Case studies

Real numbers, tracked the whole way.

WordOut is built on the same machine our parent agency runs for its PR and content clients. Client work is confidential, so the businesses below are anonymized — but every number is pulled straight from our internal coverage trackers and scoring engine. Nothing here is estimated, projected, or rounded up.

Earned press → AI's reading list

The legal-tech startup whose story AI now reads first

155tracked placements in 20 months
3funding rounds, every one covered
9features in the #1 legal-industry outlet alone

A legal-AI startup came to the agency at founding, pre-launch, unknown. Twenty months of pitching and placement later, its coverage record runs from the top legal-industry trades through the national business and tech press — features, funding stories, founder profiles, syndication.

Here's why that matters for AI visibility: before answering a question, web-connected assistants search and read. We ran that search before writing this page — the results for this company's name and category are dominated by the coverage we placed. When an engine goes reading about them, it reads our client's story, told through outlets the engine trusts. That's not a side effect of PR anymore. That's the product.

Coverage compounds

Six and a half years of public record for one venture firm

1,471dated placements since Dec 2019
108hits in top-tier national outlets
6.5 yrsof continuous, tracked accumulation

For a venture capital firm we've represented since 2019, we've logged 1,471 placements — every one dated, classified, and tracked in a coverage ledger that now spans six and a half years. More than a hundred of those hits are in the biggest names in business news.

The lesson in that ledger is durability. A story placed in 2020 is still on the web, still indexed, still part of what an engine reads today. Press doesn't expire the way an ad does — it accumulates. Firms and businesses that started early sit on a public record no competitor can buy quickly, because the one thing you can't rush is six years of third parties writing about you.

Pure GEO — measured from day one

The surgery practice we scored before we fixed

37/100GEO score on day one — on the record
19geo-anchored service pages built in 9 days
0press placements needed for this play

A plastic-surgery practice outside a major East-Coast city — excellent surgeon, strong referral book, invisible to AI. When we ran our own GEO index on the practice this July, it scored 37 out of 100: when someone nearby asks an assistant who to see, a competitor gets named instead.

The play here isn't press at all. It's content built the way answer engines read: nineteen service pages, each answering one real patient question and each anchored to the practice's actual town, written and shipped over nine days. This is the exact playbook WordOut sells — which is why we published the before number. It's on the record because we intend to put the after next to it. Watch this space.

The market study

499 Boise businesses, scored

38.1average GEO score out of 100
71%effectively invisible to AI assistants
499businesses scanned, zero errors

To calibrate our scoring engine, we ran it across 499 real businesses in Boise and the Treasure Valley. The average score was 38.1 out of 100, and 71% were effectively invisible — not named by AI assistants for their own category in their own city. The lowest-scoring industries were financial advisors and planners, followed by plumbers, electricians, and home services. The full write-up is on the blog.

How to read this page

Placement counts come from per-client coverage trackers our team maintains by hand — every row dated, every outlet named internally. GEO scores come from our scoring engine, the same one behind the free public check. Clients are anonymized because their work with us is confidential; where a claim depends on what engines find, we ran the search before making the claim.

One thing we won't show you: an invented "after" number. Where the after doesn't exist yet, the page says so.

Get your own before number — free