# Altyzo

> Self-hosted AI software for SEO agencies. It does the research, writing, publishing, and monitoring for SEO, AEO, and GEO work; the agency's team reviews and approves it. $30K lifetime license. No per-seat fees. Deployed on the agency's own servers.

## Sections
- [How it works](https://www.altyzo.com/process): The dashboard. Client management, content calendar, agent activity, wins feed, recommendations, team management.
- [Agents](https://www.altyzo.com/process): The AI agents: Research, Technical SEO, Content Engine, Publishing, Monitoring, Optimization, Brand Voice.
- [Economics](https://www.altyzo.com/#roi): Same team, more clients: about 6–9 hours of human review per client per month versus an estimated 27–45 hours by hand. No per-seat or per-client license fee; AI and API usage is paid directly and ran about $80 per client per month in our own use.
- [Deployment](https://www.altyzo.com/security): Self-hosted Docker image. Postgres, ClickHouse, nginx. Your servers, your data.
- [Trust](https://www.altyzo.com/trust): Where data is stored and sent, what Altyzo receives, and what it does not have yet (no SOC 2, no third-party pen test).
- [Security](https://www.altyzo.com/security): Architecture, network isolation, signed updates, backups, hardening checklist, vulnerability reporting.
- [Free Pilot](https://www.altyzo.com/pilot): 14-day free pilot on one client site, on Altyzo's server, for agencies with about 15+ retainer clients. Up to 3 pilots at a time. 48-hour response.

## Services
- [Altyzo Managed](https://www.altyzo.com/managed): Done-for-you SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI Overviews run as one system by senior strategists plus Altyzo's AI agents. For B2B brands. From $8,000/month, six-month initial term, two engagements per month. 90-day citation guarantee on agreed priority prompts.
- [GEO Agency](https://www.altyzo.com/geo-agency): What a GEO agency actually does — the five-part work, the vetting checklist, and when you don't need one.
- [Full-Surface Audit](https://www.altyzo.com/managed#offer): $7,500 one-time. Entity, technical, content, and authority audit across Google and AI engines. Credited to the first month if you proceed.
- [Pricing](https://www.altyzo.com/pricing): Audit $7,500 · License $30,000 one-time · Managed from $8,000/month. Flat published numbers, no tiers.
- [The Process](https://www.altyzo.com/process): Exactly what happens after you apply — fit check, audit, onboarding, cadence — for Managed and the license.

## Company
- [About](https://www.altyzo.com/about): Why Altyzo exists. The agency model is breaking. Execution capacity is the bottleneck.
- [Contact](https://www.altyzo.com/contact): Licensing, support, and partnership inquiries.
- [Blog](https://www.altyzo.com/blog): Practical guides on AEO, GEO, AI search, and agency infrastructure.
- [Experiments](https://www.altyzo.com/experiments): Live public tests of the Altyzo method on our own domain — real Search Console data, dated weekly updates.
- [Comparisons](https://www.altyzo.com/compare): Altyzo vs Ahrefs, SEMrush, Surfer SEO, Jasper, Profound, AthenaHQ, Peec AI, Otterly, Scrunch.
- [Privacy](https://www.altyzo.com/privacy): Privacy policy.
- [Terms](https://www.altyzo.com/terms): Terms of service — platform license and Managed engagements.

## Comparisons
- [Altyzo vs Ahrefs](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-ahrefs): Ahrefs tells you what to do. Altyzo does it.
- [Altyzo vs AthenaHQ](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-athenahq): AthenaHQ shows you the gap and meters the actions. Altyzo's agents close it.
- [Altyzo vs Jasper](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-jasper): Jasper helps marketing teams write. Altyzo replaces your agency's execution team.
- [Altyzo vs Otterly](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-otterly): Otterly watches the engines for $29/mo. Altyzo's agents act on what they see.
- [Altyzo vs Peec AI](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-peec-ai): Peec AI is deliberately measurement-only. Altyzo is the layer that acts on the measurement.
- [Altyzo vs Profound](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-profound): Profound tells you how AI engines describe your brand. Altyzo's agents do the work that changes it.
- [Altyzo vs Scrunch](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-scrunch): Scrunch monitors and reshapes how AI reads your site. Altyzo's agents produce the evidence engines cite.
- [Altyzo vs SEMrush](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-semrush): SEMrush gives you the data. Altyzo acts on it.
- [Altyzo vs Surfer SEO](https://www.altyzo.com/compare/altyzo-vs-surfer-seo): Surfer helps you write better content. Altyzo writes, publishes, and optimizes it.

