What it costs

Pricing

In short

Visibility audits start at €2,500, and implementation projects typically run €6,500–€9,500. Market entry assessments start at €3,500, with full engagements to €9,500. Deal strategy sprints start at €3,000, with full engagements to €8,500. Ongoing measurement starts at €1,200 a month and is only sold after a build. Every figure is a floor or a range because scope varies from one company to the next. Founding-client rates are available for the first engagements.

Last updated 23 September 2026 · Written by

Compare the options

Which option fits where you are now?

Getting found when buyers ask AI is sold as an audit, an implementation project and an optional measurement programme, with a free check in front of all three. They are set out in the order the work happens, and you can stop after any of them. The engines covered are ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google's AI Overviews.

Free AI visibility check

The symptom
The question it answersDo the engines name you today?
Who is named instead of youIncluded:Named and cited
Readable without JavaScriptIncluded:Rendering test
Entity checkNot included
Content restructured into passagesNot included
Answer-shaped pagesNot included
What you receiveA recorded walkthrough
PaymentNo charge
Minimum termNone
  €0 No call needed, and the findings are yours to keep Run the free check

Visibility audit

The diagnosis
The question it answersWhy not, and what would change it?
Who is named instead of youIncluded:Competitor teardown
Readable without JavaScriptIncluded:Full technical crawl
Entity checkIncluded:Checked
Content restructured into passagesNot included
Answer-shaped pagesNot included
What you receiveA written report, a recorded walkthrough and a baseline you keep
PaymentIn full, upfront
Minimum termNone
from €2,500 A diagnosis, and it stops at diagnosis Start with an audit

Implementation project

The fixThe core engagement
The question it answersFix it, then measure the change
Who is named instead of youTaken from the audit
Readable without JavaScriptIncluded:Crawlability and rendering
Entity checkIncluded:Entity layer built
Content restructured into passagesIncluded:Restructured
Answer-shaped pagesIncluded:Where in scope
What you receiveThe changes made, a measurement baseline and a handover
Payment50% on signature, 50% on handover
Minimum termNone
typically €6,500–€9,500 Fixed price, set by the drivers listed below Scope a project

Ongoing measurement

Optional, after a project
The question it answersIs the change holding?
Who is named instead of youIncluded:Tracked per engine
Readable without JavaScriptNot included
Entity checkIncluded:Kept accurate
Content restructured into passagesNot included
Answer-shaped pagesNot included
What you receiveAnswer share and citation rate, reported per engine
PaymentMonthly
Minimum termFour months, then 30 days' notice
from €1,200/month Available after a project Ask about measurement

Not included at any price: a complete content library written from scratch, advertising of any kind, or rebuilding or migrating a website. If a site has to be rebuilt first, I will say so, and that is a different supplier's job.

Founding-client rates are available for the first engagements. They are a lower price, in exchange for four things: a named testimonial, permission to publish before-and-after measurement data, a recorded debrief, and introductions to two companies with the same problem. If you would rather pay the published rate and stay anonymous, the work is identical. The numbers depend on what you are willing to trade, so ask.

Ask about founding rates
  • Fixed prices, never hourly rates. Each figure is what I would quote today, not an opening position to be negotiated down.
  • The audit and the build are quoted and paid separately, so the diagnosis stays honest.
  • Payment terms are the same for everyone, and they are in the table rather than in a contract you first see after four weeks of sales calls.
  • Work starts when payment clears, not when a purchase order is issued.

What do market entry and deal strategy cost?

Both come in two sizes. The smaller one answers a single question with evidence. The full engagement goes further: into execution for a new market, and into buyer interviews and rebuilt qualification for deals.

Entering a new market

Go-to-market and market entry strategy

What is includedAssessmentFull engagement
Whether this market will buy, and on what termsIncluded:Included:
Segment definition and competitive realityIncluded:Included:
Route to market and a live test with real buyersIncluded:Included:
A hire, partner, persist or stop recommendationIncluded:Included:
Channel and distributor strategyNot includedIncluded:
The visibility layer in the new marketNot includedIncluded:
Pricefrom€3,500up to€9,500

The price moves with the number of markets, the number of languages, and whether buyer conversations happen in a language I can run myself. How market entry works

Not included: legal entity setup, tax or customs advice, recruitment, or anything requiring a licence I do not hold.

Turning interest into signed deals

Win/loss analysis and deal strategy

What is includedSprintFull engagement
One stalled deal or recurring stall pattern diagnosedIncluded:Included:
Who signs, who blocks, and the unasked questionIncluded:Included:
Win/loss interviews with recent buyers, won and lostNot includedIncluded:
An internal business case your champion can forwardNot includedIncluded:
Qualification rebuilt on what the interviews sayNot includedIncluded:
Every open deal reviewed for indecision riskNot includedIncluded:
Pricefrom€3,000up to€8,500

The price moves with how many interviews are in scope. Below roughly fifteen, the output is a diagnosis rather than a study, and the proposal says so. How deal strategy works

Not included: carrying your bag on live deals, contacting your customers under your name, or CRM implementation.

