SimpleTiger vs. First Page Sage vs. Rock the Rankings
Choose SimpleTiger if you want SEO, GEO, paid search and email run by one SaaS-only team on a live CRM-connected dashboard, with packages sized to your revenue and a client account manager as standard. Choose First Page Sage if your category is won on authority: thought leadership ghostwritten with subject-matter experts, GEO and agentic search optimisation from the agency whose benchmarks the industry cites, on monthly credits from $6,000. Choose Rock the Rankings if your board wants a pipeline number someone will be held to before the spend, published tiers on a monthly plan, and the founder on the account building the pages that close deals.
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How SimpleTiger, First Page Sage and Rock the Rankings compare.
| Criterion | SimpleTiger | First Page Sage |  Rock the Rankings. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Positioning | drawSaaS-only marketing agency; SEO, GEO, paid, email and design as a Pipeline Engine. Sarasota. | drawThought leadership SEO, GEO and lead generation agency, San Francisco. B2B and B2C, many industries. | drawAI search as a pipeline channel. B2B SaaS and tech only. 300+ engagements. |
| Forecast and commitment | drawDollar value on every ranking; public ROI calculator; 90-day ranking promise. | drawPublishes industry ROI and CAC benchmarks. Client forecast and commitment: Not public. | drawThree scenarios before signing. The conservative scenario is the commitment. |
| Attribution method | drawLive CRM-connected dashboard; multi-touch; CAC by channel. | drawPositioned on lead generation; CAC benchmarks by industry. Method: Not public. | drawThe Two-Witness Rule: CRM source and buyer's answer, every contact tiered. |
| AI search baseline | drawFree audit; tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and AI Overviews. | drawGEO and AEO, agentic search optimisation, published GEO framework. Pre-work baseline: Not public. | drawBaseline across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews before work ships. |
| Channel breadth | winSEO, GEO, paid search and social, email, digital PR, Webflow design. | winSEO, GEO, agentic search, research, fractional CMO, demand gen, web design, hosting. | loseSEO, AI search, content, links, technical. No paid, email, design, CMO or hosting. |
| Who runs the account | loseClient Account Manager on every package; 24/7 Slack; portal. | loseNot public. | winFounder, Justin Berg and a senior strategist. No account managers. |
| Pricing transparency | drawNine named packages, no figures; 5% of revenue or funding. Month to month, 30 days' notice. | draw$6,000 to $12,000 a month as deliverable credits; month to month from the first month. | drawPrices published. Monthly plan, no minimum, 30 days' notice. |
| Link and citation building | drawLink building and press placements scaled by package. Volume: Not public. | drawOnline PR within thought leadership SEO. Volume and DR: Not public. | drawFrom 5 to 8 placements a month at DR 50+, scaled to the forecast. |
| Content production | drawOutput doubles from Scale to Accelerate. Volume: Not public. | drawExpert-ghostwritten thought leadership in hub-and-spoke, bought as credits. | drawFrom 5 solution-aware pages a month, scaling to 20 or 30+ with the forecast. |
| Best fit | drawSaaS and AI companies wanting search, paid and lifecycle from one agency. | drawComplex or regulated categories wanting authority-led organic lead generation. | drawB2B SaaS and tech wanting a pipeline number before spending, on a monthly plan. |
Comparison methodology
Scored on what SimpleTiger and First Page Sage publish on their own sites, checked 14 November 2026. Nothing from sales calls or third parties.
We read SimpleTiger's pricing, home, GEO and 90-day ranking pages, and First Page Sage's GEO and AEO Pricing Statistics report, which publishes its own price and terms, plus its services, specialties, industries and research navigation, and scored only what those pages say. Rock the Rankings is scored on its published pricing, process and client results pages. Where an agency publishes nothing on a criterion, the cell says Not public.
Win, draw and lose describe the Rock the Rankings column only, scored against whichever competitor is stronger on that row. Win means we commit to more or publish more than both. Lose means at least one of them publishes or ships more. Draw means the approaches differ and the right choice depends on your situation.
