UNCHARTEDSEO
The AI SEO agency that ranks itself before it ranks you.
Hiring an agency is hiring proof. Ours is on the table: our team ranked its own firm #1 in its market, published its client work for inspection, and runs AI search into every national campaign it manages.
What does an AI SEO agency cost, before any call?
Judge this claim rather than accept it: how to choose an SEO agency, including the checks we could fail.
- Two plans, Launch $100 and Scale $250 per month
- Published pricing, no sales call needed
- Billed monthly or annually, annual is two months free
What an AI SEO agency actually does.
An AI SEO agency runs search campaigns built for both readers of the modern web: the crawlers that rank pages and the AI systems that write answers. The work combines classic national SEO, technical foundations, content, and links, with citation engineering and answer surface capture. So a brand wins rankings and machine-written answers from the same build.
That is the whole shape of this firm. Our AI search optimization services program covers every AI surface, with generative engine optimization winning citations inside AI answers and answer engine optimization winning the boxes above position one, all shipped inside our nationwide SEO services on one ledger, in every state you serve.
What is an AI SEO agency?
An agency that treats AI answers as a first class search surface: AI Overviews, chat assistants, and voice, alongside classic rankings. The craft adds question mapping, answer capsule formatting, entity work, and citation tracking to standard SEO. Uncharted SEO runs it nationwide with published pricing and founder led campaigns.
Ready to see your own numbers?
The audit maps your market, documents your baseline, and names the fixes worth doing first. It is free, it takes four fields, and the findings are yours whether or not a program follows.
How do you choose an AI SEO agency?
Judge process, not promises. A serious agency shows a demand map before proposing, names deliverables in numbers, publishes pricing, and records a baseline you can verify later. Ask specifically how they measure AI citations. That is because an agency selling AI SEO without a measurement answer is selling a label.
What does an AI SEO agency cost?
Ours publishes before any call: two plans, Launch at $100 per month, or $1,000 per year, and Scale at $250 per month, or $2,500 per year, billed monthly or annually with annual at two months free. AI search work is built into both plans rather than sold as an upcharge. That is because in this era it is not optional. What separates them is the ceiling: up to 25 tracked keywords on Launch, up to 75 tracked keywords on Scale.
Is AI SEO different work or a different label?
Both exist in the market, which is the problem. Also, the real work changes deliverables: question coverage, capsule formatting, schema depth, entity consistency, and AI citation tracking beside rank tracking. If an agency’s AI offering changes nothing about what ships monthly, it is a label.
Five questions to ask any agency. Our answers are published.
To choose an agency for AI-era search, ask five things: whether it ranks for its own keywords, whether pricing publishes before a sales call, who actually performs the work after the pitch, how AI visibility is measured each month, and whether the engagement requires a contract. Uncharted SEO answers all five on this page.
- Do you rank for your own keywords? Our team ranked its own firm #1 in one of the most competitive agency markets on the West Coast, then published the client work for anyone to examine.
- Is your pricing published? Yes: Launch at $100 per month or $1,000 per year, and Scale at $250 per month or $2,500 per year, on this page, before any call happens.
- Who does the work after the pitch? Also, andreas, the founder, reviews every campaign personally. There is no junior pod handoff, in any state, on either plan.
- How is AI visibility measured? Monthly cross-engine citation and answer-share logging, reported beside your live Wincher rank dashboard, one ledger for both worlds.
- Am I locked into a contract? No. Cancel anytime. Your plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for. So the plan has to keep earning its place.
What every campaign includes, on every tier.
Keyword and Intent Architecture
Buyer-intent keyword mapping across every market you serve, so each page targets the moment someone is ready to spend.
Pages That Ship on Schedule
Content and technical work delivered on a published cadence, documented deliverable by deliverable, month after month.
The Full AI Search Layer
Citation engineering and answer surface capture built into every page, because machine answers are now part of every buying journey.
Live Ledger Reporting
Your own Wincher rank dashboard plus the monthly AI visibility report. So movement is something you watch, not something you are told about.
Strategy Sessions
Scheduled sessions that re-aim budget at the next win: new markets, new questions, new surfaces, decided from the ledger, not from habit.
Why founder-led beats the pod handoff.
