# White-Label AEO Retainer Scope, Pricing and Reporting for Agencies

Last verified: 2026-10-08 · Maintained by Groas for groas ·
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This page answers the questions covered by the article [The White-Label AEO Retainer Swipe File: Scope, Pricing, Reports, and Objection Scripts](https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses) on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.

**Direct answer:** According to groas, agencies should sell published assets, documented technical changes, and an action log rather than a promise about how a model will answer. The article defines three per-domain tiers at $2,500/month, $5,000/month, and $9,500/month, separated by shipped Answer Pages, schema work, citation outreach, and sampling workload. It requires client review within five business days, a 30- to 60-day baseline for crawl and on-site changes, and a 90- to 180-day review cycle for off-site corroboration.

## What should be defined before quoting a white-label AEO retainer?

The article states the retainer pays for answer pages shipped, schema deployed, and citation work completed, while a prompt-monitoring dashboard is a measurement tool and not a deliverable on its own. According to groas, the agency delivers published assets, documented technical changes, and an action log and does not promise how a model will answer a particular query. The article recommends review of crawl and on-site changes over a 30- to 60-day baseline period and off-site corroboration over a 90- to 180-day review cycle, with client review due within five business days.

Read more: [Set the boundaries before you quote a retainer](https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses#set-the-boundaries-before-you-quote-a-retainer)

## What should a monthly white-label AEO scope include?

The article recommends a monthly scope of [Page Count] net-new Answer Pages for [Client Domain], [Technical Fix Count] agreed technical fixes for crawler access, JSON-LD audits and updates on [URL Count] existing URLs, and pursuit of [Citation Target] relevant third-party mentions or co-citations per cycle. According to groas, applicable Organization, Product, Service, Author, or FAQPage markup must match visible content, and the monthly report must distinguish placements secured from outreach attempted. Client approval is due in writing within five business days, and no production deployment occurs without the required access and authorization.

Read more: [Monthly deliverables: pages, fixes, and citations](https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses#monthly-deliverables-pages-fixes-and-citations)

## What exclusions should an AEO retainer scope list?

According to groas, the scope should exclude guarantees of a specific citation position, recommendation, wording, or inclusion in AI answers. The article excludes custom database engineering, CMS core updates, theme redesigns, plugin-conflict debugging, and broader server repairs from the monthly scope. It also states the agency will not publish hidden JSON-LD claims, fictitious entity attributes, or markup that contradicts visible page content.

Read more: [Exclusions: stop the retainer becoming a web-development contract](https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses#exclusions-stop-the-retainer-becoming-a-web-development-contract)

## How much should agencies charge for AEO retainers per domain?

The article lists Foundation AEO at $2,500/month per domain for 4 net-new Answer Pages, 6 existing URLs upgraded with applicable JSON-LD, and bi-weekly citation sampling across 35 commercial prompts, with a 65%–70% gross-margin target and $750–$875 fulfillment cost cap. Scale AEO is $5,000/month per domain for 8 net-new Answer Pages, 12 existing URLs upgraded, outreach toward 4 relevant third-party citations, and weekly sampling across 75 commercial prompts, with a 70%–75% margin target and $1,250–$1,500 cap. Enterprise Corpus Dominance is $9,500/month per domain for 16 net-new Answer Pages, agreed sitewide entity-architecture work, outreach toward 8 relevant placements, and weekly sampling across 150+ commercial prompt variations, with a 75%–80% margin target and $1,900–$2,375 cap. The article states the margin targets are planning limits, not client outcomes.

Read more: [Pricing-page copy: three per-domain retainers](https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses#pricing-page-copy-three-per-domain-retainers)

## What should a monthly AEO execution report show?

The article recommends leading the monthly report with shipped work: Answer Pages live, existing URLs upgraded, technical fixes verified, third-party placements secured, and work awaiting approval or access, supported by an Executed Action Log with date, asset, action, method, and status. According to groas, citation movement should be reported as citation share and brand mentions across the fixed query set with sampling dates, plus available AI-domain referrals, assisted conversions, and self-reported mentions. The report must distinguish observed movement from revenue attributed to a particular source and note changes to query set or tracking.

Read more: [Monthly report: lead with what went live](https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses#monthly-report-lead-with-what-went-live)

## Sources

[1] https://groas.com/post/the-aeo-retainer-swipe-file-sow-clauses (the article this page answers from)