Rock the Rankings vs. First Page Sage

Both agencies publish their range and both run month to month. The structures differ.

First Page Sage publishes its own price inside its October 2026 GEO and AEO pricing report: $6,000 to $12,000 a month, sold as monthly deliverable credits, on month-to-month terms from the first month, which it notes was unique among the nine agencies it compared. Its research puts that range inside the market's Growth tier, where its data shows a median of $7,400 and a typical six-month minimum elsewhere.

Rock the Rankings is $5,000 for Consulting, $8,500 for Done-For-You and $15,000 for Authority a month, with no onboarding fee, on a monthly plan with no minimum term and 30 days' notice. Day 90 is the first forecast review, measured against the conservative scenario you received before signing.

First Page Sage publishes the benchmarks the whole industry quotes. It does not publish a client-level commitment.

First Page Sage's Research Center publishes ROI, customer acquisition cost, click-through rate and ChatGPT usage benchmarks by industry, the data most agency pricing pages cite, and its Strategic SEO Plan is sold as a consulting product. Whether a client receives a forecast before signing, whether it carries scenarios, and whether any number is committed to are not published.

Rock the Rankings builds three scenarios (conservative, realistic, optimistic) from your GA4 and CRM data before any agreement is signed, with capture rate as the only input that changes between them. The conservative scenario is the commitment, reviewed at day 90 and quarterly after.

First Page Sage reaches AI search through thought leadership and research. We reach it through solution-aware pages and citations.

First Page Sage sells GEO and AEO and a separate agentic search optimisation service, publishes a GEO algorithm framework, an agentic SEO framework and studies on ChatGPT click-through rates by ranking position and AI hallucination rates, and its founder Evan Bailyn positions himself as a pioneer of GEO; its content model is thought leadership written with subject-matter experts in a hub-and-spoke structure, the kind of expert-authored content AI systems cite for high-trust queries. Which engines are tracked for a given client and whether a baseline is set before work are not published.

Rock the Rankings baselines across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode and AI Overviews before work ships, then builds in the GEO Stack order: solution-aware pages first, citations second, problem-aware capture last.

AI assistants strip referrers, so most AI-sourced demos land in your CRM as Direct.

First Page Sage positions its work as lead generation, with dedicated lead generation pages for B2B SaaS, healthcare, fintech, manufacturing and a dozen other sectors, and publishes customer acquisition cost benchmarks by industry. How leads are attributed to search and AI search for a client, and whether a self-reported source is read beside the CRM, are not published.

Rock the Rankings applies The Two-Witness Rule on every plan: the CRM source and the buyer's own answer are read together and every contact is tiered confirmed, recovered, probable or dark. On one client funnel, 11 CRM-attributed AI leads sat beside 809 self-reported ones, a 73× gap. Where CRM access is restricted, we work from an anonymised export under NDA.

This is where First Page Sage covers ground we do not.

First Page Sage runs a Research Center that publishes statistics and benchmarks the industry quotes, on ChatGPT usage, Google click-through rates, chatbot market share, agentic AI adoption, customer acquisition cost and retention, plus an academic publishing and citations service. Beyond organic search it sells agentic search optimisation, AI readiness for marketing teams, fractional CMO, demand generation, web design, hosting and maintenance, and SEO keynote speaking, and serves B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, e-commerce, fintech, healthcare, HVAC, law firms, manufacturing and more.

Rock the Rankings runs SEO, AI search, content, links and technical for B2B SaaS and tech only; we do not publish benchmark research or sell leadership, design or hosting.

First Page Sage publishes its founder and its research. It does not publish how an account is staffed.

First Page Sage's reports are bylined by founder and CEO Evan Bailyn, its site lists locations and a careers page, and its thought leadership model pairs its writers with subject-matter experts to ghostwrite for the client's brand. Who leads a given account, the team's seniority, the account manager layer, and whether the founder is involved in delivery are not published.

Rock the Rankings is founder-led through delivery: Founder, Justin Berg runs strategy on every engagement alongside a senior strategist with B2B SaaS category experience, with no account managers in between and Slack and email with same-day replies.