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AEO: Be the Business AI Recommends

Ask any AI assistant to recommend a med spa, an agency or a software tool - it names specific businesses. Those citations come from somewhere: structured content, consistent entity signals, third-party mentions and machine-readable sites. Answer Engine Optimization is the discipline of earning them.

This is search's biggest shift since mobile. AI Overviews now sit above traditional results, and a growing share of buying research finishes inside the answer - zero clicks, winner takes most. We make your business legible to the machines doing the recommending: schema depth, llms.txt, answer-first content, citation-source coverage and entity consistency across the web.

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In Plain English

People now ask an AI assistant "who is the best roofer near me?" We make sure the answer includes YOUR business. Almost none of your competitors are doing this yet.

Benefits

What this does for your business

  • AI citation engineering. Content structured in the formats AI engines quote: direct answers, stats, comparisons.
  • Entity & schema depth. Your business described consistently and machine-readably everywhere it appears.
  • Bing-first indexing. Bing powers several major AI assistants - we optimize where AI actually reads.
  • AI visibility tracking. Monthly monitoring of how AI assistants, AI search engines and AI Overviews describe and recommend you.
How It Works

From kickoff to live

AI visibility baseline

We document what every major AI assistant currently says (or does not) about your business.

Structural overhaul

Schema, llms.txt, answer-format content and entity cleanup across the web.

Measure & expand

Citation tracking, gap-filling content and third-party mention building.

FAQ

Show Up in AI Answers (AEO) - common questions

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
AEO is optimizing your online presence so AI systems - AI assistants and AI-powered search - understand your business and cite or recommend it in their answers. It overlaps with SEO but adds machine-readability, entity consistency and answer-formatted content.
How do I check my current AI visibility?
Ask major AI assistants the questions your customers would ask ("best [service] in [city]", "[your business name] reviews"). If you are absent, wrong or outdated in the answers, you have an AEO gap - we run this baseline audit formally as step one.
Is AEO separate from SEO or the same thing?
They share a foundation - good content, schema, authority. AEO adds specific layers: llms.txt, answer-first formatting, Bing optimization (it feeds major AI assistants), and tracking how AI models describe you. Doing SEO without AEO in 2026 is optimizing for half the search landscape.
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