AI SEO agency · done-for-you AI visibility

Be the answer AI gives.

Salient is a done-for-you AI SEO agency. We get your brand cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI answers — and turn AI visibility into a number you can manage.

Built for founder-led teams with no in-house marketer to run a tool. Profound gives your marketer a co-pilot. Salient is the pilot — you don't need a marketer.

Not another dashboard: our specialized agents do the work, and a human approves everything that ships.

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Visibility tracked across

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Google AI Mode
  • Gemini
  • Claude
  • Microsoft Copilot

Done for you, not handed to you

Dashboards hand you a chart and leave the work. Salient runs the full 6-phase method end to end — a human approves everything that ships.

Citations, not positions

The 2026 metric is whether the engine names you — measured per prompt, per surface, against your competitors. Ground-truth checks via official vendor APIs.

Agency-grade outcomes at a structurally better cost base

Specialized agents do the work and handle the credentialed last mile — deploying into your own CMS and channels — with a human approving everything that ships. That structurally lower cost base is how agency-grade work fits a retainer, not agency hourly bills.

We’re in our founding-partner phase — building named case studies with a first cohort. The method below is what we run for them, and on ourselves first.

What’s true in AI search in 2026?

Getting cited is not luck. It follows from a few well-evidenced patterns — the same ones we build every engagement around. The research, with sources:

The cost of staying invisible

When a buyer asks AI to recommend a product like yours, it names a handful of brands — and right now that shortlist is being set without you. The gap compounds: models cite who they already cite, so every month a competitor is the default answer, they get easier to name and you get harder.

Being the cited default isn’t vanity — it’s the top of your funnel moving inside the answer, before anyone reaches a results page. The brands that lock it in first are the ones the model keeps returning to.

A managed program, not a tool you babysit

One clear path in — start free, prove it with a Blueprint, then run the program. You approve everything that ships.

  1. STEP 1 · FREE

    AI Visibility Snapshot

    See who AI names in your category — and whether you’re one of them.

  2. STEP 2 · INDICATIVE

    Visibility Blueprint

    Your ground-truth baseline, competitor map and roadmap — credited to your retainer.

  3. STEP 3 · RETAINER

    Visibility Program

    Agents run the six-phase method monthly; you approve, your citation share climbs.

Start free — the AI Visibility Snapshot

See which brands AI names in your category — and whether you’re one of them. We run the check by hand and email it back — free, no sales call.

Then the Visibility Blueprint —indicative pricing

A paid, scope-capped Phase 0: your ground-truth baseline, competitor map and the roadmap our agents execute. Credited in full to your retainer when you continue — so the real cost of starting is zero if you go on.

The Visibility Program

Grow

Indicative

1 brand · 1 market · ~60 prompts tracked · 7 AI surfaces

The full six-phase program for one brand in one market. You approve everything that ships.

Scale

Indicative

Multi-market & multilingual · ~100 prompts · 7 surfaces · monthly re-baseline

Multiple markets and languages, heavier outreach and digital PR, monthly re-baseline.

Enterprise

Indicative

Multiple brands or product lines · dedicated approver SLAs · security review

Multiple brands with dedicated approver SLAs, a security review and custom prompt volume.

Inside the program: the six-phase method

Every tier runs the same method end to end — you approve everything that ships.

  1. PHASE 0 Discovery — We map where you stand today — which prompts already cite you, which cite competitors, and where the gaps are.
  2. PHASE 1 Technical hygiene — Crawlability for AI agents, rendering, schema, IndexNow. If the engines can’t read you, nothing else matters.
  3. PHASE 2 Content — Answer-first, E-E-A-T-backed pillar and supporting pages built to be extracted and cited, not just ranked.
  4. PHASE 3 Outreach — Earning the third-party mentions and discussions that LLMs lean on when they form an opinion.
  5. PHASE 4 Schema & structure — Structured data that makes your facts machine-legible and quotable across every surface.
  6. PHASE 5 Monitor — Continuous tracking of citations and share-of-voice, with refresh cycles that compound the gains.

