What is Authority as a Service™ and how can it help my business?

Authority as a Service™ is a done-for-you system from Authority Engine™ that boosts your brand’s visibility and credibility in AI-powered search platforms like ChatGPT and Google SGE. By combining Answer Engine Optimization and executive visibility strategies, we help your business become the top, trusted choice for both AI engines and real customers.

How does Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) improve my company’s ranking on AI search engines like ChatGPT and Siri?

AEO is a strategic approach that optimizes your online presence to ensure AI-driven platforms recognize and recommend your business. We enhance your business profile and digital content with AI schema, knowledge layers, and intent-focused keywords, making you the go-to solution during high-intent AI searches.

Why should law firms and agencies invest in executive visibility and LinkedIn thought leadership?

Establishing your leadership team as recognized authorities builds trust and attracts more leads from both people and AI search engines. Our executive PR and daily LinkedIn content system elevates your firm’s credibility and ensures your expertise stands out in competitive spaces—without relying on paid ads.

Can Authority Engine™ help my business get found without spending on digital ads?

Yes, our approach focuses on organic AI visibility strategies that deliver ROI by making your business the default choice on search platforms and voice assistants. We replace costly advertising with reputation-building PR, optimized business profiles, and content that AI engines love, ensuring long-term discoverability.

What makes Authority Engine™ different from traditional SEO or marketing agencies?

Unlike traditional agencies, we specialize in AI search optimization and digital authority using proprietary Answer Engine Optimization and executive visibility systems. Our holistic method prioritizes lasting authority and trust so your business stays ahead—even as algorithms and search technologies evolve.

How do you position my brand as the most credible choice in my industry?

We craft thought leadership content, executive PR, and innovative positioning strategies tailored for AI-powered search and social platforms. This makes your brand the benchmark for credibility, ensuring that both AI engines and potential clients recognize and choose your business first.

What types of businesses benefit most from your AI visibility strategies?

Our services are ideal for growth-focused law firms, marketing agencies, and SMBs looking to dominate new AI-driven search landscapes. If you want to build lasting digital authority and outshine larger competitors without the hassle of short-lived SEO tactics, Authority Engine™ is built for you.

Authority Engine’s pricing is engineered to be both fair and defensible: every number is grounded in what firms already pay for advanced SEO, premium content, SDR services, and custom AI development, yet bundled so you get a unified authority engine instead of juggling multiple vendors. A setup that would typically cost $30,000–$80,000 in AI and AEO work is compressed into a $3,500 AI Authority Setup, then supported by a simple monthly model that replaces the $28,000–$48,000/month you’d otherwise spend across separate agencies with one integrated system focused on making you the default recommendation in AI search.

More importantly, the structure is built around relationships, not transactions: your investment funds a long-term partnership where a team that knows your market, leadership, and clients continually refines your authority graph, content, executive presence, SDR motions, and AI signals, so both AI models and real buyers keep choosing you first.

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Solving Your Key Problems

Why We’re Different (and Why Now)

Value vs. Traditional Agencies: Most firms still sell channels, SEO, content, PR, and ads, where you pay multiple retainers and never get a unified authority engine.
AEO/SEO-focused agencies commonly charge $5,000–$12,000/month without AI-specific optimization for answer engines.
Premium content shops bill $8,000–$15,000/month for the volume and quality of articles included in your Pro package alone.
LinkedIn lead gen and SDR providers often sit in the $5,000–$12,000/month range without any integrated AEO or AI visibility strategy.
Custom AI development is usually sold as a separate $20,000–$150,000 project.
Authority Engine Pro combines all of these into one integrated system, delivering $28,000–$48,000/month in market-benchmarked value for a total monthly investment in the low-to-mid teens once ad management is included.

High Converting Funnels

Value vs. AI-Only or “Automation” AgenciesAI-only vendors often offer tools, chatbots, or light content automation without actually engineering the authority layer that answer engines use to choose recommendations.
Your model includes a proprietary neural network tuned to each client’s data and message, plus the AEO, executive authority, and demand-gen layers that AI systems rely on for trust signals.
This combination builds long-term defensibility: once AI engines consistently see a client as the “trusted answer,” it becomes far harder for late entrants or point-solution vendors to dislodge them.

Benefits of Choosing Authority

Turn AI Engines into Your Best Sales Reps

Authority makes AI systems like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Siri recognize, trust, and recommend your brand as the go-to answer, so you stop chasing clicks and start owning the conversation where buyers actually begin their search.

