Built by SEOs, for SEOs
Most SEO tools hand you more data and leave the next step to you. elev8tor.ai is the SEO platform that gives you the answer: it scores each page against today’s Google top 10, estimates where that page will land, and hands you a ranked fix list with the exact sentences and anchor text to add. Rank tracking, AI visibility, leads sent to GA4 and client dashboards sit in the same login.
Developed by Vertical Web, a Houston SEO agency since 1998, and Beth Guide, with more than 20 years of SEO experience.
WHY WE BUILT IT
Search has changed. Google answers many questions with an AI Overview before anyone scrolls, and more of your buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini first. A tool that only reports positions leaves you guessing about what to do next.
elev8tor started as the internal console our agency uses on its own client work. Every client page we publish is checked by our own content scanner before it ships. We turned that working system into a product so agencies and business owners get the same playbook: measure the pages Google ranks today, close the gaps, and wire every new page into the site with the right links.
Most scanners stop at a score and a list of terms. Ours ends with a ranked action plan: what to change, where on the page, and how many points each step is worth. Read why elev8tor is different for the reasoning behind each choice.
EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE
elev8tor brings together the work most teams spread across a keyword tool, a rank tracker, an audit crawler, a content editor and a reporting dashboard. See the full list on our SEO tools page.
Every position comes from a live check of today's Google, never a stored database. Movers, lost keywords, AI Overview and map pack flags, and the competitors on page one today.
Volume, difficulty, intent and the pages ranking now. Every Sunday the picker adds money and informational keywords from your Search Console and names the page each one needs.
A crawl of your pages with 18 issue kinds, a plain fix for each and a score out of 100, so the first hour goes to the fix worth the most.
Score a page against today's top 10: entities by category, questions answered or missing, link suggestions with the exact sentence and anchor, originality, and a Content score with a target of 70.
Your pages read as pillars and clusters. Each hub is checked against the 4 to 8 clusters it needs and six link checks, with the missing links written for you when you approve them.
Which keywords show an AI Overview and whether you are cited, plus what Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini say when your customers ask, with your site named or not.
Every form, call tap, email click and order with its real source and landing page, sent to GA4 as conversions so reports show business, not just traffic.
Weekly and monthly reports and a client portal under your logo and colors, with the work done this month and the plan for next month.
Clients, team roles, a Content Queue with approval before anything publishes, and Autopilot that researches, writes, scores, links and publishes by the mode you set.
SEE THE SOFTWARE
Every capture below is the elev8tor app as it runs today, shown on the sample workspace that the free demo opens. Click any module above to read how that part works, or open the full features tour for every screen in order.
Clicks, impressions, average position, visibility, leads, content score and AI visibility, with the week’s movers and alerts under them.
Position, best, volume, trend, AI Overview citation, map pack and the page that ranks, for every tracked keyword.
Entities grouped by Google’s own categories, questions marked missing or answered, and the exact sentence and anchor for each link in.
Volume, difficulty, cost per click and intent for each keyword, then Track or Brief in one click.
Pages competitors have that you do not, missing pages and blogs, keyword picks with no page, and planned Power Hub clusters.
Visibility, leads by source, the work done this month and the plan for next month, with no billing and no elev8tor branding.
CONTENT SCANNER
Paste a URL and the keyword it should rank for. The scanner reads the pages Google ranks for that keyword today, reads your page the same way, and compares them: the entities they cover that you do not, the questions searchers ask that you leave unanswered, how Google categorizes each page, and where your internal links are weak.
You get a Content score with a target of 70, a Rankability score that adds your internal link support, an originality check, and a ranked action plan. Then you can repair the page in place or have a new page drafted from the brief. See how the Content Scanner works.
THE AGENT LOOP
Most SEO tools stop at the report. elev8tor runs the loop: research the keyword, read the pages that rank today, write or repair the page in your voice, score it against those pages, wire the internal links, send the draft, then measure what it did. A person approves where you want one, and the Content score of 70 is the gate nothing passes without. See how it stacks up on agentic SEO tools compared, what it costs on the SEO software pricing guide, and what works on your platform under platforms we support.
Keyword Research and Content ideas show the keywords competitors beat you on and the pages they have that you do not.
Read the top 10 builds the brief from today’s ranking pages: headings, entities with target mentions, questions, schema and the pages on your site that should link in.
The Content Writer drafts in your voice from the site profile, or repairs the live page with the fewest changes. Unknowns stay in [brackets]; nothing is invented.
The scanner grades the draft against the same top 10. Under 70 it makes one improvement pass. Originality, generic passages and unsourced numbers are listed.
Link suggestions name the sentence and anchor on the pages that should link in. The draft goes to WordPress with the meta set; Autopilot schedules and publishes through the same WordPress REST connection, or hands the page to your systems through the API.
The keyword joins rank tracking, the optional lead connector records the leads the page produces, and the live URL is re-scanned so you see the score move.
OUR MAPPING PROCESS
Tracking positions is step one. These are the steps the platform walks you through for every site, the same order our agency follows. The full method is on our AI search optimization page.
Group pages into topic hubs, find orphan pages and list the searches that have no page yet.
For each keyword, read today’s top 10 and record their entities, questions, categories and structure.
Score each page against that cohort and work the action plan, highest points first.
Turn each gap into a keyword brief, then write or generate the page.
