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This page answers the questions covered by the article One Operator, Ten Domains, 30 Days: The Flat-Fee AEO Retainer Playbook on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, one operator can run ten client domains in 30 days with zero developer hours by selling a flat fee per domain for executed work and using a system that audits, publishes, fixes technical issues, and works on citations without prompt caps or unpredictable per-domain costs. The article sets 20 commercial prompts per domain, a Week 3 delivery route of about nine hours and ten minutes across ten domains, and a Day 28 report on verified citations, measurable referral traffic, and performance on the 20 core prompts plus an execution log. It proposes $3,500 per domain per month with no setup fee and no percentage-of-spend markup, noting ten domains would mean $35,000 in monthly retainer revenue as a proposed price to check against the real software quote and labor allowance.
The article recommends buying execution, not monitoring, and selling a flat fee per domain for work that gets done. According to groas, the software must audit, publish useful answers, address technical issues, and work on citations within client guardrails, without capping needed prompts and with predictable cost per domain. It states groas offers continuous paid and organic search execution for a flat monthly fee without percentage-of-spend markups or setup fees, and advises getting the applicable domain price in writing before setting a retainer.
Read more: 1. Days 1–7: Buy execution, not another dashboard
According to groas, the execution model for ten domains is about 35 hours per month x $50 = $1,750 in operator delivery labor, plus a groas software fee that needs a quote, with a Month 1 one-off of 20 hours x $50 = $1,000 for technical onboarding and access. The article describes groas delivery software as a flat monthly fee and says to confirm the quote per domain. It states there is no defensible all-in range until the agency has the software price and knows which clients can grant access.
Read more: The cost check: listed, hidden, recurring, and one-off
The article recommends starting with 20 commercial prompts per domain, divided into four five-prompt clusters, for 200 prompts across ten domains. The clusters are brand alternatives, category shortlists, problem and solution, and direct comparisons, such as best alternatives to [Client Brand] for [target use case] and [Client Brand] vs [Primary Competitor] pricing and features. According to groas, by Day 14 the target is ten domains with access checked, the planned index deployed where appropriate, and 20 prompts active per client.
Read more: Start with 20 prompts per domain
The article sets scheduled delivery work at about nine hours and ten minutes across ten domains. Monday triage is 15 minutes per domain on the 20 baseline prompts, crawler errors, and newly cited competitors, for two and a half hours, and Tuesday through Thursday execution review is 30 minutes per domain, for five operator hours. Friday verification is ten minutes per domain on what was published, crawler reachability, and prompt results, for one hour and 40 minutes, which the article contrasts with a manual model of 16 operator hours per client per month before freelance content.
Read more: 3. Days 15–21: Give one operator a weekly route
The article says by Day 28 to show verified clickable citations in commercial answers, referral traffic from AI search where measurable, and performance on the client's 20 core prompts, plus the execution log of technical fixes and content updates. It warns not to present a bare mention as a click or a cited URL that never names the brand as proof of direct brand discovery, and to say so if there is no attributable traffic yet. According to groas, groas for agencies provides branded weekly reports and an action log to explain the work.
Read more: 4. Days 22–28: Report the work, then check the bill
The article proposes $3,500 per domain per month, with no client setup fee and no percentage-of-spend markup, noting ten signed domains would mean $35,000 in monthly retainer revenue as a proposed selling price, not a demonstrated margin. It advises putting the real software quote beside the labor allowance and client approval requirements before quoting it as profitable. The article recommends declining clients that need six weeks of legal review for every comparison table, cannot grant CMS access or resolve a crawler block without developer work, or want hourly audit decks instead of autonomous execution.
Read more: 5. Days 29–30: Set the fee and refuse the wrong clients
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