AI SEO SERVICES · SCOPE AND PRICING PUBLISHED

AI SEO that ends in a name, not a dashboard.

The full scope of the work, who does each line, what it costs, and how it is measured. Published on the page, because a service page that hides its scope is selling the fog.
No pitch. A real plan, yours either way.
Jason Spencer, founder of ROI.LIVE, in the ROI.LIVE office in Asheville, North Carolina
1 of 6 client slots open
Jason Spencer
Founder, ROI.LIVE · Asheville, NC
30 yrs building businesses18 yrs digital marketing55+ industries5.4-yr average client retention
01
THE SERVICE

What an AI SEO service is

Rankings were the deliverable. The name in the answer is the deliverable now.
An AI SEO service covers both halves of search today: the classic Google results, and the answers the AI engines give when buyers ask a question. If the package only does the first half, it is regular SEO with a new label on the invoice.
What most packages sold as AI SEO include, against what this engagement includes
LineThe common packageThe ROI.LIVE engagement
Query researchA keyword export from one toolThe full question map for your market, measured, not guessed
ContentAI-written blog posts at volumeAnswer pages per service and per town, gated by a fact-check before anything ships
SchemaWhatever the SEO plugin defaults toTyped schema on every page, so the engines read who you are without guessing
CitationsA directory blastMentions aligned where they are real: listings, partners, press, community
MeasurementA rank-tracker screenshotA monthly readout by question across the engines, with who got named
Who you talk toAn account managerA named operator, with every specialist named in week one

None of the left column is a lie. It is the wrong deliverable for 2026, sold at 2026 prices.

02
THE SCOPE

Every line, in and out

A scope you can hold us to, before you sign.
AI SEO engagement scope at ROI.LIVE, function by function
WorkIncludedWho does itNot in scope
Market and question mapYesMeasured, then owned by the operator
Answer page copyYesLOOMeria drafts, a human gates every page
Page build and QAYesA named build specialist
Schema and entity workYesThe operator
Local listings and mention alignmentYesA named specialist
Reviews engine: asking and respondingYesYour team runs it, our templates drive it
Digital PR and mention placementDirection and approvalA named partner
Google Ads and paid socialA separate engagementThe same operator
Email and lifecycleA separate engagementThe same operator
Photo and video productionAt cost, through partners

Every specialist is a named person you can email. You reach the operator directly, never a pooled queue.

03
THE METHOD

How the work runs

An engine does the overnight work. A person owns the publish.
The same two systems behind every ROI.LIVE search engagement, and the same gate on every page that ships.
Search Command
HOW THE WORK GETS SIZED
  • Measures the full set of questions buyers in your market ask, instead of guessing a keyword list
  • Collapses it to unique intents, so two phrasings of one question become one strong page, not two weak ones
  • Derives the page map from that measurement: every town you serve, every service you sell, every question buyers ask

You can see the result on this page. If a search or a chatbot brought you here, the method worked.

LOOMeria
THE ENGINE THAT BUILDS IT, WITH A HUMAN GATE
  • A governed brand file per client: voice, positioning, ideal customer, proof, loaded on every page it builds
  • A memory layer that cites past work, so month six ships faster than month one
  • An enforced fact-check and banned-phrase gate before anything reaches a human

A frontier model under our rules, not a model we trained. A human owns every publish decision, and nothing ships without one.

04
THE PROOF

The receipts behind this service

Search results you can check, with the dates on them.
EAST PERRY · ECOMMERCE
18.56×
All-time return on the SEO investment. $71.8K in, $1.33M out, over a three-year arc to $2.57M a year.
SEARCH · DATED
BLUE TREE · POOL & OUTDOOR LIVING
$172
Marketing investment per job won, H1 2026. 981 jobs signed in 15 months, traced source to won work.
COST PER OUTCOME
WINDOWS SOURCE OF HOUSTON
25.7×
Return on organic search investment, with paid Meta at 4.9× beside it. Two engines, both profitable.
SEARCH + PAID
CHATGPT, ASKED ABOUT LANDSCAPING
Top 5
What Blue Tree’s president reported in 2026, in his own words, while the build was still running.
CLIENT-REPORTED
Every figure lives on the live ROI.LIVE homepage with its date. No benchmarks. No projections. Ask us to walk any of them against your own numbers on the first call.
05
THE FIRST 90 DAYS

What happens, week by week

No discovery phase. The report runs in week one.
01
WEEKS 1 TO 2

Baseline and map

The AI visibility report runs against your category. The question map gets measured: every service, every town, every question buyers ask.
You get: the baseline and the page map
02
WEEKS 3 TO 6

Core pages ship

The highest-intent answer pages go live with schema, internal links, and a human sign-off on every page.
You get: pages in market, indexed
03
WEEKS 7 TO 10

Mentions align

Listings, directories, and partner pages get aligned to one set of facts, which is what the chat engines read.
You get: consistency across the web
04
WEEKS 11 TO 13

First readout

The question scorecard runs again: what Google picked up, what the engines named, and the next tranche of pages.
You get: movement, by question
06
THE COST

