For agencies · Updated July 2026
An enterprise AEO and SEO platform.
We do the writing and publishing.
Conductor is an enterprise intelligence platform for AEO (answer-engine optimization) and SEO: deep data infrastructure, topical authority mapping, content guidance and continuous site monitoring, plus published benchmark research the whole category reads. For a large in-house marketing organisation, that is a serious capability and this page is not an argument against 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 - 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
Conductor is intelligence for a team.
We are the team that does the work.
Conductor's strength is depth of intelligence: data infrastructure built up over years, a topical authority map a marketing team plans content against, guidance for writers, continuous monitoring of the site, and industry benchmark research on how AI is reshaping discovery. If you have an in-house team whose problem is knowing what to prioritise, that is exactly the problem Conductor solves, and it solves it well. What it does not do is write the articles or put them live. That work stays with the team, by design.
Found by AI starts where that hand-off happens. We are not a platform your team operates. For the clients you sell us 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. Articles carry a named editor from your team or your client's 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, and the portal, report and emails carry your agency's brand. We never solicit your clients.
Where each one sits
Where Conductor sits
- An enterprise AEO and SEO intelligence platform, with data infrastructure and topical authority mapping a marketing team plans against
- Published benchmark research on how AI is changing discovery, which is a genuine contribution to the category and useful whether or not you buy the platform
- The right pick for a large in-house marketing organisation with the team and budget to operate an intelligence platform across SEO and AEO programmes
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.
| Generates content? | Publishes for you? | Publishing surface | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conductor | — | — | — |
| Found by AI | Yes | Yes | Client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way, agency-branded |
Conductor
Found by AI
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 Conductor's own site. What follows is the difference in shape, which doesn't go out of date.
| Found by AI | Conductor | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A delivered AI-search content programme, resold by agencies | An enterprise AEO and SEO intelligence platform |
| What arrives each month | Published articles briefed from the monitoring, plus a report on what moved | Intelligence, authority maps and guidance 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 | Your team, or the client’s |
| Who publishes | We do - to a blog on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way | Your team, wherever the client’s site lives |
| 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 - Conductor is not the publisher |
| Review before publish | Configurable per client, with role-gated approval; the client's own writers can publish alongside the articles the programme produces | Your team's own editorial process |
| Whose brand the client sees | Yours - portal, monthly report and emails are white-labelled | Conductor's, unless you rebuild the reporting yourself |
| Depth of intelligence and research | Deliberately narrow - enough to brief the month, not a research platform | Deep, with published category research behind it. This is their core strength |
Key differences
Choose Conductor if…
- The client needs enterprise-grade intelligence across SEO and AEO, and has a marketing team whose real question is what to prioritise
- Topical authority mapping and continuous site monitoring are requirements in themselves, not just a route to a content plan
- There is in-house editorial capacity. A better map genuinely helps that team; a delivery partner would duplicate them
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
Where Conductor is genuinely stronger, we say so: the intelligence is deeper than ours and the research behind it is worth reading. The question this page turns on is who writes the pages afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
Is Found by AI a replacement for Conductor?
No. Conductor is an enterprise intelligence platform across AEO and SEO, with data depth and research we do not attempt to match. 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. If the client needs the intelligence platform, that is Conductor.
Conductor already guides content. Why would an agency add us?
Because guidance is not production. A platform can tell you what the client should publish and even help a writer shape it; someone still has to write it, get it reviewed, publish it and report on the effect. In an agency without spare editorial capacity, that step is where the retainer quietly stalls. We are that step, delivered under your brand.
What does the client actually receive each month?
Published articles on a blog we host on the client's subdomain or your white-label domain - one DNS record either way, briefed from their own monitoring evidence, carrying a named editor from your team or your client's with written-by and reviewed-by bylines and structured author data. Then a report on what the assistants said and what changed. 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, and the client's own writers can publish alongside the articles the programme produces.
Can an agency run both?
Yes. Conductor stays the intelligence layer for clients big enough to justify it; we handle the AI-answer content loop for the clients where you have sold it. One is software your team operates, the other is work delivered on your behalf.
Bottom line
Conductor is a serious enterprise platform and its intelligence is deeper than ours - if your client's problem is knowing what to prioritise and they have a team to act on it, buy the platform. 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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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.