Found by AI
Compare / vs Adobe LLM Optimizer

For agencies · Updated July 2026

An enterprise platform inside Adobe's stack.
We do the writing and publishing.

Adobe LLM Optimizer is an enterprise AI-optimization product that lives inside Adobe Experience Cloud: it watches AI agent and crawler traffic at the infrastructure layer, scores how a brand shows up in AI answers, and surfaces page-level changes a marketing team can act on inside Adobe Experience Manager. For an in-house org already standardised on Adobe, that integration is the whole point, and nothing on this page should talk you out of it. Found by AI is a different shape of thing: a white-label AI-search content programme you resell. Monitoring identifies the buying questions leading AI assistants answer without your client in them, those gaps become the month's brief, and we write, publish and measure the content that answers them - under your agency's brand.

Where each one sits
Most AI-search tools

Stop at the dashboard.

Show the gap. Don't address it with content production. A client looking at a monitoring dashboard with no content production is not a recurring conversation; it's a quarterly question.

Most content shops

Write briefs from keyword tools.

Briefs come from search-volume guesswork. They produce useful articles, but the priorities don't reflect what AI assistants are actually citing for the client's category.

Found by AI

Turn monitoring evidence into the next brief.

Last month's monitoring evidence - competitor appearances, citation gaps, missing facts, weak topics - becomes next month's content brief. Then the monthly proof report shows what changed.

The wedge is the loop, not any single layer of it.

Different products entirely

Adobe optimizes at the platform layer.
We are the team that does the production.

Adobe LLM Optimizer is built for a large in-house marketing organisation. It sees AI agent and crawler traffic before it reaches ordinary site analytics, scores how the brand is being described in AI answers, and pushes page-level recommendations into the Adobe stack so they land where the team already works - with the governance, single sign-on and procurement path an enterprise expects. It is a serious product, and it is a platform: it assumes someone on the other side of it has the hours to turn a recommendation into a published page.

Found by AI assumes the opposite, because that is the constraint a lot of agencies actually have. We don't sell a platform for your client's team to operate. We run the loop for the clients you sell it to: the monitoring is the brief, we write the articles against it, we publish them to a blog on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way, and the monthly report documents what changed. Portal, report and emails carry your agency's brand. We never solicit your clients.

Where each one sits

Where Adobe LLM Optimizer sits

  • An enterprise AI-optimization platform inside Adobe Experience Cloud, with native Adobe Experience Manager integration - AI-answer signals sit beside the rest of the marketing stack
  • Infrastructure-layer detection of AI agent and crawler traffic, which is a genuinely different vantage point from asking assistants questions and reading the answers back
  • Sold through enterprise sales, with the access control, governance and procurement framework a large in-house marketing org requires

Where Found by AI sits

  • One programme, sold only through agency partners - you resell it, we run it, your brand is on it
  • The monitoring is not a deliverable, it is the brief: the buying questions leading AI assistants answer without your client become the month's articles
  • Written, reviewed and published for you - a named editor from your team or your client's on written-by and reviewed-by bylines, review before publish the default and automation opt-in per client

The operating difference

Detection is where most tools stop. The production is what we own.

Found by AI runs one loop for agency partners. Monitoring identifies the buying questions leading AI assistants answer without your client in them; those gaps become the month's brief; then we write, publish and measure the content that answers them. The monitoring is not a dashboard - it is the brief. All of it ships under your agency's brand.

Adobe LLM Optimizer

Generates content?
Publishes for you?
Publishing surface

Found by AI

Generates content?Yes
Publishes for you?Yes
Publishing surfaceClient's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way, agency-branded

Articles carry named human editors from your team or your client's - a real person, their job title and a public professional profile, with written-by and reviewed-by bylines. Review before publish is the default and approval is role-gated; a draft left unreviewed for 7 days publishes with a notification - a default we disclose, changeable per client. Translated articles follow the same rule. The client's own writers can publish alongside the articles the programme produces. We never solicit a partner's clients.

