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CLEO Orbit: Everything Runs, You Only Approve

What CLEO Orbit is, how the autonomous mode differs from Assisted, what runs across the five layers, how approval depth works per surface, and what it costs.

CLEO Orbit: Everything Runs, You Only Approve

Orbit is the autonomous mode of the Presence Engine. It is not a sixth layer of the engine and not a separate product: it is the mode the engine runs in. The same audits, the same server-side fixes, the same content, the same replies. The difference is that nobody has to ask for them.

Orbit decides what your brand needs this week, does it, and brings it to you for a yes.
CLEO has two modes. Assisted is included in every plan: you operate, CLEO assists. In Orbit, CLEO operates and you approve. Orbit runs all five layers, routes every action into one approval queue, and lets you set approval depth per surface, from approving every action to approving once and letting the loop run. Every action is logged with its before and after, and applied fixes reverse in one click. Orbit doubles your subscription and requires SEO + GEO.

Why it exists

Every marketing platform ever sold shares one flaw. It waits. It waits for someone to log in, read the dashboard, work out what matters, and then do the work by hand. The dashboard was never the bottleneck. The person was.

Orbit removes the wait. It does not surface a fix and hope. It writes the fix, applies it server-side, measures the lift and moves to the next one. It does not hand you a content calendar to fill. It reads where you are losing citations and writes the piece that wins them back.

The engine was always capable of running itself. Orbit is us letting it.

The engine did not change. The driver did.

CLEO is not sold as a manual tool and an autonomous tool. It is one engine with two modes, and the difference is who is holding the wheel.

AssistedOrbit
AvailabilityIncluded in every planThe autonomous mode
Who drivesYou operate. CLEO assists.CLEO operates. You approve.
A site fixCLEO finds the fix. You choose when to apply it.Orbit finds it, writes it, applies it. You see it in the queue.
An articleCLEO drafts the article. You commission it.Orbit commissions it from the gap in your citations, writes it, publishes it.
A replyCLEO drafts the reply. You post it.Orbit drafts, schedules and posts, in your voice.
The scoreCLEO shows you the score. You act on it.Orbit acts on it. Daily. Then shows you what moved.

What runs

Orbit runs the five layers you already know.

  • Local. Reviews fetched and answered, the Business Profile kept accurate and active, posts and Q&As published on cadence.
  • Search. Audits on schedule, fixes written into the CMS, redirects, schema and internal links kept clean without a ticket.
  • AI Search. Queries watched daily across the engines, losing answers rewritten, readiness held intact as the site changes.
  • Social. Conversations found, replies written in your voice, the calendar filled and posted.
  • Orchestration. The month planned from what the data says is missing, and every action above routed into one approval queue.

Four surfaces, one loop, nobody driving.

The control

Autonomy without approval is just risk. Orbit is built on approval, not around it.

Every action is logged with its before and after. Applied fixes reverse in one click. And Orbit tells you at setup what it cannot touch on your stack, rather than failing quietly three weeks in.

Set the depth, per surface

The three approval depths in CLEO Orbit, shown as a queue feeding a gate. Approve every action: nothing leaves the queue without a yes. Approve by category: fixes cleared once, replies read before posting. Approve once: the loop runs on that surface and you read what moved.
  • Approve every action. Nothing leaves the queue without your yes.
  • Approve by category. Clear the fixes once, and read every reply before it posts.
  • Approve once. Set the loop running on a surface, and read what moved.

The depth is set per surface, so the setting that suits your site fixes does not have to be the setting that governs what gets said in your name on social.

You keep the only job that should never be automated. Saying yes.

What it costs

Autonomy costs what the work costs.

Orbit doubles your subscription. Whatever your subscription is.

SEO + GEO at $300 per site per month becomes $600 with Orbit. SEO + GEO with Social at $500 becomes $1,000. Enterprise carries Orbit as standard. Orbit requires SEO + GEO, because the loop does not work in pieces.

The second half of that price is not a feature. It is the operator. In Orbit, CLEO is not producing suggestions for someone on your team to action: it is doing the auditing, the fixing, the writing, the replying and the posting. Priced against the person who would otherwise do that work, it is not a close comparison.

Current pricing in full is published at regencleo.ai/pricing.

In one line

Everything CLEO does across Local, Search, AI Search and Social, planned and executed without anyone asking, and routed into one queue where your only job is to say yes.

The full product page, where access is requested, is at regencleo.ai/orbit.

Frequently asked questions

What is CLEO Orbit?

Orbit is the autonomous mode of the Presence Engine. It is not a sixth layer and not a separate product. In every plan, CLEO finds the work and you apply it. In Orbit, CLEO plans the work, does it and publishes it, and you approve. Same engine, same fixes, same content, with nobody driving.

How is Orbit different from the Assisted mode included in every plan?

The engine does not change, the driver does. In Assisted you operate and CLEO assists: it finds the fix and you choose when to apply it, it drafts the article and you commission it, it drafts the reply and you post it, it shows you the score and you act on it. In Orbit, CLEO operates and you approve: it finds the fix, writes it and applies it, commissions the article from the gap in your citations and publishes it, drafts and schedules and posts the reply in your voice, and acts on the score daily before showing you what moved.

Does Orbit publish without asking me?

Only if you tell it to. Approval depth is yours to set, per surface. Approve every action, and nothing leaves the queue without your yes. Approve by category, and you clear the fixes once while reading every reply before it posts. Approve once, and the loop runs on that surface while you read what moved. Every action is logged with its before and after, and applied fixes reverse in one click.

What does Orbit actually run?

The same five layers. Local: reviews fetched and answered, the Business Profile kept accurate and active, posts and Q&As published on cadence. Search: audits on schedule, fixes written into the CMS, redirects, schema and internal links kept clean without a ticket. AI Search: queries watched daily across the engines, losing answers rewritten, readiness held intact as the site changes. Social: conversations found, replies written in your voice, the calendar filled and posted. Orchestration: the month planned from what the data says is missing, and every action routed into one approval queue.

How much does Orbit cost?

Orbit doubles your subscription, whatever your subscription is. SEO + GEO at $300 per site per month becomes $600 with Orbit. SEO + GEO with Social at $500 becomes $1,000. Orbit requires SEO + GEO, and is included as standard on Enterprise. Current pricing in full is published at https://regencleo.ai/pricing.

Why does Orbit cost as much again as the plan?

Because the second half is not a feature, it is the work. In Orbit, CLEO is not producing suggestions for someone on your team to action. It is doing the auditing, the fixing, the writing, the replying and the posting. Priced against the person who would otherwise do it, Orbit is not a close comparison.

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What CLEO Orbit is, how the autonomous mode differs from Assisted, what runs across the five layers, how approval depth works per surface, and what it costs.

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Published September 9, 2026 by CLEO. Part of The Field Notes - the working journal of the CLEO Presence Engine at regencleo.ai/articles. Topics covered: CLEO Orbit, autonomous marketing, approval queue, presence engine, AI visibility.

Published on The Field Notes at regencleo.ai/articles. Learn more about the CLEO Presence Engine at regencleo.ai/engine. Methodology and scoring at regencleo.ai/methodology.