Pepper (formerly Pepper Content) vs Surfer SEO

Pepper runs end-to-end organic growth programs for enterprises, covering SEO, content production, creative, and generative engine optimization (GEO). Brands work with Pepper to get found on Google, YouTube, and AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, with a dedicated growth team accountable for traffic and visibility outcomes rather than hourly deliverables.

Most agencies split SEO, content writing, and creative into separate vendors with separate dashboards. Pepper unifies strategy, production, and measurement in one stack. Its Pepper GEO product tracks brand mentions and domain citations across six AI platforms using more than 10 million buyer-intent prompts, then pairs those insights with Atlas, an agentic workflow layer that speeds research, drafting, and optimization.

The service fits B2B and enterprise marketing teams that need blogs, whitepapers, case studies, video, and localized pages at scale without building a large in-house department. Pepper draws on a vetted creator network it calls the top 1% of industry specialists, plus more than 5,000 subject-matter experts, working inside AI-assisted workflows the company says run about 10x faster than traditional agency handoffs.

Named clients on the site include Amazon, Google, Atlassian, ClickUp, HSBC, Unilever, and Sprinklr. Pepper reports 250+ enterprise accounts and more than 2,500 companies served overall.

Surfer SEO helps marketing and SEO teams rank in Google and get cited in AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It ties research, writing, auditing, and monitoring into one closed-loop workflow so you can see where you win, where competitors get mentioned instead, and what to fix next.

Unlike all-in-one suites that spread across ads, social, and backlinks, Surfer narrows on content signals that drive rankings and AI citations. Its Content Score reverse-engineers 500+ on-page factors from live SERPs, then feeds those targets into the Content Editor while you write. That focus trades breadth for depth: you will not run PPC campaigns here, but you get daily AI prompt tracking and rank-drop alerts that generic SEO dashboards often skip.

Agencies, in-house content teams, and SEO specialists use Surfer for blog clusters, SaaS docs, and e-commerce catalogs. Customers include ClickUp, Hostinger, Bolt, and Planable, with the company reporting 150,000+ marketers on the platform and 800,000+ users worldwide.