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AEO explained: being the business AI answers cite

Search is shifting from ten links to one generated answer. What AEO is, what we can and cannot promise, and what the $99 audit includes.

What changed

A growing share of buying questions are answered by an assistant — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews — not a results page. Businesses invisible to those answers lose customers who never knew they existed.

AEO vs SEO

Same family, different judge. SEO optimises for a ranked page; AEO optimises for being retrieved and cited inside one generated answer. The work overlaps — structure, entities, authority — but the measurement is different.

The $99 audit

Your customers' real queries run against the major assistants, with screenshots; where you and two competitors appear; the diagnosed causes; a prioritised fix list you can act on with or without us.

The sprint and monitoring

Schema and entity markup, citable fact pages, llms.txt and structure fixes — shipped and re-measured. Monitoring re-runs the same queries monthly with a written report.

The honest ceiling

Nobody controls AI answers. We improve every input these systems use and measure the outputs. You see movement, or you see why not — in writing.

Questions

How long until results show?

AI answer indexes refresh on their own schedules — typically weeks, not days. That is exactly why monitoring exists.

Still a question? Ask in writing.

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.

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