For agencies · Updated September 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, 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
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 AI-Search Visibility Report documents what changed. Articles can carry a named editor from your team or your client's with written-by and reviewed-by bylines, 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, 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 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conductor | 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 |
Conductor
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 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 | 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 | 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 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, 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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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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