# FirstIndex

> AI visibility and SEO for software companies, done for you. Real changes ship to your site every day, and we check each one before it goes live. We work with 30+ software companies. $2,000 a month, one plan: 3 months to start, then month to month, or $1,500 a month for 12 months.

FirstIndex gets software companies indexed by Google and AI crawlers, found for the searches that matter and mentioned in AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews). Changes ship straight to the client's site or through their CMS. A weekly report shows what moved. FirstIndex does not promise rankings.

Recent wins, November 2026, from the buyer questions we ask every week: ChatGPT named Tartan in 70% of K-12 buyer questions, up from 19%. ChatGPT named Callingly in 49% of buyer questions, up from 4%. Gemini named Listadum in 72% of Etsy seller questions, up from 39%. Gemini and Google's AI Mode named DocsAutomator 40% of the time on questions about accepting a quote online with one click, up from 7%. Gemini linked to The Mind Company's site in 28% of buyer questions, up from 0%. Claude named American Cloud in 27% of cloud buyer questions, up from 0%. Clients include Teal, Querio, AudioPen, DocsAutomator, Arrows, Dash, American Cloud, Callingly, Listadum, Tartan App, FlybyOps and The Mind Company.

## Start here

- [How a start works](https://firstindex.com/#start): Fill in one sentence: the question people ask and the site the answer should include. We write back within 1 business day with a yes or an honest no.
- [Pricing](https://firstindex.com/pricing): $2,000 a month. Up to 12 in-depth articles, 50+ fixes to existing pages, comparison pages, free tools, AI answer tracking and fixes, and a weekly report. Hiring out the full plan costs about $25,000 a month at an SEO agency, or about $8,000 with freelancers; the page shows the math line by line.
- [Results](https://firstindex.com/results): Dated wins for clients, run by run, from the buyer questions we ask AI each week, with the days our changes went live, plus the proof chart from our own product on the same pipeline. None is a promise.

## Guides

- [Guides](https://firstindex.com/guides): How to get indexed, found and named in AI answers, from the team that ships it every day.
- [SEO for startups: what to do first](https://firstindex.com/guides/seo-for-startups): The order for a young software company: get indexed in week one, write comparison, alternatives and pricing pages next, then check whether AI answers name you; and what can wait until product-market fit.
- [How to rank in ChatGPT: what it searches and cites](https://firstindex.com/guides/how-to-rank-in-chatgpt): What ChatGPT searched for and cited in 102 answers to buyer questions, how to let its crawler in, which pages to write, and what claiming your business in ChatGPT does and does not change.
- [How to outsource SEO: what it costs and what to check](https://firstindex.com/guides/outsource-seo): What outsourced SEO services include, what the full SEO and AI visibility plan costs to hire out (about $25,000 a month at an SEO agency, about $8,000 with freelancers), and 5 ways to tell the work is real on your site.
- [How much does SEO cost? What the average price buys](https://firstindex.com/guides/how-much-does-seo-cost): What SEO costs a month (most businesses pay $500 to $5,000; Ahrefs’ survey of 439 providers puts the average agency retainer at $3,209), how many hours the average retainer buys at the average hourly rate (about 32 at an agency), hourly, monthly and project pricing, in-house salary, what AI visibility adds, and two red flags.
- [What is AI visibility? How to measure it](https://firstindex.com/guides/what-is-ai-visibility): What AI visibility is (how often AI answers name you), how often it happens (from 450 answers on 5 engines), how to measure it per engine and what moves it.
- [Crawled - currently not indexed: what it means, what to do](https://firstindex.com/guides/crawled-currently-not-indexed): What the Search Console status means (Google read the page and left it out, so it can’t show in Google Search, AI Overviews or AI Mode), when to leave it, the 5 steps to fix a page you care about, and what to do when most of a site is left out.
- [Discovered - currently not indexed: why, and how to fix it](https://firstindex.com/guides/discovered-currently-not-indexed): What the Search Console status means (Google knows the URL but hasn’t crawled it, so it can’t show in Google Search or Google’s AI answers yet), a dated case from our own pricing page (crawled 22.5 hours after publishing), Google’s two reasons (server or site quality) and the fixes in order.
- [What is llms.txt?](https://firstindex.com/guides/llms-txt): What llms.txt is, what goes in one, what Google and two large studies found, what 662 AI answers on 5 engines read (no llms.txt files among them), and what to fix first.

## Tools

- [Tools](https://firstindex.com/tools): Free tools for getting found in search and AI.
- [Robots.txt checker for Google and AI crawlers](https://firstindex.com/tools/robots-txt-checker): Paste a robots.txt and a page to see which of 14 search and AI crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and more) may read it, and the line that decides. Runs in the browser.
- [Schema markup generator](https://firstindex.com/tools/schema-markup-generator): Writes JSON-LD for a software app, organization, article, FAQ page or breadcrumb trail, and marks which of the fields Google requires are present or missing. Runs in the browser.

## Compare

- [Compare](https://firstindex.com/compare): Every comparison page we have published.
- [FirstIndex vs. an SEO agency](https://firstindex.com/compare/seo-agency): What you get, who does the work and what a typical agency, a freelancer and FirstIndex have done by day 7, 30 and 90.
- [Peec AI alternatives](https://firstindex.com/compare/peec-ai): 8 alternatives to Peec AI with the price each lists, Peec AI's own plans, and which AI engines name brands the others don't, from FirstIndex's test of 450 answers.
- [Profound alternatives](https://firstindex.com/compare/profound): What Profound's pricing page shows brands and agencies today and what it showed in 2025, and the entry price, questions tracked and AI engines of 7 alternatives, FirstIndex included.
- [SaaS SEO agencies](https://firstindex.com/compare/saas-seo-agencies): 13 SaaS SEO agencies, FirstIndex included, compared on who makes the changes on your site, their AI visibility work, and the price and term from each agency's own site (Nov 2026).

## Your platform

- [Your platform](https://firstindex.com/platform): The changes we ship most on each platform, from every change we shipped to those sites.
- [Next.js](https://firstindex.com/platform/nextjs): The changes we ship most on Next.js sites, ranked by share, and what GPTBot sees when content loads in the browser.
- [Astro](https://firstindex.com/platform/astro): The changes we ship most on Astro sites, ranked by share, and what GPTBot sees on client:only islands.

## Search and AI report

- [Search and AI report](https://firstindex.com/report): A one-time report built on the site's own Search Console data, plus where it stands in AI answers and Google, with a 3-month playbook of 45 to 60 changes. $1,000, delivered within 2 business days of Search Console access. It counts toward the first month if the client signs up within 12 months.

## Contact

- Questions: text Josh, the founder, at (205) 539-0956.
- X: [@FirstIndexHQ](https://x.com/FirstIndexHQ)