What does the GEO monitoring and placement retainer do?

It tracks your AECI and share of voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews over time, so you see your AI visibility as a trend rather than a single snapshot. Because AI answers are volatile, it watches for where you start losing ground or fall out of the answer entirely, and then does the off-page and structural work (earning citations on the third-party pages the engines actually cite, and making your own pages extractable) to get you named where you are absent.

How much does GEO monitoring cost?

We scope every engagement by inquiry rather than posting a fixed price, because the work depends on your category, your starting visibility, and how contested your space is. As a market reference point, mid-market GEO retainers typically run in a roughly 1,500 to 5,000 US dollar per month range. Treat that as a typical range, not a quote; tell us your situation and we will give you a real number.

Why does AI visibility need ongoing monitoring instead of a one-time audit?

Because AI answers decay. In Lucreya's own measurement, a query that triggered a Google AI Overview on one probe did not trigger one on a timed re-run, so any single audit is a dated snapshot of a shifting system. Monitoring tracks the volatility, catching when you lose a citation or a rival displaces you, which a one-time audit cannot see.

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Get cited in AI answers, and stay cited

Q: How do I get cited in AI answers?

In Lucreya's June 2026 measurement, roughly four in five engine citations pointed to third-party pages rather than the recommended brand's own site, so getting cited is mostly off-domain work: earning mentions on the review pages, comparison roundups, and forum threads the engines cite, plus structuring your own pages (named author, original data, schema) so they are extractable. The retainer does that work and measures whether it moves your Engine-Consensus flag.

A one-time audit tells you where you stand today. This is the ongoing work: we track your AECI and share of voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews over time, catch where you start losing ground or fall out of the answer, and do the off-page and structural work to get you cited. AI answers are volatile, so the point of a retainer is to treat your visibility as a trend you defend, not a snapshot you forget.

What the retainer covers

Track over time

Recurring CONSENSUS Protocol runs on your category's prompts, so you see your AECI and share of voice as a dated trend across all three engines, not a one-off reading.

Catch the decay

AI answers shift week to week. We watch for when you lose a citation, a rival displaces you, or an engine stops naming you, and flag it while it is still fixable.

Do the placement work

The off-page and structural work to earn citations: the third-party pages the engines actually cite, plus making your own pages extractable with named authors, original data, and schema.

Why off-page leads the work: in our own June 2026 measurement, roughly four in five engine citations pointed to third-party pages rather than the recommended brand's own site. A brand that only optimizes its own pages is working the smallest slice of the citation surface. The leverage is on the review pages, comparison roundups, and forum threads the engines cite, which is where the placement effort concentrates. The method behind all of it is published openly as the CONSENSUS Protocol.

Pricing

$1.5k to $5k / month

Typical mid-market range, not a fixed quote

We scope every engagement by inquiry, because the work depends on your category, your starting visibility, and how contested your space is. The figure above is the range mid-market GEO retainers typically run in across the market; treat it as a reference band, not your quote. Tell us your situation and we will give you a real number for your case.

Straight about results: we do not show client logos or named results on this page, because we will not put numbers or names on the page that we cannot stand behind to you directly. AI answers are volatile and no one can guarantee a citation, so we sell the work and the measurement, dated and honest, not a promised placement. The first step is a conversation, not a contract.

Request pricing and a scope

Tell us your brand and we will come back with a real number and a proposed scope for your category. No obligation.

Not ready for a retainer? Start with the free audit.

If you want to see where you stand before committing to ongoing work, start with a one-time AI visibility check. We run the first step of the CONSENSUS Protocol on your brand and send you the report, no retainer required.

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