## Blog
- [The Best AI Visibility Tools in 2026 (An Honest Field Guide)](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools): Profound, Peec AI, AthenaHQ, Otterly, Scrunch — every serious AI visibility tool compared honestly. The one thing they all share: they measure the problem. Whether you need measurement or execution is the real decision.
- [Advanced GEO Strategies for Businesses: The Layer Past the Basics](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/advanced-geo-strategies): Every 'advanced' GEO guide is a beginner checklist with more items. The actual advanced layer — the fan-out map, the sentence bank, the corroboration pipeline, the decay tracker — with the artifacts to run each.
- [ChatGPT Ads: What They Cost, Who Sees Them, and What They Can't Buy](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/chatgpt-ads): ChatGPT ads went from a $200K pilot to self-serve in months and now sit on a quarter of commercial prompts. The mechanics, the costs, and the structural ceiling nobody prices in.
- [The Single-Origin Method: How to Create Facts AI Engines Have to Cite](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/original-data-ai-citations): Every GEO guide says 'publish original data' — none show you how. The single-origin method: inventory the facts only you own, write them in extractable form, place them where engines look, verify the citation.
- [AI Search Traffic Attribution: Why GA4 Undercounts AI Referrals by Half](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/ai-search-traffic-attribution): A big share of your AI-referred traffic files itself as Direct. Why referrers die in transit, the exact GA4 channel-group regex that catches what survives, and the three-layer stack that recovers the rest.
- [Do You Need a GEO Agency? Agency vs Tools vs In-House vs Self-Serve](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/aeo-agency-vs-tools-vs-in-house): The four ways to get AI search visibility — a GEO/AEO agency, self-serve tools, an in-house hire, or a licensed platform — with honest costs, timelines, and the decision framework to pick the right one.
- [How to Build a GEO Strategy Without an Agency or Tools](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/geo-strategy-without-agency-or-tools): You can build a real GEO strategy with free tools and manual work — here's the exact playbook, what it costs in hours, and the point where DIY stops working.
- [Semrush AI Visibility & Semrush MCP: What They Do (and What They Don't)](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/semrush-ai-visibility-review): An honest look at Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit and its MCP server — what they measure, what they connect, and the gap between tracking AI search and actually producing it.
- [What Is an AEO Agency? What GEO Agencies Actually Do (and Cost) in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/what-is-an-aeo-agency): An AEO/GEO agency gets your brand cited inside AI-generated answers — here's what the good ones actually do, what they charge, how to vet them, and the red flags that mean rebranded SEO.
- [llms.txt: How to Create an AI Crawler File That Actually Works in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/llms-txt-guide): llms.txt gives AI models a curated map of your site's best content. How the spec works, what the data says about whether it moves citations, and how to ship one in 30 minutes — with ours as the example.
- [Entity SEO for AI Search: How to Build Knowledge Graph Presence in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/entity-seo-for-ai-search): AI engines retrieve entities, not keywords. How to make your brand a recognized entity — Wikidata, Organization schema, consistent identity — using our own setup as the worked example.
- [Claude SEO: How to Get Cited in Claude AI in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/claude-seo): Claude is the quietest engine but reaches the highest-intent enterprise buyers. Here's how to optimize for its unusual preferences: Brave indexing, authorship, depth, and honesty.
- [The AEO Checklist: A 40-Point Audit for Answer Engine Optimization in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/aeo-checklist): A practical 40-point AEO checklist covering technical access, content structure, schema, authority signals, and measurement — scored against our own site so you can see what a real audit looks like.
- [How to Track AI Citations: Mentions, Share of Voice, and What Counts](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/how-to-track-ai-search-visibility): How to track AI citations and measure mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and AI Overviews — rank trackers can't see them. Manual baseline first, automated when it breaks.
- [Schema Markup for AEO: What Actually Works in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/schema-markup-for-aeo): Does schema markup improve AI citations? The honest answer is more nuanced than the standard advice — here's what the controlled studies show and which schema types actually matter.
- [Perplexity SEO: How to Get Cited in Perplexity AI in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/perplexity-seo): Perplexity cites sources on every answer — making it the easiest engine to win and to measure. Here's how to get your brand into its numbered citations.
- [How to Get Cited in Google AI Overviews: A 2026 Guide](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/how-to-get-cited-in-google-ai-overviews): AI Overviews now sit on a fifth of Google results and steal the clicks that used to be yours. Here's how to become the cited source — from ranking fundamentals to answer-first structure.
- [ChatGPT SEO: How to Get Cited in ChatGPT Search in 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/chatgpt-seo): ChatGPT is where your buyers ask who to hire. Here's how to get cited — Bing indexing, crawl eligibility, answer-first structure, and the earned-media bias most guides skip.
- [What Is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization Explained for 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/what-is-geo): GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of optimizing content and brand presence for generative AI systems. Here's what it is, how it differs from SEO, and what actually works.
- [Self-Hosted vs SaaS SEO Tools: The Agency Owner's Dilemma](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/self-hosted-vs-saas-seo-tools): Should your agency self-host its SEO infrastructure or stay on SaaS? The real costs on both sides — per-seat math, lock-in, maintenance — and when each path actually wins.
- [GEO vs SEO in 2026: What Agencies Need to Know](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/geo-vs-seo-2026): GEO isn't replacing SEO — it's completing it. How the two disciplines differ, why agencies need both, and how to run them in one workflow without doubling the workload.
- [What Is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization Explained for 2026](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/what-is-aeo): AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the practice of getting your content cited as a source in AI-generated answers. Here's what it is, how it works, and how it differs from SEO.
- [How AEO Works: Answer Engine Optimization for Agencies](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/how-aeo-works-for-agencies): The agency operator's guide to AEO — what the work actually is, how to run it across a roster, and the capacity problem that decides whether you offer it or just talk about it.
- [AI Search Is Eating Your Agency](https://www.altyzo.com/blog/ai-search-is-eating-your-agency): Your clients are already asking ChatGPT who to hire — and forwarding you the screenshot when they're not in the answer. Why the agency model breaks, and what the ones who adapt look like.

