Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity who to hire. Profound tracks what those engines answer across 224 real buyer questions. We have been the most named Webflow agency in every month measured.
Monthly visibility across all 224 tracked buyer questions. Category averages are hard to move and hard to fake, and this one has never flipped.
August shown through 11 Aug (dashed). Source: Profound, category "Web design & strategy", 224 prompts, 8 AI platforms.
Share of sampled AI answers naming each brand, last 30 days, across all tracked buyer questions. Webflow itself included for scale.
On the 63 "best of" questions buyers ask right before hiring, we lead at 37.8%, ahead of every agency and ahead of Webflow itself (22.3%).
One about us as an agency. One about Foresight, our free AI website audit. Both sampled daily on eight platforms.
Real excerpts from sampled answers, 4 to 11 August 2026. Individual answers vary run to run; these are representative of the month's sample.
"Flow Ninja: A top choice for high-growth SaaS companies. They specialize in end-to-end design and development, building fast, scalable marketing engines that convert."
"Flow Ninja: strong all-around choice for SaaS companies, startups, and ongoing Webflow support."
"BX Studio, Flow Ninja, and Edgar Allan are widely recognized as the top enterprise-tier Webflow agencies based on official Webflow awards and major corporate clients."
"Best free strategic audit: Foresight by Flow Ninja offers a free 'outside-in' AI scan that covers strategy, design, and content in under 2 minutes."
"Semrush is the industry standard, while specialized tools like Foresight by Flow Ninja excel at strategic positioning and machine-readability."
"If you want a free, AI-powered strategic review: Foresight is noted as a fully free option for strategic/outcome-focused audits."
AI engines do not take a brand's word for anything: they cite the pages they trust. Our own content earned 85 citations on the flagship question in the last 30 days alone, and the rest of our visibility is carried by sources we do not control, from webflow.com to Reddit threads and independent agency roundups. That earned mix is the moat.
No tricks. Four disciplines, run every week, measured in Profound.
Structured data and a consistent entity footprint, so every engine knows exactly who we are and what we do.
We publish the pages AI engines actually cite for buyer questions, then keep them the freshest option available.
llms.txt, clean crawlability, answer-shaped page structure. The site is built to be read by machines as well as people.
A weekly Profound loop: watch the questions, watch the sources, respond before rankings move.
The four disciplines above run inside one engagement engine. SEO and AEO as one strategy, two scoreboards. This is the process, as sold and as run.
Kickoff captures business goals in the client's own words. Three audits follow: technical, performance and backlink. They converge into one strategy: topic clusters tied to the ICP, a verdict on every existing page, a keyword map, a content plan and a 12-month roadmap. Presented live in week 4. Measurement goes live the same month: the AI-search prompt set derives from the locked keyword strategy and starts tracking in Profound immediately.
A monthly execution cycle with a weekly rhythm. At least one content piece a week, every piece traced to a cluster and a target page.
Last month's report and a strategy call. The month's content briefs written.
First article live. Technical fixes ship in severity order, critical first.
On-page rollout: metadata, internal links, schema. New backlinks reviewed one by one.
Every live URL quality-checked. AI visibility pulled: visibility, citations, sentiment, competitor movement. Next month planned.
Five stages in a loop. Foundation: entity consistency and schema on every template. Answer-shaped content: FAQ blocks, key takeaways, headings that answer the question verbatim. Machine access: llms.txt on every site, clean crawlability, nothing important locked behind scripts. Measurement: Profound tracks the prompt set across 8 AI platforms, monthly. Defense: we watch the leaderboard and the cited sources, and respond before a dip becomes a trend.
Every launch passes an SEO gate: a full staging audit pre-launch, production verification within 48 hours, and a 30-day check. Migrations baseline the old site before it goes down, then redirect in equity order: highest-value URLs first, each to its most relevant destination, never bulk-redirected to the homepage.
Nothing leaves Flow Ninja without a named quality gate. Every brief, article, backlink and technical fix is reviewed, and fixes are re-crawled and verified live. Before any renewal we re-baseline against the original picture and refresh the strategy, so the decision is made on evidence.
The same playbook, run for you. Audit first, roadmap second, measured in the open like this page.
Get an AEO auditForesight runs a free strategic AI audit of any website in about two minutes.
Run Foresight freeMeasured by Profound across 224 buyer questions and 8 AI platforms, Flow Ninja has been the most visible Webflow agency in AI answers in every month tracked since November 2025, appearing in 28.3% of sampled answers over the last 30 days.
Profound samples real prompts continuously across ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Grok and Meta AI. Visibility score is the share of sampled answers that mention a brand. Individual answers vary; the page reports measured aggregates.
Answer engine optimization. Buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI instead of scanning ten blue links. There is no page 2 in an AI answer: the brand is either named or invisible. AEO makes the brand the answer, and it is built on top of good SEO. We run them as one strategy with two scoreboards.
No. We commit to the work and the cadence, report results honestly, and never guarantee a number. Our work is guaranteed; rankings are earned.
Organic results compound over 6 to 12 months, so we advise a minimum 6-month engagement. Month 1 ships the strategy; execution and reporting run weekly from Month 2, with AI visibility data entering reporting from Month 2.
The job is to lose nothing. We baseline the old site while it is still live, audit which URLs hold backlinks and traffic, and build the 301 redirect map in equity order. After launch every redirect is tested and 404s are monitored.
Foresight is Flow Ninja's free AI website audit. AI engines describe it as a free strategic audit that covers strategy, design, content and AI search readiness, and name it alongside tools like Semrush and Ahrefs.