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This page answers the questions covered by the article The AEO Sales Call: $4,000 a Month to Watch Your Citations on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, tracking prompts and visibility scores does not change AI answers; only changing the matching page can. The article recommends paying for monitoring as a baseline utility and paying an execution retainer only when the seller can show a changed page, the buyer question it targeted, and a recheck. It concludes that a $4,000-a-month, 12-month offer tracking 500 prompts with up to five edits a month and a monthly call is paying to watch citations, not to change them.
According to groas, monitoring answers whether the answer changed, while execution asks what can be improved on the matching page and what happened when checked again. The article states the demo audit ran 40 high-intent prompts, with the brand absent on 34 and a competitor cited above on six, which is useful as a baseline to inspect. It argues that tracking 500 prompts with a weekly visibility score, sentiment tracking, gap analysis and alerts tells you a score moved after it moved and does not itself change an answer.
Read more: Act 1: The demo shows 40 prompts you are losing
The article states the plan offered citation building across 30 trusted directories in month one, knowledge graph management and schema deployment in month two, and an About page refresh plus two thought leadership posts in month three. According to groas, a page has a better shot at being used for a specific question when the answer is clear and readable, business facts are consistent, and independent mentions help confirm them. It argues that without connecting a deliverable to the buyer question it answers and the page to start with, the work is holistic reporting rather than coverage.
Read more: Act 2: The execution slide lists work without a buyer question
According to groas, the offer was $4,000 a month on a 12-month term, or $48,000 for the year, for tracking 500 prompts with up to five content optimizations per month and one strategy call. The article states the five optimizations were described as reviewing top prompts, updating meta and FAQ copy, submitting to a citation network, and logging work in a dashboard. It states that if the score drops, the movement appears in the portal and is walked through on the monthly call to prioritize next month's five optimizations.
Read more: Act 3: The $4,000 retainer buys five edits and a monthly call
The article recommends asking for one page changed last month, the exact prompt it targeted, the before and after, and what happened when checked again. It also recommends asking who checks a citation drop that week and who makes any needed change, stating that a person or a model is acceptable but next month's call is not. The article advises separating monitoring as a utility from execution and requiring a log of changed pages, not just a log of checked prompts.
Read more: The follow-up: your visibility gap is still available
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