We re-score every quarter and whenever any of the three agencies changes its published services, pricing or terms.
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What you pay, what you sign, and how you leave
All three run month to month. Two publish a figure; one publishes the whole ladder.
SimpleTiger's pricing page lists nine packages by name and scope with no dollar figures, explains that each starts at 5 percent of revenue or funding at the stage it targets, and runs month to month with 30 days' notice.
First Page Sage publishes its own range inside its October 2026 pricing report, $6,000 to $12,000 a month as monthly deliverable credits, month to month from the first month, which it notes was unique among the agencies it compared; its notice period is 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.
SimpleTiger
- Published prices: No; packages sized at 5% of revenue or funding
- Contract term: Month to month, no long-term contract
- Exit notice: 30 days
- Onboarding fee: Not public
First Page Sage
- Published prices: $6,000 to $12,000 a month
- Contract term: Month to month from the first month
- Exit notice: Not public
- Onboarding fee: Not public
Rock the Rankings
- Published prices: Yes, three tiers
- Contract term: Monthly, no minimum
- Exit notice: 30 days, any month
- Onboarding fee: None
The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want the package sized to your stage with paid and email inside it. First Page Sage is the better pick if you want scope bought as credits you can redirect month to month, and a range the agency has benchmarked against 214 competitors in public.
Rock the Rankings is the better pick if you want fixed tiers and the notice period on the page, with no package sizing and no credits to decode. The tradeoff is that we start focused and scale as the forecast proves out.
"Justin and his team have been phenomenal from Day 0, and the consistency in quality and the measurable results they have delivered have been a true transformation to our business. We are extremely happy and we have already recommended them to our friends."
Who commits to the number before you sign
One commits to rankings, one publishes the benchmarks, one commits to a demo number.
SimpleTiger puts a dollar value behind each ranking placement, publishes an SEO ROI calculator and maintains a 90-day ranking promise; a committed pipeline number is not published.
First Page Sage's Research Center publishes ROI, CAC and click-through benchmarks by industry, the figures most agency pricing pages cite, and sells a Strategic SEO Plan as consulting; whether a client receives a forecast before signing, or any committed number, is 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 variable. The conservative scenario is the commitment, reviewed at day 90 and quarterly after.
SimpleTiger
- Pre-contract projection: Dollar value per ranking; ROI calculator
- Scenarios: Not public
- Commitment: 90-day ranking promise
- Re-forecast cadence: Not public
First Page Sage
- Pre-contract projection: Not public; industry benchmarks published
- Scenarios: Not public
- Commitment: Not public
- Re-forecast cadence: Not public
Rock the Rankings
- Pre-contract projection: Yes, on your GA4 and CRM data
- Scenarios: Conservative, realistic, optimistic
- Commitment: The conservative scenario
- Re-forecast cadence: Day 90, then quarterly
The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if a ranking commitment inside 90 days is the one you want in writing. First Page Sage is the better pick if you want the plan grounded in benchmark data the agency collects across hundreds of companies, with monthly terms as the accountability.
Rock the Rankings is the better pick if the board wants demos, not positions or benchmarks, and someone held to the conservative case before any invoice. That case leans on benchmarks only when CRM data is withheld.
How each agency gets you named when buyers ask ChatGPT for your category
Three different routes: engine coverage, authority, and solution-aware pages held to a number.
SimpleTiger opens with a GEO discovery and audit and a free AI search visibility audit, tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Google AI Overviews, and a Gainsight quote credits it with a dedicated prompts framework; its Invoca case reports $3M in revenue from AI and organic search in under ten months.
First Page Sage sells GEO and AEO and a separate agentic search optimisation service, publishes a GEO algorithm framework and studies on ChatGPT click-through and hallucination rates, and reaches AI answers through expert-authored thought leadership in a hub-and-spoke structure; which engines it tracks per client and whether it baselines 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.
