Built for the agency, not retrofitted for one
Most answer engine optimization tools are single-brand products with a seat count bolted on. If you manage twenty clients, that means twenty logins, twenty exports, and a monthly scramble to turn screenshots into something a client will read. AE Ranking starts from the opposite end: the client is the unit of work.
AE Ranking is invite-only while we are in pilot. We onboard agencies by hand.
What we measure
5 surfaces, tracked separately rather than averaged into one number: Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews.
We separate a mention — the engine named your client in its answer — from a citation, where it linked their site as a source. They are different problems with different fixes, and a tool that adds them together tells you to do the wrong work.
What you get that a single-brand tool cannot give you
One workspace per client, and staff scoped to it
Clients are first-class, not tags on a website. A team member can be scoped to a single client, and the authorization check that enforces it is the same one used by the API and the reporting queries — there is no second path that quietly sees everything.
Portals your client sees as yours
Share a live portal on your own subdomain or your own domain, themed with your colours and logo. On a white-label host our marketing site, our login and our dashboard are unreachable — the only thing served there is the portal.
Every prompt sampled 3 times, not once
Answer engines are non-deterministic: ask the same question twice and the brands named can differ. A single run is an anecdote. We run each prompt 3 times per engine and report the rate with a confidence interval, so you can tell a real movement from noise before you put it in front of a client.
Client billing and pitch audits
Record a retainer and your cost per client, issue an invoice from a share link, and run a shareable audit on a prospect before they are a client. The prospecting and the reporting live in the same place as the data.
A revenue share if you resell
Partners are a role in the product, scoped to one agency, with their own earnings view and a share percentage set when the partner is created. Not a spreadsheet and a promise.
An audit trail over the things that carry consequence
Password resets, role changes, suspensions and limit changes are recorded append-only, with who did it and when. It is the answer to a disputed invoice or an unexpected loss of access.
Who this is not for
- A single brand tracking itself. The client layer, the portals and the partner roles are overhead you would never use. The free tools may be all you need.
- Anyone who needs access this afternoon. We provision by hand during the pilot. If you need to self-serve at 2am, we are the wrong choice today.
- Teams wanting a full SEO suite. We do answer-engine visibility. We do not do backlinks, rank tracking at scale, or site audits, and we are not planning to.
Tell us about your agency
We size each workspace at onboarding, so the two things worth telling us are how big your team is and how many clients you carry. It takes a minute.
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