Rock the Rankings vs. Ten Speed

Both agencies start at $5,000 a month and both offer monthly terms. One publishes the whole ladder.

Ten Speed's AEO page states that engagements start at $5,000 a month for mid-market and larger B2B companies, that contracts are flexible, month-to-month or annual, that onboarding takes about three to four weeks, and that every engagement includes a dedicated strategist, a quarterly content and technical roadmap and monthly reporting. What sits above the starting figure, and the notice period on a month-to-month contract, are not published.

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.

Ten Speed plans in quarterly roadmaps and sets expectations by phase. We put a number on it before the contract.

Ten Speed delivers a quarterly content and technical roadmap with monthly reporting and sets timing plainly: technical and on-page fixes can change how AI tools describe you within weeks, while visibility and citations build over three to six months or more. It publishes no pre-contract forecast, scenarios or committed number.

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.

The two methods are close: audit the engines, fix the entity signals, build the pages AI cites, earn the mentions. The differences are the engines and what the baseline is held to.

Ten Speed describes AEO as three jobs, cleaning up entity signals and site structure, building content AI can lift into answers, and earning mentions on the sites AI tools cite, and its programme runs an AI Brand Audit showing how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini describe your brand and where you appear for buying-stage prompts, competitive positioning on the prompts where competitors are recommended and you are not, content planning around comparison pages, answer-first guides, original research and core pages with quotable claims, and reporting of AI visibility, share of voice and citations tracked in Peec AI across five engines including Google AI Overviews; it publishes its own AEO research and a podcast arguing AEO is a technical problem before it is a content problem.

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.

Ten Speed reports AI-referred traffic and pipeline beside SEO KPIs. We reconcile each contact against the buyer's own answer.

Ten Speed's reporting tracks AI visibility, share of voice, citations and AI-referred traffic next to your SEO KPIs, and its FAQ adds pipeline to the measures; its blog argues for measuring impact over activity in the age of AI. How pipeline is attributed to AI search when the referrer is stripped, and whether a self-reported source is read, 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 Ten Speed covers ground we do not.

Ten Speed runs digital PR that turns expertise and data into media coverage, expert commentary and backlinks, produces custom research reports from survey design through writing and design, writes case studies built on customer interviews, repurposes content into webinars, ebooks and data reports, and handles design, organic social and email newsletters; it says plainly that it does not manage paid advertising or build websites.

It serves eight industries from PLG SaaS to healthcare and cybersecurity, and its founders built Sprout Social's organic programme in-house.

Rock the Rankings runs SEO, AI search, content, links and technical for B2B SaaS and tech only; we do not run PR, research reports, social, email or design.

Ten Speed gives you a dedicated strategist on one team. We give you the founder.

Ten Speed's FAQ says every engagement includes a dedicated strategist, a quarterly roadmap and monthly reporting, that one team handles strategy, content, technical work and digital PR, and that its founders built Sprout Social's organic programme in-house; it runs a freelance network alongside its staff. Whether a founder is involved in delivery and the seniority of the strategist 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.