Case Study, Swydo · AEO · GEO · SEO

The most-cited
brand in its category.

Swydo is a marketing-reporting platform in a crowded, competitive category. Over 12 months it became the brand AI recommends first, across every major model, without a single outreach email.

#1
Most-cited vs. direct competitors across all major LLMs
0×
Organic traffic in 12 months
0%
Conversion-rate lift (0.8% → 1.5%)
0+
Articles shipped in 24 months
[ THE CHALLENGE ]

A crowded category, and a new buyer.

Marketing-reporting tools compete on a long list of features and an even longer list of comparison keywords. Winning Google was hard enough. But a new pattern was emerging: buyers were asking ChatGPT and Perplexity “what's the best reporting tool for agencies?” and taking the model's shortlist at face value. Swydo wasn't reliably on it, and competitors were.

The mandate was twofold: keep compounding organic growth the classic way, and become the brand AI names when buyers ask. No big outreach budget. No paid placements. Just a system.

[ THE APPROACH ]

What we actually did.

01

Mapped the prompts

Identified the core category prompts driving buying decisions and generated 20–30 conversational variations of each, the real questions buyers ask AI.

02

Audited every model

Ran systematic visibility audits across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews to see where Swydo appeared, where rivals won, and which sources each model cited.

03

Placed content where AI looks

Built and earned presence on the sources models consistently cite, Reddit, G2, YouTube and authority blogs, with 100% organic backlinks and zero cold outreach.

04

Rebuilt the foundation

Cluster-based content strategy, BOFU keyword targeting, and internal linking rebuilt toward money pages, lifting site-wide conversion from 0.8% to 1.5%.

05

Shipped at scale, kept quality

400+ SEO-optimized articles in 24 months with SOPs, feedback loops and QA across writers and AI agents, volume without slop.

[ THE RESULT ]

Cited first. Across the board.

Within the year, Swydo was the most-cited brand against its direct competitors across every major LLM, the name that came up first when buyers asked AI for a recommendation. Organic traffic tripled. The conversion rate nearly doubled. And because every backlink and citation was earned organically, the position is durable: it's built on authority models trust, not placements that expire.

This is the exact system Enginekick runs for B2B SaaS clients. The category changes; the playbook holds.

“Most SEO agencies are still scared of AI search. We treated it as the main event, and made Swydo the answer before the category caught on.”
Jay Kang // Founder, Enginekick

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