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Hiring a GEO Agency: A SaaS Founder's Due Diligence Checklist

What to ask before signing an AI visibility or GEO retainer — deliverables that matter, the measurement contract, pricing models, red flags, and how to structure the first 90 days.

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The short version

  • Ask for the measurement contract before the deliverables list — if they cannot define citation share, they…
  • The right first deliverable is a prompt set and a baseline, not a content calendar.
  • Beware guaranteed rankings in ChatGPT — no vendor controls a non-deterministic system.

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Key takeaway

If measurement is the last item on their proposal, it will be the first thing that never…

If measurement is the last item on their proposal, it will be the first thing that never ships.

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Myth vs fact

We guarantee you will rank first in ChatGPT.

Assistant answers are non-deterministic and unranked. Any guarantee is either ignorance or a sales tactic.

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Playbook

Hiring a GEO Agency: A SaaS Founder's Due Diligence Checklist: the…

  • 1. Detect — Run a full crawl and let the agent flag every agentic seo issue on the site — canonicals…
  • 2. Explain — Each finding gets a plain-English explanation with the exact rule it violates and the URLs…
  • 3. Fix — The agent drafts the fix — meta rewrite, JSON-LD patch, internal link, redirect — as a diff you can…

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