Agency and tool alternatives
Tools that measure. Agencies that execute.One service that does both, with a guarantee.
The market has three layers that do not talk to each other: monitoring platforms that show the gap, agencies that bill humans to close it, and apps that tick one box. LynkAI measures the gap and runs the agents that close it, under one published price, proven on our first customer’s store.
AI visibility scan
yourstore.com · ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude
Buyer asks
“best silk sarees online in the US”
Cited: Two marketplaces and one competitor
Buyer asks
“indian clothing store near Milpitas”
Cited: Your store, Google Maps
Buyer asks
“does this brand ship free over $100”
Cited: Your policy page, out of date
Crawler access
robots.txt blocks GPTBot
Illustrative layout. Your scan names the real engines, prompts and competitors.
The market, in four layers
Who does what.And what each one leaves to you.
Monitoring platforms · Measure the gap. Do not close it.
Otterly
Prompt tracking from $29/mo (15 prompts) to $489/mo (400 prompts)
Leaves to you: No fixes, no content, no catalog or offer work
Peec AI
From $95/mo (50 prompts) to $495/mo; enterprise custom
Leaves to you: Same
Profound
Starter $99/mo, Growth $399/mo, annual; enterprise with SOC 2 and SSO
Leaves to you: Measurement plus “AI marketer” credits; hands the work back to your team
Semrush AI Toolkit, Ahrefs Brand Radar, HubSpot AEO
Add-ons from $50 to $199/mo on an existing subscription
Leaves to you: Bolt-ons, two or three engines
Conductor, BrightEdge
Enterprise suites, unpublished, estimated $30k–$60k+/yr
Leaves to you: Legacy SEO platforms adding AI tabs
Agencies · Humans close the gap. Rarely measured, rarely published.
Productized AEO packages
$500–$2,500/mo: templates, schema, FAQ blocks, light monitoring
Leaves to you: One lever each; no accountability for a number
Mid-market retainers
$2,000–$8,000/mo: content sprints, entity work, citation building
Leaves to you: Priced after a call, 6- to 12-month terms, reporting that stops at rankings
Enterprise programs
$10,000–$30,000+/mo: multi-engine, PR, original research, exec reporting
Leaves to you: Decks say “we are experts”; almost none show their own AI referral numbers
Apps and plugins · One lever each, for a few dollars.
Shopify AEO apps (ChatGPT AEO, RushGPT, StoreRank, Optimy, LLM Rank)
Free to about $10/mo: llms.txt, a schema block, referral analytics or prompt tracking
Leaves to you: Useful hygiene. No content, no citations, no result anyone stands behind
Autonomous store and company platforms · Promise everything, measure nothing.
Amboras
“The store builder that runs itself.” Free start, paid tiers unpublished
Leaves to you: No cross-engine measurement, no off-site citations, no accountability for a number
Polsia
“AI that runs your company while you sleep.” $20–$200/mo plus 3% of payments and 20% of ad spend
Leaves to you: Takes a cut of spend instead of guaranteeing an outcome
Descriptions and prices are from each vendor’s public pages as of October 2026 and change often; check before quoting. Otterly, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush, Ahrefs, HubSpot, Conductor, BrightEdge, Amboras, Polsia and Shopify are trademarks of their owners. LynkAI is not affiliated with them.
The open seat
Measure plus execute.With a date and a price.
Measure and execute
The same engagement measures where you stand on a fixed prompt panel and runs the agents that change it. Clients who already pay for Peec or Profound keep it; we read the data and act on it.
A published price
$1,500 audit, Managed $3,000 a month, Scale from $6,000. On the page, before a call. The agents do the volume work, which is what makes measured execution affordable below $10,000 a month.
A guarantee with a date
25 buyer prompts, 90 days, cited or month four is free. No monitoring tool, agency or autonomous platform puts its own money behind a number.
Our own numbers, public
Every competitor can copy a feature. None can copy a public, dated track record they did not build. Ours is on the results page, bad months included.
Side by side
What the money buys.
What the market charges
- Monitoring tool (Otterly, Peec, Profound, Semrush)
- $29–$500/mo
- Productized AEO package
- $500–$2,500/mo
- Mid-market agency retainer
- $2,000–$8,000/mo
- Enterprise agency program
- $10,000–$30,000+/mo
Shows the gap. Does not fix it.
Templates, schema, FAQ blocks.
Humans do the work, rarely measured.
Multi-engine, PR, exec reporting.
Tool prices as published Oct 2026. Agency ranges are indicative; most do not publish prices.
