Captain Obvious SEO Engine watches your rankings, your content, your AI visibility — and acts on them. Year-1 free for every site we build. After that, $99/mo. Nothing comes close.
Every site we build ships with the full SEO Engine — keyword tracking, AI Visibility, Decay tracking, AI Shield — free for 12 months. After Y1: $99/mo. Most clients keep it. The math is obvious.
Yoast tracks keywords. SEMrush builds reports. Ahrefs sells data. None of them act on it. None of them know about AI engines. None of them protect your content. We do all three.
Do ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini cite your site when answering questions about your industry? We test 200+ prompts monthly per client. We tell you which AI engines surface you, which ones don't, and what to fix.
See AI Visibility in the dashboardRankings don't drop overnight. They decay. We watch every keyword every day and tell you exactly when a page started losing position — and which competitor took it. Most clients fix it in 48 hours.
How Decay tracking worksChatGPT and Claude train on your content. Then they answer questions about your industry — without sending people to you. AI Shield blocks the major AI scrapers from your site. Your content stays yours.
Why AI Shield mattersThis is what your SEO Engine actually looks like. Not a marketing screenshot. The real thing.
184 keywords tracked. 66 on page 1. 28 in the top 3. Plus AI Visibility scoring across 200+ prompts in the events industry. All on autopilot.
Set it up once. It runs forever.
Every keyword you track, checked on Google daily. Position, change, competitor — recorded forever.
200+ industry prompts run against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini monthly. Are you cited? By whom?
Page slipping? Day one, you get a notice. With the keyword, the URL, and what to fix.
Block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Google-Extended. Your robots.txt + WAF rules, all maintained.
We see what your competitors rank for that you don't. We tell you what to write next.
Who's linking to you? Who stopped? Who linked to your competitor and not you?
Captain Obi reviews your last 30 days, writes a one-page brief, recommends 3 actions. You decide.
Approve once, we apply forever: title tag fixes, meta descriptions, schema patches, redirects.
Inspired by the security architecture standards behind ClaimArmorAI. Built into every Captain Obvious site.
When someone asks ChatGPT "who's the best wedding DJ in NJ?" — they used to click through 10 search results. Now they get one answer. If that answer doesn't cite you, you lose. AI Shield does two things: it blocks the major AI scrapers from training on your content (so they can't summarize-and-bypass you), AND it makes your structured content more visible to the AI engines that DO send traffic. It's not a paradox — it's strategy.
Read the AI Visibility quarterly report for benchmarks across 22 client sites.
Existing clients: included. New clients: pick a tier. No long-term contracts.
Year-1 Free — included for all Captain Obvious build clients. Full SEO Engine: keyword tracking, AI Visibility scoring, Decay tracking, AI Shield. After Y1: $99/mo.
SEO Starter — 1 site, 50 keywords, monthly content recommendations. AI Visibility scoring included.
SEO Pro — up to 250 keywords, AI Shield active, Decay tracking, monthly Obi-led strategy reviews. Most popular.
SEO Enterprise — unlimited keywords, multi-site, custom dashboards, white-glove content production. Best for agencies and franchises.
Year-1 free applies to all Captain Obvious build clients — Standard tier and above. SEO Engine continues at $99/mo after the first 12 months. Cancel anytime.
| Yoast / SEO plugin | SEMrush / Ahrefs | Hire an agency | Captain Obvious | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $99 (plugin) | $129–$449/mo | $1,500–$10,000/mo | $99/mo (free for build clients Y1) |
| Daily rank checks | Depends | |||
| AI Visibility tracking | ||||
| Decay alerts | Manual | Manual | ✓ (automated) | |
| AI Shield protection | ||||
| Auto-actions | Yes (slow) | ✓ (you approve, we apply) | ||
| Monthly strategy review | Self-serve | ✓ (Obi-led) | ||
| Real human support | Ticket queue | Live chat | Account exec | Direct line |
Free SEO audit. Real numbers — your keywords, your AI Visibility, your competitors. No card, no commitment.