Most firms sell you their best people and staff you with their newest. We are structured so that cannot happen: Andreas Benavente, who built the Uncharted 11 at Portland Peak SEO and ranked that firm #1 in its own market, personally reviews every campaign this company runs. The framework was earned on our own rankings before it was ever sold, and the person who earned it is the person personally reading your ledger every month, line by line, whether your business is in Portland, Phoenix, or Pittsburgh.
What hiring us actually looks like.
Audit to Architecture
Month one becomes a roadmap: keyword architecture approved, entity foundation engineered, and the first priority pages shipped with answer units live.
Cadence Locks In
Build cadence running, AI search layers extended sitewide, and the second measurement sweep logged against baseline.
The First Full Ledger
Rankings, citations, and answer share in one report, reviewed together in a strategy session that aims the next quarter at the biggest opening.
Two plans. No gatekeeping. Cancel anytime.
Both plans are billed monthly or annually, and annual is two months free.
- Or $1,000 per year, two months free
- Up to 30 articles per month
- Up to 25 tracked keywords
- Full technical and on-page program
- Wincher rank dashboard access
- Cancel anytime. Your plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for.
- Or $2,500 per year, two months free
- Everything in Launch
- Up to 75 tracked keywords
- 60-minute monthly strategy session, delivered personally
- Support within one business day, explicitly not same-day
- Competitor teardown reports and Search Console integration
- Early access to new capabilities as they ship
CANCEL ANYTIME. YOUR PLAN RUNS TO THE END OF THE PERIOD YOU HAVE PAID FOR.
Evaluating any AI SEO agency
| Check | What good looks like | What to walk away from |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Published tiers you can read today | A number that appears only after a sales call |
| Proof | Live client sites linked publicly | Screenshots and unverifiable claims |
| AI scope | Citations and answer coverage in the monthly deliverables | AI as an adjective in the pitch |
| Measurement | AI citations tracked beside rankings from a recorded baseline | Activity reports without a baseline |
The terms, defined plainly.
- AI SEO agency
- An agency treating AI answers as a primary search surface, with question mapping, capsule formatting, entity work, and citation tracking in the standing deliverables.Also called: AI search agency, LLM SEO agency, generative SEO agency, AI SEO company
- AI Overview
- The AI generated answer Google shows above organic results for many queries. It cites sources, and being cited is the new position zero.Also called: Google AI Overview, search generative experience, SGE
- Answer engine
- Any system that answers the question directly instead of listing links. AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and voice assistants all qualify.Also called: AI answer engine, answer system
- AI citation
- A link or named mention of a brand inside an AI generated answer. The unit of visibility in AI search.Also called: AI mention, assistant citation
- Query fan out
- One question expanding into the cluster of sub questions an AI answers alongside it. Coverage of the cluster wins the answer.Also called: question cluster, sub query expansion
- Grounding
- When an AI checks live sources before answering instead of relying on training memory. Grounded answers cite pages that rank and read cleanly.Also called: retrieval augmentation, RAG
- Entity
- A thing search engines recognize: a brand, person, place, or concept with consistent facts attached. Engines reason in entities, not keywords.Also called: named entity, knowledge graph entity
Where this sits in the wider program.
This work is not a separate product bolted onto search. It is the same foundation with additional layers on top, and the foundation has to hold or the layers are decoration.
Underneath sits the technical layer: crawlability, indexation, speed, and clean semantic structure. AI systems draw from indexes built by crawlers. So a page a crawler struggles with is a page no model will reach. Above it sits extractability, meaning direct answers placed under the questions they answer, in language a machine can lift without ambiguity.
Above that sits entity clarity. That is because a system will not confidently name a business it cannot resolve, and contradictions across your site and profiles actively suppress rather than merely fail to help. Authority sits on top: genuine links, real reviews, and consistent mentions from sources the models already trust.
All four run inside the published tiers rather than as add ons. That is because splitting them is how programs end up with a strong visible layer standing on a weak one.
How this gets measured without theater.
The hard honest problem in AI search is variance. Also, ask the same question twice and the cited sources can differ, which means any single check proves very little. Reporting that ignores this is producing theater with a chart on it.
The method here is a fixed panel. We agree on questions a real buyer in your category would ask, record where you stand on all of them before any work ships, and rerun the identical set on a schedule. Fixed questions cannot be quietly swapped for easier ones. A recorded baseline means every later claim traces to something written down before anyone had an incentive.
