Conductor
Updated 2026-11-12Enterprise SEO and content-intelligence platform repositioned around AEO, serving Airbnb and Coca-Cola. Founded in 2010 with $210M in total funding, Conductor recently launched Ask Conductor, its Content API, and Pages Report.
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The Solution & Approach
Conductor combines traditional SEO, content intelligence, and AEO measurement in one enterprise platform. Its AI Search Performance capabilities track visibility, citations, sentiment, content gaps, competitors, and recommended actions across AI-generated answers and conventional search.
The company positions its platform as the "system of record for AEO." AgentStack extends that data into APIs, an MCP server, native LLM applications, and turnkey agents, while partnerships with Optimizely and Acquia embed Conductor's optimization capabilities inside established CMS and DXP workflows.
Best for
Enterprise SEO and content teams that want AEO measurement, content optimization, technical site intelligence, and traditional search reporting in one platform.
Pricing & trial
Pricing not public. Ask Conductor offers a free trial to users with a Conductor login, while broader ChatGPT app access requires a Conductor subscription. Pricing.
Agent Experience
How you build on this platform (or wire it into your own agents):
Strong build-on platform, with APIs, an MCP server, an official ChatGPT app, native LLM application surfaces, and AgentStack agents built on Conductor's search and content data.
Reference customers
Charter, Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Atlassian, Aladdin by BlackRock, Four Seasons, TD Bank, 1-800-Contacts.
Recent moves
- 2026-09-29Conductor announced Ask Conductor, a conversational layer for analyzing brand visibility, sentiment, topic performance, competitors, and recommended actions. source
- 2026-07-29Conductor launched its Content API to deliver AEO and SEO research, generation, and scoring capabilities inside external content systems, with Acquia as the first named integration partner. source
- 2026-07-23Conductor launched Pages Report, combining AI visibility, search rankings, engagement metrics, technical health, and page-level change histories in one view. source
- 2026-06-10Optimizely launched an AEO platform through an exclusive Conductor partnership, combining Conductor's AEO and SEO intelligence with Optimizely analytics and autonomous agents. source
- 2026-04-20Conductor launched AgentStack, bundling native LLM applications, APIs, an MCP server, and turnkey AEO agents for enterprise content teams. source
- 2026-04-14Conductor published its State of AEO/GEO in 2026 report, based on a vendor-run survey of more than 250 enterprise executives and marketing leaders. source
Company, Financials & Funding History
Conductor was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York. It expanded its enterprise SEO footprint through the ContentKing and Searchmetrics acquisitions, then shifted into AEO through AI visibility measurement, benchmark data, agent infrastructure, and CMS distribution partnerships.
| Date | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11 | Unspecified | $150M (Bregal Sagemount) |
Analyst placement
Named a Contender in G2's inaugural AEO Grid for Winter 2026.