, AI citations, and share of answer in one tab.
§04
How We Work
04 / rules
Four rules.
No exceptions.
We built this agency around the operating model we wanted for ourselves. No standing meetings. No Slack channels. No monthly PDF theatre. Your calendar stays clean, the work stays visible.
§01
Async first.
No standing calls. No weekly syncs. No "got a sec" interruptions. Everything is written, recorded, or on the dashboard. Your calendar stays yours.
§02
The dashboard is the meeting.
Refreshes every morning. Always accessible. Classic rankings, AI citations, and share of answer in one place. If you want to know something, you open the tab.
§03
Loom recaps, not calls.
The founder records a monthly or biweekly video walking through what changed, what mattered, and what we recommend. Watch it when you want. Rewatch it whenever.
§04
Email SLAs, kept honestly.
Twenty-four hours on Pulse. Twelve on Signal. Six on Amplify. We answer fast because we're not in meetings. If we miss it, we tell you why.
§05
Pricing
03 / tiers
Three ways in.
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. The price you see is the price you pay. No set-up fees, no onboarding tax, no contract that outlives the results.
Pulse
For teams getting their bearings.
$1,500/mo
- Monthly technical & AEO audit
- Schema monitoring and maintenance
- 2 AI-drafted content pieces per month
- Live dashboard, refreshed daily
- Monthly intelligence digest
- Email support, 24-hour SLA
Most teams start here
Signal
For teams ready to be cited.
$3,000/mo
- Everything in Pulse, plus:
- Content output increases to 6 pieces per month
- Competitor citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AIO
- Monthly founder Loom recap
- Response time upgrades to 12 hours
Limited · 2 of 2 taken
Amplify
For teams who intend to dominate.
$5,000/mo
- Everything in Signal, plus:
- Content output increases to 12 pieces per month
- Digest upgrades to weekly
- Biweekly founder Loom recap
- Quarterly deep-dive strategy Loom
- Response time upgrades to 6 hours
§06
The $500 Audit
Before you hire anyone,
see what's broken.
§ Status
Paced deliberately. Currently booking Q2 2026.
Five hundred dollars. Paid once. A full technical and content audit across classic SEO and AEO, plus a ninety-day roadmap you can execute in-house, hand to your current agency, or hand to us. Whichever makes sense after you read it.
- Technical Audit
- Schema Review
- Keyword Gap Analysis
- AI Citation Audit
- Competitor Teardown
- 90-Day Roadmap
Six deliverables. Forty-eight hours. Yours to keep whether you hire us after or not. We don't refund. We deliver.
Book the audit