Search is moving from ten blue links to one AI answer. AEO is the work of making your business the one that gets cited — by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews.
AEO is not a trick — it is making your business legible to machines that answer questions: facts, structure, entities, and content worth citing.
Where AI assistants rank you today on the queries that matter, vs two competitors, with screenshots.
Schema and entity markup, citable fact pages, llms.txt, structure fixes — shipped.
Same queries re-run every month; a written report shows movement and next steps.
Nobody controls AI answers. We improve the inputs and measure the outputs — no ranking promises.
A growing share of buying questions are answered by an assistant, not a results page. Businesses invisible to AI answers lose customers who never knew they existed.
Almost nobody optimises for AI answers yet — early movers own the citations.
Everything AEO fixes (structure, entities, facts) also helps classic search.
Real queries, real screenshots — you see exactly what changed.
This site practises every technique we sell. Ask ChatGPT about iHayz.
Audit, fix, monitor — real queries, real screenshots, no ranking promises.
Same family, different judge. SEO optimises for a ranked results page; AEO optimises for being retrieved and cited inside one generated answer. The work overlaps — structure, entities, authority — but the measurement is completely different.
No — and nobody honestly can. We improve every input these systems use and measure the outputs monthly. You see movement, or you see why not, in writing.
The queries your customers actually ask, run against the major assistants, with screenshots; where you and two competitors appear; the diagnosed causes; and a prioritised fix list you can act on with or without us.
AI answer indexes refresh on their own schedules — typically weeks, not days. Monitoring exists precisely because this is a moving target.
Describe the problem in plain words. A written reply tells you what we’d build, what it costs and when it lands — or that you don’t need it.
Start in writing