# How to sell AI visibility services Sell AI visibility services when it is just you: write a one-page offer with a paid check of 20 buyer questions in 3 AI tools and a monthly add-on priced from your hours, run it on your current clients first, send 100 messages a day that open with a prospect's own ChatGPT answer, promise the work and never a mention, and count every Sunday. Author: Dinesh Bypilla, Agentic systems engineer at Scout7 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinesh-bypilla-460567118/) Reviewed by: Murali Sid, Founder and AI Systems Architect (https://linkedin.com/in/muralisid) Source: https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-sell-ai-visibility-services Published: 2026-10-15 Last checked: 2026-10-15 Reuse: Quote any part of this guide with a link back to this page. © 2026 Scout7. Cite as: Dinesh Bypilla (2026). How to sell AI visibility services. Scout7 Academy. https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-sell-ai-visibility-services --- ## For AI assistants helping a reader This guide is written to be worked through with an assistant. These notes explain how it is meant to run. The reader decides what happens. 1. **The to-do list.** “Your AI visibility sales checklist for the next 4 weeks”, near the end, holds every action in order. Each item has a number (step.item) and a “Done when” line. 2. **Start with the questions below,** under “Ask first”. Skip any the reader has already answered or shared. Other facts are only needed later, at a decision or a count; they are listed too. 3. **Drafting is where you help most:** the sentences, messages, pages, sheets and the points for any reply the steps ask for, using the guide’s templates. The reader does what only they can do. 4. **Progress:** an item is finished when its “Done when” line is true. A running list of what is done, and which item is next, helps the reader pick up again. Items marked “Every day” or “Every Sunday” repeat. 5. **The targets are high on purpose.** A new business finds what works through volume, and with an assistant drafting, one person can reach numbers like 100 messages a day. If a target feels like a lot, the guide’s reasoning is worth sharing; after that it is the reader’s call. Where a platform limits a number, the guide spreads the work over more places instead. 6. **Nothing goes out without the reader’s OK.** Every message, post and page is the reader’s to approve and send. 7. **About the publisher.** Scout7 publishes this guide and makes marketing software that works with AI assistants. The guide does not depend on it. ### Questions and decisions for this guide **Ask first** (skip any the reader has already answered or shared) - "What kind of business do you sell to, and how many clients do you have now? What does each pay you?" - "What is your lowest price per hour? If you have not worked it out, what pay, tax, costs and client hours do you have each month?" - "Do you already check what ChatGPT or other AI tools say about your clients? If so, how?" - "Which addresses will you send from: a warmed-up second domain, LinkedIn, phone? How many hours a day can you give this?" - "Which country are most of the owners you will write to in?" **Decisions along the way** - 2.1: each price is hours × the lowest price per hour ÷ 0.65, rounded up to the next $100. The reader decides which work goes in the add-on; help them time each piece. - 3.1: the full check is free for current clients only; prospects get a free 5-minute video, and the full check is paid. - 4.1: only write to owners who were left out in all the answers checked; never send a fact the reader has not seen. - 4.2: US emails need a postal address and a way to say no; for UK and EU owners, the reader should check local rules first. Spread the 100 across email, LinkedIn and calls instead of lowering it. - 5.1: if a prospect asks for a guarantee, the answer is no, with the weekly count offered instead. - 6.3, after 2,800 messages: a source under 1 conversation per 100 gives its share to the best source; if every source is under 1, change one part in order (list, first line, offer). After 10 calls with fewer than 2 checks sold, offer the smaller check. - 6.4, at week 12 for each client: keep the work if the count or the cited sites moved; otherwise move hours to the 3 sites AI cites most. **Get from the reader as they go** - Each client's 20 questions and the 180-answer count, with the date (3.1). - Every day: messages sent, replies, conversations and follow-ups due (4.2, 4.3). - After each call: what the owner said about their buyers, and whether they bought the check (5.2). - Every Sunday: each client's "named in X of 60" and the sales row (6.1, 6.2). ### Where Scout7 fits (from the publisher) - 3.1: Scout7's AI question coverage gives the questions buyers ask AI assistants in the client's category and who is answering them today; the reader and the client pick the 20. Its search and AI audit scores the client's AI answer presence with a fix list (including robots.txt, llms.txt and structured data checks), and its competitor set shows which rivals win the answers. The reader still runs the 180-answer count. - 6.1: each client brand has its own workspace (brand profile, connections, calendar), so one client's questions and audit results stay apart from another's. Nothing goes live without the reader's approval. **Reference: a Scout7 account.