SimpleTiger
- Engines covered: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, AI Overviews
- Baseline before work: Free audit; GEO discovery
- Off-site surfaces worked: Link building, PR, press
- Day-90 review: Not public
First Page Sage
- Engines covered: Not public per client; ChatGPT studied in its research
- Baseline before work: Not public
- Off-site surfaces worked: Online PR; academic publishing and citations
- Day-90 review: Not public
Rock the Rankings
- Engines covered: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews
- Baseline before work: Yes, before any page ships
- Off-site surfaces worked: Citations at DR 50+ by manual outreach
- Day-90 review: Against the conservative scenario
The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if engine breadth and a free audit before any conversation matter most. First Page Sage is the better pick if your category rewards the expert over the comparison, a regulated or technical field, and you want agentic search readiness as a named workstream.
Rock the Rankings is the better pick if your buyers read comparison and alternatives pages before a demo and you want those pages baselined across five engines and held to a forecast. We start focused and scale as the forecast proves out.
"I have been impressed with Justin and team's knowledge, work ethic and commitment to improving SEO. I have been in the digital space for nearly 20 years across different verticals and Rock the Rankings is the only SEO agency that I have worked with that has made a meaningful impact to the associated business. If I found myself at another company, needing help with SEO, Justin would be my first call"
How each agency proves the demos came from search when the CRM says Direct
SimpleTiger reads the CRM live. First Page Sage benchmarks leads against the industry. We reconcile each contact against the buyer's own answer.
SimpleTiger runs a live pipeline dashboard connected to your CRM with multi-touch attribution and CAC by channel, and builds pipeline intelligence across organic, AI and paid into its higher packages.
First Page Sage positions its work as lead generation, with dedicated pages for B2B SaaS, healthcare, fintech and a dozen other sectors, and publishes CAC benchmarks by industry; how leads are attributed for a client is not published. How either reconciles AI-sourced demos that arrive without a referrer is 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.
SimpleTiger
- Dashboard: Live, CRM-connected
- Attribution model: Multi-touch; CAC by channel
- Self-reported source used: Not public
- Revenue reported: ROI and revenue in cases
First Page Sage
- Dashboard: Not public
- Attribution model: Not public
- Self-reported source used: Not public
- Revenue reported: Lead generation as the stated outcome
Rock the Rankings
- Dashboard: Monthly reconciliation, no live view
- Attribution model: The Two-Witness Rule, contact-level tiers
- Self-reported source used: Yes, read with CRM source
- Revenue reported: QBR opens with the pipeline number
The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want organic, AI and paid attributed in one live view, because it runs all three. First Page Sage is the better pick if you want leads judged against a published industry CAC benchmark rather than a bespoke model.
Rock the Rankings is the better pick if your CRM is filing AI-sourced demos as Direct and you want each one reconciled against the buyer's own answer under a stated rule. The reconciliation is monthly, done by a person, without a live dashboard.
What else each agency can run for you
Both competitors run work we do not, in different directions.
SimpleTiger runs paid search and paid social with flat-rate management, email marketing, digital PR, and Webflow web design including a design subscription, and serves B2B, B2C and B2B2C SaaS and AI companies.
First Page Sage runs a Research Center of industry benchmarks, an academic publishing and citations service, agentic search optimisation, AI readiness for marketing teams, fractional CMO, demand generation, web design and hosting, across B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, HVAC and more.
Rock the Rankings runs SEO, AI search, content, links and technical for B2B SaaS and tech only.
SimpleTiger
- Paid search and social: Named services
- Email marketing: Named service
- Web design: Named service, Webflow partner
- Research and fractional CMO: Not offered
First Page Sage
- Paid search and social: Not named
- Email marketing: Not named
- Web design: Named service, with hosting
- Research and fractional CMO: Research Center; fractional CMO; agentic search
Rock the Rankings
- Paid search and social: Not offered
- Email marketing: Not offered
- Web design: Not offered
- Research and fractional CMO: Not offered
The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want search, paid, lifecycle and the website from one SaaS-only agency. First Page Sage is the better pick if you want the agency whose data everyone cites, with fractional marketing leadership and agentic search in scope, and you are outside B2B SaaS.
