Rock the Rankings vs. Flying Cat

Both agencies publish starting prices. The differences are the entry step and whether the terms are on the site.

Flying Cat's programmes begin with a $5,000 Strategy Launch over three to five weeks that ends with a written strategy, an audit workbook and a 90-day roadmap presented live; it can be bought alone with no obligation to continue, and you keep the deliverables. After that, advisory starts at $2,000 a month, programmes at $4,000, full-service SEO at $7,000 and international programmes at $5,000, with content from $950 per article or page and link placements inside programmes from about $3,000 a month; what moves the price is markets and languages, content pieces and placements per month. Terms come in a five-page proposal after a call.

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.

Both agencies forecast. The difference is whether the forecast is free, whether it has scenarios, and whether anyone is held to it.

Flying Cat describes its strategy as running from forecast to roadmap: the Strategy Launch ranks commercial pages by pipeline impact, sizes international markets and ends with a 90-day plan, with quarterly reviews that reset the next 90 days; it says clients start to see movement within 60 days, with demos and signups following once rankings and AI mentions hold. The forecast is part of the paid launch, and whether it carries scenarios or a committed case is not published.

Rock the Rankings builds three scenarios (conservative, realistic, optimistic) from your GA4 and CRM data before any agreement is signed, at no charge, with capture rate as the only input that changes between them. The conservative scenario is the commitment, reviewed at day 90 and quarterly after.

The two agencies describe AI search almost identically: commercial pages first, a prompt library, a baseline, citation targets. The differences are languages and engines.

Flying Cat's strategy includes a prompt library and an AI visibility baseline, citation targets and an original research opportunity, with pages ranked by commercial intent, comparison, alternatives, use-case, templates, integrations and solution pages ahead of broad topics; its GEO work covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, AI Overviews and AI Mode, in English and four European languages, and its Leapsome case reports organic and AI-sourced sales-accepted opportunities up 48 percent while non-branded clicks fell 36 percent.

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.

Both agencies read the buyer's own answer. Flying Cat adds sales-call analysis; we add contact-level tiering.

Flying Cat's FAQ states that attribution in AI search is indirect, so it looks at pipeline and demos as a whole alongside AI referral traffic, recommends a "Where did you hear about us?" dropdown on demo and signup forms, and can run your sales-call recordings through an analysis that shows how buyers found you; it tracks bottom-funnel form submits, demo requests and visits to product and solutions pages, reporting demos and signups first and visibility second.

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 Flying Cat does something we do not do at all.

Flying Cat runs SEO and AI search programmes in French, German, Italian and Spanish as well as English, with dedicated service pages for each market, SEO translation as a named service, international market sizing inside every strategy and international programmes from $5,000 a month; its founder's guides describe serving the UK and Europe from Los Angeles. It does not run conversion rate optimisation or brand messaging and says so.

Rock the Rankings works in English only and does not run international, translation, CRO or messaging work.

On this row the two agencies are built the same way. The differences are in the supporting roles.

Flying Cat states that founder Maeva Cifuentes owns the strategy on every account, is the person you speak to on the sales call, and oversees each account, with senior strategists carrying the work from audit to report and a team that includes an on-page lead, an AEO analyst, senior writers and an editor; its comparison table contrasts this with generalist agencies where senior people lead the pitch and account managers run the day to day.

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.