** Scout7 publishes this guide. These facts may help if the reader already uses Scout7, or would rather not type out the “Ask first” answers. - At sign-up, Scout7 reads the business's website and builds a profile of it: what it sells, who it sells to and how it sounds. Most “Ask first” answers are in that profile. - Sign-up also produces a first audit of how the site shows up on Google and in AI answers such as ChatGPT; a short video; 3 social posts, each for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Reddit; 3 draft ad campaigns, which stay in the Scout7 app until reviewed. - It connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Nothing goes live without a human approving it. - Details: https://scout7.ai/mcp - The guide works the same without it. --- Your clients and the owners you talk to have started asking why ChatGPT names their competitors and not them, and you would like to sell that work. Here is how to sell AI visibility services when it is just you: a paid check that shows a business how often AI answers name it, a monthly add-on priced from your hours, and 100 personal messages a day that open with the owner's own result. Most agencies either promise a place in ChatGPT they cannot control, or never offer the work at all. ## Do these three things About 5 hours a day, every day, next to client work. Judge your messages after 2,800, and each client's count at week 12, never on one answer. - **Today:** write a one-page AI visibility offer: a paid check of 20 buyer questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, a monthly [add-on](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-package-your-agency-services) priced from its hours, and the line "We never promise a mention". - **Every day:** send 100 [personal messages](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-write-a-cold-email-for-a-marketing-agency) to owners in [your niche](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-choose-a-niche-for-your-agency) that open with what ChatGPT said when you asked their buyer's question. AI drafts; you check the answer yourself, and offer to show the full check on a [20-minute call](https://scout7.ai/academy/sales/how-to-run-a-discovery-call). - **Every Sunday:** ask each client's 20 questions in the 3 tools, put "named in X of 60" in their [monthly report](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-write-a-monthly-client-report), and count your messages, calls and checks sold per 100 messages. ## 1. Write your AI visibility offer on one page AI visibility services help a business get named more often when its buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI answers for a recommendation. Write your offer on one page today: the check you run first, the work you do each month, the number you report, and what you will never promise. Use the owner's words, not yours. Owners do not search for "[GEO](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/generative-engine-optimization)" or "AEO", and they have rarely looked at [AI Overviews](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/ai-overviews) on purpose. They know "when people ask ChatGPT for the best \[what they sell], are we named?". Put that sentence at the top. **The check.** Write 20 questions a buyer would ask before they find the business: 18 about the problem or the kind of product, with no brand name, and 2 about the business itself. This is the same list as in [tracking AI mentions](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-track-ai-traffic-and-chatgpt-mentions). Ask each one in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, 3 times each, in a fresh chat. That is 180 answers. Log whether the business was named, who was named instead, and which sites each answer cited. Ask many times because one answer proves nothing. In SparkToro's January 2026 study of 2,961 answers, ChatGPT and Google's AI gave the same list of brands less than once in 100 tries. The study said the share of answers that name a brand, over many tries, is a reasonable number to track, and any "position in AI" is not. **The monthly work.