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SEO and AEO Retainers

A retainer is ongoing work against a baseline. Each tier publishes what is delivered every month, the prompts tracked, the pages produced, the profiles managed and the calls, because a monthly fee on its own says nothing about what you get. The AI visibility measurement that the audit establishes is re-run every month, so you can see whether the work is working.

The services

Fixed scope, published price.

Signal retainer

$1,200/mo+ GST

Monthly AI visibility runs, technical health monitoring and search reporting for sites that have implemented the audit roadmap. $1,200 a month + GST.

  • Monthly AI visibility run of 15 prompts on four engines, three runs each, logged as structured data
  • Citation rate and share of voice reported monthly against the audit baseline
  • Technical health monitoring with regression alerts on crawl, indexation and Core Web Vitals
  • Search Console and GA4 report including AI referral traffic
  • Schema and llms.txt maintenance as engines and templates change

See the Signal retainer

Growth retainer

$2,850/mo+ GST

Monthly SEO and AEO execution: 25 prompts tracked, technical implementation, four pages a month and a quarterly re-audit. $2,850 a month + GST.

  • Monthly AI visibility run of 25 prompts on four engines, three runs each, with two competitors benchmarked
  • Ongoing technical implementation of roadmap and monitoring findings
  • Four pages optimised or created each month from the content gap analysis
  • Entity and citation-source building across directories, associations and review platforms surfaced by the prompt logs
  • Google Business Profile optimisation and posting

See the Growth retainer

Scale retainer

$4,950/mo+ GST

SEO and AEO retainer for multi-location and ecommerce sites: 40 prompts, five engines, eight pages a month, fortnightly calls. $4,950 a month + GST.

  • Monthly AI visibility run of 40 prompts on all five engines, three runs each, with five competitors benchmarked
  • Hallucination and sentiment tracking reported per engine
  • Eight pages optimised or created each month
  • Programmatic or templated page architecture for locations, services or products where the site supports it
  • Multi-location Google Business Profile management, optimisation and posting

See the Scale retainer

Terms

What holds across the line

  1. 01An SEO and AI Readiness Audit comes first. Its fee is not credited; a retainer priced before anyone has seen the site is a package sale, not a strategy.
  2. 02Three-month initial term, then month to month with no cancellation fee.
  3. 03Deliverable counts are published on every tier and named in the agreement.
  4. 04You own Search Console, GA4, Google Business Profile, the content and the schema. Access is never withheld.

Choosing

How to choose

Signal is for a business that has implemented the audit roadmap itself and wants to know whether it worked: measurement, monitoring and reporting, with content production and link building explicitly excluded. Growth is the core tier, where we do the technical implementation and the pages as well as the measurement. Scale is for multi-location, ecommerce and multi-service sites that need more prompts, more competitors, more pages and fortnightly contact.

Add-on blocks attach to any tier: a content block of four additional pages, an additional location or entity, a digital PR campaign, or migration support as a project.

Next step

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