Structural comparison

Deliberately no plan or price table. Their packaging changes, and a stale figure on our page would be worse for you than no figure at all - check anything commercial on Adobe LLM Optimizer's own site. What follows is the difference in shape, which doesn't go out of date.

Key differences

Adobe LLM OptimizerEnterprise platform in Adobe's stack
Found by AIDelivered content programme
Who writesWe do
Who publishesWe do
Whose brandYour agency's

Choose Adobe LLM Optimizer if…

  • Your client is already standardised on Adobe Experience Cloud and wants AI-answer data in the same place as the rest of their marketing stack - an outside programme would sit apart from everything their team uses
  • Infrastructure-level visibility of AI agent and crawler traffic is a real requirement rather than a nice-to-have. That is a different measurement from ours, and Adobe does it
  • There is an in-house marketing team with the capacity to operate an enterprise platform and turn its recommendations into shipped pages

Choose Found by AI if…

  • You run an agency without spare editorial capacity, and the gap between seeing the problem and shipping something about it is where client retainers stall
  • You want a monthly artifact that makes the retainer defensible: what AI assistants said, what we published about it, what changed
  • You want it under your own brand, sold on your paper, with no risk of us going around you to your client

These two are barely rivals. Adobe's buyer has a platform and a team; ours has clients and no spare writers. If your client is an Adobe shop, this page is mostly telling you so.

Frequently asked questions

Is Found by AI a replacement for Adobe LLM Optimizer?

No, and we would be wasting your time if we said otherwise. Adobe LLM Optimizer is an enterprise platform with infrastructure-layer agent detection, native Adobe Experience Manager integration and the governance a large marketing org needs. We do none of that. We run one programme for agency partners: monitoring identifies the buying questions leading AI assistants answer without your client in them, those gaps become the month's brief, and we write, publish and measure the content. Different buyers, different work.

Could an agency sell both?

In practice it would be unusual. A client big enough to buy an enterprise Adobe platform usually has in-house content production too, which is exactly the capacity our programme supplies. The overlap is narrow: Adobe measures and recommends, we produce and publish. The case where both make sense is a client who has the platform and still is not shipping the pages.

What does Found by AI do that a platform like this does not?

It writes the articles and puts them live. Detection is where most tools stop: they tell you a client is absent from the answers that matter and hand the work back. We take the monitoring as a brief, produce the articles with a named editor from your team or your client's on written-by and reviewed-by bylines, run them through a review step you configure per client, and publish them to a blog on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way.

Do you integrate with a client's CMS?

Not today. We publish to a blog we host on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way, which keeps the content on the client's property without touching their existing stack. CMS connectors are on our roadmap and we will not attach a date to them. If your client's requirement is that everything must live inside their existing enterprise CMS, tell us early and we will say plainly whether the programme fits.

Bottom line

If your client runs on Adobe Experience Cloud, has an in-house marketing team, and needs AI-optimization signals inside the platform that team already lives in, Adobe LLM Optimizer is the right tool and we are not in that conversation. Found by AI exists for the other case: an agency with clients and no spare editorial capacity. The monitoring becomes the brief, we write and publish the content, and the monthly report documents what changed - under your agency's brand, with a standing promise that we never approach your clients. We promise the process, not an outcome.

See the loop on one of your clients

Found by AI is sold only through white-label agency partners. Bring one client and we'll walk the monitoring, the articles it produced, the review flow and a real monthly report end to end.

Or start smaller: the free scan puts a focused set of buying questions to leading AI assistants and shows which get answered without your client - and who is named instead. The report comes to you.

Founding Pilot seats for agencies onboarding in 2026: one retained client, three report cycles, no cohort fee - and you walk away with a full export if it ends there. Ask us.

Not an agency? Then we're not the right people to buy from - but your agency might be. Get in touch and we'll tell you plainly whether there's a partner in your market.