Organic search and AI visibility,
priced as one engagement.

There is no separate line item for AI search. DerivateX bundles generative engine optimization, answer engine optimization, and Google SEO into one retainer, because the same entity signals, content, and citations move all of them. So the effective cost of GEO or LLM SEO is included in the $5,000 to $12,000 monthly retainer rather than sold as an upsell.

The only channel-specific spend is the off-site citation budget of $1,000 to $3,000 per month, which pays for the third-party placements AI engines actually cite from.

The lowest retainer is $5,000 per month, and the lowest-commitment way in is the $3,500 one-time diagnostic. DerivateX does not run sub-$5,000 retainers, because below that the content and placement volume is too thin to move rankings or citations in a way you could attribute to revenue.

If your budget is under that today, the diagnostic gives you a full plan you can execute in-house, and the fee credits back if you move to a retainer within 30 days.

Rank & Get Found and Own Your Category run as a 90-day pilot with no lock-in after it. At day 90 you review the data with the founders and decide whether to continue, with no auto-renewal and no exit penalty. Market Leader carries a 6-month minimum, because the execution volume at that tier does not produce a readable result inside 90 days.

Clients who renew lock in their current rate for 12 months regardless of future price changes.

The off-site citation budget funds third-party placements: guest posts, brand mentions, and link insertions on the domains that already surface in your citation map. Budget by tier: $1,000 to $1,200 per month at Rank & Get Found, $1,500 to $2,000 at Own Your Category, and $2,000 to $3,000 at Market Leader.

DerivateX keeps it outside the retainer and ring-fenced so you never pay an agency markup on placement spend. It is billed against the placements actually made, it requires your written sign-off before any spend, and it is quality-weighted rather than volume-weighted, so a single strong editorial placement can matter more than several weak ones. Placements that do not land in a month carry forward.

At Rank & Get Found, DerivateX ships technical work as exact step-by-step instructions plus a doc or Loom, and your team implements. That takes roughly one to three hours in month one and one to two hours per month after. From Own Your Category upward, DerivateX implements directly in your CMS where access is granted.

This is stated plainly here because the delivery model is the thing most agencies leave vague until the contract is in front of you.

Across the 90-day pilot you get 18 on-page assets at Rank & Get Found, 30 at Own Your Category, and 45 at Market Leader. Each number is broken down by page type: buyer-intent commercial pages, comparison and alternatives pages, problem-led articles, and revamps of declining pages. At Rank & Get Found, for example, that is 6 commercial pages, 4 comparison pages, 5 articles, and 3 revamps.

Month one is setup weighted, roughly three weeks of audit, query mapping, citation mapping, and technical foundation, so volume ramps from month two. Off-page placements are counted and funded separately through the off-site citation budget.

DerivateX builds you a live Looker Studio dashboard covering demo funnel performance, source and medium breakdown, AI platform performance by tool, landing page conversion, and search performance, so the data is available to you continuously rather than assembled at month end.

On top of that: weekly async updates on Monday and Friday, biweekly or weekly strategy calls depending on tier, and a monthly report covering query position, citation volume, answer presence, what moved, what is blocked, and the month ahead. An agreed KPI set is tracked and reported throughout, with priority weighting reviewed each quarter.

Yes, there is exactly one. The $3,500 diagnostic is delivered in two weeks and gives you the AI perception audit, query map, citation map, technical foundation as instructions, and a three-month content strategy. It is diagnosis only, so it does not include content writing, published pages, off-site placements, or technical implementation. It credits in full against your first retainer month if you convert inside 30 days.

Beyond that, DerivateX builds for ongoing engagements, because AI citation presence compounds through sustained publishing and placement rather than through a single document.

Early citation signals, meaning appearing in AI answers where you previously did not, typically emerge within 60 to 90 days. REsimpli went from absent to number one in ChatGPT for their core query in 90 days. Ranking movement on Google typically shows within the same window. Attribution data, meaning which AI platform sent sessions and whether they converted, is visible from month two onward.

Read the REsimpli case study for the full 90-day arc.

It comes down to three things. First, DerivateX treats AI search and Google as one system rather than separate workstreams. Second, DerivateX sets up attribution in month one and reports pipeline, not just traffic. Third, there is direct founder involvement on every account, not account managers who relay information. The people you meet on the discovery call are the people doing the work.

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DerivateX tracks your buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, manually and in incognito, on a weekly citation cycle. Content is built for LLM retrieval with answer fragments, entity consistency, and structured data. GA4 is configured to identify AI-sourced sessions as distinct referral sources and trace them to form submissions.

Citation share is reported against named competitors over time, so you can see the competitive landscape shift rather than guessing at it.

DerivateX starts with a 90-day pilot, not a 12-month lock-in, so at day 90 you have attribution data to judge for yourself. GSC access is shared on day one, so you see everything the team sees in real time. And there are no account managers between you and the work.

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Switching plans is straightforward here. Most DerivateX clients start at Own Your Category and move up once the attribution data gives them a number to defend the increase with. Downgrades happen too, on your terms and with no penalty.

Yes, DerivateX runs active engagements across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, and Europe. The work is geography agnostic, because content architecture, technical SEO, and citation building perform the same regardless of where the company is headquartered. The team operates from Bengaluru on hours that overlap US time zones for calls and Slack.

DerivateX works only with B2B SaaS companies from $5M ARR that have product-market fit and want search and AI search treated as a revenue channel with attribution attached. It does not take on local SEO, e-commerce, B2C, or pre-revenue companies.

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