Vellum|Strategic Advisory
AI Search Intelligence — 2026

Your Content Is Being Extracted.

We Identify the Exposure. We Architect the Defense.

AI models are extracting your educational content, comparison pages, and knowledge assets to answer your customers’ questions directly on the search results page. The traffic does not bounce. It never arrives.

Vellum Strategic Advisory is an AI search intelligence practice for PropTech and FinTech companies. We diagnose exactly what is being extracted, measure the revenue exposure, and build the architectural layer that forces AI systems to cite you as the source—not just consume your data.

Published Research

10 PropTech Companies Audited.
Every One Is Exposed.

We pulled Semrush data on ten mid-market PropTech domains in March 2026. The pattern is consistent: AI models are extracting their content while organic traffic declines 3–33%. We published the data.

Read the Open Letter → AI Visibility scores, organic traffic trajectories, and extraction signatures for 10 companies
Proprietary Methodology

The VEIL Index™

Vellum Extraction Intelligence Layer. A longitudinal dataset tracking AI citation exposure across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — initiated April 2026. No agency, platform, or tool publishes this data.

Index I Presence Score

Is your domain cited when buyers ask the questions you should own? Measured across a defined query set, per platform, per observation period.

Index II Framing Score

When you are cited, how are you framed relative to competitors? A citation in second position behind a direct rival has a different revenue implication than a first-position citation.

Index III Citation Control Score

Which content categories drive your citations? Which create extraction without citation? The gap between those two answers is the remediation target.

Dataset observation began April 2026. Retroactive reconstruction is methodologically invalid — the longitudinal baseline cannot be recreated. This is the only independently verified forward dataset of its kind.

The Strategic Difference

What Standard Tools Cannot Show.

Measurement LayerSemrush / Standard SEO ToolsVEIL Index — Vellum Strategic Advisory
Visibility TrackedGoogle organic search rankingsChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity citation presence
Citation MappingNot available — tool does not query AI platformsPer-platform citation map showing which competitors are cited and why
Platform DivergenceSingle-channel view onlySame query, three platforms — documented divergence logged per observation
Longitudinal BaselineHistorical organic data from Google indexForward dataset from April 2026 — cannot be reconstructed retroactively
Competitor IntelligenceKeyword overlap and traffic estimatesSector-level AI citation map: who gets cited, on which query, on which platform
Visibility Tracked
Standard ToolsGoogle organic search rankings
VEIL IndexChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity citation presence
Citation Mapping
Standard ToolsNot available
VEIL IndexPer-platform map showing which competitors are cited and why
Platform Divergence
Standard ToolsSingle-channel view only
VEIL IndexSame query, three platforms — documented divergence per observation
Longitudinal Baseline
Standard ToolsHistorical organic data
VEIL IndexForward dataset from April 2026 — cannot be reconstructed retroactively
Competitor Intelligence
Standard ToolsKeyword overlap and traffic estimates
VEIL IndexSector-level AI citation map: who gets cited, which query, which platform
Engagement Framework

Four Levels of Engagement.

Entry Point Signal Scan

Single-page diagnostic of your domain’s AI extraction exposure. AI Visibility score, traffic trajectory, and one specific architectural observation. Delivered as a PDF within 48 hours.

$750 48-hour delivery — Founder-CEOs
Core Diagnostic Entity Extraction Audit

Full extraction surface mapping across your domain. Identifies which content categories are being extracted, quantifies the traffic and revenue exposure, and delivers a prioritized remediation architecture.

$4,500 5 business days
Fixed-Scope Sprint 90-Day Extraction Defence Sprint

Ninety days. Fixed scope. Measurable outcome. We map your full AI citation exposure, identify the structural gaps your competitors are exploiting, and implement the architectural changes required to recover citation presence.

Max 2 per quarter $25,000 Fixed scope — no retainer required
Strategic Retainer Information Gain Retainer

Ongoing architectural protection. Monthly extraction monitoring, entity authority maintenance, and strategic response to algorithm and AI model changes. Built for companies that treat organic visibility as a balance sheet asset.

$15,000 /month Minimum 3-month engagement
The Market Archive

Benchmark Intelligence.

Retrospective audits of institutional-grade signal recovery in the open market. Cited for analytical reference under the Fidelity Protocol™.

Case 001 NerdWallet: Editorial Pivot to Information Gain

A retrospective audit of NerdWallet’s pivot to Information Gain. By replacing generic content with proprietary data and an Editorial Review Board of named specialists, the domain stabilized organic visibility post-update.

Technical Audit only. Vellum Strategic Advisory did not perform this restoration. Cited as a market benchmark. Read Diagnostic →
Case 002 Investopedia: Institutional Attribution Moat

A retrospective audit of Investopedia’s defense against automated content commoditization. By attaching named credentialed experts to every knowledge claim, the domain created an irreducible authority signal.

Technical Audit only. Vellum Strategic Advisory did not perform this restoration. Cited as a market benchmark. Read Diagnostic →
Intelligence Briefing

The Vellum Brief

A periodic briefing on AI extraction patterns, citation intelligence, and structural shifts in how answer engines consume PropTech and FinTech content. Written for operators, not marketers.

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Vellum | Strategic Advisory AI Search Intelligence — 2026
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