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The Managed Way to Replace Conductor

Your buyers are asking AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude which company to use, and those answers name a short list. AI Visibility tells you whether you are on it. We write 25 questions a buyer would ask about what you sell, without ever naming your company, and we ask them of Claude every day. You see how often you are named against up to three competitors, and each other AI engine you want tracked is $49 a month. You see the trend, not a promise.

With Cascadia you get

  • Asked every day, reported monthly
  • Measured against real prompts
  • Each engine tracked separately
  • WordPress specialists, not generalists
  • Page work available when you want it
  • Nothing installed on your site

Cascadia vs Conductor at a Glance

$49,000Conductor median, mid-market a year
1 to 3 yearsConductor contract length
3 weeksConductor trial
$49/moEach extra AI engine on Cascadia

Three Questions That Decide It

1

Do you have staff to configure and act on a platform?

YesConductor
NoCascadia
2

Do You Want a Multi-Year Contract?

YesConductor
NoCascadia
3

Do You Want Anything Installed?

A platform is fineConductor
No, nothing on the siteCascadia

Side by Side

ConductorCascadia
Published price×None, quoted per organization$49 per extra engine, published
Contract size–About $27,000 to $150,000 a yearOne price per website
Setup and training–Priced separatelyYour site address and three competitors
Staff needed×Internal people to run itRuns on our side
Engines–Platform you configureClaude standard, others added
Who acts×Your team–Page Optimization when you want it

Published Price

Cascadia$49 per extra engine, published
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ConductorNone, quoted per organization

Contract Size

CascadiaOne price per website
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ConductorAbout $27,000 to $150,000 a year

Setup and Training

CascadiaYour site address and three competitors
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ConductorPriced separately

Staff Needed

CascadiaRuns on our side
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ConductorInternal people to run it

Engines

CascadiaClaude standard, others added
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ConductorPlatform you configure

Who Acts

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CascadiaPage Optimization when you want it
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ConductorYour team

Everything Below Is Included

One monthly price per website, and no upgrade tier holding a feature back. Each AI engine beyond Claude is $49 a month.

  • Claude Included as Standard
  • More AI Engines at $49 a Month Each
  • Each Engine Reported Separately
  • The Same Questions on Every Engine
  • Results Pulled Every Day
  • ChatGPT Tracking as an Add-On
  • Perplexity and Google AI as Add-Ons
  • Prompt Set Development
  • Share of Voice Benchmarking
  • Monthly Report in Plain Words
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What the Managed Part Actually Means

We ask the assistants your buyers’ questions every day and report how often you are named. When you want the pages changed, Page Optimization does that work.

Nothing Installed on Your Site

There is no plugin to install. AI Visibility touches nothing on your site, and the results arrive as a monthly report.

Asked Every Day, Reported Monthly

Your 25 questions go to Claude every day, and to any engine you add. Once a month you get the share of voice, the trend, and the gap to the leader in plain words. When you want pages changed, Page Optimization does that work.

Measured Against Real Prompts

Progress here is easy to fake with vanity metrics. We write 25 questions your buyers would actually ask, we ask them of Claude every day, plus any engine you add, and report how often you were named.

Each Engine Tracked Separately

Claude is tracked as standard, and you can add ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI at $49 a month each. They retrieve from different sources and often name different companies for the same question, so each one is reported on its own rather than blended into one score.

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Who This Comparison Is For

Companies in Categories People Compare Before Buying

Software, professional services, and considered purchases all get researched through comparison questions. Assistants answer those by naming a short list.

Agencies Adding AI Visibility for Their Clients

We run the tracking, deliver reporting you can pass straight to a client, and stay out of the relationship.

Local Businesses Competing on Being Recommended

Getting into that set depends on consistent details across your site and the directories it pulls from. AI Visibility tracks whether you are in it.

Choose Conductor if

  • You buy enterprise software with a long contract
  • You have people to configure and act on it
  • You track many domains and pages at scale

Choose Cascadia if

  • Buyers compare options before they buy
  • You are an agency reporting AI visibility to clients
  • You are a local business that needs to be recommended
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How Our Generative Engine Optimization Process Works

Setup takes a few days. After that the questions are asked every day and the results reported monthly.

  1. 1

    We Settle Your Competitors

    You name up to three competitors, or we pick them from the businesses you compete with in search.

  2. 2

    We Build Your Prompt Set and Baseline

    We read your site and write 25 questions a buyer would ask about what you sell, without naming your company. Those are the questions we track.

  3. 3

    We Ask Them Every Day

    The questions go to Claude every day, and to any engine you add at $49 a month, and we record how often you and each competitor are named.

  4. 4

    You Get the Picture Every Month

    A monthly report shows your share of voice, the trend against last month, and the gap to the most-named competitor. When you want pages changed, Page Optimization does that.