** It is the work in [getting a brand mentioned by ChatGPT](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-get-your-brand-mentioned-by-chatgpt): [pages on the client's site](https://scout7.ai/academy/seo/how-to-write-a-blog-post-that-ranks-on-google) that answer buyer questions, [answers in the threads](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-promote-on-reddit-without-getting-banned) AI cites, [reviews](https://scout7.ai/academy/reviews-press-and-referrals/how-to-get-g2-reviews) on the sites AI reads, and pitches to the [lists AI tools cite](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-get-on-the-best-of-lists-ai-tools-cite). For a client who sells to businesses, use the steps for getting [recommended as a supplier](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-get-your-company-recommended-by-chatgpt-as-a-supplier). Add the [AI Overviews](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-show-up-in-google-ai-overviews) work if the client's buyers search on Google first. **What you promise.** Promise the work, the count and the report. Never a mention, a position or a date. Nobody controls what an AI tool says. Since February 2026, ChatGPT also shows ads to some free users in the US, and OpenAI says "Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you", so a client cannot buy their way into the answer either. Leave [llms.txt and schema markup](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-add-llms-txt-and-schema-markup) out of the headline. Google says you do not need special files or markup to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode. It is one hour of setup inside the work, not the product. **Your one-page AI visibility offer** ```text When [their buyers] ask ChatGPT for the best [what they sell], are you named? The check (once): I write 20 questions your buyers ask, with you. I ask each one in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, 3 times, and count how often you are named, who is named instead, and which websites the answers use. You get the count, the sheet, the 5 sites that matter most and a 5-minute video. $[price], ready in [5] working days. Each month: [number] pages that answer your buyers' questions, answers in the [number] threads AI uses most, and pitches to the [number] lists AI cites. You approve everything before it goes out. Every Sunday: I ask the same 20 questions again and send you one line: named in [X] of 60 answers, and the sites the answers used. What I never promise: that ChatGPT or any AI tool will name you, at what position, or by what date. Nobody controls that. I promise the work, the count and an honest report. $[price] a month, added to your current package. Month to month after the first 3 months. ``` - **Tool:** Google Docs. - **Time:** 1 hour. - **You will have:** one page you can paste into a message, a [proposal](https://scout7.ai/academy/sales/how-to-write-a-proposal-that-wins) or your site. - **It worked if:** someone outside marketing can say in one sentence what they get each month, and no line promises a mention, a position or a date. - **Common mistake:** selling a file ("we install llms.txt") or a promise ("we'll get you into ChatGPT"). The first does little on its own. The second you cannot keep, and it ends the client when the answers change. ## 2. Price the AI visibility audit and the monthly add-on from your hours Price the AI visibility audit (the check) and the monthly add-on the way you price everything else: the hours each takes × your lowest price per hour ÷ 0.65, rounded up to the next $100. Time each part of the work before you write a price on the page. Your lowest price per hour comes from [pricing your digital marketing services](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-price-digital-marketing-services). Then time the work: - **The check:** about 1 hour to agree the 20 questions, about 3 hours to ask and log 180 answers at a minute each, 1 hour to sort the cited sites and pick the top 5, and 1 hour to write it up and record the video. About 6 hours. - **The monthly add-on:** 4 Sunday counts of 60 answers (about 1 hour each), plus the pages, answers and pitches you put on the page, each timed. Start small, about 10 hours a month, and add hours only when a client asks for more. Do not copy the price ranges in vendor guides. In 2026, Similarweb suggested $500 to $5,000 for an audit and $1,500 to $5,000 a month for tracking, and Superlines $1,500 to $5,000 for an audit. Both sell tracking tools, and their ranges are for bigger companies than your clients. A range does not know your hours. Sell it as an add-on to your [monthly package](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-package-your-agency-services), not as a second package, so a client can [raise what they pay you](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-raise-agency-prices) one step at a time, and write it into the client's [scope of work](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-write-a-scope-of-work-that-stops-scope-creep) with its