You don't need to build an AEO team.
You need to add an AEO product.

Your clients are going to ask within twelve months. Some already are. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the work of getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews when their customers ask the questions your clients want to answer.

Building this in-house means hiring people who do not exist yet on the open market, buying a tool stack nobody has built, and writing a methodology nobody has tested. Reselling NeverRanked means adding a line item to next month's proposal.

Yes, if you run a small-to-mid digital, SEO, or content agency with an existing book of retainer clients. You want to add AEO as a product line under your brand without hiring a specialist.

No, if you are a solo freelancer without operational capacity to manage another retainer. You don't currently sell SEO or content (no client overlap to speak of). You need to maintain your own proprietary AEO methodology branding (we sell ours, not yours).

01. You introduce. You send us a client. We do not contact them without you.

02. We onboard in 48 hours. Schema, dashboard, citation tracking, scan setup, baseline. Your client sees your brand.

03. We execute the work. Schema fixes auto-pushed to their site, weekly citation tracking, quarterly drift refresh, authority audits, content drafts (Amplify). Every recommendation visible in the dashboard so nothing is hidden from your client and nothing is hidden from you.

04. You forward the Monday digest. Plain English, forward-ready under your brand. What changed last week, what mattered most, what we recommend next. You stay the account lead. You bill the client. We bill you.

Your name is on the dashboard. Your brand is on the digest. We never reach out to your client. If your client cancels, they cancel with you, not us, because we were never in the room. If you cancel the partnership, you keep the client. The relationship was always yours.

You bill the client at retail under your brand. Your share is what you keep monthly per active client. One client unlocks the reseller rate. Billed monthly to you on the active-client count. No annual lock.

• Audit -- $500 reseller-introduced price ($750 direct), one-time. No referral fee on the audit itself. The audit belongs to the client. The full $500 credits toward their first month if they continue on Pulse, Signal, or Amplify within 30 days. Your value here is the lower entry price you can offer the client and the credit that flows into their first recurring month.
• Signal -- $2,000/mo retail. $1,200/mo to you (60/40 split).
• Amplify -- $4,500/mo retail. $2,700/mo to you (60/40 split, capped at 6 active clients globally).

When your customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini "best [your category] for [their use case]," the AI picks one or two brands. We track which brands get cited for the queries that matter to you, audit your schema and authority signals against the engines that decide, and ship the fixes through a partner who specializes in nothing else. Same software they run on their own domain. You can verify any line of it.

• AEO is a separate category from SEO. Citations from ChatGPT and Perplexity work differently than blue-link rankings. Your existing SEO work isn't replaced. It's extended.
• The platform is built and used in the open. Public codebase, public roadmap, public schema scorer at check.neverranked.com. Most agencies in the AEO space hide behind opacity. We don't have to.
• It refreshes every 90 days. AI models retrain on a cycle. Citation patterns shift. A static one-time audit goes stale in weeks. Drift detection is built in.

"We already have an SEO agency. Why this?"
AEO is a separate practice. Ask your SEO agency to tell you which queries cite your brand on ChatGPT today. Most can't because they don't have the tooling. We do.

"Why three months minimum?"
AI models retrain on a cycle. Schema deployed in month one is absorbed in the next training window and surfaces as citations in month three. The minimum protects you from quitting before the work compounds.

"What does NeverRanked actually have access to on our site?"
Read-only schema injection via a 20-line public JavaScript snippet. No cookies, no DOM read, no outbound calls. For Amplify, scoped CMS access to create draft posts only. Nothing auto-publishes without your click. Full breakdown at neverranked.com/security.

"Can you guarantee citations?"
No. Anyone who guarantees AI citations is selling theater. We guarantee the work. Citations follow when the work is right.

"What happens if NeverRanked makes a mistake?"
Every change is auditable in your client's dashboard before and after it ships. If a fix needs to be rolled back, that is one click. There is no version of "we shipped something while you weren't looking."

You do the client relationship, the proposal, the onboarding call, the upsell, the renewal conversation, billing the client, the Monday digest forward, brand-aligned communication.

We do all the technical execution. Schema design, schema injection, citation tracking infrastructure, drift detection, authority audits, content drafting (Amplify), dashboard maintenance, weekly digest generation, the Monday brief itself.

Monthly billing on active clients only. No annual lock. No contract penalties. If you decide reselling NeverRanked isn't a fit, you stop sending us new clients. Existing engagements run out their three-month minimum. Your clients stay your clients.

check.neverranked.com — public schema scorer
neverranked.com/security — what we touch and what we don't
github.com/lanceroylo/neverranked — entire codebase, public
github.com/lanceroylo/neverranked/blob/main/ROADMAP.md — what shipped, dated
neverranked.com/case-studies/montaic — case study

Two paths.

Apply at app.neverranked.com/agency/apply if you've already done the math. Setup takes about 24 hours.

Or book a 30-minute call first at lance@neverranked.com. Bring your client list. We will tell you which ones are likely to win on this in the first 90 days.