Looking for a SaaS link building agency for AEO and AI search?

Unlike a traditional SaaS link building agency, AirOps works from your AI citation data and measures the lift from every placement you earn.

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The system behind our SaaS link building

A SaaS link building agency should earn your brand a place in the sources AI engines cite. For SaaS buyers, those sources are review sites, comparison listicles, and software publications. AirOps runs your SaaS link building program on one platform, with a team that measures the lift.

AirOps Offsite citations grouped by domain, showing each third-party source with its domain type, citation share and citation count.

Intelligence, action, and measurement for SaaS link building agency work

Intelligence

See which sources AI engines cite for your SaaS category and where competitors appear without you.

Action

Earn SaaS link building placements and mentions on those pages through outreach your team reviews before anything goes live.

Measurement

Tie each link placement to AI visibility changes by prompt and topic on one timeline.

Intelligence

Action

Measurement

Start from the pages AI engines cite

Your SaaS link building work starts from real AI citation data for buyer prompts. AirOps flags cited review sites, comparison listicles, and alternatives pages that mention competitors without you.
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The long tail holds most citation share: 80-90% sits across many low-share domains, with top domains near 2-5%.
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Offsite work is the main driver of mention rate, and on-site content is the main driver of citation rate. A SaaS link building agency plan built on that split covers top domains and the long tail.

AirOps Domain Type Breakdown showing the domain types cited in AI answers, led by products at 65% and social at 8%.

Targets picked from what AI engines cite

AirOps citation data shows which pages shape AI answers for SaaS link building

Every target we pick comes from pages AI engines cite for buyer prompts. Domain metrics alone rank sites by link strength and miss AI answers. Citation data shows which listicles to join and which publications to pitch for SaaS link building.

47M observed actions

reveal what worked to drive buyer action, and where.

6B citations

show which pages and publishers answer engines trust.

10M AI search journeys

show how people move from answers to downstream engagement.

70M high value prompts

give concrete insight on how people actually make decisions

A leading corporate card provider wanted to grow their share of voice with enterprise buyers. While prompt tracking said they had already won, AirOps opportunity data showed the true gap.

55%

Overall Share of Voice

Share of Voice with Target Customer

What our link building and brand mentions include

Our SaaS link building and brand mention services run the program end to end, with targets, outreach, placements, and reporting. Community intelligence for Reddit and YouTube sits in the same SaaS link building plan. With your SaaS link building team at AirOps, your people review every placement and make the judgment calls.

AirOps citations table filtered to competitor-only pages, with three URLs selected and the menu open to create a new grid.

Build a target list from citation gaps

Start with cited pages that mention your competitors and leave your brand out. Your SaaS link building agency team sends those pages to a Grid and plans outreach for each one.

Reach the editors behind each cited page

AirOps workflows identify the editors, list authors, and site owners behind each target page. Each contact gets personalized SaaS link building outreach copy written for that page and its readers.

AirOps Placements table filtered to Needs approval, with six proposed placements, each with approve and decline buttons.

Review every placement before it goes live

Coordinate content and placements in one place, and your team reviews each one before launch. A placement can be a product mention in a comparison listicle, an expert quote, or a guest article.

AirOps chart of Reddit citation share by subreddit, led by r/seogrowth at 6.8% and r/AI_SearchOptimization at 5.8%.

See the Reddit and YouTube sources AI cites

AirOps shows the Reddit threads and YouTube channels AI engines cite for your tracked prompts. You also see which brands each source mentions, so you know where your contributions belong.

AirOps campaign with 16 new Reddit opportunities, each showing subreddit, subscribers, target prompts and citation share.

Choose platform workflows or a managed service

The AirOps team can run outreach, placements, and reporting as a managed service.

Measure the mention rates and links

We log every mention and link placement and tie it to changes in your AI visibility. Citations, mentions, and share of voice become the main measure, ahead of link counts and domain metrics. Rankings stay tracked in the same view as your SaaS backlinks.

AirOps Mention Rate by week with a Placement live marker, rising from 5.8% to 8.4% the following week.

Log every placement on your visibility timeline

Each placement becomes an event on your visibility timeline in AirOps Insights. Listicle placements and buying guide mentions show up on the same citation and performance charts.

See which placements moved AI visibility

AirOps tracks the lift by prompt and topic after each placement goes live. Co-mention rate shows how often AI answers name you when they use one cited article. That rate can jump after your brand is added to the article.

