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Case study — custom engagement

AI sent them their best traffic. Most of it left.

A B2B SaaS platform was earning thousands of visits a month from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Those visitors signed up at five times the rate of everyone else — and the pages receiving most of them had no way to sign up at all. We triaged all 429 of them.

This is a real engagement, anonymized. The client is called Gridwell here, every absolute figure is scaled by a constant, and the vendors and internal systems named in the report are renamed. The findings, the method and the shape of the data are the ones we delivered.

Outcome

What the engagement produced

0% Demo request rate from AI referrals against a site average near 4.5%
0 Accounts recoverable from the top three actions alone
0 Pages triaged every page that earned AI traffic
0 Recommendations checked each against the client's own conversion data
The signal

A year of AI referral traffic

Assistants sent a trickle for nine months, then stepped up sharply in May and held. Conversion rate never dropped through that change, so the extra volume arrived at the same quality.

The finding

Conversion rate by part of the site

The same visitors, arriving from the same assistants, converting between 6.6 and 29.1 percent depending only on which page they landed on. That spread is the whole opportunity.

Homepage 29.1%
Conversion pages 27.5%
Platform pages 22.8%
Templates 18.4%
Solutions 17.5%
Guides 16.8%
Support pages 10.2%
Articles 8.0%
Other pages 6.6%
20% and above 10 to 20% Under 10%
The work

Three findings that paid for the engagement

Ranked by accounts recoverable, not by how bad they look. Each was checked against the client's own conversion data before it was recommended.

Finding 01

The help center took the traffic and returned nothing

Assistants sent 864 visits to help center pages that answer a question and then stop. Thirty-three accounts came back. The same visitors convert at 20.4 percent elsewhere on the site.

3.8% conversion rate, against 20.4% on pages that work
Recoverable about 122 accounts per 6 weeks
Finding 02

Procurement reads the legal pages, and cannot sign up from them

Privacy and terms drew 619 visits from assistants answering questions about security and data handling. Those pages carry no route into the product at all, and produced four accounts between them.

0.6% conversion rate across privacy and terms
Recoverable about 57 accounts per 8 weeks
Finding 03

Two themes are growing fast and converting badly

View Builder took 252 visits last month, up 73 percent, the fastest growth of any theme in the report. Automations took 230, up 32 percent. Both convert at roughly half the site's rate for AI traffic.

+73% growth on the fastest-moving theme
Recoverable about 43 accounts per 4 weeks
How it was done

Four steps, no guesswork

01 / Attribute

Separate AI referrals from everything else

Sessions arriving from assistant domains, isolated in the client's own warehouse and credited to the page the visit started on. Demo requests are the product's account-creation event, not an analytics estimate.

02 / Triage

Rank every page by what it costs to lose

All 429 pages that earned AI traffic, sorted by the accounts they should have produced at the site's own rate and did not. Volume alone would have put the homepage first and hidden the actual problem.

03 / Check

Test the vendor's queue against real conversions

The client's AI-visibility vendor had a recommendation backlog. Each item was matched to the pages it targeted and judged on what those pages actually converted. Some were adopted; others were not worth the effort.

04 / State the limits

Say what the data cannot tell you

A tracking gap, a modeled demand column that must never be read as a ratio against Google volume, and a one-snapshot caveat. Written into the report so no one builds a plan on a number that cannot carry it.

The deliverable

Nine sections, every claim checked

The client received a single self-contained report: summary, priority actions, traffic over time, conversion rate by category, the pages losing the most, pages competing with each other, the pages already working, the vendor queue checked against conversion data, and the method.

The full anonymized version is published — charts live, tables sortable, every figure the same one the client saw at a constant scale.

Search demand, top 5
SearchPage that should own itRate
what is gridwell /guides/start/what-is-gridwell 30.2%
no code ai tools /articles/no-code-ai-tools 5.6%
is gridwell free /pricing 28.1%
ai agent builder /articles/best-ai-agent-builders
gridwell cost /pricing 28.1%

Is AI sending you traffic you cannot convert?

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