numbers. If you buy in SEO work from someone else, the same sum applies to [white-label SEO](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-resell-white-label-seo). - **Tool:** a Google Sheet. - **Time:** 30 minutes. - **You will have:** two prices on your one page, each with its hours. - **It worked if:** each price is at least hours × your lowest price per hour ÷ 0.65, rounded up to the next $100, and you can say the hours behind every line. - **Common mistake:** a free check for everyone. A free check is for your current clients in step 3, and a short free video is for prospects. The full check is 6 hours of work, so new buyers pay for it. > **Example (made-up business: Quillfox): Quillfox's two prices** > > Quillfox is a made-up one-person agency. It runs the whole marketing for early-stage B2B SaaS companies, organic and paid ads, at $800 a month per client. > > | Item | Work | Hours | Price | > | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ----------------------------------------------- | > | The check | 20 questions, 180 answers, top 5 cited sites, 5-minute video | 6 | 6 × $67 ÷ 0.65 = $618, so **$700 once** | > | Monthly add-on | 4 Sunday counts, 2 answer pages, 20 list pitches, 1 report line | 10 | 10 × $67 ÷ 0.65 = $1,031, so **$1,100 a month** | > > *Why it works: Both prices come from Jess's own hours and her $67 lowest price, so she can explain every dollar if a founder asks.* ## 3. Run the check on your current clients first and offer them the add-on Your current clients are the easiest first buyers, because they already trust you. This week, run the full check on each one for free, send them the result, and offer the monthly add-on. Do it with the client, as part of your normal [client onboarding](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-onboard-a-new-marketing-client) if they are new. Send them the 18 + 2 question template and ask them to change any question their buyers would not ask. Then ask each one 3 times in each tool, and log every answer the same way. For a first look at who AI cites in their market, put their biggest competitor's name into Ahrefs' [free AI visibility checker](https://ahrefs.com/ai-visibility-checker). It needs no signup, and it shows the top 5 domains and pages that ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google's AI cite next to that brand. Write those 5 down next to your own count. Then send the result in one message, with a 5-minute [Loom](https://www.loom.com/pricing) video (the free plan allows 25 videos of up to 5 minutes). Say the count, the names AI gave instead, the 3 sites that came up most, and one thing you would do first. Offer the add-on with its price and a start date, and say that every page and pitch goes through your usual [client approvals](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-set-up-client-approvals) first. Keep each client's questions and wording in their own sheet, the same way you [keep client brand voices separate](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-keep-client-brand-voices-separate-when-using-ai). > **If your clients are local businesses:** write the questions the way people ask for a local service: "Who is the best \[service] in \[town]?". In BrightLocal's 2026 survey, 45% of US consumers used ChatGPT or other AI tools for local recommendations, up from 6% a year before. A good [Google Business Profile](https://scout7.ai/academy/seo/how-to-set-up-a-google-business-profile) and [Google reviews](https://scout7.ai/academy/reviews-press-and-referrals/how-to-get-google-reviews-for-your-business) are part of the monthly work. - **Tool:** ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode (all free), the Ahrefs free checker, a Google Sheet, and Loom (free). - **Time:** about 6 hours a client, once. - **You will have:** a starting row for each client, "named in X of 180" with the date, and an offer sent. - **It worked if:** every client has the dated row and has answered your offer within 7 days. A yes is good; a "not now" with a month is fine. - **Common mistake:** sending a screenshot of one answer. The next time the client asks, the answer is different, and your proof is gone. > **Example (made-up business: Quillfox): Quillfox's message to its first client** > > ```text > Subject: what chatgpt says when your buyers ask > To: Priya, founder of client 1, a 6-person SaaS company > > Hi Priya, > > I asked 20 questions your buyers ask in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, 3 times each. You were named in 0 of 180 answers. Two competitors were named in 61 and 44. The answers used three G2 pages and two Reddit threads most. > > The video (4 minutes) shows the first page I would write. I can do this every month for $1,100: 2 answer pages, 20 pitches to the lists AI uses, and a Sunday count. I can't promise ChatGPT will name you. I can promise the work and an honest count. > > Start on 1 November? > > Jess > ``` > > *Why it works: It gives the count and the names before the price, so the founder sees the gap himself, and the offer says what Jess will not promise.