Other agencies told you stories.
We left the receipts.

Three ways, and you can check all of them. Authority numbers come from Ahrefs. Traffic comes from the client's own analytics. Pipeline comes from their CRM. The client reads the finished page before it publishes, so by the time you see a number, the person it belongs to has already signed it.

Because the rules above kill most of what fills other agencies' case study pages. Add the clients under NDA and the ones in quiet markets, and what is left is only the work we can name. We would rather publish cases that survive a phone call than a wall of logos that cannot.

Yes, at the right stage. Once scope and fit are real, we arrange reference conversations. Our clients' time gets the same protection yours would.

Each SaaS vertical we work in has its own playbook here, covering the SERP map, the buyer language, and the compliance lines. If yours is not one of them, the method still transfers, and the first month of research builds the map we are missing.

Early signals in about 90 days. Real compounding between months six and nine. Workwize's monthly pipeline broke $1M in Q4 2025 and peaked in month 19; Da Vinci's organic traffic grew about 25 times inside 11 months. If someone promises you these numbers faster, ask which client they did it for, then watch what happens.