AirOps Themes table of top sentiment drivers, led by workflow automation at 15% volume with a 99.9 sentiment score.

Track share of voice and sentiment against competitors

Compare your share of voice and sentiment with tracked competitors across AI answers. The view includes answers that cite Reddit and YouTube, so your link building strategy covers community sources too.

AirOps Reddit campaign chart showing a 14.0 percentage point increase in cumulative mention rate by Day 9 across 2 engaged threads.

Connect offsite work to pipeline

Campaigns capture a baseline before action and measure what changed in a post-action window. AirOps is piloting pipeline measurement with some of its most advanced customers today. At sign-up, a where-did-you-hear-about-us form captures 5-10x more AI-sourced traffic than analytics alone.

Get an audit for mentions & linkbuilding

Your SaaS link building audit maps the sources AI engines cite for your buyers.

Pricing Plans

Solo

For individuals building content for one brand or project.

ChatGPT Insights Only
35,000 Tasks for Content Production
1 Brand Kit, 3 Knowledge Bases
Basic CMS & SEO Integrations
Community & Live Chat Support
Single-User Access

Pro

For small teams building content for one brand or project.

Insights Across 7+ Answer Engines
100,000 Tasks for Content Production
1 Brand Kit, 5 Knowledge Bases
CMS, SEO, AEO, Social & Project Integrations
Community & Live Chat Support
Unlimited Seats for Your Team

Enterprise

For organizations building enterprise-grade content and tailored solutions.

Custom Prompts & Pages Limits
Multiple Regions, Personas & Languages Tracked
Custom Agent Builds
Custom Task Limits
Unlimited Knowledge Bases & Brand Kits
Dedicated Account Manager & Training
1:1 Expert Onboarding
Unlimited Seats & Collaboration Functionality

"We were able to focus our energy on the highest-value initiatives for the business in a matter of weeks."

Nick Fairbairn
SVP of Growth, Chime

“We set out to change the narrative around Sanity in AI search, not just show up more often. Staying the brand the models name most, and climbing in the categories that matter, is exactly the signal we were after, and we can see it happening week to week.”

Richard Lawrence
Principal, Agentic Operations & Growth Marketing, Sanity

“If we wanted to 10x the growth we were starting to see, we needed a system that handled SEO, AEO, content production, all of it. AirOps was the first to actually deliver results.”

Shani Mithani
Head of Growth, Venn

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best SaaS link building agencies?

The best SaaS link building agencies prove their links get cited by AI models. Provider types include outreach shops, digital PR firms, content-led SEO agencies, and AI search partners. One test applies to any provider: are its links cited by the models? Ask each provider for proof of AI citations by prompt and topic. AirOps answers that test with citation data and placement-level lift.

How much does a SaaS link building agency cost?

SaaS link building agency pricing depends on drivers you see across provider pages. The common drivers are domain rating tier, links per month, campaign scope, and content needs. AirOps scopes your work in a call, as platform workflows or a managed service. Click Work with us to book a scope call and get a plan for your category.

What does a SaaS link building agency include?

A SaaS link building agency program with AirOps includes target lists built from AI citation gaps. You also get contact research, personalized outreach copy, and placement coordination with your review. Reddit and YouTube citation intelligence shows where your contributions belong. Reporting ties each placement to AI visibility changes by prompt and topic.

Can you approve sites before your SaaS link building agency pitches them?

Yes, your team approves sites and content in every SaaS link building agency program with AirOps. The AirOps team handles intelligence, execution, and measurement for you. Your team handles the reviews and the judgment calls that only you can make. Target pages and placement content reach your reviewers before anything goes live.

How does a SaaS link building agency measure results?

Your SaaS link building agency should measure citations, mentions, and share of voice in AI answers. AirOps logs each placement as an event on your visibility charts. You see the lift by prompt and topic after each placement goes live. Sentiment and rankings stay in the same reporting, so SaaS backlinks keep their context.

How is link building different for SaaS companies?

Link building for SaaS companies targets the review sites and comparison listicles buyers check before a demo. AI engines cite those pages when buyers ask for tools in your category. B2B SaaS link building aims for a product mention on those pages, with a link where the editor allows one. AI visibility correlates 3x more strongly with brand mentions than with backlinks.