Evaluate the work across ten clients.

Model a real client roster

Choose ten representative clients rather than multiplying the smallest advertised offer by ten. Some clients need several markets or languages; others need a small monthly view. List the question count, platforms and reporting frequency for each. Ask the provider to price this full roster. Include a new client joining partway through a month. This reveals whether the commercial model fits the way your agency sells and delivers work instead of an unusually tidy demonstration account.

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Follow the boundaries between clients

Inspect how people move between client accounts and what they can see. Give one colleague a narrow role during the evaluation and check the experience from that account. Ask how client access works and whether shared links expose anything beyond the intended report. Establish who owns the account when a client leaves. These are ordinary delivery questions, not paperwork for later. A clean dashboard matters less if the team must remember manual precautions every time it shares a result.

Prepare one finished client report

Use actual findings and produce a report in the form your agency would send. Include the time needed to explain the measurement, add business context and choose a next action. Check whether branding, exports and shared access are included in the offer under discussion. If the provider supplies a sample report, ask what work happened outside the product to create it. Your evaluation should reproduce the entire delivery, including the explanatory note a client receives alongside the charts.

Agree on what the numbers mean

Define a few measures your team can explain consistently. Separate a brand mention from a recommendation and a linked source from an unlinked reference. Keep the question set and platform coverage visible. A client should understand what the sample describes without assuming it represents every possible AI conversation. Put that explanation into the reporting process. Clear measurement language helps colleagues answer client questions and reduces the temptation to present a small movement as an important commercial result.

Test handover and repeat work

Have a second colleague repeat the workflow using your notes. Check whether they can understand the question groups, find the evidence and prepare the next report without the first person beside them. Ask what can be exported if you change providers. Consider how the tool fits existing client meetings and task management. Automation is valuable when the underlying routine works; automating an unclear report only makes the confusion arrive more reliably. Fix the workflow before increasing the client count.

Price the next stage of growth

Ask for the cost and operational effect of adding the eleventh and twentieth client. Confirm whether seats, client access, reporting and historical data change with the offer. Compare that cost with the service revenue and staff time attached to those accounts. Decide who will review usage each month and who can change the workload. Keep a straightforward record of the agreed limits so a new account manager can deliver the service without guessing what the tool permits.