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AirOps hands your team the tools.

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STRATEGY

TECHNOLOGY

TALENT

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Pepper brings the tools,the team and the number.

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PIECES COVERED

STRATEGY

TECHNOLOGY

TALENT

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AirOps is a content and AI-search platform your team operates, with workflows, Grids, a Brand Kit and a long list of integrations. Pepper is the same kind of software, plus the strategists, writers editors and PR people who run it. And we put a number in the contract.

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Who each one is for

BUY AIROPS

When you have a content team who want to build and run the workflows themselves. It's a strong platform. You can start on a trial instead of a procurement cycle, and it connects to more of your stack than we do.

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HIRE PEPPER

When you don't want to hire a team just to run it. You get the software, the people who run it every day, work on sites you don't own, and a projected number before you sign.

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Organic needs three things. A platform covers one

Organic used to be a channel one person could run. Now you need all three working together.

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Strategy

Where you can win, revisited every quarter. With a platform, this stays with you. That works if you have someone senior to own it.

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Technology

We both have this, and AirOps connects to more of your stack. We track what six AI engines say about you every day, then do the work to change it.

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Talent

Content, technical, digital PR and community specialists who do the work. AirOps gives you content engineers who help your team do the work. We do it for you.

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Pepper brings the technology and the talent, and builds the strategy with you. That's why we can put a number in the contract.

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Compare side by side

Both track AI answers, produce content at volume and publish to your CMS. Here's where they differ.

What changes

OTHERS

AirOps

US

WHAT YOU’RE BUYING

The purchase

Software, with enablement

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Software, and the team that runs it

Who operates it day to day

Your team

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Ours, with your approval on anything that publishes

Who carries the KPI

You do

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We do, and it's written into the
contract

WHO DOES THE WORK

Content production

Your team, using workflows

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Our writers and editors, with agents doing the volume

Work on sites you don't own

Not offered

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Digital PR on the sources AI cites

Strategy

Yours to set

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Built with your team, revisited
quarterly

GETTING STARTED

How you start

A trial, with the strategy left to you

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A full strategy and a projected
number, before you sign

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Who carries the Number

Software is sold on access, so the contract covers access. We're paid on results, so our contract covers results.

BEFORE YOU SIGN

IN THE CONTRACT

EVERY WEEK

THE OUTCOME

AIROPS

A platform gives you
a subscription and
an onboarding plan.

A platform gives you
a licence, seats and
a support tier.

A platform leaves
reporting to your
team.

Journey ends at published
pages.

The content ships, whether or notthe number moved.

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Accountable for the result

A full strategy
and a projected
number.

The KPI, agreed
with your team.

A review
against your
baseline, owned
by a named
strategist.

THE NUMBER MOVES

Pepper owns
the KPI, week
after week.

If the number doesn't move, a platform has still delivered what you bought.

We haven't.

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Numbers we stood behind.

Both accounts ran on the same combination: our strategy, our platform, our team.

Acceldata

Data observability, against an incumbent eight years older.

CASE STUDY 01

“Their ability to hone in on a specific topic that really resonates and draw people in was absolutely critical for us”

MAHESH KUMAR · CMO, ACCELDATA

READ THE STORY →

SalesHood

Sales enablement, as buyers moved to AI answers.

CASE STUDY 02

"I can see a direct connection between the investments we made in Pepper, the utilization of the platform, and the increased lead flow, the specific lead sources being the LLMs, and SalesHood showing up in the answers."

ELAY COHEN · SALESHOOD

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Frequently Asked Questions

AirOps is a content and AI search platform your team runs. Pepper is the same kind of software plus the strategists, writers, editors and digital PR people who run it for you. We also agree a KPI with you and write it into the contract, so we're the ones accountable for the result.

Yes, if you don't want to hire a team just to run a platform. You get the software and the people who use it every day, and the KPI we agree on goes into the contract.

No. We build our own tracking and AI agents, and our team runs them. You pay for an outcome instead of seats.

Companies with an in-house content team that wants to build and run its own workflows. If you'd rather not hire that team, Pepper does the work.

Pepper is the better pick if you want results without building a team. AirOps is a platform your content team runs, and help beyond the software is sold separately. Pepper gives you the same kind of software plus the strategists, writers, editors and digital PR team who run it, and the KPI we agree on goes into the contract.

Yes. Before you sign, we build a full strategy and a projected number. The KPI is agreed with your team and written into the contract, and a named strategist reviews progress against your baseline every week.

We track six AI engines daily: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews, plus Google Search. You can filter any metric down to one engine.

AI agents handle the volume. Industry writers and editors take the work that needs a person, and a senior editor signs off before anything goes live. Your team approves it too.

Yes, and it's part of the engagement. Our digital PR team goes after the third-party sites AI engines cite. AirOps has software for finding those sites, but the outreach itself is done by your team or bought as a separate service.

We don't publish pricing. AirOps charges by plan and usage. Pepper engagements are annual and priced against the outcome and scope of work, and you see a projected number before you sign.

Expect early movement in the first three months and meaningful results between months six and nine. Most of your authority sits on sites you don't own, and those sites update on their own schedule.

Everything we produce is yours, and you can export your brand and prompt tracking data any time. Engagements are annual, with an out-clause at six months.

Approvals and product knowledge, plus a customer or two we can speak to and whatever your sales team is hearing. You won't be writing weekly briefs or managing the project.

You'll see it early, because a named strategist reviews progress against your baseline every week. If the number isn't moving, we change the plan with you. If it still isn't on track at six months, you can use the out-clause and keep everything we've built.

Acceldata grew organic traffic 6x within twelve months, and its keywords in Google's top three went from 85 to 300+. SalesHood went from 14 to 97 keywords in Google AI Overviews in six months, while blog impressions rose from about 200,000 to 417,000.

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For businesses playing the long game, Pepper turns your earned authority visible to search & AI, making

organic growth winnable again.

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Get a strategy presentation with real projections before you sign up.

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*the long game is not about waiting.
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It is about building something that keeps winning after everyone else's quick win wore off. And you will see it work within a quarter.