Build Executive Voices That Close Deals

Before the First Call
Your leaders become the most visible, credible experts in your niche, with daily LinkedIn authority content, press wins, and thought leadership that pre-sells your value and makes every sales interaction warmer and faster to close.

Replace Fragile Ad Spend with Compounding Authority Signals

Instead of renting attention with campaigns that die when budgets pause, Authority builds a durable ecosystem of schema, content, PR, and engagement that keeps driving qualified inbound opportunities long after the initial work is done.

Engineer an Always-On Growth Engine, Not One-Off Campaigns

Behind the scenes, your custom AI authority infrastructure constantly learns, optimizes, and amplifies your presence, so you show up first, sound like a category leader, and stay ahead of bigger brands still stuck in traditional SEO and ad tactics.

Authority Engine Pricing

Stop Competing. Start Commanding.

How Our Pricing Works

AI Authority Setup – One-Time $3,500
Custom AI neural network for your brand, including architecture, training data pipeline, optimization, and integration into your authority system, work typically valued at $25,000–$60,000 in standalone AI development.
Full AEO implementation (schema, entity/knowledge layers, AI-ready profiles), LinkedIn and executive profile optimization, content and funnel blueprinting, and CRM/SDR workflow design, representing $30,000–$80,000 in combined market value.

Monthly Base – Authority Engine Plan - Starter, Pro, and Enterprise

Starter $7,500/month
Pro - $10,000/month
Enterprise - $15,000/ month

AI Ads Engine – Add-On

$2,500/month
Plus 12% of monthly ad spend, with a $5,000/month ad spend minimum.
Covers AI-powered creative generation, multi-platform launch, 24/7 optimization, and predictive performance modeling.

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What’s Included in Each Plan

Starter AEO - $7,500/month

AEO Dominance pillar:
Full schema and entity implementation, AI-optimized artifacts, and answer-layer optimization.
~15 AEO/SEO-optimized articles per month targeting the questions AI engines surface in your niche.
Baseline LinkedIn presence and profile optimization to reinforce entity and authority signals.

Authority Engine Pro - $10,000/month (Recommended)

All three pillars: AEO Dominance, Market Authority, and AI Ads Engine strategy.
~30 AEO/SEO-optimized authority articles per month, benchmarked at $8,000–$15,000/month in standalone premium content rates.
Custom AI neural network built for your brand, representing $25,000–$60,000 of value that compounds over time as it learns your market and voice.
Dedicated SDR-level support for qualified sales calls, typically worth $5,000–$8,000/month as a fractional or outsourced SDR.
~900 targeted LinkedIn outreach touches and daily ICP engagement to build executive authority and generate pipeline.
AI Ads Engine strategy, creative, and optimization framework, with the option to turn on full hybrid management via the add-on.

Enterprise Authority – From $15,000/month+ (custom)

Everything in Pro, plus: Higher content volume (up to ~50 authority-grade articles per month) and multiple SDRs.
Multi-location, multi-practice, or multi-brand authority architectures.
Custom AI enhancements, deeper data integrations, and priority-level access to the Authority Engine team.

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What Our Clients Say

SaaS Security Client

Before we found Authority Engine, we were throwing money at a whole lineup of vendors, SEO, content, PR, LinkedIn outreach, paid ads, all of it, and paying a premium just to see tiny bumps in pipeline. We haven’t ripped and replaced every vendor yet, but the clock is definitely ticking on who actually performs and who doesn’t.

Now most of our efforts run through one unified authority system instead of a messy pile of retainers, and it’s obvious where the real results are coming from. We’re spending less overall, getting way more coverage and visibility, and seeing wins show up faster because we’re no longer stuck herding five different teams just to launch a single campaign.

-Tim W.

National Law Firm

Most of what we found were pricey traditional agencies doing things the old way, or AI tools that automated tasks but didn’t help us become the go-to name in our space. The few custom AI options wanted a big upfront check just to build a model, with no real plan for authority or demand.

Authority Engine made the choice easy: we consolidated scattered agencies and tools into one system that actually builds long-term authority. We’re spending less, seeing a much bigger lift across search, social, and AI-driven recommendations, and it started working faster than any campaign we’d run before.

- John C.

