A force multiplier for your senior strategists.
Not a competitor for their hours. NeverRanked measures AI citation behavior across categories. Your team executes on the punch list. Your client keeps the relationship with you, and you resell at a 60/40 split in your favor.
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Free, and white-labelable to your agency when you engage. Named customer Hawaii Theatre Center went 45 to 95 in ten days. Nine categories measured, every number public.
The honest channel position
You sell the strategic relationship to your client. Your team writes the content, deploys the schema, edits the pages, updates the directory profiles. None of that is changing.
What we add is the measurement and diagnostic layer that no agency can credibly build in-house at engagement-realistic margins. Cross-engine citation tracking, source-type analysis, competitive cohort, recurring host pattern detection across categories. Output: a research memo plus a prepped punch list, written for your senior strategists to translate into client-facing recommendations.
The deliverable is built for your team's eyes. Technical specifics, priority order, effort estimates. Not a polished client-facing PDF. You repackage it in your voice, in your formatting, with your insights layered on top. Your client sees you as the expert. We are upstream.
What this is not
- Not a white-label dashboard. We do not produce a customer-facing UI for your client to log into under your brand. The deliverable is a research memo, not a product surface.
- Not a competitor for your execution hours. We never write the content, deploy the schema, or touch the client's site. That work, and the retainer it sits in, stays yours. We sit upstream of it.
- Not a direct-to-client sales effort behind your back. If your client contacts us, we route them to you. We do not have the team or the desire to take execution work that belongs to you.
- Not a referral-fee arrangement. The economics work because of what you avoid building, not because of a fee structure.
Why the math works for an agency
The channel runs on a 60/40 split in your favor. You resell the engagement to your client and keep 60 percent of the recurring, plus any markup you add on top. On a $1,500 per month category that is roughly $900 a month of margin per client before markup, with NeverRanked's 40 percent covering the measurement. Run it across five client categories and that recurring margin compounds, on top of the senior-strategist hours you stop spending.
The senior-time savings are the actual mechanism. A senior strategist who would spend 4-8 hours a month interpreting AI search data, building a cross-engine view, and producing a recommendations document for one client now consumes a 10-page memo on Monday and spends the saved hours on the actual execution work that bills at agency rates. Across five clients, that is roughly 20-40 senior hours a month recovered.
| What the agency does today | What changes with NeverRanked |
|---|---|
| Senior strategist interprets AI search data, fragmented across whichever tools the client has access to | Senior reads a research memo on Monday, makes the strategic call, hands the punch list to the implementer |
| Implementer waits for the strategist's prioritized direction | Implementer starts work on the punch list the same day, prioritized by impact |
| Cross-engine view requires logging into multiple separate dashboards, plus manual engine checks | Cross-engine view is in the memo, every month, no logins |
| Competitive analysis is a quarterly project | Competitive cohort is the default frame of every memo |
| Reporting to client is a quarterly deck the strategist writes | Reporting is the agency's repackaging of the monthly memo in the agency's voice |
The handoff shape
- Scoping call (30 minutes, your team plus ours). Pick the client category to run. Lock the competitor cohort. Confirm the query set.
- Three-week kickoff. We measure daily across the seven AI surfaces: five citation-grade engines and two model-knowledge engines. You go about your normal client work.
- Research memo and punch list delivered to your team. PDF or markdown, whichever you prefer. Includes the executive summary you can drop into a client-facing recap with light editing.
- Your team executes. Content gets written. Pages get edited. Profiles get claimed. We are not in the room for this part.
- Monthly delta memo after the kickoff. What moved, what did not, updates to the punch list. Same format, your team consumes it the same way.
See the measurement layer before you scope
The public teardowns are the anonymized version of exactly what your team would receive, without the client-specific naming. Nine categories measured the same way, including one where we committed the prediction to a public timestamp before running a single query, and it held. That is the rigor your senior strategists would be repackaging in their own voice.
- The pre-registered HVAC teardown. We predicted Claude would cite local AC companies under 5%, on the record, before the data existed. It came in at 2%.
- The cross-category teardown. Nine measurements read against each other: the two-axis pattern and the cross-geo split.
- All teardowns. Per-category, anonymized, generated from the same tooling that produces the engagement memo.
What we will sign in writing
- We do not contact your clients directly. All communication flows through your team.
- We do not solicit your clients for execution work. If they ask us for it, we route them back to you.
- Your aggregate data is not shared with other agencies or other clients. Cross-category patterns we observe stay anonymized and never reverse-engineerable.
- Standard NDA. Mutual. Reasonable.
What we will not sign
- Exclusivity in a market. The new product is too early for geographic or vertical exclusivity to make sense. Ask again in a year.
- Performance guarantees. We measure. We do not predict citation lift. See /methodology/ for what we do and do not claim.
- Uncapped indemnification. Standard cap at the engagement value, not negotiable for a small company.
What you would tell your client
We engaged a measurement partner to track how AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, the others) cite your category against your competitors. They produce the research. We read it monthly and translate it into the work you see us doing. The cross-engine, cross-competitor view is something no platform-internal dashboard can produce, and building it in-house would cost an agency the wrong economics. This is the right shape for what you are paying us for.
That paragraph is honest, specific, and lands with the kind of operator who appreciates the discipline. Use it or write your own. We have no preference about your voice.
Two ways to start
See it first. Run the free AI check on one of your clients. No commitment, white-labelable to your agency when you engage, and the fastest way to show a client what the engines say about them today.
Ready to scope a partnership? Email Lance@hi.neverranked.com with the client category you want to run first and a few competitors for the cohort. Channel pricing is a 60/40 split in your favor with room to mark up to your client. The first research memo lands three weeks after the query set is locked.
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