Rock the Rankings is the better pick if organic and AI search are the channel you are buying and the rest is already covered. We start focused and scale as the forecast proves out.
"Extremely responsive and analytical. We were impressed with the depth of knowledge brought to every meeting. Justin was great to work with. I highly recommend Rock the Rankings for your GEO/SEO needs."
Who you will actually talk to after the sales call
One publishes an account manager, one publishes nothing, one publishes the founder.
SimpleTiger states that all packages include a client account manager, 24/7 Slack access and a proprietary project portal, with strategic engagement deepening by tier to an embedded weekly partnership at Dominate.
First Page Sage's reports are bylined by founder and CEO Evan Bailyn, and its thought leadership model pairs its writers with subject-matter experts to ghostwrite under the client's brand; who leads a given account, its 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.
SimpleTiger
- Account manager layer: Client Account Manager on every package
- Founder on delivery: Not public
- Seniority stated: Strategic engagement deepens by tier
- Communication: 24/7 Slack; project portal
First Page Sage
- Account manager layer: Not public
- Founder on delivery: Not public; founder bylines the research
- Seniority stated: Subject-matter experts on content
- Communication: Not public
Rock the Rankings
- Account manager layer: None
- Founder on delivery: Yes, every engagement
- Seniority stated: Founder plus senior strategist
- Communication: Slack and email, same day
The honest comparison: SimpleTiger is the better pick if you want an account manager, a portal and round-the-clock Slack as standard. First Page Sage is the better pick if the expertise you want on the page is a subject-matter expert's, ghostwritten under your brand, and the firm's research output is the proof you trust.
Rock the Rankings is the better pick if you want it stated before you call that the founder runs the account, with no account manager layer and no ghostwriter between you and the strategy. Output scales to the forecast, not to a package or a roster.
"Our commercial pages were losing organic sessions month over month, and the demand coming from AI assistants was effectively invisible in our CRM. RTR pointed the first batch entirely at bottom-funnel pages. One quarter after launch, organic sessions to that page set were up 9x and demo requests attributed to search and AI had grown 2.3x. They also rebuilt how we read attribution, combining what tracking captures with what buyers tell us on the form. That surfaced roughly 12.5x more search and AI demand than our native classifier was crediting. That's the number our leadership team can actually defend."
Where each competitor wins
When SimpleTiger or First Page Sage is the better fit.
When is SimpleTiger the better fit?
SimpleTiger is the better fit when you want one SaaS-only agency across search, paid, lifecycle and the website. Its Pipeline packages run SEO, GEO, paid search and social, email and Webflow design as one system on a live CRM-connected dashboard with multi-touch attribution and CAC by channel, with a client account manager, 24/7 Slack and a portal on every package, month to month on 30 days' notice. It tracks six AI engines including Claude and Grok, puts a dollar value on every ranking, publishes an ROI calculator and backs a 90-day ranking promise. Its proof is specific: Invoca's 41:1 ROI and $3M in under ten months, JotForm ranking first in two months with press on Forbes and Inc., Gelato's 75,000 new ranking keywords. If you want the whole demand engine under one roof, this is it.
If you need a pipeline number in writing before the first invoice, and only the organic half of the budget, that is the case we are built for.
When is First Page Sage the better fit?
First Page Sage is the better fit when authority is the asset you are building. Its thought leadership SEO pairs ghostwriters with subject-matter experts to make you the source AI models and buyers trust, with GEO, AEO and agentic search optimisation on top, and it publishes the benchmarks the industry runs on: click-through rates by position, ChatGPT usage, hallucination rates, CAC by industry, a GEO algorithm framework, and the 214-agency pricing study that places its own price in public, $6,000 to $12,000 a month as deliverable credits, month to month from the first month. Beyond search it offers fractional CMO, demand generation, web design and hosting across B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare, legal and manufacturing. If your category is complex or regulated and your buyers look for the expert, this is the kind of partner to call.