Add the internal links each page needs, with the exact sentence and anchor text.
Watch rankings, AI Overview citations and leads, and send the client report.
BUILT FOR TWO KINDS OF CUSTOMERS
Agencies run every client from one workspace: client sites, team roles, client portals, scheduled reports and a ranked list of what to work on next. Read more on the agency SEO platform page.
Small business owners get the same engine with plain-language guidance, help videos and tooltips on every screen, so you can see what to fix without hiring a specialist first. See SEO software for small business.
WHO BUILDS ELEV8TOR
elev8tor.ai is developed by Vertical Web, a Houston web design and SEO agency in business since 1998, and by Beth Guide, who has more than 20 years of SEO experience. Beth teaches digital marketing for the SBA, the University of Houston SBDC, Lone Star College and HCC, and hosts the Internet Marketing Clinic.
The platform was built from the internal SEO Console Vertical Web uses on its own client work. Every client page the agency publishes is checked by the scanner first, so the scoring you see is the scoring we rely on. That is why it is built to answer one question: what do I do next? The design decisions behind an SEO scanner that tells you how to rank are written up in full, and the story of the team is on our about elev8tor.ai page.
A Houston web design and SEO agency and Certified Google Partner agency. elev8tor runs the same process it uses for clients.
Teaches digital marketing for the SBA, the UH SBDC, Lone Star College and HCC, hosts the Internet Marketing Clinic and appears as a technology expert on Fox 26.
The console Vertical Web runs on client sites, with the scanner checked every month against 30 real client pages from 18 client sites.
TWO WAYS TO PAY
Unlimited sites and unlimited users on every paid plan: you pay only for the data you use. Sites verified in Google Search Console are unlimited, so the whole team and every client site fit in one account.
We supply and pay for the search data, so you sign up and start working. Starter is $69 a month and Growth, the most popular, is $159. Your plan sets your tracked keywords, research credits a month and audit pages, and the app shows your usage as you go.
Connect your own DataForSEO, Google and Claude accounts. You pay the data providers directly at their rates and pay us for the software only: BYO Pro from $49 a month, BYO Agency from $129. Best for teams that already hold those accounts.
Compare plans, limits and add-ons on the pricing page, or see how we stack up in our Semrush alternative comparison. Only need page scores? The SEO content scanner can be bought on its own, with no base plan.
LEADS AND CONVERSIONS
Install the free elev8tor connector on your WordPress site and paste one connection code. It records every form, call tap, email tap and order with its source, sends a generate_lead event to GA4 from the browser and from your server, and shows each lead in the app with the evidence behind its channel. See lead tracking and one-click GA4.
CLIENT REPORTING
Upload your logo, set your colors and choose what each client sees. Reports show rankings, traffic, leads, the work done and the plan for next month. See white label SEO reporting.
FAQ
elev8tor.ai is an all-in-one SEO platform for agencies and small business owners. It tracks rankings, researches keywords, audits sites, scores content against the pages Google ranks today, maps your site into topic hubs, tracks leads and sends conversions to GA4, and produces white label client reports.
A rank tracker tells you where you stand. elev8tor also tells you what to change: the entities a page is missing, the questions it does not answer, the exact sentence and anchor text for each internal link, and a ranked action plan with the points each step is worth.
Yes. The Bring Your Own Data plans, BYO Pro and BYO Agency, let you connect your own DataForSEO, Google and Claude accounts, so you pay the data providers directly and pay us only for the software. The Data Included plans include the data, so there is nothing to set up. Users are unlimited and free on every plan.
The Content Scanner is paid in credits, on demand. You can buy it on its own as Content Scanner only, with no base plan, or add it to any paid plan including BYO. It runs on our own servers, never on your keys, because it is our proprietary scoring engine. The Free Demo includes 5 real scans, one time, on your own pages, plus a client portal preview so you can see what your clients see.
Yes. Every scan reports AI Visibility, whether Google shows an AI Overview for the keyword, which sources it cites, and whether AI crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended can read the page. We cannot promise any AI tool will cite you, and nobody honest can.
Yes. Every paid plan includes unlimited client dashboards, BYO included. Starter and BYO Pro put your logo on reports, Growth adds white label reports, and the agency plans add full white label. Client viewer logins are free, like every user, and you choose module by module what each client can see.
elev8tor.ai is developed by Vertical Web, a Houston web design and SEO agency in business since 1998, and by Beth Guide, who has more than 20 years of SEO experience. It grew out of the internal SEO Console the agency uses on its own client work.
LATEST FROM THE BLOG
Three posts a week on SEO, AI search, content and the leads a page produces, written from the work we do on client sites. Every post is scanned with the Content Scanner before it goes live.
The title tag is still the most important line you write on a page, and the one most often done badly. Here is how Beth Guide writes title tags that work for Google and for AI answers, step by step.
Google does not publish how AI Overviews pick their sources, but the cited pages share a few traits. Here is what Beth Guide sees on client sites that earn AI Overview citations, and how to check yours.
Internal links are the cheapest SEO work there is. For AI search, the anchor text is the signal. Here is how to link up, down and across, and why a suggestion needs the exact sentence.
The free demo opens a full workspace with sample data, a client portal preview and 5 real Content Scanner scans. Lists stop at 25 rows and paid data is capped, so you can explore every screen before you choose a plan.
