AI Engine Optimization
Get found in
ChatGPT. Claude. Perplexity. Gemini.
Ranking #1 on Google matters less every quarter. More of your customers ask an AI first. AEO is the work of making sure those AI engines can find, understand, and cite your business — accurately — when they do.
Why it matters
Search is being rebuilt in real time.
Every business will need AI-engine visibility. The ones who set it up first will get cited by default.
~13%
of Google searches now trigger an AI Overview
and that number is climbing. Being cited in the AI answer is becoming as valuable as ranking #1 organically.
400M+
weekly ChatGPT users searching for local businesses
many with buying intent. If ChatGPT can't find you, you don't exist to them.
0
the number of AI engines that will crawl your site correctly by default
without llms.txt guidance. AEO is the difference between being visible to AI and being invisible.
What we deliver
Every AEO engagement includes:
→ llms.txt
A concise, machine-readable directory of your site's pages, published at your domain root. Tells AI engines exactly what your business does, what pages exist, and what each one is for — without them having to guess.
→ llms-full.txt
The full-content companion file. Structured markdown of every important page — services, locations, FAQs, about — extracted from your live site so AI answers stay grounded in reality.
→ Answer-oriented content
Existing pages restructured so an AI can extract clean answers. FAQ blocks, direct definitions, comparison tables — the formats AI engines actually cite.
→ Structured data (JSON-LD)
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, and Breadcrumb schemas so both traditional search and AI models can parse the facts of your business.
→ Cross-model presence audit
Baseline scan of how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini currently describe you (or don't). Repeated after work is deployed so you can see the shift.
→ Honest content, not hype
We deliberately exclude "24/7 guaranteed response," fabricated pricing, and unverifiable claims. AI engines reward citable, verifiable content — bluster gets ignored.
How we work
Grounded in your real business.
Every AEO file we ship — llms.txt, llms-full.txt, structured content — is generated from your live site's real data. Not template copy. Not made-up guarantees. Not phrases you never actually promised.
We deliberately exclude the stuff most AEO shops load up on: fake pricing, made-up response times, unverifiable “#1 rated” claims. AI models learn to ignore that content because it's not citable. The businesses they cite are the ones with clean, verifiable, well-structured facts.
That's the whole approach: make you the citable one.
Common questions
AEO FAQ
Is AEO different from SEO?
Yes. SEO optimizes for how Google's crawler indexes and ranks pages. AEO optimizes for how AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) extract and cite content in generated answers. The two are complementary — good SEO helps AEO, but AEO requires additional deliverables (llms.txt, answer-oriented structure) that traditional SEO doesn't cover.
How do you measure whether it worked?
We baseline how each major AI engine describes your business before we start, then re-test after deployment. You see the actual before/after — new citations, corrected facts, improved rankings inside AI answers. It's not a guarantee of first-position mentions, but it is a measurable shift.
Do I need to rebuild my website?
Usually no. AEO layers on top of an existing site. We can ship llms.txt, structured data, and content restructuring without touching your CMS or theme. If your site has fundamental issues (broken pages, no content, dead links) we'll flag them first — sometimes a small SEO cleanup is a better use of the budget than AEO on a shaky foundation.
How is AEO priced?
It's usually bundled into a website + SEO project as an included deliverable (part of the "Web + SEO + AEO" package). Standalone AEO for an existing well-built site is available as an add-on. We scope it flat — no ongoing retainer required.
Will AI engines actually respect llms.txt?
Adoption is uneven — some crawlers use it heavily, some ignore it. But the structured data and content restructuring we ship also work independently: an AI model that skips your llms.txt can still parse the JSON-LD and answer-formatted content. We build for both scenarios.
Curious how AI describes your business right now?
We can run a free cross-model presence scan — see how ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity describe you today, and what a proper AEO deployment would change.