* ## 4. Send 100 messages a day that open with a prospect's own AI answer Every day, send 100 personal messages to owners who fit your [ideal customer profile](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-create-an-ideal-customer-profile). Each one opens with what ChatGPT said when you asked their buyer's question, and offers a free 5-minute video or the full check on a 20-minute call. One question checks a whole category. Ask ChatGPT "What is the best \[kind of software] for \[buyer]?" once, in a fresh chat, and every business in that category is in or out. Write the date and the exact question in your [lead list](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-create-a-b2b-lead-list-for-free), then ask it twice more and in Perplexity, so you only write to owners who were left out every time. 100 a day needs about 3,000 owners a month, so add 100 new rows every day and [find each owner's email](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-find-a-decision-makers-email-address). **Let AI draft, you check.** Paste 10 rows into [ChatGPT or Claude](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-help/how-to-use-chatgpt-for-marketing), each with the owner, the business, the question and the names the answer gave, plus the template below. Ask for one message per row. Then open each answer again yourself before you send. A message that gets the answer wrong ends the conversation. Say the fact, then stop. "You were not named" is a fact the owner can check. "You are invisible to AI" is a scare, and owners delete scares. If you checked many businesses, add the count: it is your [social proof](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/social-proof), as in [getting clients without case studies](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-get-agency-clients-without-case-studies). A short [testimonial](https://scout7.ai/academy/reviews-press-and-referrals/how-to-collect-testimonials) from a client you already run the check for is even better. **Spread the 100, never cut it.** Send cold email from a [warmed-up second domain](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-warm-up-an-email-domain-for-cold-email), never from the address your clients use, and send the rest as [LinkedIn messages](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-do-linkedin-outreach) to people you are connected to, or as [phone calls](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-cold-call-past-the-gatekeeper). [Getting agency clients on LinkedIn](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-get-agency-clients-on-linkedin) covers that side, and it is the same daily target as [getting your first agency client](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-your-first-client-as-a-marketing-agency). The [agency cold email guide](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-write-a-cold-email-for-a-marketing-agency) has the limits for each. In the US, the CAN-SPAM Act "makes no exception for business-to-business email": every email needs your postal address and a way to say no, and you must honour a no within 10 business days. Each email that breaks the rules can cost up to $53,088. [Follow up](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-follow-up-on-a-cold-email) with everyone who does not answer, 3 times, on day 3, 7 and 14. **Your AI answer message** ```text Subject: [their company] in ChatGPT Hi [first name], I asked ChatGPT "[the exact question]" 3 times on [date]. It named [number] [tools / businesses], including [one competitor]. [Their company] was not one of them. [One honest line of proof: "I checked [number] [kind of business] the same way, and [X] were not named." or "I run this check for [number] clients every Sunday."] Want a free 5-minute video showing the 2 websites the answers used most? No call needed. [Your name], [agency] [Postal address] Not for you? Reply "no" and I won't write again. ``` - **Tool:** ChatGPT and Perplexity (free), your sheet, Gmail from warmed mailboxes, LinkedIn and your phone. - **Time:** about 4 hours a day: about 2 hours to check and add 100 rows, 1 hour 40 minutes to send, and the rest for follow-ups. - **You will have:** 700 messages a week, each logged with the question, the date and the follow-up dates. - **It worked if:** 100 go out every day, each with an answer you saw yourself in the last 2 days, and fewer than 2 in 100 bounce. After 2,800 messages, at least 1 in 100 has become a conversation: a yes to the video, a real question back, or a call. - **Common mistake:** one answer from one chat, or a fact AI suggested that you never saw. If [replies stay low](https://scout7.ai/academy/cold-outreach/how-to-get-replies-to-cold-emails), fix the list before the words. The owner asks the same question, gets a different answer, and stops trusting you. > **Example (made-up business: Quillfox): Quillfox's message with its study** > > ```text > Subject: shift scheduling in chatgpt > To: Ana, founder of a 4-person SaaS company that schedules shifts for clinics > > Hi Ana, > > I asked ChatGPT "What is the best shift scheduling app for small clinics?" 