An AEO agency for getting cited, not just ranked
Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity before they ask Google — and increasingly they never click through at all. We make sure the answer they get has you in it. Find out if AI can even see you Run our free audit on any page. Twenty-five checks including all thirteen AI crawlers, scored in about fifteen seconds.
Is AI recommending you — or your competitors?
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews answer your buyers' questions before they ever reach a search results page. This free audit runs 25 technical SEO and AEO checks to see whether they can find, read and cite you. No account, no credit card.
Takes about 15 seconds. Audit any page — your homepage, a service page, or your best blog post.
What AEO Clients are Saying
What is AEO, Answer Engine Optimization?
AEO is the work of getting your business cited inside AI-generated answers, rather than ranked in a list of links.
Traditional SEO competes for a position. AEO competes to be the source an assistant quotes when it answers your buyer's question — which is a different job with different requirements. A page can rank first in Google and be completely invisible to ChatGPT, usually for reasons that have nothing to do with content quality.
The overlap is real and we don't pretend otherwise: crawlability, structure and authority matter to both. But AEO adds constraints classic SEO never had, and most sites fail them without knowing it.
What an AEO engagement includes
Most AEO advice is guesswork dressed up as strategy — add an llms.txt, sprinkle in some schema, hope for the best. It sells easily because almost nobody checks whether it worked.
These six aren't equal parts of a package. They're a sequence of gates, and each one only matters if the one before it passes. An assistant has to be allowed to fetch your page before rendering matters. It has to be able to read it before structure matters. It has to trust the source before any of it gets quoted. We work them in that order because working them in any other order spends your money on something nobody can see.
AI crawler access
We audit robots.txt against all thirteen AI crawlers and fix what's blocking you. Gate one: if OAI-SearchBot or Claude-SearchBot is blocked, you get zero citations from those assistants and nothing below this line can change that.
Answer-shaped content
Question-led headings, self-contained opening paragraphs, comparisons in tables. Assistants lift discrete passages, not whole pages. Content that reads beautifully top to bottom but has no liftable passage gets read and passed over.
Server-side rendering review
Most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript. Gate two: if your copy is injected client-side, they arrive at an empty shell. We identify exactly what's invisible and work with your developers to get it into the initial HTML.
Entity and authority signals
Organization schema, sameAs links to verified profiles, named authors with credentials, machine-readable dates. Assistants cite sources they can resolve to a specific, identifiable business — an anonymous page loses that comparison every time.
Prompt and query research
Keyword research asks what people type into Google. We map what they ask assistants — longer, conversational, far more specific. Without this you optimize for questions nobody is actually asking an AI.
Citation monitoring
We track what assistants actually say about your category and whether you appear in it. Citations are measurable, and without measuring you cannot tell the difference between work that paid off and work that didn't.
How the First 90 days work
The first fix is usually the fastest and the largest. We start there.
Weeks 1
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Full crawler-access audit, rendering check, and a baseline of what assistants currently say about your category and competitors. Anything blocking retrieval gets fixed immediately.
Weeks 2–4: Prompt map and content gaps
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We map the questions your buyers actually ask assistants, identify which ones competitors are winning, and prioritize by commercial value rather than volume.
Months 2–3 — Restructure and build
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Existing pages restructured to be quotable, new pages built against the prompt map, schema and entity signals implemented across the site.
Ongoing — Monitor and adjust
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AI answers change faster than search rankings, and the platforms are still shifting how they source. We track citations monthly and adapt, rather than setting a strategy once.
What does AEO cost?
Where you land depends on your site's size, how much content needs restructuring, and how much technical remediation is required before assistants can read you properly.
AEO is included in every SEO engagement we run — the foundations overlap too much to sell them separately in good conscience. Standalone AEO makes sense when your traditional SEO is already handled and AI visibility is the specific gap.
Not sure which you need? The free audit scores both, and the result usually makes the answer obvious.
Is AEO worth it for you yet?
Probably too early if
You're purely local and transactional — a plumber called in an emergency isn't researched via ChatGPT
Your traditional SEO fundamentals are still broken; fix those first
You need attributable leads this quarter — AI citations are hard to attribute today
You have no content and no appetite to create any
For some businesses this is urgent. For others it is genuinely too early, and we will tell you which you are.
Worth doing now if
Your buyers research before they buy — considered purchases, B2B, professional services
You've seen organic traffic soften while rankings held steady
Competitors are showing up in AI answers and you aren't
Your category has clear, answerable questions attached to it
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Frequently Asked AEO Questions
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SEO earns a position in a list of links. AEO earns a citation inside a generated answer. They share crawlability, content quality and authority as foundations, but AEO adds requirements SEO never had — chiefly that AI crawlers are permitted to fetch you, and that your content exists without JavaScript.
In practice we run them together. Our SEO engagements cover the overlap by default.
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Most often, your robots.txt blocks the crawlers that generate citations. Many sites added blanket AI-crawler blocks in 2023 and 2024 to keep content out of training data and removed themselves from AI search at the same time without realizing it.
OAI-SearchBot and Claude-SearchBot fetch pages for live citations, not training. Blocking them removes you from those answers entirely. The free audit checks all thirteen and names the ones blocking you.
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Almost certainly not, and we're one of the few agencies that will say so.
Ahrefs studied 137,000 sites and found 97% of llms.txt files received no traffic
SE Ranking found no meaningful correlation with AI citations across roughly 300,000 domains
Google has said it has no plans to support the format
Anyone selling you an llms.txt implementation as an AEO strategy is selling a myth. We would rather spend your budget on things that measurably move citations.
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No, and neither can anyone else. AI answers vary by phrasing, by user, and by model version, and none of the platforms publish their sourcing logic.
What we can do is remove the reasons you're being excluded, structure your content the way cited sources are structured, and track whether it's working. That's a materially different promise from a guarantee, and it's the honest one.
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Three ways: citation tracking across the major assistants for your priority prompts, referral traffic from AI platforms in analytics, and the audit score itself as a leading indicator.
We're candid that attribution here is less mature than paid or organic search. Anyone claiming precise AI-driven revenue attribution today is overstating what the data supports.
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Effectively yes. GEO — generative engine optimization — is a competing name for the same discipline. Some people also call it AI SEO or LLM optimization. The terminology hasn't settled; the work is the same.
Let’s have a virtual coffee and talk about your project.
Thirty minutes, no deck. Bring your site and we'll tell you what's keeping you out of AI answers — whether or not you hire us.