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How Conductor works

What Conductor Does, in Their Own Words

Conductor is an enterprise SEO and AI visibility platform. The figures below are third-party procurement reports read in September 2026.

Quote-based pricing (September 2026)Conductor quotes each organization rather than listing tiers, based on scope.
Procurement data puts contracts in five and six figuresThird-party reports describe roughly $27,000 to over $150,000 a year, with medians cited near $49,000 for mid-market deployments.
Contracts run one to three yearsSetup, onboarding, and training are commonly priced separately from the platform fee.
Priced on scope, not seatsReports describe pricing built around domains tracked, pages monitored, and content allocations rather than a per-user rate.
It is a platform, not a teamReviewers note that running it well needs internal people to configure it and act on what it says, which one G2 summary compared to two or three full-time salaries on top of the license.
Built for enterprise buyingA three-week trial sits inside an enterprise buying motion rather than self-serve signup.

Taken from Conductor pricing analysis, Conductor listing. Checked September 2026.

What Clients Say About Working with Cascadia

“I’ve always dreaded website management, but Cascadia has done an incredible job with my WordPress site, making it one less thing for me to worry about.”
Alex R.Cascadia client

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Conductor Alternative Questions

Straight answers about switching, pricing, and what moves with you.

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Still have a question?

How is Cascadia different from Conductor?

The main difference is that we run it for you, and nothing is installed on your site. There is no plugin to install. AI Visibility touches nothing on your site, and the results arrive as a monthly report.

What is generative engine optimization?

Generative engine optimization is the work of getting your business represented accurately inside AI-generated answers. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overview a question in your category, those systems retrieve source material, summarize it, and sometimes cite it. GEO shapes what they find and how confidently they can use it, through structured data, answer-first content, crawler access, and consistent facts about your company. Our AI Visibility service measures the result: how often an assistant names you, and who it names instead.

How is GEO different from traditional SEO?

Traditional SEO competes for a ranked position on a results page. Generative engine optimization competes to be the source a model quotes when it writes the answer instead. The overlap is real, since both need crawlable, well-structured, credible pages. The difference is what counts as a win. In search you want a click. In an AI answer you want your name, your facts, and a link back to you.

Do I still need SEO if I invest in generative engine optimization services?

Yes. Classic search still sends most of the traffic for most businesses, and the technical foundation the two share means neglecting one weakens the other. AI Visibility measures where you stand in AI answers and does not change your site. If your indexing, site structure, or content quality is weak, that is page work, which Page Optimization does, because no amount of tracking rescues a page an assistant cannot retrieve.

Which AI systems do you track?

AI Visibility tracks 25 prompts on Claude as standard, and each additional AI engine, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews, is $49 a month per website. Each pulls from a different mix of live web retrieval, licensed sources, and training data, so they frequently disagree about who to name. We track your visibility separately on each rather than reporting a single blended number that hides where you are losing.

How long before I see results?

Tracking starts within days, so you see where you stand almost at once. Moving that number takes changes to your pages, which Page Optimization does, and that takes longer. Expect three to six months before your prompt set shows steady, repeatable mentions rather than occasional ones. Anyone promising faster than that is either lucky or guessing. We report movement monthly so you can see the trend early.

Can you actually measure whether AI assistants mention my business?

Yes, within limits. We write 25 questions a buyer would ask about what you sell, we ask them of Claude every day, plus any engine you add, and record how often you are named. That gives you a real trend line and a share of voice figure against named competitors. What nobody can give you is a complete impression count, because the platforms do not publish one.

What is llms.txt and does my site need one?

It is a plain text file at your domain root that points AI crawlers at your most important content in a clean, readable form. Adoption is still uneven across the major platforms, so treat it as cheap insurance rather than a silver bullet. It is not part of AI Visibility, which measures AI answers and does not change your site.

Should we block AI crawlers or allow them?

That is your call. AI Visibility does not change it, because it measures AI answers and touches nothing on your site. Most businesses selling a service want the major assistants reading everything, since being absent from the index guarantees being absent from the answer. Publishers and companies with proprietary research often want tighter rules. Either way, the rules live on your site and stay yours to set.

Does this work for local businesses?

It works well, and the mechanics shift a little. Local queries lean harder on entity consistency, so your business name, address, hours, and service descriptions have to match across your site, your Google profile, and the directories assistants pull from. One stale address in a third-party listing is enough to make a model hedge or name someone else. AI Visibility does not edit listings, but it shows you whether assistants name you or a competitor for the questions your buyers ask.

What do you need from me to get started?

Your website address and up to three competitors. If you do not name any, we pick them from the businesses you compete with in search. We write the 25 questions from what your site says you sell, so there is no questionnaire to fill in. After that it runs on our side, with a monthly report.

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