Founding-partner cohort — 5 seats

We’re taking a small first cohort of design partners. Founding partners get a reduced founding rate held for the life of the engagement, with a written step-up you agree up front — no surprise renewal. In exchange we ask for a named case study, your logo and two reference calls once the results are in. Five seats.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this AI SEO, or something different?
It’s AI SEO — the same discipline pointed at the surfaces that now answer instead of link. Classic SEO won you a blue link on a results page; in 2026 the metric that moves revenue is whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google’s AI answers name you as the source. The work rhymes — technical health, authoritative content, earned mentions — but the target moved, and most SEO still optimizes for a page fewer people click. Salient does the AI-SEO work and measures the one number that counts: are you the cited answer.
What is GEO / AEO?
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) are the names for AI SEO — making your brand the cited, trusted source inside AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews) rather than just a blue link. Same goal as SEO, aimed at where the answers now happen.
Who does the work — humans or agents?
Both, deliberately. Specialized agents do the heavy, repeatable work — mapping the prompts that matter, drafting answer-first content, tracking citations across every surface. A human reviews and approves everything before it goes live; nothing ships to your site or the web on autopilot. You get an agency’s judgment with software’s throughput.
Do the agents write the content — will it be slop?
No auto-published slop. Every piece is answer-first, backed by sourced facts and a named author, and passes a three-gate content check before a human approves it. If it wouldn’t earn a citation, it doesn’t ship — and you approve the queue.
Whose content is it — what do I keep if we stop?
Yours. Everything we produce — pages, schema, the Blueprint, your tracking baseline — is your property and stays on your site if the engagement ends. No lock-in, no clawback of published work.
What if nothing moves in three months?
Every engagement starts from a measured discovery baseline, so movement is visible from week one, not a vibe. We review citation status and share-of-voice against that baseline on a set cadence; if a surface isn’t moving, we say so and change the plan. Ask about outcome-linked terms if you want part of the fee tied to citation-share thresholds.
What does “a human approves everything” mean — one person or a team?
A named approver signs off on everything that ships to production — content, schema, outreach. The approval gateway is built into the workflow, not a courtesy: an agent cannot publish to your site or post on the web without that sign-off.
What happens to my data?
Per-engagement isolation: your prompts, pages and results are walled off from every other client at the database level, not just in app logic. We use official vendor APIs, disclose every sub-processor, and never train shared models on your data.
Which AI surfaces do you track?
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft Copilot — via official vendor APIs for ground-truth citation checks, plus aggregators for historical share-of-voice trends.
How do you measure results?
Two numbers: citation status (does the engine cite you for the prompts that matter) and share-of-voice (how often, versus competitors). Every engagement starts from a discovery baseline so progress is measurable.
Can you guarantee AI will cite me?
No honest provider can guarantee a model’s output. What we can do is measure your citation status from a baseline, move the factors the research shows matter — sourced, answer-first content and earned authority — and show you the change per prompt per engine. You get a visible number that moves, not a promise.
How do I know it’s working — and not classic SEO relabeled?
Hold us to the same test you should hold anyone to: ask for citation status by prompt and by engine, and share-of-voice versus your competitors, measured from a baseline. If a provider can’t produce those numbers, they’re selling classic SEO with an AI label. Every Salient engagement reports exactly those numbers.
Is Salient a tool or a service?
A service. Most AI-visibility products are self-serve dashboards: they measure your citations and hand you a chart, leaving the work to you. Salient is done-for-you — specialized agents run the full six-phase method (technical hygiene, content, outreach, schema, monitoring) and a human approves everything before it ships. A tracking console is included, not the product. See our side-by-side comparisons for the specific tools.
How does pricing work?
Salient is a managed program priced like an agency, not a $29 dashboard. Start free with an AI Visibility Snapshot; most engagements then begin with a one-time Visibility Blueprint — your ground-truth baseline, competitor map and roadmap — credited in full to your retainer when you continue. The Visibility Program then runs as a monthly retainer scoped to your brand, markets and languages; we share current figures on your scoping call.
Do you work in languages other than English?
Yes — Salient is multilingual and works across international markets. We optimize for the AI engines and search ecosystems that matter in your market, not only English-language ones — including non-Google surfaces like Bing and Microsoft Copilot where they have real share.

See where you stand in AI search

Run the free Snapshot to see who AI names in your category — then we map the gap and the plan to close it.

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