Founding-client rates are available for the first engagements. They are a lower price, in exchange for four things: a named testimonial, permission to publish before-and-after measurement data, a recorded debrief, and introductions to two companies with the same problem. If you would rather pay the published rate and stay anonymous, the work is identical. The numbers depend on what you are willing to trade, so ask.

Ask about founding rates

What moves the number?

Six things, in roughly the order they change a quote. Each is something I can check on your website before quoting.

  1. Whether your site renders on the server, or needs a rendering fix first. This is the largest single swing: Vercel and MERJ tracked over 500 million GPTBot requests and reported in December 2024 that they found no evidence of JavaScript being executed, with GPTBot requesting JavaScript files 11.5% of the time and ClaudeBot 23.8% and neither running them. Content that only exists after JavaScript runs has to be fixed before anything else is worth doing.
  2. How many pages are in scope. This is the most predictable part of a quote.
  3. Whether content is restructured or written from scratch. Restructuring what you already have is far cheaper, and it is usually what the audit recommends.
  4. How many markets and languages. Each language is its own prompt set, measurement run and entity footprint, so a second language is closer to a second project than to a percentage uplift.
  5. How many listings and profiles need correcting. Yext analysed 6.8 million citations across 1.6 million AI answers in October 2025 and found 42% came from listings and profiles rather than first-party sites, which is why this is rarely optional.
  6. Whether answer-shaped pages are in scope. They are the highest-yield and most writing-intensive part of a build, so they move a project towards the top of its range.

Frequently asked questions

Why are these floors and ranges rather than fixed prices?

Because the same deliverable can be two different jobs. A ten-page site that already renders its content on the server and a twelve-page site built entirely in JavaScript need different work before either can be made retrievable, because the second needs a rendering fix before any visibility work can begin. A fixed list would either overcharge the simple site or get renegotiated on the complex one. So the floor, the typical range and the things that move a quote are published, and the exact figure comes from a scoping conversation that costs nothing.

What does the audit actually cost, and what do I get for it?

Visibility audits start at €2,500. The audit is a diagnosis: a written prompt set built from the questions your buyers actually ask, run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google's AI Overviews, plus a technical crawl, an entity check and a competitor teardown, delivered as a written report with a recorded walkthrough. It stops at diagnosis, and some companies act on it themselves and need nothing further.

Can the audit fee go towards the build?

It may be credited against a build agreed within 30 days of the audit being delivered, at my discretion, and that is agreed in writing when the build is quoted rather than assumed. It is deliberately not automatic. An audit that automatically becomes a build is not a diagnosis, it is a sales step with a report attached, and it puts quiet pressure on the diagnosis to recommend the larger job.

Do you require a long contract?

No. Audits and projects are one-off engagements with nothing to renew. Ongoing measurement carries a four-month minimum and then runs month to month with 30 days' notice. Four months is not a lock-in: it is the shortest period over which a change to an entity footprint can be re-crawled, re-retrieved and measured well enough to say whether it worked.

What if I only want the measurement, not the build?

Then the audit is the right purchase, because it includes a full baseline measurement and you keep it. Ongoing measurement is only sold after a build, because measuring a site nobody has fixed produces a monthly bill and a flat line.

Is this cheaper than hiring someone?

The honest comparison is not cost, it is shape. A hire is permanent capacity with a salary, recruitment time and a ramp-up attached, and it makes sense once there is enough continuous work to fill a role. A project has an end date, a defined deliverable and no obligation afterwards, and it makes sense when you need a specific problem diagnosed and fixed rather than a function staffed. Companies with no in-house marketing specialist usually need the second before they can specify the first.

What happens if the audit says I do not need a build?

That is written in the report and no build is quoted. It happens when the engines already name a company accurately and the constraint sits somewhere else entirely, such as demand, product or pricing. Saying so costs me a project and keeps the audit worth buying, which is the trade that makes a paid diagnosis meaningful in the first place.

What if the ranges are above my budget?

Say so on the form. I will tell you honestly whether there is a smaller version worth doing, or whether your budget is better spent elsewhere. That answer is free, and it is sometimes the useful one.

Find out what the engines currently say about you

Send me your website and a few words on what you sell. I run a set of buyer questions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google's AI Overviews, and send back a recorded walkthrough of what came out: where you appeared, where you did not, who was named instead, and whether AI crawlers can read your pages at all. No charge, no obligation, and you keep the findings whether or not you decide to hire me.

I run these myself, so there is a queue. Expect a few working days rather than an instant report.