IT and software marketing

CieloIT raised $25M. We ran their marketing for five years.

They came to us with low visibility, weak lead quality and inconsistent content in a crowded IT market. What changed it was not a campaign, it was five years of one coherent engine: SEO, paid and email pointed at the same buyer, long enough to compound into an investor ready brand.

What the engines say about IT services
Measured across 30 daysCount
Buying questions tracked in this sector3,450
Brand mentions recorded on them69,750
Different companies the engines named19,655

Rankxa production data, 30 days to 11 September 2026, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Provider selection questions for IT services, managed services and support. If you sell a software product, see our SaaS page.

What IT firms actually ask

What a buyer asks before they shortlist a provider

IT buying is risk work. The buyer is not looking for the best option so much as trying to avoid the one that goes wrong, and they research privately before they ever contact you.

Who are the credible providers?

The shortlist question, and it now often starts with an assistant.

  • We track which providers the engines name across 3,450 questions
  • Including which competitor holds the position on each one
  • Per engine, because the four agree with each other 1% to 11% of the time

Have they solved my exact problem?

Generic capability claims lose to specific, named proof.

  • Case content organized by problem and environment, not by service line
  • Named clients where the contract permits it
  • A model cannot attribute a result to a company nobody named

Are they secure and compliant?

Increasingly the first gate rather than the last.

  • Certifications and compliance posture published as readable facts
  • Structured data so the claims are machine readable
  • Answered on the page rather than promised in a sales call

What does this actually cost?

Price opacity is the most common reason a qualified buyer disappears.

  • Pricing models explained honestly, even without exact figures
  • Removes the enquiries that were never going to close
  • Which raises lead quality, the thing CieloIT came to us about
Work we can point at

CieloIT, over five years

Long cycle work judged on whether the business ended up somewhere different, not on a monthly traffic chart.

CieloIT

A $25M raise after a five year partnership.

  • SEO, paid advertising and email built into one consistent engine
  • Higher search rankings, better lead quality and stronger engagement
  • Positioned as a standout, investor ready brand in a crowded market

$244,000 saved per year

A software client, on operational efficiency.

  • Automation applied to the work marketing was doing by hand
  • Recurring annual saving rather than a one off project gain
  • The same engine approach applied to cost rather than to growth
AI search in this sector

IT services is one of the most heavily researched categories we track

Across 3,450 IT services questions, the engines named 19,655 different companies in the last 30 days. Buyers in this category research privately and at length, which means most of your sales cycle now happens somewhere you cannot see unless you measure it.

19,655
Companies named by the engines on IT services questions in 30 days
3,450
Buying questions we track in this sector
1% to 11%
How much the four engines agree on which brands to name
9.9M
Brand mentions recorded across every sector we track

Sector figures are counted over the prompts in our set that ask about IT services. The agreement range is measured across all comparable prompts, not this sector alone.

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Questions

Common questions from IT and software firms

How is this different from your SaaS page?

This page is about selling IT services, managed services and support, where the buyer is choosing a provider and the risk is operational. If you sell a software product with self serve or product led motion, the SaaS page covers that. The AI measurement work is the same in both cases. The content and the buying questions are not.

Five years is a long partnership. Is that what it takes?

No, but it is what compounding looks like. CieloIT's raise was the result of five years of consistent work rather than of a campaign, and we quote it because it is honest about the timescale. Lead quality improvements show much sooner. We would expect to change the shape of your enquiries within a quarter and the shape of your business over years.

Our market is crowded. Does content still work?

Specific content does. CieloIT's problem was described as inconsistent content in a crowded market, and the fix was coherence rather than volume. Across 3,450 questions we track, the engines named 19,655 different companies, so the field is wide and nobody owns it. Being precise about what you do and who you do it for is what gets retrieved.

Can you help us look investor ready?

That was explicitly part of the CieloIT engagement. In practice it means consistent brand and messaging, a search and AI presence that matches the claims in the deck, and metrics that hold up under diligence. It is the same work as demand generation, done in a way that survives being examined.

What would you do in the first month?

A retrievability check, a four engine baseline on your provider selection questions, and an audit of where your current enquiries actually come from. That last one usually reorders the priorities, because most IT firms are underinvested in the channel already producing their best leads.

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