SOLUTION · CONTENT & SEO

Hire GROWTH. Rank everywhere.

Search changed. Half your future traffic goes through AI answer engines that don't send a click. Your content needs to serve two readers: the one scrolling SERPs and the model that builds an answer. Most teams can't afford a CMO who understands both.

GROWTH — Merkava's AI CMO — owns this for you at $199/mo. Plans pillars via Quillsly, drafts in your voice, audits technical SEO with Beacon, and ships fixes as PRs to your repo. Tracks AI-answer citations alongside organic rank in one view.

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EVERY TOOL INCLUDED

Hire GROWTH and you don't separately license Surfer, Buffer, Ahrefs, or Webflow. Beacon ships SEO + GEO fixes as PRs. Quillsly drafts the content. Webster pushes the page. The content stack is the team.

THE PAIN

The old SEO stack doesn't know about AI answers.

Classic SEO tools stop at the SERP. You know your organic rank. You don't know if your article is being cited in the AI answer that replaces it.
Content briefs are labor. The senior writes the brief, the junior writes the draft, the senior rewrites the draft. Four hours of senior time per article.
Audits become PDFs that die. The audit finds 42 issues. The client — or the internal dev team — ships three. The other 39 haunt the next audit.
Ranking isn't earning. You rank for a keyword. The AI answer summarizes the page without sending the click. You see "position 1" in the report and a flat traffic graph.

RECOMMENDED STACK

Content and SEO, one exec.

Quillsly

Pillar planning, voice-tuned drafts, GEO-structured for AI citation.

Beacon · built-in

Technical SEO + GEO audits. Fixes ship as PRs against your repo.

Webster

Site and CMS in one. Publish Quillsly drafts with one click.

Prospector · built-in

SERP drifts and review-mined demand become briefs automatically.

We moved from "ranked #3" to "cited in four of five AI answers for the category" in ninety days. The second number is the one that matters now, and nothing else in our stack even tracked it.

Marisol Peralta
Content lead, Rowan & Tule · DTC housewares, $6M ARR

PRICING

Content starter
$79–149 / mo

Merkava Core ($79) with Beacon + Prospector built in. Add Quillsly ($39/$49 by volume). Webster when it lands; no extra charge for tenants already on portfolio tier. Full pricing

Rank and cite, not one or the other.

The content stack ships as a unit. Waitlist operators get the first briefing queue and voice in the GEO measurement primitives.

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VS. THE ALTERNATIVES

How Merkava compares.

vs. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is the gold standard for keyword + backlink research. Great data, bring your own workflow. Merkava's Beacon Drive uses similar inputs but closes the loop — it audits, prioritizes by revenue impact, and commits the fix to your repo as a PR.

vs. SEMrush

SEMrush is Ahrefs-adjacent. Same tradeoff: strong data, manual workflow. Pair Merkava with SEMrush if you want both.

vs. Clearscope / Surfer

These optimize on-page content for existing articles. Useful. Merkava's Quillsly Drive plans pillar topics, writes briefs, generates drafts, and optimizes — end-to-end rather than on-page-only.

QUESTIONS

FAQ.

Does Beacon actually commit code to my repo?

Yes. Beacon runs the audit, identifies the fix (missing meta description, broken canonical, slow LCP), writes the PR, opens it against your main branch. You review + merge. Committed via GitHub API.

Does Merkava rank content in AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity)?

Yes. Every Quillsly article ships with JSON-LD structured data, FAQ schema, entity coverage — designed for AI-answer extraction. Beacon audits your entire site's AI-search visibility the same way it audits Google SEO.

How does Merkava compare to Ahrefs for SEO workflow?

Ahrefs is research. Merkava (Beacon + Quillsly) is research + planning + writing + publishing + auditing + fix-committing. End-to-end. Ahrefs subscription is $99 to $999/mo for the data; Merkava Beacon is $99/mo + Quillsly $39/mo bundled = $138/mo for the whole workflow.

Can I use my own AI keys for the content generation?

Yes. BYOK with OpenAI/Anthropic/Perplexity gets you 15% off Core. Keys are used only for inference — Merkava never writes with your BYOK token.

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