# OnlyAEO vs Conductor (2026): Which AEO Platform, and Who Runs It? > OnlyAEO is the AEO platform that tracks AI answers and creates the content to change them, and our team can run it for you. Conductor is an enterprise AEO platform your team runs. Here is how to choose. URL: https://onlyaeo.com/blog/onlyaeo-vs-conductor-cross-platform-coverage-compared · Published: 2026-05-20 · Updated: 2026-10-14 · Author: Tejas Patil - **OnlyAEO:** an AEO platform that tracks AI answers and creates the content to change them. Our team can run it for you, and your team approves every piece before it goes live. - **Conductor:** an enterprise AEO platform, plus a Professional Services team that works alongside your team on project scope. - **How to choose:** ask who will do the work each week. If you have the people, a platform your team runs fits. If you don't, a platform our team runs for you does. - **Already on Conductor:** keep it. Our team can plan from a report exported by another visibility tool. We read Conductor's public product, services, partner and security pages on 14 October 2026; product details change, so check its site for the latest. ## How does OnlyAEO compare with Conductor for AI search visibility? The main difference is who runs the platform. Conductor sells a SaaS platform plus consulting for your team; OnlyAEO is an AEO platform that tracks AI answers and creates the content to change them, and on a managed plan our team runs it and delivers finished work for yours to approve. Both want your brand named when a buyer asks ChatGPT or Gemini about your category. A platform your own team runs gives it data and tools, and someone on your side directs them: setting up what to track, deciding which gaps to close, and reviewing what gets published. That takes someone's time every week. For a marketing lead, that turns the choice into a question about hours. Do you have people with spare capacity who want control of the tool, or is the AI search backlog growing faster than your headcount? We cover that tradeoff in [in-house AEO team vs hiring an agency](/blog/in-house-vs-agency-aeo-the-real-cost-and-capability-tradeoff). ## What AI search visibility features does Conductor include? Conductor gives your team a set of products for tracking, creating and monitoring AI search visibility, plus tools that send its data into the apps your people already use. Conductor describes it as an all-in-one platform for AI search visibility. ### The products - **Intelligence.** Tracks your brand across AI engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, and traditional search. It also compares your market share with competitors in AI and traditional search. - **Creator.** An AI writer personalized to your brand, guided by your brand voice and compliance rules while people review every output. Its Writing Assistant builds a guided brief, generates an outline or draft, and gives real-time AEO recommendations. - **Monitoring.** Always-on, 24/7 tracking of how AI bots crawl your site, with real-time alerts and prioritized fixes. - **AgentStack.** Official apps for ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot, plus an MCP Server and Data API for agent platforms, BI tools and custom builds. Its Turnkey Agents run content and technical AEO workflows with built-in governance. ### How Conductor measures AI search Conductor's AI Search Performance feature tracks share of voice, mentions and citations. - **Prompts by persona and intent.** Teams customize prompt generation by persona and intent, add their own topics, and configure tracking by brand, region and domain. Conductor says its synthetic prompts draw on its 10+ years of keyword data. - **Market share by topic.** Benchmarks show who leads the conversation on each topic. - **How data is collected.** Conductor's [AI Search Performance page](https://www.conductor.com/platform/features/ai-search-performance/) says it uses an official API-first approach wherever possible. ## Does Conductor's team do the work for you? Partly. Conductor's Professional Services team pairs enterprise search experience with its technology. Project work runs on project scope instead of a long-term retainer. Conductor's services page says how the team works in one line: "Decades of search experience, riding shotgun with your team to get things done while building internal competency, not third-party dependency." - **AI readiness assessment.** A diagnostic of your traditional and AI search visibility, delivered as a prioritized roadmap. - **Data foundation.** Conductor's [services page](https://www.conductor.com/services/) says the team builds the personas, topics, prompts and keywords that define how you show up in LLMs. - **Partner agencies.** Conductor's partner program includes marketing services agencies and digital consultancies, and partner agencies get access to its AEO intelligence. ## What does OnlyAEO do every month? OnlyAEO is an AEO platform that tracks where AI names your brand and creates the content to change it. On a managed plan, our team runs the whole program for you, from the monthly report to the published work. ### What a managed plan covers - **AI visibility analytics** every month. - **Articles** researched and fact-checked by our team, then published on your own site in your voice and design. - **YouTube videos** planned, scripted and packaged for your channel. - **Articles in other languages**. - **Mentions on trusted sites.** We earn mentions on the reviews, listings, forums and publications AI already reads in your category, through monthly PR, publishing on other sites and community seeding. - **A website health check** that makes sure every AI engine can read your site. OpenAI's [crawler documentation](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) shows why: if your site opts out of OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT search answers will not show it. ### How a month runs 1. **Start.** A 30-minute call, your best writing and the facts you want AI to get right. We learn your voice, facts and buyers, and connect publishing. 2. **Report.** A fresh report shows where your brand is named. 3. **Create.** Our team makes the articles, videos and listings, and you approve them. 4. **Review.** We look at what worked together and plan the next month. Each client gets a dedicated team, a regular review with its own people, and someone always a call or a message away. There is more on [how the platform and our managed plans work](/how-it-works). ## Which AI engines does OnlyAEO track, and how? Our platform runs your buyers' real questions through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok models. Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and Copilot are not on our platform's engine list. Our team's work also covers Perplexity, and we work on each engine separately, because each one retrieves and weighs sources differently. - **Engine models.** Several versions can be run, such as ChatGPT mini, Claude Sonnet and Opus, Gemini Flash and Pro, and DeepSeek Chat and Reasoner. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are on by default with web search, and every prompt runs twice per engine. - **Recommendations counted on their own.** Answers in which AI recommends your brand are counted apart from answers that just mention it in text or just link to it as a source. - **Every answer reproducible.** Each answer is kept word for word with its exact prompt, so anyone can paste it into ChatGPT or Claude and reproduce it. - **Personas from your market.** We research each buyer persona's goals, pain points, decision criteria, role and company type, because different personas get different answers. - **Monthly metrics.** Your report tracks LLM recall frequency, mention rate and citation share every month. For the method behind these numbers, see [how to measure your AI visibility](/blog/how-to-measure-your-ai-visibility-a-step-by-step-guide). ## What checks run before our content goes live? Every piece starts from one record of your company and passes five checks. That record is the Context Graph, which every article, video and post is written from. It draws on your decks, Slack, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Docs, Search Console, WordPress and Framer. It also stores your facts, voice, buyers and competitors, plus the claims you may and may not make. Change a fact once, such as a price, and every new piece uses it. When something isn't written down, our team asks you. Before a word is written, we put the buyer's question to ChatGPT and Claude, read in full every page they cite, and make each search they ran a section of the article. Then come the checks: 1. **Claim check.** Every number must match an evidence row, and unsupported claims are cut. 2. **Humanizer** in your brand's voice. 3. **Link validator.** A dead link blocks publishing. 4. **Independent score.** A separate scorer must rate the piece 85+. 5. **Human approval** from your team. ## OnlyAEO vs Conductor, side by side Once you know who will do the work, a buying committee usually moves on to these details. Conductor's cells come from its own pages, read on the date above. | | OnlyAEO | Conductor | |---|---|---| | **AI engines named** | Platform runs ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok models; team also works on Perplexity | ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity and Google AIO, per its pages | | **Getting started** | Free AI visibility audit | 3-week free trial; free AI visibility report | | **Security** | SOC 2 Type II | ISO 42001, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2; SAML SSO | | **AI traffic and pipeline** | AI crawler reads and AI-referred visits and pipeline, including visits GA4 misses | AI referral traffic with engagement and conversions | | **Cited sources** | Ranks AI-cited sites missing your brand | Brand sentiment tied to cited sources | | **After a page is live** | Monthly audit; pages losing citations refreshed | Up to 60 months of page-change history | ## Can you keep Conductor and add OnlyAEO? Yes. An enterprise that already runs Conductor can keep it as its measurement layer. Your SEO work still counts in Google's AI features. Google's [guidance on AI features](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features) says: "The best practices for SEO remain relevant for AI features in Google Search (such as AI Overviews and AI Mode)." Send us its report and we plan from it. The content engine imports the report as a PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, HTML, Markdown, plain text or a share link, and parses it in 20 to 60 seconds. Your team keeps Conductor's tracking, crawl monitoring and BI feeds. Our team takes on the articles, videos and earned mentions. Every month you also get our AI report card, and every gap in it becomes work our team does. ## How soon will you see results? Expect at least 60 days, usually, before the first measurable results. There is no results guarantee from us, and no promise of specific rankings, citations or placements in AI answers. Nobody controls what an AI engine says on a given day, so treat a promised placement as a sales line. Our [AEO RFP template](/blog/aeo-rfp-template-28-questions-to-evaluate-an-agency-honestly) lists the questions to ask any provider. ## Should you choose OnlyAEO or Conductor? Your team's spare hours and goals decide it. Here are the cases that tip it each way. ### When Conductor fits better Three cases point to Conductor. - **You are building an in-house AEO team**, the goal Conductor's services work toward. - **You want Google AI Overviews and Copilot tracked.** See the engines row in the table above. - **You manage a very large site estate.** Conductor says it can report on millions of pages and aggregate data across multiple websites and domains. ### When OnlyAEO fits better OnlyAEO is the better buy when one of these is true. - **You want proof from a similar brand.** [FastTrackr AI](/case-studies/fasttrackr-ai) started at 0.1% AI visibility, ranked #338 of 458 brands. About 100 days later it ranked #3 among the most-cited brands in its category, and #4 among cited sources. A [New York edibles retailer](/case-studies/new-york-edibles-retailer) climbed from 1.5% to 25% AI visibility, reaching #4 of 374 brands. - **You want YouTube videos made for you.** Each video goes on YouTube and on the matching page of your site, because AI answers draw on YouTube too. ## More questions about OnlyAEO and Conductor ### What does your free audit show? It shows where your brand stands across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek: your mention rate, the competitors AI names instead, and the gaps to close first. ### Do Conductor's agents need technical setup? Conductor says its Content and Technical Agents need no prompt engineering and no technical setup, and are built for content and SEO teams rather than developers. ### What do OnlyAEO and Conductor cost? This comparison leaves prices out on purpose, since a price says little without the scope behind it. Ask each company for a current quote for the work you need, and check whether it covers software seats, services or both.