# Digital Elevator — Managed AEO/SEO agency: AI-cited content, technical schema work and off-site brand mentions, with published prices. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/digital-elevator (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-23 Digital Elevator is a remote marketing agency that runs answer-engine optimization as fixed-scope programs: monthly Managed AEO/SEO, 90-day AI visibility sprints, and three-month off-site mention campaigns. Its people do the technical, content and outreach work for the client. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://thedigitalelevator.com | | Price | from $1,500/month | | Free trial | Partly | The AI Visibility Report is free only for teams the vendor qualifies on timeline and monthly budget, is delivered once as a 30-minute walkthrough plus a deck, and covers 5 priority queries modelled against ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. There is no standing $0 plan. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Prompt tracking is bundled into the paid programs, with a citation baseline taken before work starts and share-of-voice reported prompt by prompt through the engagement. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Optimises your content** · Yes — The diagnostic grades an existing site and returns an ordered fix list, and the paid programs execute on-page and technical changes found by recurring audits. > a 90-day prioritized action plan split into quick wins / 30-day / 90-day, and a queries table covering the 5 priority queries that matter most in your category > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · FAQ, "What does the report actually contain?" **Generates content** · Yes — Every Managed tier ships a fixed number of new written pieces each month, briefed for the formats the vendor says AI engines extract, plus infographics on higher tiers. > 2 SEO content pieces per month, AEO-briefed for AI citation > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · Foundation (Stairs) tier deliverables list **Publishes to your site** · Partly — No automated CMS publishing is offered; account managers make simple changes by hand in the client's CMS and anything deeper is coordinated with the client's own developer. > Account managers who can handle simple site changes in most CMS platforms > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/local-seo/ · "What every program includes" list, under the pricing cards **Technical AEO** · Yes — Schema, entity graph, llms.txt and AI-crawler access form the first of the three pillars, and the sample report opens on a robots.txt blocking check. > Schema & JSON-LD entity graph, llms.txt, and AI-crawler access > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/ai-visibility/ · Pillar 01 Technical & Measurement, first bullet **Done-for-you service** · Yes — This is a done-for-you services company rather than software: scoped programs delivered by strategists, writers and account managers with published prices. > Today, Digital Elevator runs a small catalog of clearly scoped programs: ongoing Managed AEO/SEO, three-month AI visibility sprints, three-month off-site mention programs, Local SEO, web design, and PR. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/llm-info/ · Agency Background section, third paragraph ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is named in the ongoing prompt tracking included in every Managed tier, and is one of the two surfaces the free diagnostic models against. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Perplexity** · No — Perplexity is missing from the enumerated tracking inventory, even though other pages name it as an engine the off-site work aims to get cited in, so it is optimised for but not measured. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Gemini** · Yes — Gemini is listed in the tracked engines for every Managed tier; the sample report also treats Google-Extended access as a blocker for Gemini coverage. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overviews is tracked in every Managed tier and is one of only two surfaces the free AI Visibility Report models a brand against. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Google AI Mode** · Yes — Google AI Mode is named in the Managed AEO/SEO tracking inventory, though it is absent from the free report, which models only ChatGPT and AI Overviews. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Claude** · Yes — Claude appears in the same tracked-engine inventory that every Managed AEO/SEO tier includes, alongside ChatGPT, Gemini and the two Google AI surfaces. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot appears nowhere in the tracked-engine inventory that every Managed tier includes, nor anywhere else among the published program deliverables. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Grok** · No — Grok is absent from the complete list of engines the vendor says its ongoing prompt tracking covers, and it is named in no program deliverable on the site. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek does not appear in the enumerated set of engines tracked in every tier, and the vendor names no other program that covers it. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI is not in the tracked-engine inventory bundled into every Managed tier, and no sprint or mentions tier on the site adds it. > Ongoing prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · "What every tier includes" list, below the three pricing cards **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Yes — Coverage is stated twice and differently: five engines tracked in the paid Managed program, but only two surfaces modelled in the free report, and that report does not query assistants at all. > We model against ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews specifically, because that is where most AI answers your buyers see are decided. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · FAQ, "Do you query the AI assistants directly?" ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Partly — Reporting shows whether the brand is cited for each tracked prompt and lists every placement URL the agency created, but no inventory of the third-party domains an engine cited on its own. > Prompt tracking through the sprint so you see share-of-voice move, prompt by prompt > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/ai-visibility/ · "You see exactly what's working" section, third bullet **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Competitors are benchmarked in both the free report and ongoing work, covering mention share, which queries are won or lost, and the content most likely to displace the brand. > We benchmark your mention share against direct competitors, identify which queries you're winning vs. losing, and map the third-party content most likely to displace you. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · FAQ, "What if my brand is already getting mentioned?" **Brand sentiment** · No — The measurement the vendor enumerates is citation baseline, AI-referred attribution and before/after per prompt. No sentiment or brand-attribute analysis appears anywhere on the site. > You get a citation baseline before we start, attribution for the AI-referred traffic that lands on your site, and a before/after read on every priority prompt. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/ai-visibility/ · "Full transparency" section, intro paragraph **Recommendations** · Yes — The deliverable is prescriptive rather than descriptive: a ranked fix list with time estimates per item, written by a strategist and handed over for the client's team to ship. > Most teams hand the report to their internal SEO or content lead and ship the quick wins themselves. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · "After the report" section, first paragraph **AI crawler analytics** · Partly — The diagnostic checks whether AI crawlers are permitted and names the blocked bots per platform, but no log-level analytics of which bots actually crawled the site is offered. > The robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and CCBot. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · Sample report, "Critical blocker — fix before anything else" _Not established: Wrong answers about you_ ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — The mentions programs quantify tracking per tier, from fifteen prompts on the entry plan to fifty on the top one, and the free report runs five priority queries. > Prompt tracking across 15 prompts > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/link-building/ · Tier 1 Foundation pricing card, third bullet **Projects or brands** · Partly — Programs are scoped to one brand, and multi-location coverage is billed per location rather than pooled, with enterprise footprints of ten or more quoted separately. > The program is priced per location. Multi-location businesses (3+) receive volume discounts. Enterprise clients (10+) get custom pricing with a dedicated account team. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/local-seo/ · FAQ, "How many locations can you manage?" **Countries** · Partly — Off-site campaigns are sold in National and Local variants and local tracking runs per location and market; no non-US market, country or language coverage is published. > We monitor up to 25 local keywords per location, tracking your positions in both Google Maps (the local 3-pack) and organic search results. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/local-seo/ · FAQ, "Do you track local map rankings?" **How often it checks** · Yes — Reporting is monthly across rankings, traffic and AI citations, with citation monitoring described as ongoing; no query-refresh frequency is published. > Monthly performance reporting across rankings, traffic, and AI citations > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/products/managed-seo/ · Stairs / Foundation tier deliverables list **Card required to start** · No — The free AI Visibility Report takes a short application and no payment details, though it is gated on qualifying rather than open to anyone. > Free for qualified teams · 30-sec application · No credit card > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · Hero section, eyebrow line under the headline **Self-serve signup** · No — Nothing can be bought on the site: every tier's call to action is a scoping conversation, and even the free report requires qualifying and a booked walkthrough call. > Answer three quick questions — if it's a fit, you'll book a 30-minute walkthrough on the spot. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/ai-visibility-report/ · "See if you qualify" panel, body copy ## Access and integrations **API** · No — The vendor's own catalogue of what it sells is entirely people-delivered programs; no data feed, dashboard login or API is offered to pull the tracking data elsewhere. > Today, Digital Elevator runs a small catalog of clearly scoped programs: ongoing Managed AEO/SEO, three-month AI visibility sprints, three-month off-site mention programs, Local SEO, web design, and PR. > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/llm-info/ · Agency Background section, third paragraph **MCP server** · No — No MCP server is published anywhere on the site; the internal Claude-based tooling the vendor describes is used to deliver its own work, not exposed to clients or agents. > Internal library of Claude-based skills and agents that automate SEO audits, content briefs, competitive analysis, and reporting workflows > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/llm-info/ · Proprietary Methodologies & Tools, "AI Skills and Agents" **BI export** · Partly — Performance dashboards are built in Looker Studio, so clients see the data in a BI tool, but no warehouse export or raw data hand-off is described anywhere. > Looker Studio for Performance Dashboards > — https://thedigitalelevator.com/llm-info/ · Technology Stack list, first item ## Answer-engine source observations 2 of 4 collected answers have source URL/title annotations naming CitedIndex. These are the latest stored observations per engine, not current consumer-UI results. They do not measure product mentions or establish that a source supports a claim. | Engine | Model | Collected on | Query | CitedIndex in source annotations | Source annotations | Other source hosts (up to 6) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | 2026-09-04 | Digital Elevator alternatives | Directory domain found | 33 | thedigitalelevator.com, g2.com, gobluemedia.com, exceedseo.com, beomniscient.com, siegemedia.com | | Perplexity | sonar | 2026-09-04 | Digital Elevator alternatives | Directory domain found | 20 | g2.com, linkedin.com, ameriglide.com, cbinsights.com, worldmetrics.org, getapp.co.uk | | ChatGPT | gpt-4o-mini | 2026-09-04 | Digital Elevator alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — | | Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | 2026-09-04 | Digital Elevator alternatives | Not assessable — no source annotations | 0 | — | ## Provenance Every fact above comes from the vendor. 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