Organic Search Retainer Rebuild (10-15 days)
Rebuilds a stalled SEO retainer around AI answer visibility, programmatic page templates, and entity authority so the agency sells strategy and production instead of title-tag tweaks. Deliverable is a re-scoped offer with new pricing, reporting, and a 90-day production calendar. Time: 10-15 days.
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Organic Search Retainer Rebuild (10-15 days)
Rebuilds a stalled SEO retainer around AI answer visibility, programmatic page templates, and entity authority so the agency sells strategy and production instead of title-tag tweaks. Deliverable is a re-scoped offer with new pricing, reporting, and a 90-day production calendar.
- Signed access to the client's search console, analytics, and CMS, plus read access to any existing rank-tracking or audit platform account At least 12 months of historical ranking and organic revenue data to establish a defensible baseline A named client-side approver for content and technical changes, with authority to sign off on page templates Agreed scope ceiling on page volume so programmatic work does not become unlimited production Internal agreement on which delivery roles (strategist, editor, technical lead) the retainer will fund
- 1.Pull 12 months of organic sessions, conversions, and ranking movement into one baseline sheet
- 2.List every deliverable the current retainer actually produced and the hours behind each
- 3.Interview the account lead on what the client complains about at renewal
- 1.Crawl the site and export technical issues ranked by revenue exposure, not issue count
- 2.Flag indexation, schema, and internal linking gaps that block AI crawler readability
- 3.Separate fixes the client can do in-house from work the agency should own
- 1.Query ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews with 20 core category prompts
- 2.Record whether the client appears, is mentioned without a link, or is absent entirely
- 3.Score each prompt by commercial intent so the gap list is prioritized
- 1.Map the client's topic space into entity clusters with a primary page per cluster
- 2.Identify catalog or location page patterns suitable for templated production
- 3.Estimate page volume the client can support with real inventory or data
- 1.Draft the re-scoped offer: strategy layer, production layer, and reporting layer
- 2.Price each layer separately so the client sees what the old retainer was missing
- 3.Model margin at three volume tiers before presenting anything
- 1.Build a sample AI visibility report using the prompt audit from day 3
- 2.Design the monthly dashboard with ranking, answer presence, and pipeline in one view
- 3.Write the narrative that explains why answer presence moves before rankings do
- 1.Run a working session with the client approver on the new scope and page templates
- 2.Confirm which entity clusters get funded in the first 90 days
- 3.Lock the production calendar and the review cadence
- 1.Produce two pilot pages from the template to prove the production line works
- 2.Route both through editorial review and schema validation
- 3.Capture time-per-page so the production estimate is real, not guessed
- 1.Draft the 90-day content and technical calendar with owners and dates
- 2.Assign internal roles and confirm capacity against the new scope
- 3.Set escalation rules for pages the client rejects
- 1.Present the rebuilt retainer, pricing, and pilot pages to the client
- 2.Handle objections on price by tying each layer to a measurable output
- 3.Secure written approval or a dated decision deadline
- 1.Hand the approved scope to delivery with a written brief per workstream
- 2.Load the reporting dashboard and schedule the first monthly review
- 3.Archive the old scope so nobody keeps delivering retired work
The rebuild converts a commodity retainer priced on hours into a three-layer offer where strategy and production carry separate line items, which typically lifts monthly value 40 to 80 percent without adding headcount. Margin comes from templated production: once the page pattern is proven, cost per page falls while the client pays for the cluster, not the page. Answer-engine reporting also creates a renewal argument the old scope never had, since most agencies still have no line item for AI shortlist presence.
- Baseline sheet with 12 months of organic performance and a per-deliverable hours audit
- AI answer visibility audit covering 20 commercial prompts across three assistants
- Entity cluster map with page templates and a volume estimate
- Re-scoped retainer proposal with layered pricing and a margin model
- 90-day production calendar with owners, dates, and a monthly reporting dashboard
The client has signed the re-scoped retainer with layered pricing, and the first two template pages are live and passing schema validation.