DigiBee — AI Visibility & SEO

South Africa · from R2,000

digibee.co.za

3.56/ 5

M1 · Own AI-visibility 2 · 9%

Absent from category recall on both engines. Brand recall thin/self-sourced on both: ChatGPT — 'appears to be a legitimate South African digital agency, but little independent recognition beyond listings and its own marketing'; Claude — 'a Cape Town solo SEO/AI-visibility practitioner; honest on its own site that some results were delivered in previous agency roles and client names are confidential; does not appear in major SA directories (Clutch, DesignRush, Sortlist, Semrush) — no independent listing yet' (self-sourced-thin).

M2 · Method transparency 4 · 16%

Tiered retainers with concrete monthly deliverables — "Monthly SEO health check and priority fixes, Keyword research refresh ..., On-page optimisation for up to 2 key pages, 1 blog per month" — plus an explanatory /seo-vs-ai-search/ page; success metrics stay at "performance summary / insights report." source ↗

M3 · Evidence verifiability 2 · 23%

No client names, case studies or testimonials with profiles surfaced on the pricing page; a /case-studies/ section is linked but no case URLs or bounded results are exposed. source ↗

M4 · Pricing openness 5 · 12%

Full published price list with Buy Now — Basic SEO Audit R2,000, Full AI Visibility Audit R5,500, SEO & AI Basic Bundle R6,000 (from R7,500), Starter Retainer R6,000/mo, Growth R9,500/mo, Authority R18,500/mo. source ↗

M5 · AI reachability 5 · 10%

robots.txt does not block the key AI crawlers and the homepage is server-rendered (1398 words to a non-JS reader); it also publishes an llms.txt. source ↗

E1 · Segment fit 4 · 12%

editorial — Starter tier "Best for small local businesses that need consistent SEO upkeep without a heavy content schedule"; SMB-primary, though delivery is service-led retainers and an Authority tier reaches R18,500/mo. source ↗

E2 · Promise cleanliness 5 · 18%

editorial — Notably clean — explicitly warns against snake-oil: "Paid link schemes and manipulative link building can put your site at risk. A manual penalty can remove your site from search results entirely." No ranking guarantee, money-back claim or "#1." source ↗

◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: self-sourced-thin — legitimate SA agency, little independent recognition beyond listings/own marketing · Claude: self-sourced-thin — Cape Town solo; results from prior roles, clients confidential; absent from major SA directories · recorded, not averaged

One of the cleanest promise profiles in the batch — a full open price list and copy that actively warns buyers off manipulative tactics rather than promising rankings (E2). The gap is checkable proof: no named clients or linkable cases surfaced (M3). Own-visibility (M1) still to be probed.

Focus: SEO-led hybrid · -0.20 applied to composite

SMB-primary: pass

Self-serve offer: pass

GEO substance: pass

Live business: pass

What this ruler does NOT measure Track-record depth and the volume of named cases favour older incumbents we cannot fully see; NDA-bound outcomes are unscored. We weight reproducible, buyer-checkable signal on purpose — and we list ourselves on the same ruler.

Data as of 2026-06-30