Conductor, the only end-to-end, enterprise AEO platform, announced strong momentum through Q3, driven by accelerating enterprise adoption as AI search became a core performance channel. Q3 growth accelerated with more than 50 new enterprise logos, Net Revenue Retention exceeding 125 percent, and monthly active usage growing 132 percent year over year.

Conductor added more than 50 enterprise customers through Q3 as enterprises adapt to visibility inside AI-generated answers and answer-first discovery.

AI has introduced a new layer of digital discovery where answers, not links, shape perception long before a customer ever reaches a website. Conductor’s 2026 AEO/GEO Benchmarks Report shows that AI answers now appear in roughly one in four Google queries, with visibility reaching nearly half of all queries in industries such as health care and financial services. At the same time, nearly 90 percent of emerging AI referral traffic is flowing through ChatGPT, reshaping the earliest moments of customer intent and reframing which brands enter the consideration cycle.

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As enterprises respond to this shift, Conductor saw accelerated adoption across global organizations through Q3:

• Added 50+ enterprise AI customers, including leading brands like Aladdin by BlackRock, Four Seasons, TD Bank, and 1-800-Contacts.
• Q3 Net Revenue Retention exceeded 125 percent, and Gross Bookings reached 134 percent of the goal.
• Monthly active usage up 132 percent, showing rapid adoption of AI search intelligence beyond AEO/SEO and into digital, content, communications, and product teams.
• Conductor expanded its strategic partnership with Acquia to power generative AI capabilities within Acquia Source
• Recognized by OpenAI as one of the top 50 token consumers in the world, signaling Conductor’s commitment to data quality and scale.
• In Q3 alone, customers used Conductor to track over 1.5 million AI prompts, optimize more than 20,000 pieces of content, and monitor website health in real time through the platform’s enterprise-grade AI workflows.
• Released 40+ product updates and features, including Knowledge Sources in Writing Assistant that transforms how enterprises leverage generative AI by grounding content in proprietary expertise, ensuring AI-generated content reflects true organizational authority to differentiate and dominate in AI search.
• Conductor also achieved AI Management Systems ISO 42001 certification, becoming the first platform in its category to meet this new global standard.
• Conductor’s annual AEO conference, C3, sold out, bringing together 300+ enterprise brands, with speakers from leading brands including EY, WP Engine, and Wolters Kluwer.

For many organizations, the shift toward Conductor reflects a broader evolution in how marketing teams operate. As AI engines prioritize authoritative perspectives, original content, and structured knowledge, enterprises are unifying SEO, content, digital, and communications teams around shared visibility strategies and modern performance frameworks. The brands that invest early in understanding their presence across AI and search are already capturing demand upstream and reducing acquisition costs that would otherwise escalate as the market matures.

“Marketing is undergoing a once-in-a-generation shift,” said Seth Besmertnik, CEO and Co-founder of Conductor. “AI is rewriting how customers discover and trust brands. The companies that win will be the ones that understand and influence how they show up across every AI-driven experience. Conductor anticipated this shift early, and our momentum reflects a simple truth: enterprises are choosing the platform built for where search is going.”

Besmertnik added, “The customer journey increasingly begins and resolves within AI experiences. Visibility no longer starts at the website. It starts in the answer.”

Throughout 2025, Conductor expanded its AI search visibility capabilities, deepened insights into AI-generated answers and citations, and advanced its enterprise-grade content and technical SEO workflows. Customers increasingly use the platform as their system of record for AI visibility and organic growth, supported by Conductor’s proprietary datasets, real-time monitoring, and integrated AI-assisted content capabilities.

Looking ahead to 2026, Conductor will broaden support for emerging AI search surfaces, enhance its measurement and optimization capabilities, and continue developing the datasets that enterprises rely on to understand their presence across the evolving landscape of AI-first discovery.