The Residency: in-house AEO research, on your domain
A longitudinal AEO research engagement built around your domain, your buyers, and your competitors. Quoted runs the research; your marketing team turns it into content moves. By month four, you have a playbook grounded in real persistence data instead of generic best practices.
We’re deliberately selective about who we take on so every partner gets direct attention from the research team. Continue as long as the research keeps producing value for your work.
Apply to The Residency →Everything it takes to run rigorous AEO research on your own domain
Research infrastructure
- 100+ tracked prompts sourced from real buyer conversations in your verticals
- Weekly citation tracking across Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot
- Transparent methodology—every prompt source-documented, every raw response stored
- Full access to raw data exports (your data, no restrictions)
- Competitor citation tracking on five named competitors of your choice
- Ongoing prompt refinement as your market evolves
Strategic deliverables
- Monthly research report with citation persistence and competitive shifts
- Prioritized recommendations queue ranked by expected citation impact
- Two quarterly deep-dive reports with longitudinal trend analysis
- Voice and content-structure guidelines informed by your citation data
- A custom playbook by month four, refined month over month as new data lands
- Direct line to the research team for client-domain questions
Longitudinal research takes time to compound. Statistically meaningful citation-persistence patterns typically emerge by month two or three. By month four, your first playbook is delivered, grounded in your domain’s real persistence data. By month six, you have a recommendation library that’s defensible because it’s built on data your competitors haven’t collected. Engagements continue for as long as the research keeps producing value for your team.
How engagements are structured. Scoped per partner during the application call. We discuss what your team needs, what the research roadmap can deliver, and what the right pace looks like for your domain. Terms are part of that conversation, not the homepage.
Why a research partnership beats another SaaS subscription
Most AEO products give you a login and a dashboard and call that the product. That leaves your team doing the actual research work: designing prompt sets, running the queries, interpreting the data, writing the recommendations. The dashboard is the cheap part. Your analyst hours are the expensive part.
The Residency inverts that. We run the research on your domain directly. Your team gets back the analyst hours and applies them to what matters: actually shipping the content moves the research recommends.
Shape the methodology
Direct input on which metrics matter, what reporting formats work, and which analyses are most actionable for your team.
Direct researcher contact
Your point of contact is the analyst doing the work, not a customer-success layer. Ask methodology questions, request mid-cycle analyses, get answers from the person reading the data.
Your data, fully portable
Raw data exports any time. If you ever leave, you take the dataset with you—no platform lock-in, no proprietary file formats, no rebuilding from scratch.
You don’t wait six months for evidence—cross-vertical findings apply to your data on day one.
Every content-pattern detector in the research runs against every URL we collect, not just URLs from a single vertical. When you join The Residency, your domain’s pages immediately get scored against the full library of patterns we’ve already validated—definitional openings, comparison-section structures, citation rigor markers, and the rest.
Your first monthly report ships with findings in two evidence tiers. Patterns validated across the verticals already in the research library carry confidence labels you can act on now. Patterns that surface in your data but haven’t been pressure-tested elsewhere are flagged as hypotheses to track. Neither tier requires waiting six months for your dataset to grow before recommendations start landing.
Currently tracking cybersecurity and B2B martech, with additional verticals launching quarterly. As coverage expands, every existing partner inherits the cross-vertical evidence each new study contributes.
Questions we get before people apply
Apply to join the next Residency cohort
Four questions, two minutes. If you’re a fit, you’ll get a calendar link for a 45-minute scoping call within two business days. If you’re not the right partner right now, we’ll tell you that—and we usually have a referral.