The AI Agency Crisis
Why most agencies sell and leave, and why we do the SEO, GEO, and AEO work ourselves and stay.
Roman Lubetzky & Nyan Balaji
Co-Founders, 6AI · Published
Since launching 6AI, we have watched the AI agency space grow fast. Too fast, in some cases.
A lot of what we see out there follows the same pattern. Someone sells a business on “AI integration,” delivers something surface-level, collects the check, and moves on to the next client. The AI era has created a gold rush, and a lot of agencies are just there to cash in on the hype before it fades.
We saw this gap early. We are seeing it even more clearly now.
What makes our approach different
The difference for us is simple. We have built and shipped real things with AI. Not theorized about it. Not sold a slide deck about it. Actually built it, shipped it, and lived with the results. That experience is what shows us exactly where the real gap is — most businesses do not need someone to sell them AI. They need someone to build it with them and stay through the hard part.
That is where 6AI comes in.
We build and stay
We do not sell AI as a feature and disappear. We do the search work ourselves, build it into the site with the same care we put into our own tools, and stay through iteration and everything that comes after the first version ships.
If you are tired of agencies that sell and leave, we build and stay.