Rock the Rankings vs. Virayo

Both agencies publish their floor and their terms. The difference is the first six months.

Virayo's engagements start at $7,500 a month with an initial six-month term, then month to month, and it explains the term plainly: the work compounds, six months gives the foundation time to show in rankings, citations and pipeline, and it lets senior people be dedicated to the account. Tiers are starting points shaped around the resources you already have, add-ons such as link building and additional product lines are priced per area, and everything produced is yours if you leave.

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.

Virayo commits to leading indicators inside 90 days. We commit to the conservative scenario of a pipeline forecast.

Virayo states that no agency can honestly promise a specific ranking or a citation, and commits instead to leading indicators within the first 90 days, a weekly view of every metric it is accountable for, and a month-to-month engagement after the initial term; month one delivers a keyword and prompt roadmap, a GEO baseline, source gaps, a technical audit and a backlink gap analysis, and 90-day strategy reviews rework the plan when the data calls for it. It publishes no pre-contract pipeline forecast or scenarios.

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.

Both agencies baseline the same engines. Virayo refreshes its baseline every week on a platform it built.

Virayo runs SEO and GEO as one programme on Virayo AI, its own platform: a GEO baseline in month one with tracked prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, then a weekly cycle of crawl, audits, rankings, prompt tracking, AI visibility audit and recommendations, measuring mention rate, citation rate, average position, share of voice and inaccuracies against named competitors, flagging pages a model cites without naming your brand, and tracing inaccurate descriptions to their source to fix them there.

Its FAQ argues brand mentions across trusted sources correlate with AI visibility about three times more strongly than backlinks, so offsite placements on review platforms, communities and listicles are half the programme; its TestRail case reports 25 to 30 qualified trial signups a month from LLMs.

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.

Virayo connects your CRM at kickoff and tracks AI-driven conversions live. We reconcile each contact against the buyer's own answer.

Virayo connects Google Search Console, GA4 and your CRM during onboarding, collects sales call recordings alongside brand docs, and runs a centralised dashboard that tracks organic and AI-driven traffic and conversions live, with rank reports and AI visibility against competitors; it ties AI visibility to pipeline through AI referral traffic and conversions in your analytics, and its FAQ says AI referrals convert at multiples of organic visitors because they arrive pre-informed. How AI-sourced demos that arrive without a referrer are reconciled, 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 Virayo covers ground we do not.

Virayo built Virayo AI, the platform behind every engagement: a weekly cycle of crawls, audits, rankings, prompt tracking and recommendations drawn from eleven signal types including Reddit threads and buyer research, a client portal with a content library, calendar, deliverables tracking and a custom query explorer, a 0 to 100 Visibility Score, and an MCP connection so you can query your data from Claude, Codex or your own agent through nineteen tools.

It also runs SaaS PPC alongside SEO and GEO on one roadmap, goes deepest in software, healthcare, logistics and fintech with a page for each, and runs a defined migration recovery playbook.

Rock the Rankings runs SEO, AI search, content, links and technical with third-party tracking tools; we do not run PPC, build platforms or maintain vertical practices.

Virayo publishes its account structure in full. It includes an account manager; ours does not.

Virayo's FAQ states that every account is run by its senior in-house team: a dedicated strategist who runs point, an account manager who coordinates delivery and makes sure nothing said on a call falls through the cracks, and a head of content who owns the quality of every piece, with specialist contractors brought in for some production work and every deliverable passing senior review before it reaches you; it meets twice monthly with a shared Slack channel, names its people on its About page, and says it often works with several companies in the same category because that depth is part of why the work is effective.

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.