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This page answers the questions covered by the article What One AI Citation Gap Really Costs to Close on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to the article, closing one illustrative AI citation gap costs $1,025 to $2,980 in one-off freelance labor, plus a $2 to $10/month share of a monitoring seat shared across 40 gaps. The total covers a 3-to-8-hour technical fix, a roughly 1,500-word answer page, one authority placement, and 1 to 2 hours of re-measurement. The article models about $900 in missed value if that gap sits for 90 days, and states that figure is a model, not an invoice.
The article recommends asking who does lines 2 and 3, meaning the technical fix and the answer page, when comparing tools that promise to get a business featured. According to groas, groas is built around autonomous search execution with a named human strategist setting direction and owning accountability. The article states buyers should ask who can make a change, who approves it, and who checks the result.
Read more: Read the scope line, not the feature list
According to the article, one illustrative gap costs $1,025 to $2,980 in one-off freelance labor for a small business on a standard CMS with no in-house developer. That sum covers lines 2 to 5 in the bill, plus a $2 to $10/month detection share when a monitoring seat is shared across 40 gaps. The article adds a separate model of about $900 in missed value if the gap sits for 90 days, which it states should not be added to a vendor quote as a price.
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The article states a monitoring seat can show which prompts are lost and which competitor gets cited instead, but it does not rewrite a page or earn a mention elsewhere. Listed entry prices span $29 a month for 15 prompts, $69 for 500 checks, roughly $95 to $99 for 50-prompt starter plans, and the draft's higher-volume example reaches $399 a month. At $69 for 500 checks the arithmetic is about $0.14 per check, and if 40 gaps share a $95 to $250 seat the cost is roughly $2 to $6 per gap per month.
Read more: Line 1: detection is rent, not repair
The article states the work is research, a direct answer near the top, a dated fact table where facts need dates, clear steps or criteria, and review by someone who knows the subject. Content-rate anchors cited are 25 to 45 cents per word, or $375 to $675 for 1,500 words before editing, with copyediting at $45 to $75. For this bill the working budget is $450 to $900 freelance for a researched page and review, or $1,200-plus when the subject calls for a specialist.
Read more: Line 3: an answer page is a separate invoice
The article models the delay with 1,000 questions per month x 50% AI-answer rate x 8% click share = 40 visits a month, then 40 visits x 3% conversion rate x $250 job value = $300 a month. Three idle months x $300 equals about $900 in modeled missed value for one gap. The article states those are rounded assumptions, not observed traffic or a promised return from a citation.
Read more: Line 6: the backlog has no invoice and can still cost the most
[1] https://groas.com/post/the-bill-for-actually-getting-featured-w (the article this page answers from)