Our work · what we hand you

Every deliverable, up close.

See the actual audits, reports, and content we ship — the real layouts and the real rigor, with a walkthrough film inside each block as it renders.

Illustrative where labelled — Forgeline CI, Vektrid and the example-audit brands are fictional sample clients; every figure carries its method. The live Index leaderboard in the measured strip is the one measured element on this page.

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Every proof surface, labelled

Three kinds of evidence live on this site and they are not interchangeable. Here is all of it, sorted by what kind it is.

MEASURED

Real numbers from real runs. Every figure here is a median across at least ten runs per engine with a confidence interval, dated at capture.

ILLUSTRATIVE

Invented brands, real layout. These show what a finished deliverable looks like and how a number would be sourced — nobody on this page is a client.

TOOLS OF PROOF

Things you can point at your own site, or that let someone else check us.

The real thing — figures, film, and the full example.

One block per deliverable: the artifact itself, a short walkthrough film, and a link to the complete example. Nothing important is hidden behind a form.

Example audits · one per tierIllustrative · four fictional brands

Share of model · “best observability tool for Kubernetes” (the free-tier snapshot; every tier deepens it)

Datadog64%
Grafana49%
Honeycomb38%
Lumen Observe16%
Freethe one-page snapshot — measured, 5 prompts
Starteradds 10 prompts · all 5 engines · AI-readiness scorecard · top-10 fixes
Fulladds 20–30 prompts × 5 engines · competitor leaderboard
Comprehensiveadds top-5 page rewrites · schema specs · off-site placement plan

four audits, four niches — depth escalates tier by tier · every figure sourced & method-noted

01One-time · the core diagnosis

The full audit

The complete diagnosis: share of model with a confidence interval, all seven AEO KPIs scored, every engine read separately, and a dated 30/60/90 plan.

Watch: The full audit walkthrough (1:12) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
Free teardown · what the answer saysIllustrative · Forgeline CI
ChatGPTNot cited

❯ best CI/CD tool for a small platform team

For a small platform team, strong options include Pistons, Relay Deploy, and Hangar — each with managed runners and good GitHub integration.

pistons.devg2.comreddit.com/r/devops
Share of model17%95% CI 14.8–19.2 · 4th of 4
Engines naming you1of 3 measured
Owned citations1of 9 cited sources

adaptive per-engine sampling · metric-matched 95% CI · measured June 2026 (illustrative sample)

02Free · the front door

The free teardown

The free front door: your real buyer prompts run across the engines, the competitors AI names instead of you, and the first three moves.

Watch: The free teardown walkthrough (1:02) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
Monthly report · this month's scorecardIllustrative · Forgeline CI
Share of model17%median across the engines
Appearance rate41%of qualifying answers
Citation rate23%answers citing your pages

Per-engine share of model — engines disagree; the report shows both

Claude26%
Perplexity24%
Gemini15%
ChatGPT9%
Grok7%

the trend, the rates, and where citations come from — every month, with its data as CSV + JSON

03Retainer · every month

Monthly analytics

The monthly scorecard: the share-of-model trend, every engine in one view, your appearance and citation rates, and where the citations come from.

Watch: Monthly analytics walkthrough (1:12) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
QBR · the year in one readIllustrative · Forgeline CI
Share of model · four quarters9%18%▲ +9 pts · doubled
Q19%
Q212%
Q315%
Q418%

quarter-over-quarter, the wins, the candid read, and next quarter's plan — and it ships as CSV + JSON, not just a slide

04Retainer · every quarter

The quarterly review (QBR)

The quarterly strategic read: the compounding curve, a candid look at what worked and what didn't, and next quarter's plan — owned and dated.

Watch: The quarterly review (QBR) walkthrough (1:02) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
Rationale · why this piece, this wayIllustrative · Forgeline CI
The goalReach top-3 share-of-model for “CI/CD for self-hosted Kubernetes” within 90 days.Audience: Platform engineers and DevOps leads evaluating CI/CD.
Why this angleAnswer-first + Article/FAQPage schema so engines can lift and cite it; leads with the self-hosted-Kubernetes angle where intent is highest and the field is thin.Engines disagree on CI/CD: Forgeline appears in Claude/Perplexity answers but is absent on ChatGPT/Grok — a fixable engine-specific gap. [Illustrative]
How it fits your brandMatches Forgeline's plain, technical voice; only claims the client authorized.

the goal, the sourced insights, the angle, and what to expect — beside every piece we ship

05Retainer · with every piece

The deliverable rationale

The why behind every piece: the audience and intent, the exact gap in your audit data, and the logic for the angle and format.

Watch: The deliverable rationale walkthrough (1:02) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
Content portfolio · the engagement at a glanceIllustrative · Forgeline CI
The cornerstone piece, built to be citedanswer-first · schema-marked · written in the client's voice
Answer-first articlesComparison pages12-post social packExplainer videoOff-site placementsMonthly newsletterEntity & schema spec

a full quarter of done-for-you, multi-channel content — page through the complete portfolio

06Retainer · the body of work

The retainer content portfolio

A quarter of done-for-you content, end to end — the cornerstone piece built to be cited, and the full multi-channel return around it.

