Ongoing AI SEO — your AI visibility, managed every month.

AI search moves fast. Citations change. Competitors get named. Foundier's monthly SEO services keep your business visible across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews — with ongoing optimisation, citation tracking, and a clear monthly report showing exactly what's moving.
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What's included

Active every month.

Four pillars running in parallel — not a checklist of tasks, a system that compounds.

$2,500/month
Fixed. No setup fee. No minimum contract.
Cancel any month
First month includes AI visibility baseline
Same team — no handoffs
Website maintenance included ($299/month value)
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Monitor.Monthly

Citation presence tracked across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews — yours and your top competitors' — every single month.

  • Branded and category-level query testing
  • Competitor citation share tracking
  • Citation movement alerts — gain or loss
Optimise.Ongoing

Schema updates, content rewrites for AI citability, technical fixes, llms.txt maintenance, entity clarity improvements.

  • Schema maintenance as your site evolves
  • AI-focused content updates and rewrites
  • llms.txt monitoring and updates
Report.Every month

A clear monthly report — where you stood, where you are now, what we did, and what's next. Not a data dump.

  • Citation score across all four engines
  • Movement since last month
  • Next month priorities and rationale
Adapt.Continuous

Every month we review the data, update the strategy, and reprioritise based on what's actually working — not what worked three months ago.

  • Monthly strategy review
  • AI engine update monitoring
  • Competitor movement response
Maintain.Included

Platform updates, security monitoring, daily backups, and uptime monitoring — website maintenance is included in every retainer. No separate invoice.

  • Platform & plugin updates (WordPress, Webflow, Framer)
  • Security scanning and daily offsite backups
  • Uptime monitoring and monthly site health report
Why ongoing matters

AI visibility degrades without active management.

You did the audit. Maybe you ran an AI SEO sprint. Citations improved. But AI engines update their models constantly — competitors enter your category, content gets stale, schema drifts out of spec. Without active management, the work starts unwinding within 90 days.

Without active management

Your AI visibility quietly erodes.

Schema drifts out of spec as your site is updated
Competitors optimise continuously and take your citation slots
AI engines update their models — your entity signals become stale
No visibility into what's changing or why you're losing ground
The investment you made in your AI SEO sprint quietly degrades
With active monthly management

Your AI visibility grows and compounds.

Schema maintained and updated every month as your site evolves
Competitor citation movements tracked and countered proactively
Citation presence monitored across all four AI engines every month
Monthly report — you always know exactly where you stand and why
The work compounds — each month builds on the last
The businesses winning AI search in 12 months aren't the ones who did the best one-off sprint. They're the ones maintaining and compounding every single month. Start compounding →
Why Foundier

The only retainer built for
AI search from the start.

Not traditional SEO with "AI" added to the name. Not a monitoring dashboard you log into yourself. Active monthly management by the team that built its entire practice around AI visibility.

Specialist focus

AI search is the only retainer we run

We don't do paid media, social, or traditional SEO retainers. Every client on retainer gets the full attention of a team that does one thing — AI visibility management.

No handoffs

Same team from proposal to month twelve

The people who diagnosed your AI visibility gaps manage them every month. No account manager in the middle. No junior team running the work after the proposal is signed.

No lock-in

Cancel any month — no questions asked

No minimum contract. No cancellation fee. Website maintenance included at no extra charge. Most clients stay because the monthly report makes the value clear.

Fixed price. No setup fee. First month includes your full AI visibility baseline.

$2,500/month
No minimum contract Cancel any month Same team throughout
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What you walk away with

What active management looks like at month six.

Not a one-time improvement — a compounding asset. By month six, your AI visibility is measurably stronger, your competitors are tracked, and you have six months of data showing exactly what's working.

Cited.

Named by AI engines consistently

Six months of citation engineering, schema maintenance, and entity optimisation means ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews cite you reliably — not occasionally.

Tracked.

Full visibility into your AI search position

You know exactly where you stand every month — your citation score, your competitor share, what moved and why. No guessing. No surprises.

Protected.

Your AI SEO investment defended

The audit and sprint work you invested in doesn't degrade. Active management keeps your schema clean, your entity signals current, and your citations growing as AI engines evolve.

Compounding.

Each month builds on the last

Unlike a one-off project, the retainer compounds. Month six is measurably better than month one because every month's work builds on everything that came before it.

Questions

Ongoing AI SEO, answered.

Everything businesses ask before starting a retainer — answered straight.

What does the Ongoing AI SEO retainer include?
Every month Foundier runs five pillars: Monitor (citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), Optimise (schema updates, content rewrites, technical fixes, llms.txt maintenance), Report (a clear monthly report showing what moved and why), Adapt (strategy review and reprioritisation), and Maintain (platform updates, security monitoring, daily backups, uptime monitoring). All for $2,500/month — website maintenance included, no minimum contract.
What's the minimum commitment?
There is no minimum contract. Cancel any month. Most clients stay because month two shows measurable citation movement and by month three the compounding effect is clear — but the decision is always yours. We'd rather earn your business every month than lock you in.
What happens in the first month?
Month one includes a full AI visibility baseline — your citation score across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, your competitor citation share, your technical SEO state, and your entity clarity assessment. This is the foundation everything after is measured against. By the end of month one you have a complete picture of where you stand and a clear priority list for month two.
How is this different from a standard SEO retainer?
A standard SEO retainer focuses on Google rankings — keywords, backlinks, content volume. Foundier's retainer focuses on AI search citations — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. The technical overlap is real (schema, crawlability, site structure matter for both) but the strategy, the monitoring, and the optimisation work is built specifically for how AI engines decide who to cite. If you're not ready for a retainer yet, the AI SEO Services sprint is a good starting point.
Do I need the AI Visibility Audit before starting the retainer?
Not required — the first month of the retainer includes a full baseline that covers similar ground. But if you've already done the AI Visibility Audit, month one moves faster because the diagnostic work is already done and we go straight into optimisation and monitoring.
How long before I see results?
Most clients see citation movement within 6 to 8 weeks of the first optimisation work going live. AI engines re-index faster than Google, so schema fixes and content updates show results more quickly than traditional SEO work. By month three, the compounding effect is typically visible in the monthly report.
What does the monthly report actually look like?
Four sections: AI Citation Report (your citation presence across all four engines, movement since last month), Competitor Citation Share (who gained ground, who lost it), Work Completed (what we did this month and why), and Next Month Priorities (what we're focusing on and the rationale). Written in plain language — not agency jargon. Optional 30-minute walkthrough call included.
Can I add website maintenance to the retainer?
Yes — website maintenance is available as an add-on. Plugin updates, security patches, backups, schema maintenance, Core Web Vitals monitoring, and a monthly site health check. See the full scope on the Website Maintenance page. Bundled with the retainer it's handled by the same team with no extra coordination.
What if my AI visibility doesn't improve?
If your citation share isn't moving in the right direction by month three, we'll tell you exactly why — and what needs to change. We don't hide behind vague "SEO takes time" explanations. If the strategy needs adjusting, we adjust it and tell you what we changed and why.
How is Foundier different from using a monitoring tool myself?
Monitoring tools track your citations — they don't fix them. They tell you what's happening, not why, and they don't do the optimisation work to change it. Foundier's retainer includes monitoring as one of four pillars — but the value is in what we do with the data every month: the schema updates, content rewrites, technical fixes, and strategic adaptation that actually moves your citation score. If your site has deeper technical foundations to fix first, start with Technical SEO + Schema.

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