Real customersSearch Console dataAhrefs authority data
AI SEO agent case studies, with the receipts
Founders and agencies who handed their SEO to an AI agent, and what happened to their Google traffic, Domain Rating and AI visibility. Month-by-month data, named people, and the months that went wrong.
7 customers sharing their real numbers
1M+
Articles generated
As of September 25, 2026
4,689
Sites with Search Console connected
The dataset behind our study
473.7k
Verified backlinks
Checked live, as of September 4, 2026
75.4%
Of tracked sites gained clicks
1,383 sites, before vs after joining
Original research
Do AI SEO agents work? We tracked 2,119 sites.
Sixteen months of Search Console data, indexed to each site’s own starting point. The median site hit 2.0× its clicks about 7 months in. We also show who did not grow, and why the numbers may flatter us.
Read the studyMedian clicks vs the month before joining
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28-day periods before and after joining Outrank
Customer case studies
Pick the story closest to yours
Solo founders, SaaS teams and agencies. Each one has monthly charts, the setup they used, their own words and an honest reading of the data.
Life Purpose App4.5×
Google clicks, May 2026 vs May 2025
Years of flat traffic, then 4.5× more clicks in a year
Martin Adams, Life Purpose App
Moonb22 → 43
Domain Rating on Ahrefs
From no SEO strategy to 2,213 AI citations
Lorenzo Nicolini, Moonb
24hourEDU1.2 → 30
Domain Rating on Ahrefs
A brand-new domain, from DR 1.2 to DR 30
Jesse Kennedy, 24hourEDU
Scalelist16 → 45
Domain Rating on Ahrefs
Manual link building stalled at DR 15. The agent took it to 45.
Arnaud Renoux, Scalelist
+44%
Google clicks, May–July YoY
SEO kept getting deprioritized. Now it compounds.
Aidan Cramer, AIApply
34×
Google impressions, May 2026 vs May 2025
An agency that refuses generic AI copy, now with 34× the impressions
Olaf van Gastel, Bright Brands
0 → 4.95k
Clicks on one client site
SEO as a productized service, for virtually every client
Patrick Leth, Vækster
Data study
2,119
Sites tracked in Search Console
The aggregate: how typical are these results?
By use case
What are you looking for?
- AI agent for SEO content creationLife Purpose App: 4.5× google clicks, may 2026 vs may 2025
- AI SEO agent resultsMoonb: 22 → 43 domain rating on ahrefs
- SEO agent24hourEDU: 1.2 → 30 domain rating on ahrefs
- Autonomous SEO agentScalelist: 16 → 45 domain rating on ahrefs
- AI SEO agent for SaaSAIApply: +44% google clicks, may–july yoy
- AI agent for SEO writingBright Brands: 34× google impressions, may 2026 vs may 2025
- Best AI agent for SEO and content teamsVækster: 0 → 4.95k clicks on one client site
In their words
What customers told us, unedited
Pulled word for word from the case study forms customers filled in.
“Our traffic doubled, people started reaching out to do backlink collaborations too.”
Lorenzo Nicolini
Founder, Moonb
“The backlink exchange is better than any single product we have seen in 10-years of managing online training websites.”
Jesse Kennedy
Student Support, 24hourEDU
“It works quite well, it’s autonomous.”
Arnaud Renoux
Co-founder, Scalelist
“The biggest visible shift: our brand started getting picked up in AI answers.”
Aidan Cramer
CEO and co-founder, AIApply
“I can now maintain Bright Brands’ standards - authentic, quality work - while actually scaling”
Olaf van Gastel
Founder, Bright Brands
“Outrank has enabled us to offer SEO as a more productized and reliable service.”
Patrick Leth
Partner, Vækster Media ApS, Vækster
“It’s the first tool I’ve used that delivers meaningful, measurable SEO results instead of superficial optimization.”
Martin Adams
App developer and solo operator, Life Purpose App
How we build these
Four rules every case study follows
Search Console, not screenshots alone
Charts come from the Google Search Console data customers connected to Outrank, month by month.
Third-party authority numbers
Domain Rating and AI citation counts come from Ahrefs, which we do not control.
Named people, their own words
Every quote is word for word from a customer who agreed to publish their story.
We show the bad months
Dips, slow starts and what the data cannot prove are written into every case study.
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