Single months are noise and direction across months is signal. We report both, including flat months, because a log that only records wins is a highlight reel. This runs alongside conventional rank and traffic reporting rather than replacing it. So you can see both pictures instead of accepting one as a proxy for the other.
When this is the right spend and when it is not.
The strongest fit is a considered purchase with a research phase. Where a buyer compares options over days or weeks, being present and citable during that window changes which shortlist you appear on.
The weakest fit is a transaction decided on price in seconds, or a business already at capacity. Visibility that produces calls nobody can service converts a marketing spend into a reputation problem, and we would rather flag that before you subscribe than after an invoice.
There is also a sequencing question. Sites with unresolved technical debt or inconsistent business facts should fix those first. That is because AI systems will not confidently name an entity they cannot resolve. The demand map identifies which situation applies before either plan is proposed.
What nobody can promise you here.
No agency controls what a model outputs on a given day. So a guaranteed citation is either a misunderstanding of the system or a bet that you will not check. What can be committed to is the work that makes citation likely and the measurement that shows whether it happened.
Nor can anyone promise a timeline with precision. Entity and authority signals compound over months, and the pace depends on your competitive field as much as on the work. The baseline is what turns that uncertainty into something observable rather than something argued about.
What is committed here is narrower and more useful: published pricing before any conversation, a documented baseline before any work, a fixed question panel, and reporting that publishes quiet months alongside good ones.
Hiring an AI SEO agency: straight answers.
What is an AI SEO agency?
It is an agency that runs search campaigns engineered for both rankings and machine-written answers. The work combines national SEO fundamentals, technical foundations, and content systems, with citation engineering and answer surface capture. So a brand appears in Google results and in the answers assembled by AI Overview optimization, ChatGPT, Perplexity SEO, and Gemini from the same build.
How do I choose the right agency for AI-era search?
Verify five things before signing anything: the agency’s own rankings, published pricing, who performs the work after the pitch, how AI visibility is measured month by month, and whether a contract is the requirement. Any firm selling the AI era should be able to answer all five in writing, on its website, the way this page does.
What makes Uncharted SEO different from other agencies?
Proof order. We show our own rankings first, our team ranked its firm #1 in its market and publishes its client work for inspection, then publish pricing, run founder-led campaigns with no contracts, and report rankings and AI citations in one ledger clients open themselves. The Uncharted 11 framework behind it is deployed on every page we ship, including this one.
How much does it cost to hire you?
Two plans, both in print
Launch is $100 per month, or $1,000 per year. Scale is $250 per month, or $2,500 per year. Billing is monthly or annually, and annual is two months free. Both publish up to 30 articles per month; Launch carries up to 25 tracked keywords and Scale up to 75 tracked keywords. Scale also adds a 60-minute monthly strategy session delivered personally, support within one business day rather than same-day, competitor teardown reports, Search Console integration, and early access to new capabilities as they ship. Cancel anytime. Your plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for.
Do you work with businesses outside Oregon?
Yes, and by design: the firm is headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Meanwhile, serving all 50 states remotely on the same systems our team proved with Northwest clients at Portland Peak SEO. Delivery runs on scheduled strategy calls and live dashboards you hold the login to, with Spanish language service available in every market nationwide.
What results can you actually show?
Verified campaign records: our own firm ranked #1 in its market, a public portfolio of live client sites, and a nationwide records platform we manage, a strong click-through rate on measured pages, and far more AI citations on multimodal builds. What we never show is a rankings guarantee, because no honest agency can make one.
Can a traditional SEO agency just add AI SEO?
The foundations transfer, and good ones will make the turn. Also, the tell is in the deliverables and the measurement. If nothing about the monthly work or the reporting changed when the label did, the offering is cosmetic. Ask to see an AI citation report from a real campaign.
What changes from one month to the next in an AI SEO program?
Question coverage expands along fan out
Question coverage expands along the fan out of your money queries. Capsule and schema work ships on the pages being built anyway. Citation checks run on a fixed set of buying questions so movement is comparable. All of it lands beside classic rank tracking, one dashboard, one baseline.
See what the two plans include and what they cost on the pricing page.
Updated September 6, 2026