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Brand visibility in AI search engines.

AEO is the discipline of getting your brand cited, recommended, and quoted by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — the surfaces where high-intent buyers increasingly start their research.

// Search is becoming an answer engine. Be in the answer.

Why this matters

Why AEO matters now.

Buyers no longer click through ten links. They ask ChatGPT or Perplexity, get a synthesized answer, and either reach out or move on. If your brand is missing from those answers, you're missing from the funnel — even if you rank well on Google.

AEO isn't SEO with a new acronym. The signals that get you cited by AI search are different: structured content that LLMs can parse, citation-rich digital PR, schema markup tuned for answer extraction, entity clarity across the web. Most sites optimized for traditional ranking are invisible to AI search.

And the surface area is growing fast. ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude search, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot — each with different ranking signals, different citation behaviors, and different traffic patterns. AEO is the work of being visible across all of them.

How we work

From audit to outcomes.

01

AEO audit and competitive citation mapping.

We start by measuring where you currently stand — which queries surface your brand in AI engines, which surface competitors, and where the citation gaps live. The audit produces a prioritized roadmap.

02

Content restructuring for LLM extraction.

We rewrite or restructure your existing content so LLMs can cleanly extract answers: clear headings, summary paragraphs, FAQ patterns, entity-tagged passages. Quality up, parseability up.

03

Schema and entity infrastructure.

Organization, Product, Service, FAQ, Article, Person schema implemented properly. Entity disambiguation across the web. Knowledge graph consistency. The structured signal LLMs rely on.

04

Citation infrastructure.

Digital PR work focused on AI-relevant sources — the publications and platforms that AI engines treat as authoritative. Aimed at the citations that actually move AI visibility.

05

Continuous tracking and iteration.

AI engines evolve weekly. We track visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and emerging surfaces. Monthly reports show citation share, query coverage, and movement.

What you get

Six deliverables in every AEO engagement.

AEO audit report

Citation share analysis, competitive mapping, query coverage gaps, schema audit, content parseability scoring.

Content restructuring

Existing pages rewritten for LLM extraction. Q&A patterns, summary paragraphs, entity tagging, internal linking architecture.

Schema implementation

Full schema markup deployment: Organization, Service, FAQ, Article, HowTo, Person. Validated against Google's testing tools.

Citation digital PR

Outreach focused on publications and platforms AI engines cite. Targeted citations, not generic backlink work.

AI search visibility tracking

Custom dashboard tracking your visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews. Updated weekly, reviewed monthly.

Quarterly strategy reviews

AI search evolves fast. Every quarter we revisit the strategy based on new ranking signals, citation behaviors, and emerging surfaces.

Tools

The AEO stack we know cold.

AEO Tracking: Profound · AthenaHQ · Goodie AI · Custom monitoring
Schema & Structured Data: Schema.org · Google Structured Data Testing · Rich Results Test
Content Tools: Custom AI extraction testing · Internal LLM evaluation pipelines
Analytics: GA4 · Search Console · Server-side tracking for AI referrals
Engagement patterns

Where AEO gets pulled into our work.

Category-leading SaaS getting cited for category queries

B2B SaaS in a competitive category needs to be the brand AI engines recommend when a buyer asks "best [category] tool." AEO program builds citation infrastructure across the publications AI engines cite, restructures positioning content for LLM extraction, and tracks visibility weekly.

Fintech building authority on regulated topics

Fintech needs AI engines to cite them as authoritative on specific financial topics — without crossing compliance lines. AEO program produces clinically reviewed, citation-rich content that gets surfaced by Perplexity and ChatGPT for high-intent finance queries.

AI startup making sure tools surface them in their own category

AI tool that needs to appear when developers ask LLMs "what tool should I use for X." AEO program focuses on developer-relevant citations, technical content optimized for LLM parsing, and integration documentation as a marketing surface.

FAQ

Questions we hear about AEO.

AEO and SEO share some signals — quality content, authority, technical health — but diverge meaningfully. AEO emphasizes citation patterns, entity clarity, schema depth, and content structures that LLMs can parse and quote. A page that ranks #3 on Google might be invisible to ChatGPT if it lacks the structures AI engines extract from. Most clients run both in parallel because the buyer journey now spans both surfaces.
AI engines refresh their training data and indexes faster than Google does, but visibility builds over months, not weeks. Most clients see early signals — increased citation frequency, broader query coverage — within 60-90 days. Material visibility gains typically take 4-6 months. Citation infrastructure work compounds over time.
No, and any agency promising specific citations from specific engines is misleading you. We can guarantee the right work — citation infrastructure, content structuring, schema implementation, tracking — and we can show measurable visibility improvements over time. We can't guarantee what an LLM does on any given query, just like SEO agencies can't guarantee #1 on Google.
Citation share by AI engine, query coverage (the breadth of queries you appear in), citation rank when you appear, AI-driven referral traffic (where measurable), and competitive citation mapping. We do not report on vanity metrics like "AI mentions" without context.
Often yes, but selectively. We audit existing content for parseability and rewrite or restructure the highest-value pages — not every page. New content production going forward gets built AEO-ready by default. Most engagements include both audit-and-fix on existing content and AEO-ready production for new content.

Talk to our AEO lead.

A 30-minute call to talk through your situation, your current stack, and whether AEO is the right fit for your stage of growth.

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