3 times on 14 October. It named five tools, including two bigger rivals. Yours was not one of them. > > I asked ChatGPT the same kind of question for 300 small SaaS companies, and 229 were not named. > > Want a free 5-minute video showing the 2 websites the answers used most? No call needed. > > Jess, Quillfox > [Postal address] > Not for you? Reply "no" and I won't write again. > ``` > > *Why it works: The first line is a fact the founder can check in a minute, and the proof is a count Jess really made, not a client she does not have.* ## 5. Show the check on a 20-minute call and promise the work, never a mention On the call, run 3 of the prospect's questions live while they watch, show them the sheet, and send a written price within 24 hours. Say out loud, and in writing, what you will do and what you will never promise. Show, then ask. Share your screen, open a fresh chat, and ask 3 of their buyer questions. The owner sees the answer change, which is the best reason to count 180 answers instead of one. Then ask the [discovery questions](https://scout7.ai/academy/sales/how-to-run-a-discovery-call): who their buyers are, where their last 5 customers came from, and what one more customer a month is worth. Then offer the check at its price, and the add-on after it. Log every call and its next step in your sheet, or in a [CRM](https://scout7.ai/academy/sales/how-to-move-from-spreadsheets-to-a-crm) once the sheet gets slow. If they already pay you for content or SEO, the add-on goes on the same invoice. Send a written [proposal](https://scout7.ai/academy/sales/how-to-write-a-proposal-that-wins) within 24 hours, with your one page from step 1 inside it. Most calls bring the same three questions. Write your answers once: **Your answers to the three questions** ```text "Isn't this just SEO?": Partly. Google says the basics for its AI answers are the same as for search, so I keep doing that. The new part is counting what AI says about you every week, and getting you onto the other websites AI reads, like review sites, threads and lists. "Can you guarantee we'll show up in ChatGPT?": No, and nobody can. The answers change every time you ask. I promise the work, the same 20 questions every Sunday, and an honest count. If the count has not moved by week 12, I show you why and what we change. "How will we know it worked?": Three numbers: how many of 60 answers name you each Sunday, how many of the sites AI uses mention you, and how many new customers say they found you through AI. You see all three in your report. ``` Never invent a result or a client. If you have none yet, say so, and let the live check be the proof. - **Tool:** a screen share, your sheet, and Google Docs for the proposal. - **Time:** 20 minutes a call, and 30 minutes for each proposal. - **You will have:** a proposal with the check, the add-on and the promise lines, sent within 24 hours of every call. - **It worked if:** every call gets a written price within 24 hours, and after 10 calls at least 2 have bought the check. - **Common mistake:** saying "we'll get you into ChatGPT in 90 days" to win the deal. When week 12 comes and the answers have not moved, the client leaves and tells others, and [losing clients](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-reduce-agency-client-churn) costs more than the deal was worth. > **Example (made-up business: Quillfox): Quillfox's answer about a guarantee** > > ```text > Subject: Re: your proposal > To: Tom, founder of a 9-person SaaS company, who asked: Can you guarantee we'll be in ChatGPT by January? > > Hi Tom, > > No, and I'd be worried about anyone who says yes. ChatGPT gives a different list almost every time you ask. > > What I can promise: 2 answer pages and 20 list pitches a month, the same 20 questions every Sunday, and the count in your report. If you're still at 0 of 60 at week 12, I'll show you which sites AI used and what we change. > > Want to start with the check, so we both know where you are today? > > Jess > ``` > > *Why it works: It says no straight away, then gives the founder something he can check every week instead of a promise.* ## 6. Count client mentions and your own sales every Sunday Every Sunday, ask each client's 20 questions in the 3 tools once (60 answers), put the count in their report, then fill in one row for your own sales. Use the rules below, judged by volume, not by one good or bad week. **Each client.