Get cited by AI, not just ranked by Google

What this actually is

Traditional SEO earns you a position in a list of blue links. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) earn you a mention inside the answer itself — the paragraph ChatGPT writes, the summary at the top of Google, the sourced response Perplexity returns.

The distinction between the two is thinner than agencies pretend: AEO focuses on structuring your content so a model can extract a clean factual answer from it, GEO focuses on building enough consistent presence across the web that models treat you as a consensus source. In practice they are one job, and we price them as one.

Rate card

Market rates from published 2026 AEO/GEO pricing research. Most agencies keep prices private; ours are on this page.

What llms.txt is, plainly

It is a plain text file at the root of your domain — like robots.txt, but written for language models rather than crawlers. It tells an AI what your business is, what you offer, and which pages carry the authoritative answers. Models that support it read it before they read your site.

It takes an hour to write properly and it is the cheapest thing on this page. It is also where most of the "AI SEO" industry stops — which is why most of it does not work.

The half that actually moves the needle

Adding schema and an llms.txt is the table-stakes half. The expensive, effective half is off-site: being mentioned in the places models pull their answers from. AI engines weight source authority heavily, so a single citation on a strong publication can outweigh a great deal of on-site tidying.

This is why AEO work overlaps so heavily with link building — the same placements that earn ranking authority earn AI citations. An agency selling you AEO by adding schema alone is doing a fraction of the job.

What we do, in order

• Prompt audit — what do the models say today when someone asks a buying question in your category?
• Entity cleanup — your business name, address, description and category should be identical everywhere. Models look for consensus; inconsistency reads as uncertainty
• Structure — llms.txt, schema, FAQ blocks, and content rewritten so a direct answer sits in the first two sentences under each heading
• Crawler access — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended explicitly allowed. Many sites block them by accident
• Off-site citation building — placements and mentions on sources the models already trust
• Monthly re-testing — the same prompt set, tracked over time, so you can see movement rather than take our word for it

Honest expectations

First movement in AI visibility typically shows in 30 to 60 days. Meaningful, consistent citation takes three to six months. Nobody controls what a language model says, and any agency claiming guaranteed placement in AI answers is selling something that does not exist.