If you sell B2B SaaS and want the number before the invoice, built from the pages buyers read before a demo, that is the case we are built for.
Recommendation
Choosing between SimpleTiger, First Page Sage and Rock the Rankings.
Choose SimpleTiger if…
- You want SEO, GEO, paid, email and design from one SaaS-only agency on one live dashboard
- You want packages sized to your revenue, month to month, with an account manager as standard
- You want six AI engines tracked and a ranking commitment in 90 days
Choose First Page Sage if…
- You want thought leadership ghostwritten with subject-matter experts
- You want the agency whose research the industry cites, with agentic search in scope
- You buy scope as monthly credits, or you are outside B2B SaaS
Choose Rock the Rankings if…
- Your board wants a pipeline number someone will be held to before the spend
- You want published tiers, no onboarding fee and a monthly plan with no minimum
- You want the founder on the account building comparison and alternatives pages
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FAQs
SimpleTiger vs. First Page Sage vs. Rock the Rankings: common questions.
If yours is not here, bring it to the call. Same unpolished answer either way.
How does pricing compare across SimpleTiger, First Page Sage and Rock the Rankings?
+All three run month to month. Rock the Rankings publishes its tiers: Consulting $5,000, Done-For-You $8,500 and Authority $15,000 a month, no onboarding fee, no minimum term, 30 days' notice. First Page Sage publishes a range in its own pricing report, $6,000 to $12,000 a month as deliverable credits, month to month from the first month. SimpleTiger publishes nine package names with no figures and sizes each at about 5 percent of revenue or funding, with 30 days' notice. Two publish a figure; one publishes the whole ladder.
What happens if it is not working after 90 days with each agency?
+At Rock the Rankings, day 90 is the first forecast review: results are measured against the conservative scenario you received before signing and the plan is adjusted from there, and you can leave in any month with 30 days' notice. At SimpleTiger you can leave with 30 days' notice and it maintains a 90-day ranking promise; ask what it covers. First Page Sage runs month to month from the first month, so you can leave at any point; its notice period and what it is measured against are not published.
Which of the three gives you a pipeline forecast before you sign?
+Rock the Rankings does: three scenarios from your GA4 and CRM data before any agreement, with the conservative case as the commitment. SimpleTiger values each ranking in dollars and publishes an ROI calculator, with a ranking promise as its commitment. First Page Sage publishes the industry's ROI and CAC benchmarks and sells a Strategic SEO Plan; whether a client gets a forecast before signing is not published. Ranking commitment, benchmarks, or a demo number someone stands behind: pick the one your board recognises.
Which agency is strongest for AI search visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity?
+Three routes. SimpleTiger tracks six engines including Claude and Grok and opens with a free audit. First Page Sage reaches AI answers through expert-authored thought leadership, agentic search optimisation and a published GEO framework backed by its own studies. Rock the Rankings baselines five engines before any page ships, builds from your own comparison and alternatives pages outward, and measures the result against the forecast at day 90. Engine coverage, authority, or solution-aware pages held to a number.
Who actually works on the account at SimpleTiger, First Page Sage and Rock the Rankings?
+SimpleTiger assigns a client account manager on every package with 24/7 Slack and a project portal. First Page Sage pairs its writers with subject-matter experts and its founder bylines its research; who leads a given account is not published. At Rock the Rankings, Founder, Justin Berg runs strategy on every engagement with a senior strategist, no account managers, and same-day Slack. One publishes an account manager, one publishes nothing, one publishes the founder.
Which should a Series A to Series C B2B SaaS company shortlist?
+It depends on the constraint. If you want organic, paid and lifecycle from one team with month-to-month terms, SimpleTiger. If your category is won on authority and you want the research-led firm with agentic search in scope, First Page Sage. If you need a pipeline number before the spend is approved, published tiers and the founder on the account, Rock the Rankings. All three run month to month; one publishes its full prices.