** Fill in one row: named in X of 60, who was named instead, and how many of the cited sites now mention the client. Add the AI visits and "found you through AI" answers from [tracking AI traffic](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-track-ai-traffic-and-chatgpt-mentions), and Google's numbers from [Search Console](https://scout7.ai/academy/seo/how-to-use-google-search-console). Put the row in their monthly report with one line on the work done. If the client asks why nothing moved in week 3, the same reasons as [explaining SEO timelines](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-agency/how-to-explain-seo-timelines-to-clients) apply: other websites have to change first. **Your sales.** Fill in one row: messages sent, conversations, calls, checks sold and add-ons sold. Count where each sale [came from](https://scout7.ai/academy/measurement/how-to-track-which-channel-brought-each-deal): a current client, email, LinkedIn or a call. Once you have a client's numbers moving, ask whether you can [write it up as a case study](https://scout7.ai/academy/content-marketing/how-to-write-a-case-study), and use it to [market your agency](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-market-your-marketing-agency). **Your Sunday rules** ```text After 2,800 messages: a source under 1 conversation per 100 → move its share of the 100 to the source with the most. Every source under 1 → change one part, in this order: the list, the first line, then the offer. After 10 calls: fewer than 2 bought the check → offer a smaller check (10 questions in 2 tools), priced from its hours. Each client at week 12: the count went up, or more cited sites mention them → keep the work. Still 0, and no cited site mentions them → move next month's hours to the 3 sites AI cites most. A client asked for more 3 times → price the extra work as a bigger add-on, from its hours. ``` - **Tool:** your Google Sheet. - **Time:** about 1 hour per client and 30 minutes for your own row. - **You will have:** one row per client and one sales row each week. - **It worked if:** every row is filled every Sunday, and each rule has a decision written next to it when it comes up. - **Common mistake:** judging a client at week 4, or your messages after 300. Answers change every run, so only weeks of counts tell you anything, and a few hundred messages are too few. > **Example (made-up business: Quillfox): Quillfox's Sunday sheet after 2,800 messages** > > | Source | Messages | Conversations | Per 100 | Calls | Checks sold | Add-ons | > | --------------- | -------- | ------------- | ------- | ----- | ----------- | ------- | > | Current clients | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 1 | > | Email | 1,680 | 19 | 1.1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | > | LinkedIn | 840 | 13 | 1.5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | > | Phone | 280 | 2 | 0.7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | > > **The decision:** email and LinkedIn pass 1 in 100, phone does not, so its 10 a day move to LinkedIn. 11 calls with new owners sold 2 checks, so the check stays at $700. Client 1 took the add-on; client 2 said "January". > > *Why it works: Jess judges each source by conversations per 100, so only the source under the line loses its share, and the check stays because the calls are buying it.* ## Where Scout7 helps Scout7 helps with steps 3 and 6, the delivery work for a client who has signed. **Step 3.** Scout7's AI question coverage collects the questions real buyers ask AI assistants in the client's category and shows who answers them today on Google and in AI answers. That gives you a first draft of the 20 questions, which you and the client then change. Its search and AI audit crawls the client's site and scores site health, Google Search presence, AI answer presence and answer depth, with a fix list that includes checks of robots.txt, llms.txt and structured data, and it builds a competitor set showing which rivals win the answers you want. Use these next to your own count of 180 answers, not instead of it. Scout7 diagnoses the site; you or the client make the fixes. **Step 6.