Service comparison
AI SEO or full Search?
The choice is mainly about ownership. AI SEO is designed to sit beside a capable conventional SEO program. Sophrono Search owns the broader Google + AI search system together.
Side by side
Choose the responsibility—not the label.
AI SEO
From $1,750/moKeep the existing SEO team while Sophrono owns AI visibility, retrieval, citation, recommendation and related entity/source work.
- Conventional SEO is performing and actively managed.
- The specific gap is AI recommendation or citation visibility.
- You want a specialist layer without replacing the current SEO operating model.
- AI-search measurement
- Retrieval and recommendation analysis
- Entity and answer-oriented optimization
- Citation/source opportunity work within scope
Sophrono Search
From $2,250/moOne program across Google Search, AI search, technical SEO, content, entities, local search where relevant, competitive intelligence and implementation.
- Organic growth is stalled or structurally weak.
- Technical, content and AI-search constraints overlap.
- You want one team accountable for measurement, prioritization and implementation.
- Google + AI measurement
- Technical and on-page SEO
- Content and information architecture
- AI SEO and local search where relevant
Key differences
What actually changes between the two options.
Improve AI-search visibility while SEO stays with your team.
Improve the full search system across Google and AI.
Your existing team remains the primary owner.
Sophrono owns the managed search program.
Sophrono owns the agreed AI-search analysis and changes. Your team keeps conventional SEO.
Sophrono handles analysis, priorities and implementation across the agreed search scope.
AI-relevant technical and entity work within scope.
Broader crawl, indexation, architecture and remediation.
AI-answer and retrieval-oriented improvements.
Commercial pages, architecture, refreshes and broader search content.
Not a full local program.
Included where local search matters.
Monthly reporting. Higher tiers add a weekly intelligence pulse.
Monthly planning and reporting. Higher tiers add weekly intelligence and executive reviews.
Full SEO ownership. Larger content, development and outreach work is quoted separately.
Major rebuilds, migrations, large development and outreach campaigns are quoted separately.
AI SEO Foundation from $1,750, AI SEO Growth from $3,500, AI SEO Authority from $6,500 per month, quoted to your scope.
Search Foundation from $2,250, Search Growth from $4,250, Search Market Leader from $8,500 per month, quoted to your scope.
From $1,750/month, custom quote.
From $2,250/month, custom quote.
Which one fits
Four common situations.
You have an in-house SEO lead and need AI search measured and improved every month.
Choose AI SEO
AI SEO is built to sit beside an existing SEO program. Your lead keeps conventional SEO while we own the agreed AI-search work.
Organic growth has stalled and nobody clearly owns technical fixes, content or local pages.
Choose Sophrono Search
Sophrono Search puts technical SEO, content, local search and AI visibility under one accountable team, working from one ranked plan.
Your agency performs well on Google, but competitors appear in AI answers where you do not.
Choose AI SEO
That is the gap AI SEO targets. We work on mentions, citations and recommendations in AI answers without replacing an agency that is performing.
Basic crawl or indexation problems are still unresolved on important pages.
Choose Sophrono Search
AI visibility depends on a sound technical foundation. Sophrono Search covers crawl, indexation and architecture, so it is the better place to start.
Questions
AI SEO or Sophrono Search: common questions.
Can we start with AI SEO and move to Sophrono Search later?
Yes. AI SEO is designed for teams whose conventional SEO is already covered. If that changes, for example when an agency relationship ends or organic growth stalls, Sophrono Search can take on the broader program. Every Search plan already includes AI SEO work, so the AI-search focus continues inside the larger scope. We agree the new market definition and work plan before the change begins.
Do you guarantee rankings or AI citations?
No. Google and AI answer systems are run by third parties, and no provider controls what they rank, cite or recommend. What we control is the work. We measure an agreed question set, prioritize the gaps, make the agreed changes and measure again. That holds for both services, and each change is logged beside its follow-up measurement so you can see what moved.
How do AI SEO and our existing SEO team divide the work?
Your agency or in-house team keeps conventional SEO. Sophrono owns the agreed AI-search analysis and changes. When a page or schema change touches both programs, it has one named owner and an agreed approval path, so nothing is changed twice or missed. We set these roles with your SEO team in the first cycle, before any changes are made.
How much hands-on work does each plan include?
Both services run on monthly specialist capacity. AI SEO plans include up to 10, 20.5 or 38 specialist hours per month. Sophrono Search plans include up to 13, 25 or 50. Capacity goes to the highest-priority work that measurement reveals. In both services, work beyond the included capacity needs your approval first, so there are no surprise overages.
Decision rule
The right choice depends on who should own implementation.
Use the comparison to choose the operating model first. The exact tier comes later, after the market and scope are defined.
Start with evidence
Still not sure which path fits?
Start with the free personalized visibility preview. It gives you a limited market baseline before you choose a service or recurring engagement.