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When the buyer asks an AI, be the answer

Traditional SEO wins a blue link. AEO wins the sentence the model actually says back. They overlap, but they are not the same job, and the second one is currently far less contested.

What answer engine optimization means here

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini cite your brand when users ask questions in your category. It combines direct question-and-answer content structure, schema markup, entity consistency across the web, and verified crawler access for AI user agents.

How we run it

The plays, in order

01

Answer the question in the first fifty words

Answer engines lift self-contained passages. A page that buries its answer under four paragraphs of preamble does not get quoted, however well it ranks. We restructure so every key page opens with a liftable answer.

02

Schema that describes entities, not just pages

Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, Article and breadcrumb markup, wired consistently so a model can resolve who you are, what you sell and where you operate without guessing.

03

Entity consistency off-site

Models triangulate. If your name, address, category and description differ across your site, your profiles and the directories that describe you, the model gets a fuzzy entity and cites a competitor with a clean one.

04

Verify the crawlers can actually reach you

We check GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended against your live server, because a CDN rate limit or a WAF rule will silently make you invisible while robots.txt says you are wide open. We have found exactly this on live sites more than once.

05

Measure citation, not just ranking

We track whether the engines actually name you on the prompts that matter, and we tell you plainly how that was sampled, because nobody has clean share-of-voice data in this channel yet and pretending otherwise is dishonest.

What you get
  • AEO readiness audit including live AI-crawler access testing
  • Answer-first restructuring of priority pages
  • FAQ and question-cluster content built from real queries
  • Full schema implementation across templates
  • Entity and citation consistency cleanup off-site
  • llms.txt and crawler access configuration
  • A citation baseline, with the sampling method disclosed

The terms, up front

Nothing you find out at the end

The clauses people usually discover when a relationship ends are the ones we put at the start of it. These apply to every line we sell, this one included.

01

Term

Month to month after 90 days. Projects are fixed-scope.

02

Notice

30 days in writing, either direction, no penalty.

03

Ownership

Accounts, data, content and files are yours. In the SOW.

04

Ad spend

Paid to the platforms from your accounts. Never marked up.

Common questions

Before you ask

What is AEO?

Answer Engine Optimization is structuring your content and markup so AI answer engines cite you when a user asks a question in your category. It is the equivalent of SEO for a world where the answer is generated rather than listed.

Is AEO different from SEO?

They overlap heavily and share most of the technical foundation, but the target differs. SEO wins a ranked link a human clicks. AEO wins a citation inside a generated answer, which rewards self-contained passages, clean schema and consistent entity data far more than it rewards backlinks.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will cite us?

No, and nobody honestly can. What we can do is remove every reason a model would not cite you, measure whether citations appear on the prompts that matter, and tell you exactly how we sampled it.

How do we know AI crawlers can even reach our site?

We test them directly against your live server. Robots.txt saying yes is not proof. We have found CDN rate limits and WAF rules silently blocking AI crawlers on sites whose robots.txt was completely open.

Next step

Scope answer engine optimization in 20 minutes

Tell us what you are working on. We will come back with an honest read on whether this is the right line for you, and a scope and a number if it is.

No retainer requirement · No long contract · You own everything we build

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