AI Visibility Baseline
We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the questions your clients ask, and record which businesses get recommended and which sources get cited. Then we check again each quarter.
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Service Businesses
Get recommended when people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overviews who to hire. Practical AEO for service businesses, built on a solid SEO foundation.
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When Someone Asks AI Who to Hire
More and more people skip the list of links. They ask an AI tool something like “Who’s a good family lawyer near me?” and get a short answer with a few names.
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the work of making sure your business is one of those names.
Here’s the part most people miss: AI tools don’t use some mysterious new technology to decide. They read your site, your profiles and what others say about you, much like Google does. That’s why AEO and SEO share almost the same foundation, and why we offer them together as one search optimization service.
What AEO changes is the emphasis. Instead of asking “Will Google rank this page?”, we ask “Would an AI trust this business enough to recommend it, and is the answer easy to quote?”
Our approach is simple: serve your readers first. Great, complete, accurate content is the fuel. The technical work (structure, schema, speed) is what makes the engine run efficiently.
What Our AEO Covers
AEO puts the emphasis on trust and citations. Here’s where we focus.
Expertise and Authority
AI tools look for signs that real experts stand behind a page. We make your experience, credentials and authorship clear, page by page.
Quotable Answers
Short, direct, accurate answers to the questions clients ask, written so an AI tool can lift them and cite you as the source.
Schema Markup, Page by Page
Structured data (code that labels your business, services, people and FAQs) so AI tools don’t have to guess what a page is about.
Consistent Facts Everywhere
Your name, services, location and details matching across your site, your profiles and the directories AI tools read. Mixed signals make AI hesitate.
Reviews and Mentions
What other trusted sites say about you matters to AI as much as what you say about yourself. We help you build those signals.
How Our AEO Works
Measure Your Baseline
We find out what AI tools say today when people ask about services like yours, and who they recommend instead of you.
Make Sure the Foundation Is Solid
AEO builds on SEO. If your service pages, profiles or technical setup need work, we fix those first.
Build Your Citation Layer
We add the authority signals, quotable answers and schema markup that help AI tools trust and cite you.
Track and Adjust
We re-check your AI visibility each quarter and adjust the emphasis based on what’s moving.
Nobody controls what an AI tool says, and anyone who promises you a guaranteed ChatGPT recommendation is selling something. What we can do is make your business the clearest, most trustworthy answer available, and measure whether it’s working.
AEO Questions We Hear Most
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
AEO is the work of making your business easy for AI tools to find, understand, trust and recommend. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overviews a question about your services, AEO improves the odds that your business is part of the answer.
Is AEO the same as GEO or AI search optimization?
Mostly, yes. Generative engine optimization (GEO), AI search optimization and AEO are different names for the same goal. The industry hasn’t settled on one term yet.
Do I need SEO before AEO?
In most cases, yes. Many AI tools pull from search engine results, and they all rely on the same foundation SEO builds. That’s why we offer them together as one [search optimization](/search-optimization/) service, with the emphasis adjusted to your business.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
No, and you should be wary of anyone who does. AI answers change often and nobody controls them. We improve the odds and track the results, so you can see what’s working.
How do you measure AEO results?
We run a baseline of the questions your clients ask across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, record who gets recommended and cited, and repeat it each quarter. You see where you appear, where competitors appear, and what changed.
Which AI tools does this cover?
The ones your clients are most likely to use, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews. The same groundwork helps across all of them.
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Our initial Web Presence Assessment is free and comes with zero sales pitch. Ask us to include a quick look at how you show up in AI answers.