// service 01 — answer engine optimization
Answer engine optimization that gets you cited in AI search
A unified program that rebuilds your content, authority, and proof for the way language models actually retrieve and cite sources. Not a “GPT-optimized” checklist bolted onto last year’s SEO.
// the problem
Most “AI SEO” offers are a settings change and a schema plugin. AI search decides which brands to surface from signals built over months: extractable content, real citations across the web, and entity authority. If those are not rebuilt deliberately, you stay invisible in the answer, no matter how well you rank in the blue links.
// what you get
The deliverables
AI visibility baseline audit
Where you surface today across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, and exactly where competitors are cited instead of you.
Content rebuilt for extraction
Direct-answer structuring, schema, and entity coverage on the pages that actually decide whether a model can lift and cite your content.
Off-site citation plan
The mentions, references, and third-party signals language models lean on, mapped and sequenced into a real execution roadmap.
Proprietary prompt tracking
Monthly monitoring of which prompts surface your brand versus competitors, so the work targets measured gaps instead of guesses.
Reporting tied to revenue
Visibility, citation share, and referral trends reported against the business outcomes they move, not vanity dashboards.
// how it works
Three layers, one program
On-page, off-site, and measurement run as a single system. Each layer feeds the next.
On-page extraction
Structure, schema, and answer patterns that let models pull your content cleanly and attribute it to you.
Off-site signals
Citations and brand mentions built deliberately across the sources models already trust and quote.
Visibility tracking
A live read on which prompts cite you, feeding the next round of work with evidence.
// who this is for
- Mid-market and enterprise brands, roughly $30M+ in revenue
- Already earning organic traction you want to defend in AI search
- Treating AI visibility as a channel to own, not a one-off experiment
// not a fit if
- Looking for a one-time technical quick fix
- No existing content or authority foundation to build on
- Need measurable results inside 30 days
// the track record
// faq
Questions I get asked
What is answer engine optimization (AEO) and how is it different from SEO?
AEO is the work of getting your brand surfaced and cited inside AI-generated answers: AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini. Traditional SEO optimizes for a ranked list of links. AEO optimizes for being the source a model extracts, summarizes, and attributes. They share a foundation, but AEO adds extractable content structure, entity authority, and off-site citation signals that ranking alone does not earn.
How do you measure AI search visibility?
I track which prompts surface your brand across the major AI engines, how often you are cited versus competitors, and how that citation share moves month over month. That baseline is the first deliverable, so progress is measured against real prompt coverage rather than a generic rank report.
How long before AEO shows results?
Extraction and schema fixes can shift citations within weeks. The authority and off-site citation work compounds over months. This is a program, not a campaign, which is why I set a measured baseline up front and report movement against it.
How much does an AEO program cost?
It scales with the size of the content footprint and the competitiveness of your space. The discovery call is where we size the opportunity and the work against it, with no obligation to proceed.
// open a channel
Find out where you stand in AI search.
A 30-minute call and a straight read on the opportunity. No pitch deck, no obligation.