LynkAI AI Visibility
- Scan: where you stand, by email
- Free
- Audit, credited to month one
- $1,500
- Managed: measure and do the work
- $3,000/mo
- Scale: plus a named strategist
- from $6,000/mo
Measurement and execution under one published price, with a guarantee. Agents do the volume work, which is what makes it affordable below $10,000 a month.
If you have a team ready to act on the data, a $100 to $500 a month tracker is the right buy. If you want someone accountable for the number moving, start with the free scan.
How it works
Scan, audit, ninety days, report.Agents do the work. A human signs off.
Scan
Enter your website and email and confirm from your inbox. We ask ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Claude the questions a buyer in your category asks, and send you who they name, which pages they cite, and whether AI crawlers can read your site. Free, within one business day.
Audit
A paid audit scores every offer on your site, maps where competitors are cited instead of you, and fixes the 25-prompt panel the guarantee is measured on. 15-page report and a 45-minute readout. $1,500, credited to your first month.
Ninety days of agent work
Agents fix offers, build the entity and schema layer, publish answer-first content, earn third-party citations and keep you listed where each engine looks. A named human reviews every publish and every write to your site.
Monthly report
Eight numbers, each against the audit baseline: citation share on the panel, citation accuracy, offer score, organic clicks, AI-referred sessions and orders, mentions earned, content shipped. Day 90 decides renew, change plan or stop.
The guarantee
Cited in 90 days.Or month four is free.
No monitoring tool, agency or autonomous-store platform puts its own money behind a number. We do, and the terms fit on one card.
- 1A panel of 25 buyer prompts is agreed in the audit and fixed at signing. Neither side can move the target.
- 2By day 90, your brand must be cited for all 25 prompts in at least one of ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity.
- 3If it is not, month four is free. Work continues; you do not pay for it.
- 4Applies to Managed and Scale. Enterprise terms are negotiated per contract.
- 5The promise is about being cited, which we can measure. It is not a promise of rankings, traffic or revenue, which depend on your offer.
Proof, not promises
Our first customer.The numbers are public.
JCS Fashions is a 4,878-product Shopify apparel store in Milpitas, California, and the first business this service ran on. Figures from its Search Console and GA4 accounts, pulled Oct 31, 2026, updated monthly, bad months included.
AI-assistant sessions a month
20→569
Jan → Oct 2026
Google search clicks a month
205→626
Jan → Sep 2026
Clicks to guide pages a month
0→231
Feb → Aug 2026
Plans
Start with a free scan.Pay for the audit, then the work.
AI Visibility Audit
$1,500 once
Step one for every plan. Credited to your first month.
Managed
$3,000/mo
The full program, run by agents with a monthly human review.
Scale
from $6,000/mo
Everything in Managed, plus a named strategist one day a week.
Frequently asked questions
- Is LynkAI an alternative to Profound, Peec or Otterly?
- Partly. Those are monitoring platforms: they show which prompts cite you and which do not, from $29 to about $500 a month. They do not fix anything. LynkAI measures the same gap and then runs the agents that close it, under one price with a guarantee. If you already pay for one, keep it; we read its data rather than sell you a second dashboard.
- How is this different from an SEO or AEO agency?
- Agencies bill people to do the work and rarely publish their own numbers. Our agents do the volume work, a human reviews, and the method ran on our first customer’s store with results published monthly. Retainers land at $3,000 and from $6,000 where agencies typically charge $2,000 to $8,000 for less measured work.
- What about the $10 Shopify AEO apps?
- They pull one lever each: llms.txt, a schema block, or referral analytics. Useful hygiene, and we never charge for what a platform or app does for free. They do not write content, earn citations or put money behind a result.
- What about autonomous store platforms like Amboras or Polsia?
- They promise to run the store or the company for you, often for a cut of payments or ad spend, with no metric and no date. We do the opposite: one measurable promise, a published price, and the storefront itself stays with your platform. They are future connectors for our scan, not competitors for the answer layer.
- When is a monitoring tool the better choice?
- If you have a team ready to act on the data, a $100 to $500 a month tracker is the right buy. If you want someone accountable for the number moving, start with the free scan and see what it finds.
Get your free AI visibility scan
Website and email, then confirm from your inbox. The scan arrives within one business day: where you appear, where competitors appear instead, and whether AI crawlers can read your site.
LynkAI AI Visibility is a managed service of JediTeck LLC. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google, Shopify and other names are trademarks of their owners; LynkAI is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. AI answers are probabilistic and change daily; the guarantee covers citations on an agreed prompt panel, not rankings, traffic or revenue.