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.
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.
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.
- "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.