Ranked.ai — productized SEO billed as AI visibility

Global / English-generic · $99-349/mo

www.ranked.ai

3.08/ 5

M1 · Own AI-visibility 3 · 9%

Absent from category recall on both engines. Brand recall diverges, but independent corroboration exists: ChatGPT — 'company exists, but little independent discussion outside its own marketing and directory/profile listings' (self-sourced-thin); Claude — 'most independently documented of the set: established managed-SEO service since 2016 (Miami), Trustpilot ~220 reviews at ~4 stars, AND candid criticism on BlackHatWorld (generic reports, undelivered backlinks); real and verifiable but quality genuinely mixed' (present-and-accurate, mixed). · provisional

M2 · Method transparency 2 · 16%

Method opaque: "We manage everything for you, top to bottom" with standard SEO line items (Weekly Blog Content, On-Page Optimization, Backlink Acquisition) and no explanation of how, what is measured, or any AI-specific methodology. source ↗

M3 · Evidence verifiability 3 · 23%

Four named testimonials (James Kenning, Peter Guirguis, Ella Johnstone, Anthony Lloyd), some with Trustpilot links, give partial checkability — but there are no case studies, URLs or bounded before/after metrics, and an unverified "over 5000 active clients" claim. source ↗

M4 · Pricing openness 5 · 12%

Full published prices: $99 / $198 / $349 per month per website (Standard / Plus / Enterprise), "Month to month, cancel at any time." source ↗

M5 · AI reachability 5 · 10%

robots.txt does not block the key AI crawlers and the homepage is server-rendered (1239 words to a non-JS reader); it also publishes an llms.txt. source ↗

E1 · Segment fit 4 · 12%

editorial — Self-serve and built for SMBs — "For local and niche businesses" (Standard), multi-location (Plus) — with low monthly pricing and a free trial; a nominal "Enterprise" $349 tier is the only up-market signal. source ↗

E2 · Promise cleanliness 4 · 18%

editorial — No guaranteed-rankings, "#1" or money-back language; honest "Month to month, cancel anytime". Minor "No Limits*" claims qualified by fair-use fine print, and the "ranked on... AI" framing overstates the AI-specific capability (captured under the geo-substance flag). source ↗

◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: self-sourced-thin — exists, little independent discussion beyond own marketing/directories · Claude: present-and-accurate (mixed) — since 2016, Miami; Trustpilot ~220 reviews + BlackHatWorld criticism; verify quality · recorded, not averaged

FLAGGED as relabeled SEO: a competent, low-cost, self-serve productized SEO service that markets itself as AI visibility but ships generic managed-SEO deliverables (weekly blog, on-page, backlinks) with no entity, knowledge-graph or cited-in-answer work (geo-substance flagged). Pricing is open and named Trustpilot testimonials give partial checkability, but the method is a black box (M2). Promises avoid guarantees. M1 provisional pending the Phase-2 probe.

Focus: generalist combine · -0.50 applied to composite

SMB-primary: pass

Self-serve offer: pass

GEO substance: flagged

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