Pricing
Answer Engine Consulting sells three fixed-scope packages, priced by the page rather than by the hour. Starter is $3,000 one-time for five pages. Growth is $5,000 one-time for up to fifteen pages. Authority is $8,000 per month for thirty pages a month with ongoing share-of-citation reporting.
| Package | Scope | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 5 pages | $3,000 | one-time |
| Growth | up to 15 pages | $5,000 | one-time |
| Authority | 30 pages per month | $8,000 | per month |
Starter: $3,000 one-time, 5 pages
Teams making a first structured move into answer engines and wanting proof before a larger commitment.
A structured audit and pilot: answer gap analysis, five source pages built to be quoted, and a baseline share-of-citation report.
What is included
- Prompt inventory and citation audit for the five target pages
- Revenue-focused content strategy for each page
- AI-optimized page template framework
- Page rewrite for answer engines, built around quotable claims (5 pages)
- FAQ structuring and featured-answer formatting (5 pages)
- JSON-LD structured data implementation (5 pages)
- AEO governance and launch checklist
- Baseline share-of-citation report
Tradeoffs
- Limited to five pages
- No ongoing monitoring
- Does not establish authority across a whole topic cluster
Growth: $5,000 one-time, up to 15 pages
Companies converting an existing SEO footprint into answer-engine coverage of one topic.
Cluster-level coverage of one topic: up to fifteen source pages, entity consistency work, and a competitive citation analysis.
What is included
- Everything in Starter, across up to fifteen pages
- Answer-engine internal linking strategy for the cluster
- Five new high-intent page opportunities identified from the citation audit
- Competitive citation positioning analysis
- Entity consistency pass: Organization schema, LinkedIn and directory listings aligned
- Priority execution and implementation support
Tradeoffs
- One-time implementation
- Requires internal coordination to publish
- No monthly monitoring
Authority: $8,000 per month, 30 pages per month
Category leaders and revenue teams that want answer-engine visibility run as an ongoing programme.
Ongoing programme: thirty pages a month, third-party presence work, and monthly prompt-level visibility reporting.
What is included
- Everything in Growth, at thirty pages per month
- Ten new high-intent page opportunities each month
- Monthly answer gap and competitive citation report
- Share-of-citation tracking dashboard, per prompt and per engine
- Ongoing third-party presence work in the sources the audit surfaces
- Custom templates, architecture design and workflow automations
- Ongoing monitoring and optimization
Tradeoffs
- Requires executive alignment
- An ongoing strategic commitment
- Internal content coordination each month
Why pricing is by the page
A citation is earned one claim at a time, and a claim lives on a page. Pricing by the page keeps scope visible: you know which pages are in the engagement, what each will assert, and which prompts each is meant to win. It also makes the pilot honest. Five pages is enough to see whether your share of citation moves before you commit to a cluster or a retainer.
For a comparison with typical market rates, see how much AEO consulting typically costs. For the full structure in answer form, see the pricing structure of Answer Engine Consulting.
Frequently asked questions
How do you measure results?
We track a fixed set of buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Claude and report your share of citation per prompt and per engine, alongside influenced pipeline. We do not report keyword rankings as an outcome.
Is revenue guaranteed?
No. No visibility programme can guarantee revenue. Being cited for the prompts your buyers ask raises the probability that you are on the shortlist when they reach sales; it does not replace sales.
How quickly do results appear?
Citation changes on individual prompts can appear within weeks of a source page going live. Movement across a whole prompt set typically takes 60 to 90 days as pages are re-crawled and third-party mentions accumulate.
Does this replace SEO?
No. It extends the work into answer engines. Existing SEO assets, such as domain authority and indexed content, feed AEO; AEO adds quotable claims, entity consistency and off-site presence that SEO alone does not produce.
Do we need to rebuild our site?
No. Every package works on a defined set of high-intent pages. The Starter package deliberately limits scope to five pages so the approach can be validated before a wider commitment.
Not sure which package fits?
Request the free AEO visibility report first. It shows where you are cited today and which gaps are winnable, which usually makes the choice obvious.