Digital Marketing Agency Owner

We ran our own marketing like most agencies: one team for SEO, another for content, someone else for outbound, plus a stack of tools collecting dust. It was pricey, slow, and never really made us the obvious authority in our niche.

We stopped chasing channels and focused on authority. One system and one AI model power our content, exec presence, and ads, so we spend less, get better leads, and see wins roll in a lot faster.

- Jen B.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can we start with just AEO or Market Authority?

Yes; not every firm is ready on day one for the full three-pillar system, and the pricing model is designed to meet you where you are while keeping a clear path to the complete Authority Engine. Starter AEO begins at $7,500/month with a smaller setup fee and focuses on dominating AI search with schema, structured knowledge layers, and AEO/SEO content, which is ideal if you first need to secure visibility and entity recognition before scaling outbound volume or ad spend. As you see early movement in AI-powered discovery and organic authority, you can then layer in Market Authority (executive visibility, LinkedIn thought leadership, SDR workflows) and the AI Ads Engine add-on to create a full stack that covers awareness, trust, and demand generation in one place.

2. Why is there a $3,500 setup fee?

The $3,500 AI Authority Setup covers the heavy lifting required to build your authority infrastructure before a single campaign goes live, which is work that would typically be sold as a standalone project for $30,000–$80,000 in the broader market. That includes custom AI neural network development tailored to your firm, full AEO technical implementation (schema, entity, and knowledge graph structures, AI-ready business profiles), executive and LinkedIn profile optimization, authority content and campaign architecture, and CRM/SDR workflow design so sales motions are wired into the system from day one. The setup fee is intentionally priced as a fraction of that benchmarked value, which both filters for serious partners and gives you access to an asset, your own authority engine, that most competitors can’t afford to build piecemeal with multiple vendors.

3. What kind of ROI should we expect, and how does this compare to traditional agencies?

Authority Engine is engineered to create several additional qualified sales conversations per month, not just more impressions or clicks, by combining AEO, executive authority, SDR motions, and AI-optimized ads. For firms with average deal sizes above $50,000, closing even one additional deal per quarter from this lift can translate into six-figure annual returns on a low-to-mid six-figure annual investment, and that’s before factoring in the compounding value of category ownership in AI search. Compared to traditional SEO, content, and SDR providers, who often charge a combined $20,000–$40,000/month without any custom AI development, Authority Engine’s Pro package delivers $28,000–$48,000/month in benchmarked standalone services for a substantially lower all-in monthly price, putting you economically ahead while also being structurally better positioned in AI-driven discovery.

4. Is there a minimum commitment, and why?

A 6-month minimum commitment is recommended because true authority, especially in AI search, compounds over time; models need to learn your data and voice, authority content needs to saturate the answer layer, and SDR motions need enough runway to turn signal into revenue. In the first 60–90 days, most of the work is focused on AI and AEO implementation, content architecture, and early authority signals; in the following months, you see the flywheel effect as AI citations, executive visibility, and pipeline volume all build on each other, which is why a shorter engagement would undercut the system you are actually paying to build.

5. How does your pricing compare to hiring separate SEO, PR, content, and SDR vendors?

To replicate Authority Engine with separate vendors, you would typically need an advanced SEO/AEO agency ($5,000–$12,000/month), a premium content shop for 30+ articles ($8,000–$15,000/month), a LinkedIn/PR partner ($3,000–$10,000/month), an SDR provider ($5,000–$8,000/month), and an AI development firm for a custom model ($20,000–$60,000+ project). Authority Engine consolidates all of this into one integrated system, with a one-time $3,500 setup and a monthly structure that delivers that combined $28,000–$48,000/month value at a significantly lower price point, alongside a unified strategy that traditional channel-siloed vendors can’t match.

6. What if we already work with an SEO or ad agency? Does your pricing replace them or sit alongside them?

For many firms, Authority Engine replaces at least one major retainer over time, because AEO, answer-layer content, and AI authority make traditional SEO tactics or generic paid media less central to how prospects actually discover and trust you in an AI-first environment. In other cases, existing SEO or ad partners can remain focused on legacy channels (e.g., classic SERPs, branded search, or niche campaigns), while Authority Engine owns the AI authority layer and executive visibility; the pricing is designed so the value delta is clear either way, and most teams eventually consolidate around the engine that is demonstrably driving qualified opportunities and being named as the “default answer” in AI search.

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