77%
reported UK traffic drop after age verification
Aylo, 2025
Paysites and Studios
Age verification took the traffic and the tube sites took the rest.
Twenty-seven US states and the UK Online Safety Act severed a large share of direct organic traffic — Aylo pulled UK registrations after a reported 77% drop. Paid is closed. Affiliates take a permanent cut of every subscriber they send. What is left is whatever the engines say when someone asks what is worth paying for.
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- 2 Ageless Aesthetics
- 3 Radiance Group
- 4 Viva Wellness
- 5 Bella Vita
Your site Not mentioned
27
US states with age verification laws in force
plus the UK Online Safety Act
1–5
sites named in a typical AI answer
there is no page two
3 services
What we do for paysites and studios
Citation sources we audit
Where your subscribers' recommendations come from
Each engine reads a different set of sources. These decide whether a paysite gets named in your category.
| Source | Primarily feeds |
|---|---|
| Review and comparison sites | All engines |
| Perplexity | |
| Industry media — XBIZ, AVN | All engines |
| Affiliate and roundup content | ChatGPT / Copilot |
| Organization schema on your domain | Gemini / AI Overviews |
4 services × your markets
The prompts we test
Drawn from how subscribers actually ask, not from keyword tools. A full engagement tracks fifty per market across 4 engines.
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How it starts
Three steps, and the first one is free to look at.
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Baseline
We run fifty real buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot, and show you exactly who gets named instead of you — and which prompts no engine will answer at all.
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Build
We fix the sources those engines actually read — entity resolution, structured data, roundups, review platforms, community and trade presence — in the order that moves your score fastest.
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Compound
Every month the score is re-measured and reported, with the citation source behind each mention. You watch the number move and you know what moved it.
Before you ask
The four things people say first.
"You cannot actually measure this."
We measure it every month
Fifty prompts, four engines, three runs each — logged with the source every engine cited. The number is reproducible, you get the raw log rather than a summary, and prompts an engine refuses are reported separately from prompts a competitor won.
"We already have an SEO agency."
Keep them
The work barely overlaps. Theirs happens on your website. Most of ours happens off it — roundups, comparison pages, review platforms, community and trade media. We will tell you plainly if we think you are paying twice.
"This is too new to spend on."
The answers are already being given
Every engine declines to describe your category and recommends inside it anyway. Ask any of them which processor, which vendor, which brand, which app — names come back today. The question is not whether this arrives, it is whether yours is one of them.
"Show us it works first."
That is exactly how we start
Every engagement opens with a fixed-price audit. You see your score, your competitors’ scores and the gaps before committing to anything monthly. If the number is already good, we will say so and stop there.
Comparison
What a traditional SEO retainer does not cover
Not a criticism of SEO — it still matters. These are simply different jobs, and most operators are only buying one of them.
| Traditional SEO agency | Open Secret | |
|---|---|---|
| Engines covered | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot | |
| Where the work happens | Almost entirely on your website | Roughly four fifths off it, where citations come from |
| What success looks like | A position on page one | Being named in a list of five |
| Primary data source | Google Search Console | Engine output, citation logs, roundups, review platforms, community |
| Channels assumed available | Paid search and social alongside organic | Built for categories where those are closed |
| Monthly deliverable | A traffic report | A score, a per-engine breakdown, and a citation source map |
| When you are not cited | No visibility into why | The exact source that produced a competitor mention instead |
| Refused prompts | Not measured | Reported separately — a refusal is not a loss |
| What compounds | Rankings reset with each core update | Presence in the sources engines read |
Every row above is checkable. If your current agency covers a row we have marked, tell us and we will correct it.
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Which kind of site are you?
The method is the same across the category. The queries that decide it, the sources the engines trust and the rules you work under are not.
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Questions paysites and studios ask
Is there enough search demand to justify this?
Not for terms about marketing services — we measured it and it is close to zero. There is substantial demand in front of your subscribers, which is what the programme targets. If you want a traffic channel that pays back in ninety days, this is not it.
Can we recover the traffic age verification took?
Not the same traffic. The organic and AI layer is where the replacement comes from, and it compounds rather than switching on. Anyone promising recovery on the original scale is selling you something.
Will you handle our content?
No. We do not produce, edit, upload or distribute explicit material, and that exclusion is in every contract.
How long before the score moves?
Entity and structured-data corrections can register within two to four weeks. Roundup placement and community presence compound over three to six months. We report monthly either way, so you see progress before it is complete.
Can you guarantee we get recommended by ChatGPT?
No, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does. No AI platform publishes how it selects sources. We work from measured output and correlations documented across the industry, we report honestly, and we re-baseline the source map quarterly because these systems change fast.
Is there a minimum term?
No. The monthly plans are cancel any time and the entry engagement is a one-time project with a fixed price. We would rather earn the next month than hold you to a contract. One caveat worth stating plainly: review velocity and third-party coverage compound over three to six months, so leaving at month two means paying for work you never saw finish.
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Be the name AI gets named
Fifty prompts, four engines, your categories. You will see your score and exactly who is being named instead — before you commit to anything.
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