Watch: The retainer content portfolio walkthrough (1:12) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
Case study · start to measured resultIllustrative — real when a founding engagement completes
Result-firstThe measured outcome up front — with its method and dateBefore & after, engine by engine
Then the howWhat we did to earn it, in orderThe timeline, and what to expect next
A measured result, today/case-studies/ leads with a live, measured Index leaderboard while founding engagements complete

labelled illustrative until a founding engagement completes — then replaced with the real one

07Proof · start to result

The case study

Start to measured result: an honest baseline, a before-and-after engine by engine, and the actual piece that moved the engines.

Watch: The case study walkthrough (1:02) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film
Off-site · footprint + placementsIllustrative · Forgeline CI
Review-site footprint
G2Claimed & verified
CapterraClaimed
AlternativeToSubmitted
PR placement list
Developer newsletterPitched
DevOps podcastIn progress
Trade publicationDrafted — awaiting your sign-off
Placements earned, never boughtReviews via your own accountsDeclines reported too

most AI citations point at third-party sources — this report keeps that surface worked and honest

08Retainer · authority off your site

Off-site authority & PR

The review-site and entity footprint claimed and kept consistent, plus earned editorial — pitched, tracked, and reported honestly, declines included.

Video · what the pack deliversReal sample — our own films
What you get1 original long-form video + ~4 platform-native shorts repurposed from it each month, with VideoObject schema (includes YouTube)
Long-form + platform shorts (16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1)Captions burned-in + .vttPoster + VideoObject schemaBrand intro/outro stingsRendered by our deterministic pipeline

the film beside this block is a real render from the same pipeline — its in-film data is labelled illustrative in-film

09Add-on · long-form + shorts

The video pack

Original long-form video plus platform-native shorts, rendered by the same deterministic pipeline that made every film on this page.

Watch: The video pack walkthrough (0:59) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film

The work we publish

The latest across every channel — only work that is actually published, with a real link on every card. When a feed is quiet, we say so rather than fake it.

Latest social posts

publishing weekly · All of it on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

Publishing weekly.

New posts land here as we publish across LinkedIn, X and Threads.

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YouTube walkthroughs

publishing weekly · All of it on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Publishing weekly.

Deliverable walkthroughs land here as they publish.

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Editorial & press placements

publishing weekly · View all

Publishing weekly.

Earned coverage is best-effort — new placements land here as they run.

Press / media kit

Measured, not promised.

Every number here is measured the same way — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — and we publish the method.

Share of model is the headline of the seven KPIs we score — with % citing your URL and % naming your brand right behind it. The full scorecard and the how live on the methodology page.

Google AI surfaces · measured separately10+ runs per enginemetric-matched 95% CIdated & re-run
The 7 KPIs & how we measure →

Every engagement starts from the same measured picture: when AI recommends a tool in your category, who it actually names — by share-of-model across all five engines, with 95% intervals and its date. Here's a live one from our AI Visibility Index.

AI Visibility Index — CI/CD platforms · share-of-modelmeasured snapshot · 2026-08-07
#ProductShare of modelShare95% CI
1GitHub Actions21.5%19.7–23.3
2GitLab CI/CD20.0%18.3–21.8
3CircleCI17.8%16.2–19.5
4Jenkins16.1%14.5–17.7
5Argo CD7.3%6.3–8.6
6Buildkite6.4%5.5–7.6
Engines
5 of 5
Prompts
10
Answers
500
Runs/engine
10
Interval
Wilson score interval, 95% (z=1.96)

Measured across the AI Visibility Index's 5 engines. Point-in-time; engines change. · Methodology →

Watch a measurement happen

The proof demo: an AI answer, measured — an illustrative reconstruction, labelled as such in-film.

Watch: a measurement, end to end (0:45) · captioned film — no audio by design · illustrative data, labelled in-film

Take the data with you

Your data, yours to keep — export everything to CSV or JSON anytime, no lock-in. Every deliverable — the audit, the monthly report, the QBR, the case study — ships with its data as a tidy CSV + JSON, source-labelled (what we measured vs your own numbers). And our AI Visibility Index is open data: download any category as CSV or JSON under CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab).

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Want to see one finished first? The showcase walks a complete artefact start to finish — illustrative, with invented brands and the real layout and method.

Most AEO optimizes only the slice of citations you own. Here's the whole map — all four tiers AI cites from, and how much of it we actually work.

Clear Cited works all four tiers

Coverage 100% · Control ~86% · Influence ~94% · Earned (best-effort)

Most AEO optimizes the ~44% you own. Clear Cited works all four tiers.

Control ~86% · influence ~94% · the last ~6% earned — worked, not guaranteed.

Source: Yext (6.8M citations), 2025-10 — a third-party citation-tier mix, not measured by our AI Visibility Index (which tracks share-of-model); illustrative of the tier split until we publish our own measured citation-source mix

Coverage is the scope of what we work — never a control or ranking guarantee. · See the full Citation Control Map →