For agencies · Updated September 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.
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.
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.
Turn monitoring evidence into the next brief.
Last month's monitoring evidence, competitor appearances, citation gaps, missing facts, weak topics, is where next month's topics are chosen from. Then the Monthly AI-Search Visibility 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 AI-Search Visibility 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 publishing immediately 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. Every week we put your client's buying questions to AI assistants, for example ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, and record who gets named. The questions your client is missing from are where the month's topics are chosen; then we write, publish and measure the content that answers them, and the Monthly AI-Search Visibility Report documents what changed. The monitoring is not a dashboard: it is the brief. All of it ships under your agency's brand.
| Generates content? | Publishes for you? | Publishing surface | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe LLM Optimizer | No | No | None |
| Found by AI | Yes | Yes | A blog we host on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain, one DNS record, agency-branded; the same articles over the Content Delivery API or our WordPress connector |
Adobe LLM Optimizer
Found by AI
AI does the research and the first draft; a named person from your team or your client's reviews, edits and signs it before it goes out. Articles the programme produces can carry the name of the person who reviewed them; posts your client's team write name their writer. Three publish modes, chosen per client: review before publish is the default for every new client brand, with a 7-day review window; publishing immediately after our quality gate is opt-in per client; dark until reviewed is available on request. Translations follow the same mode as the original. 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.
| Found by AI | Adobe LLM Optimizer | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A delivered AI-search content programme, resold by agencies | An enterprise AI-optimization platform inside Adobe Experience Cloud |
| What arrives each month | Published articles briefed from the monitoring, plus a report on what moved | Scores, signals and page-level recommendations for the client's team to act on |
| Who writes the articles | We do - briefed from the monitoring, signed off by a named editor from your team or your client's | The client's own team |
| Who publishes | We do - to a blog on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way | The client's own team, in their existing stack |
| Author accountability | A named reviewer from your team or your client's - real job title, public profile linked - with role-accurate written-by / reviewed-by credits and structured author data | Not applicable - Adobe is not the publisher |
| Review before publish | Three modes per client: review window (the default, 7 days), publish immediately (opt-in), dark until reviewed (on request); the client's own writers can publish alongside the articles the programme produces | The client's own editorial process |
| Whose brand the client sees | Yours - portal, monthly report and emails are white-labelled | Adobe's, inside the client's own platform |
| Enterprise stack depth | None - we are a standalone programme and do not pretend otherwise | Deep, if the client already runs on Adobe. This is the reason to buy it |
Key differences
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?
Every client starts on 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. The same articles are available today over the Content Delivery API or our WordPress connector; other CMSs on partner demand, and we will not sell you a date. If your client's requirement is that everything must live inside Adobe Experience Manager, 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.
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Next step
Run the loop on one client. Judge us on three reports.
Bring one retained client. We show you the monitoring, the articles it produced, the review flow and a real report. Three monthly reports later, you decide.
Founder terms, for agencies signing up through 31 December 2026: the founder rate is locked when you claim it and runs on a 12-month agreement per client brand, with one brand swap inside the term. Your first client brand is the trial: one retained client, three monthly report cycles, then decide at the third report. Roll out on the founder term, or stop there and take a full export. No minimum on standard monthly terms. No per-brand setup fee; a one-time partner onboarding fee applies, waived for founding partners.
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