Case Study · Digital Agency

Brightway Agency:
12 Clients. 69% Score Lift.

How a forward-thinking SEO agency embedded Seraph into their client onboarding workflow and transformed their LLMO service offering.

Digital Agency · SEO & LLMO Services

Brightway Agency: How Seraph Became Their Secret Client Retention Weapon

Digital Agency · SEO & LLMO Services · 12 Clients · 90-Day Rollout

Avg Before
51/100
Avg After
86/100
Clients
12
Score Lift
+69%

Client demand for AI visibility. No tooling to deliver it.

Brightway Agency had built a strong reputation in technical SEO over seven years. But by early 2025, every client discovery call had the same new question: "Why aren't we showing up in ChatGPT?" and "What are you doing for AI visibility?" The agency had answers for traditional SEO — but no framework, no tools, and no deliverable for LLMO.

Their first approach was manual: researching LLM citation patterns, building custom schema audits in spreadsheets, monitoring AI answers by hand. It was slow, inconsistent, and unscalable across a 20-client roster. They needed a system that could give every client the same quality of LLMO insight without burning their team on custom research for each engagement. Seraph became that system.

  • No scalable LLMO audit process across client roster
  • Manual schema reviews taking 8–12 hours per client
  • No consistent deliverable format for AI visibility reporting
  • Clients churning to agencies promising "AI SEO" capabilities
  • Average client Seraph Score of 51 — LLMO gaps across the board

Seraph as a client delivery system.

Brightway's leadership ran a pilot across their 12 most active retainer clients — diverse industries including SaaS, healthcare, legal, and e-commerce. Each client received a Seraph audit at onboarding, a 30-day prioritized fix roadmap, and monthly re-scores to track progress.

1
Month 1
Baseline Audits

Ran Seraph audits across all 12 clients. Average starting score: 51/100. Identified 340 total schema issues across the portfolio, 94 of them critical severity. Built prioritized fix roadmaps for each client using Seraph's LLM prompts.

2
Month 2
Systematic Fixes

Team executed priority-1 and priority-2 fixes across all clients using Seraph's LLM fix prompts to generate schema blocks. Average time per client dropped from 10 hours to 3 hours. All 94 critical issues resolved across the portfolio by day 45.

3
Month 3
Monthly Reporting

Introduced Seraph Score as a primary monthly KPI alongside traditional rank tracking. Clients received score progress charts alongside AI citation monitoring reports. 11 of 12 clients renewed retainers — citing the new AI visibility reporting as a key factor.

Every client improved. No exceptions.

SaaS Client A
Score: 47 → 88
+41% AI inclusion
Healthcare Client
Score: 53 → 91
+52% rich results
Legal Services
Score: 44 → 82
First AI citations
E-commerce DTC
Score: 49 → 85
+33% product CTR
Fintech Client
Score: 61 → 90
+29% organic traffic
B2B Services
Score: 52 → 84
+38% AI mentions

90 days. Portfolio transformed.

12/12
Clients Improved
+69%
Avg Score Lift
11/12
Retainer Renewals
86/100
Avg Final Score
  • Seraph embedded as a core tool in every new client onboarding workflow
  • LLMO audit service line launched — new standalone revenue stream for the agency
  • Client reporting upgraded with monthly Seraph Score tracking as primary KPI
  • Team audit time dropped from ~10 hrs to ~3 hrs per client with LLM fix prompts
  • Agency won 4 new clients citing "AI visibility" capabilities in competitive pitches

"We run Seraph for every new client now. It's become the foundation of our onboarding audit. Nothing else gives us this level of LLMO insight — and clients love seeing the score move month over month. It made us indispensable."

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Derek M. Agency Director, Brightway Agency
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