## Experiments
- [Zero Backlinks: Page 1 for Some Queries in 3 Weeks, Then It Faded](https://www.altyzo.com/experiments/new-domain-aeo-experiment): A brand-new domain, zero backlinks, no ads, no socials. We ran our own AEO method on it: page 1 for some queries within three weeks, then the waves faded and traffic stayed near zero. Every day of Search Console data, updated weekly.

## What it does
- SEO: Research, content production, technical audits, publishing, ranking tracking, optimization
- AEO: Content structured for AI search engines. Schema markup, FAQ blocks, entity coverage, citation-friendly formatting
- GEO: Tracks and optimizes visibility in Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. Citation rate tracking and optimization
- Dashboard: Manage clients, review content, track results, assign team members

## Key facts
- Price: $30,000 USD lifetime license per agency
- Deployment: Self-hosted Docker image on the agency's own infrastructure
- Agents: 7 (Research, Technical SEO, Content Engine, Publishing, Monitoring, Optimization, Brand Voice)
- Search coverage: Google, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude
- CMS integrations: WordPress, Shopify, Webflow
- Data warehouse: ClickHouse (bundled)
- Database: Postgres (bundled)
- Pricing model: One-time license fee. No per-seat or per-client license fees (AI/API usage is paid directly by the agency).
- Maintenance: year 1 included; after that optional at $6,000/year for API updates and new agent features. License payment is 50% at signing and 50% once live. The first three licenses are $20,000 (founding price).
- Managed service: Done-for-you engagement for B2B brands. From $8,000/month, six-month initial term, then month-to-month. Two engagements per month.
- Managed entry point: Full-Surface Audit, $7,500 one-time, credited to first month.
- Managed guarantee: New citations on agreed priority prompts within 90 days or work continues at no cost.