What it costs

The scope is published. So is the price.
AI SEO · ROI.LIVE
From $5,000
Per month. Most engagements land between $5,000 and $15,000, scaling with the market and the page map. Fixed quote on the call, tied to the number we are moving.
VERSUS
THE SEALED ENVELOPE
“Contact us”
A price that arrives before anyone read your market is a number with the scope left out. Ask any provider what the fee buys, line by line, and watch what happens.
Ad spend and software are billed separately, at cost, never marked up. One operator, one fee, one readout a month.
Open what the retainer includes and excludes
What an ROI.LIVE AI SEO retainer includes, and what it never hides
LineIn the retainerSeparate
Question map and strategyYes
Answer pages, schema, internal linksYes
Listings and mention alignmentYes
Monthly readout by questionYes
Reviews templates and responsesYes
Ad spendAt cost, on a separate engagement
Software licensesAt cost
Photo and video productionAt cost, through partners

If a proposal will not split the retainer from the ad spend, one of those two numbers is hiding.

07
THE OPERATOR

Who is on your account

Jason Spencer, founder of ROI.LIVE, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina
No account manager between you and the work.
30 years building and running businesses, 18 of them in digital marketing, across 55+ industries, from Asheville, North Carolina.
The crew behind the operator is named in week one: build, listings, and measurement. You will have their names and emails, not a ticket number.
30
years building businesses
18
years in digital marketing
55+
industries served
5.4 yr
average client retention
08
FIT

Hire us, or do not, in plain terms

If the scope fits, the rest is arithmetic.

Hire us if

  • You want the rankings and the AI answers owned by one operator.
  • You can name your service area or your buyer.
  • You have a budget from $5,000 a month for search.
  • You have been sold AI SEO before and got blog posts.
  • You want the scope and the price in writing, first.
  • You will act on what the readout says.

Do not hire us if

  • You want a guaranteed position inside ChatGPT. Nobody can guarantee that, and anyone who says otherwise is telling you what you want to hear.
  • You need leads this week. That is paid media, and we run it as its own engagement.
  • You want a logo, a tagline, or a brand book. That is brand work.
  • Your budget is under $2,000 a month for search. Take the free report and the map, and run the first tranche yourself.
09
FREE AI VISIBILITY REPORT

Start with the report

The baseline is free. The gap it shows is yours to fix, with us or without us.
It checks what the engines answer when buyers ask about your category, and it takes under a minute.

Free, takes under a minute, and the full report is yours to keep. It checks how the AI engines answer questions about your category today.

10
QUESTIONS

Questions buyers ask before they sign

What does an AI SEO service include?

At ROI.LIVE it includes the measured question map for your market, answer pages by service and town with schema, listings and mention alignment, reviews templates, and a monthly readout scored by question. The full line-by-line scope sits in the table above.

How much do AI SEO services cost?

ROI.LIVE retainers start at $5,000 a month and most land between $5,000 and $15,000, quoted fixed on the call. The published US market for AI-labeled SEO runs far wider because hours and scope stay undisclosed. We publish both.

How is this different from regular SEO?

Regular SEO earns the ranking. AI SEO also engineers the answer: pages written to be quoted, schema so the engines read you correctly, and consistent mentions so the chatbots name you. Same foundation, one more layer, and that layer is where the buyers are moving.

Is this the same as generative engine optimization?

GEO names the AI-answer layer on its own. Our AI SEO engagement includes it, because splitting the two would just mean two invoices for one build. The mechanism gets its own page: generative engine optimization services.

Do you use AI to write the pages?

LOOMeria, our in-house engine, drafts. A governed brand file keeps it in your voice, a fact-check gate runs before a human ever reads it, and a person approves every page that ships. You will never find out a machine published in your name.

Will you guarantee a ChatGPT recommendation?

No, and run from anyone who does. What we guarantee is the work: the measured map, the pages, the schema, the aligned mentions, and the monthly scorecard. Mentions follow the consistency, and the scorecard shows the movement by question.

How long until results?

Google indexing lands in days and AI Overviews respond in weeks because they read the live web. ChatGPT and Gemini draw on months of consistent facts, so mentions there move on a two-to-four-month window. The 90-day plan above spells out each phase.

What do I keep if we stop?

Everything: the pages, the schema, the accounts, the question map, and the readouts, transferred in working condition. On the day you leave, you know exactly what is yours, because it says so in the scope.

Can you work alongside my current agency?

Yes, with one condition: we need to own the search and AI layer we are accountable for. Splitting accountability for the same channel is how the number stops moving and everybody blames the other vendor. We will tell you on the call if that is how it would land.

Which industries does this fit?

Any business a buyer researches before spending: pools and outdoor living, HVAC, windows, roofing, landscaping, e-commerce, and B2B services. The receipts on this page cover e-commerce, home services, and windows in Houston, across 55+ industries served.

Do you sell backlinks or directory blasts?

No. Mentions are aligned where they are real: listings, partners, press, and community. Purchased link networks are a penalty risk in Google and a credibility risk in the AI engines, which discount them. It is not a shortcut; it is a liability.

How do we start?

Book the free growth plan call and bring your numbers. You leave with the AI visibility report, the question map for your market, and a written plan, whether you hire us or not.

THE NEXT STEP

Get the scope in writing.

Thirty minutes. Bring your numbers. You leave with the map and the price, either way.
1 client slot open of 6. Updated 27 August 2026.