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 "id": "gushwork",
 "name": "Gushwork",
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 "vendor_domain": "gushwork.ai",
 "category": "SEO & Marketing",
 "task": "SEO, content & landing pages",
 "summary": "AI marketing agents for small and mid-sized businesses, sold as one done-for-you system rather than a seat: it publishes pages built for AI search and Google, keeps a brand-memory source of truth, tracks every visitor, filters spam out of the leads dashboard and runs paid campaigns alongside.",
 "best_for": "sales-led B2B businesses with no marketer and no agency, that win work through quote requests and consultation calls, and want the research, writing, publishing and optimisation handled for them — at $900 a month and up, with the vendor’s own estimate of first qualified leads around month three",
 "skip_if": "your customers can buy or sign up on your site without speaking to anyone, which Gushwork’s own qualifier calls “not the right fit (yet)”; you need the full price before a sales call, since only the $900 floor is published and the rest is set on the phone; you want software you run yourself, because there is no free plan, no trial and no self-serve sign-up; or you need results inside a quarter, as the vendor puts first qualified leads at month three to four; or you are outside the US, sell to consumers, or run SaaS or low-ticket ecommerce, which Gushwork’s partner team told affiliates on 26 September 2026 are not a fit — its stated target is US-based B2B companies with an average order above $1,000 where the buyer has to speak to someone first, with manufacturers, distributors and industrial service providers named as the best fit; or you need to be able to leave within six months, because the master terms in force since 31 July 2026 carry a six-month lock-in inside a twelve-month term that renews automatically",
 "honest_knock": "One published number, and it is the floor. $900 a month is where Gushwork starts and the pricing page never says where it stops — the FAQ puts the final figure down to page volume, growth speed and paid support, confirmed on a call. The honest reading of that page is therefore not “this costs $900” but “this costs at least $900, and you find out the rest on the phone.” That is a planning problem for exactly the small business it targets, and it is avoidable: the two nearest AI-SEO products we carry both publish their whole ladder, BabyLoveGrowth at €99 and €399 a month and Alli AI at $299 and $599, so you can size those against a budget before you speak to anyone.\n\nThe second thing is that you are buying a service more than a seat. There is no free plan, no trial and no self-serve sign-up; the only route in is Book a Demo, onboarding is put at “less than 30 days”, and Gushwork does the research, writing, publishing and optimisation. That is the appeal if you have no marketer. It is also a dependency, and the pages it publishes live on your site.\n\nThird — and to their credit they say this themselves — it is slow. The FAQ puts first qualified leads at “month 3 to 4” and adds, “We won’t promise leads in week one.” At $900 a month that is roughly $2,700 to $3,600 spent before the thing you bought is expected to show up. Budget for the wait rather than the first invoice.\n\nAnd check the fit before the price, because Gushwork’s own qualifier is stricter than its marketing. Its sign-up form says the platform “works best for sales led B2B businesses” — quote requests, consultation calls, service inquiries — and tells anyone whose customers can buy or sign up directly on the site that they are “not the right fit (yet)”.\n\nLast, read the contract rather than the pricing page. The page says “Cancel anytime” and “No contracts”; the master terms in force since 31 July 2026 set a twelve-month initial term that renews automatically and a six-month lock-in during which you cannot cancel for convenience. At the $900 floor, that lock-in alone is $5,400 before you can walk away.",
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  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$900",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month, billed monthly",
  "from_price_usd_month": 900.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 21 September 2026 on www.gushwork.ai/pricing) Gushwork publishes one number and no ladder. The page states “Pricing starts at $900 /month”, billed monthly, cancel anytime, and the FAQ on the same page repeats it: “$900 is the starting point, with every agent and feature switched on.” Everything above that rung is quoted rather than published — “Talk to us, and we’ll recommend the right plan based on your business, goals, and lead potential” — and the FAQ names the three things that move the figure: how many pages you want published, how fast you want to grow, and how much paid support you add, with the exact number confirmed on a call.\n\nThere are no named tiers, no annual rate, no free plan and no trial. The only button on the pricing page is Book a Demo. What the $900 covers, per that FAQ: setup, page creation, optimisation, tracking and support, with the full agent suite active — Gushwork states it is not sold agent by agent, so there is no cheaper subset to buy.\n\nOne figure on that page is not a price and should not be read as one: the $500K+ in contracts belongs to a named customer (Fraxtional), under the page’s own note that results vary with market, competition and available search demand.\n\nThe contract says something the pricing page does not. Gushwork's Master Services Terms, version 3.0, effective 31 July 2026 and read on 14 October 2026, give an agreement an initial term of twelve months that renews automatically for further twelve-month periods unless either side gives notice at least 30 days before it ends. They also set a minimum lock-in of six months from the start of each term, during which the agreement may not be terminated for convenience; after that you can end it on 30 days' written notice, subject to a joint performance review. The pricing page's “Cancel anytime” and “No contracts” mention none of this. The terms are applied through an Order Form, which sets the term of your own deal, so read that before you sign.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
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  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-09-23",
   "last_read": "2026-10-31",
   "read_days": 6,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-09-23",
    "until": "2026-10-31",
    "reads": 6,
    "days": 38
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "BabyLoveGrowth, Alli AI",
  "why": "All three sell AI-run SEO, and the sharpest difference is how much of the price you are allowed to see. From our own dossiers, both re-verified 19 September 2026: BabyLoveGrowth publishes two plans at €99 and €399 a month paid monthly, or €75 and €291 a month billed yearly, with what each buys spelled out — 30 articles a month, 10 prompts tracked daily across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, auto-publishing to WordPress, Shopify and eight more CMSs. Alli AI publishes Business at $299 a month and Agency at $599, each with a 10-day free trial and printed quotas for sites, keywords and pages. Gushwork publishes $900 as a starting point and nothing above it.\n\nSo on money, Gushwork is both the highest published rung of the three and the only one you cannot size in advance. What it offers against them is the thing neither of the others does: people. BabyLoveGrowth and Alli AI are tools you operate — somebody has to drive them, pick the keywords and approve the output. Gushwork runs the work, with a human reviewing content in technical or regulated niches and launch inside 30 days.\n\nThat makes the useful comparison a different one. If you have someone to drive an SEO tool, the other two are cheaper and their cost is knowable, and this is an easy decision. If you have nobody, the alternative you are really weighing is not BabyLoveGrowth — it is an agency retainer, and against that $900 a month with the platform included reads very differently. Make that comparison, not this one."
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  "vendor_site": "https://gushwork.ai"
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 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.gushwork.ai/8h4qdc30ztgm",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
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 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
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  {
   "question_id": "gushwork:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "gushwork:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "gushwork:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "gushwork:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
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  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
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