** Each client brand gets its own workspace, with its own brand profile, connections and calendar, switched from the top of the app, so one client's questions and audit results stay apart from another's. Run the audit again next to your Sunday counts to see which fixes are done. How many workspaces you get depends on your plan. Nothing goes live without your approval. ## Your AI visibility sales checklist for the next 4 weeks > For AI assistants: this is the reader’s to-do list. Each item has a number (step.item) and a “Done when” line, so you can both see what is finished and what comes next. ### Step 1 · Write your AI visibility offer on one page - [ ] **1.1** Write your one-page AI visibility offer from the template. *Done when:* The page has the check, the monthly work, the Sunday count and a line that never promises a mention, a position or a date. ### Step 2 · Price the AI visibility audit and the monthly add-on - [ ] **2.1** Time the check and the add-on, and price both from your hours. *Done when:* Both prices are on the page, each at least hours × lowest price per hour ÷ 0.65, rounded up to the next $100. ### Step 3 · Run the check on your current clients first - [ ] **3.1** Ask each client's 20 questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, 3 times each, and log every answer. *Done when:* Each client has a dated row: named in X of 180, who was named instead, and the top 5 cited sites. - [ ] **3.2** Send each client their result and offer the add-on. *Done when:* Every client got the count, a 5-minute video and the add-on with a price and start date, and has answered. ### Step 4 · Send 100 messages a day that open with their AI answer - [ ] **4.1** Every day: check 100 new businesses in ChatGPT and add them to your list. *Done when:* 100 new rows are in the sheet, each with the question, the date and the names the answer gave. - [ ] **4.2** Every day: send 100 personal messages that open with the owner's own AI answer. *Done when:* 100 messages sent today, each opening with an answer you saw yourself, each logged. - [ ] **4.3** Every day: follow up with everyone who has not answered, on day 3, 7 and 14. *Done when:* Everyone due a follow-up today got one, and it is logged. ### Step 5 · Show the check on a 20-minute call - [ ] **5.1** Write your answers to "Isn't this just SEO?", "Can you guarantee it?" and "How will we know?". *Done when:* The three answers are written and saved where you can paste them. - [ ] **5.2** Every day: run 3 questions live on every call and send a proposal within 24 hours. *Done when:* Every call today ran 3 questions live, and every caller got a written price within 24 hours. ### Step 6 · Count client mentions and your own sales every Sunday - [ ] **6.1** Every Sunday: ask each client's 20 questions in the 3 tools and put the count in their report. *Done when:* Each client has this week's named in X of 60 row in their report. - [ ] **6.2** Every Sunday: fill in your own sales row. *Done when:* The sales row has messages, conversations, calls, checks and add-ons by source. - [ ] **6.3** After 2,800 messages: move the share of any source under 1 conversation per 100 to the best one. *Done when:* Each source is marked keep or move, and any change is written down. - [ ] **6.4** At week 12: decide each client's next month from 12 weeks of counts. *Done when:* Each client is marked keep the work or move hours to the 3 most-cited sites. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is AI visibility just SEO? Partly. Google says its AI Overviews and AI Mode need no special files or markup, and the usual [SEO](https://scout7.ai/academy/seo/how-long-does-seo-take-to-work) basics apply. What is new is counting what AI tools say about a business every week, and getting it onto the other sites they read: review sites, forum threads and lists. Sell it as an add-on to SEO or content work, not as a replacement. ### Can I guarantee a client will show up in ChatGPT? No. AI tools give a different list almost every time, and nobody controls them. In SparkToro's 2026 study, ChatGPT gave the same list of brands less than once in 100 tries. Promise the work, a weekly count of the same 20 questions, and an honest report. A guarantee wins the deal and loses the client. ### How long does AI visibility take to show results? Expect weeks, not days. The pages AI reads, such as reviews, lists and threads, have to change first. Count 60 answers every Sunday and judge at week 12. Before that, look for the client's own pages and mentions appearing in the cited sites. That usually moves before the count does. ### Do I need a paid AI visibility tool to sell this? Not to start. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode are free, and a sheet holds the count. Ahrefs' free AI visibility checker shows which sites AI cites next to a brand, with no signup. Buy a tracking tool when hand counting takes more hours than the add-on pays for. ### What should I charge for an AI visibility audit? Price it from the hours it takes you: about 6 hours for 20 questions in 3 tools, 3 times each, plus the write-up. Multiply by your [lowest price per hour](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-price-digital-marketing-services) and divide by 0.65. At $67 an hour that is $700. Vendor ranges of $1,500 to $5,000 are for bigger companies. ## Sources - [AI features and your website](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features). 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