Answer Engine Optimization

Getting cited by AI is mostly just SEO. Here is the honest version.

AEO, GEO, LLMO, AI SEO. Four names, one job: make your pages clear enough that a machine can lift the answer and name you as the source. We do that work, we price it at $400 a month, and we will tell you which parts are real and which parts are the industry selling a rename.

Ask me anything about it See what it costs Month to month, like everything else.
What AEO agencies are selling What is actually happening
"A whole new discipline for a whole new era."
Clear structure, correct schema, real questions answered plainly. This is the SEO playbook with the volume turned up.
"Our proprietary AI Visibility Score."
A number an agency invented, that only that agency can calculate, that only ever goes up. Ask how it is derived and watch.
"We have cracked how the models choose sources."
Nobody outside those companies has. Everyone is running tests and reading the same documentation you can read.
"You need to start over for AI search."
If your site is already crawlable, structured, and honest, you are most of the way there already.

The part nobody says out loud

This is SEO with a new name on it.

Every agency selling AEO right now, including this one, is working from the same public documentation, the same visible SERP behavior, and their own testing. Nobody has a channel into OpenAI or Google that tells them how citations get picked. The agencies charging $7,500 a month for it do not know more than you do. They are just louder about it.

What is actually different is emphasis. Structure matters more than it used to. Being the clearest answer on a page matters more than being the longest. Schema matters more because it is machine-readable by design. That is a real shift, and it is worth work. It is not a new religion.

The reason to hire someone for this is not secret knowledge. It is that somebody has to actually go do it — page by page, in your CMS, on a schedule — and most business owners are not going to.

What we actually do

Five things, and how much each one is really worth.

Ranked by how much we believe in them, not by how they demo.

01
Vital information firstThe answer goes at the top of the page, in plain language, before the brand story and the hero video. If a model has to hunt for the point, it will summarize around it — or quote somebody who made it easier. This is the single highest-leverage thing on the list, and it also happens to make the page better for humans.
02
Custom schema, and a lot of itHand-written JSON-LD that matches what is visibly on the page, not a plugin's guess. Every entity, service, location, product, and person marked up and validated. This is the most machine-readable thing on your site, so it gets the most attention here.
03
Semantic headings from real searchesHeadings written as the actual questions people type and ask, pulled from search data rather than invented in a brainstorm. Then the page layout gets reordered to match how people actually work through the decision, instead of how the sales team likes to present it.
04
Measurement you can verifyWe connect you to the right monitoring for your situation — branded citation tracking, topical coverage, or plain referral traffic from assistants. First we figure out what you actually want to know, then we find a way to track it that holds up. If the honest answer is that something cannot be measured well yet, you get told that instead of a dashboard.
05
FAQ blocks and FAQ schemaEveryone loves these right now and they do currently help, so we build them and check the box. But this one has a shelf life. Google has already pulled back FAQ rich results once. Treat it as cheap upside, not the silver bullet somebody is charging you four figures for.

Notice what is missing: no AI visibility score, no "we have relationships with the models," no promise that you will show up in ChatGPT by month three. Nobody can promise that. What we can promise is the work above, done on a cadence, documented so you can check it.

Before you buy this from anybody

Just ask me. I will tell you the truth.

I have tested a lot of these strategies across a lot of sites — the ones that worked, the ones that did nothing, and the ones that were obviously somebody's content-marketing hypothesis dressed up as a best practice. If you are weighing an AEO proposal, from us or from anyone, send it over and I will tell you honestly which line items are worth paying for.

Send me the proposal

  • "Do we need to block AI crawlers?" Almost certainly not, and blocking them removes you from the answers entirely.
  • "Will this fix my traffic drop?" Sometimes. Often the drop is a core update or seasonality wearing an AI costume.
  • "Do citations send real traffic?" Some. Less than clicks used to. It is worth doing anyway, and the honest number is smaller than the pitch decks suggest.
  • "Is llms.txt worth it?" It is cheap and takes an hour. Nobody has proven it moves anything yet. We build it and stay skeptical.
  • "Should we rewrite the whole site?" No. Start with the five pages that already get impressions.

Want the version without the acronym?

It is $400 a month, it is the same five things listed above, and you can cancel whenever. Tell us what you sell and who you sell it to, and we will tell you whether this is even your bottleneck.