SERVICES / AI SEARCH

When buyers ask AI, be the answer.

Your buyers have stopped scrolling ten blue links. They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews, then act on the two or three brands the model names back. We engineer your content, entities, and authority so your brand is one of them.

4
AI ENGINES TRACKED
ALWAYS-ON
SHARE-OF-VOICE MONITORING
90 DAYS
TO FIRST CITATION WINS
OUR POINT OF VIEW

AI search is not a lighter version of SEO. Search is turning into a brand channel, where the winner is whoever the model trusts enough to name. That trust is earned off your own website, in the sources AI actually reads, and it compounds for whoever moves first.

(01)CAPABILITIES

What's included.

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AI Visibility Audit & Reporting

Know exactly how AI engines answer your buyers, tracked straight to revenue.

We run your buyers' real prompts through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews to baseline citation rate, share of voice, and sentiment accuracy. Ongoing reports track those metrics plus LLM referral conversions, tied to revenue, with a clear read on what changed and why.

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Answer & Generative Engine Optimization

We shape content so models quote you first.

We restructure content the way models read it: definition-first sentences, self-contained sections, and dense verifiable facts. AI cites specific passages rather than whole pages, so we optimize at the passage level, the exact unit a model can lift and attribute without guessing.

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SEO, Entity & Technical Foundations

One foundation that pays into Google rankings and AI answers.

Models reason about entities, so we make it unambiguous who you are and what you sell: schema, structured data, clean internal linking, and open crawl access for GPTBot and PerplexityBot. The same technical SEO and topical authority work lifts your Google rankings and feeds the models.

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Digital PR & Third-Party Authority

Most of the win is earned off your own domain.

AI trusts credible sources, so we build presence where the models look: earned press, review platforms like G2 and Trustpilot, Reddit and community threads, and the listicles engines quote back verbatim. Every placement is structured so a model can extract and attribute it cleanly.

(02)HOW WE WORK

The method.

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Baseline & Opportunity Audit

We map the prompts your buyers actually use across the funnel, then test them against every major AI engine to benchmark your citation rate and share of voice. In parallel we audit your content, entities, and technical setup for what is blocking retrieval. You leave this phase with a scored baseline and a ranked list of where the fastest wins are.

02
Foundation & Entity Fixes

We clear the technical blockers first: schema, structured data, crawl access for AI bots, and clean internal linking so models can parse who you are. This is the SEO and entity groundwork everything else stands on. It also lifts your traditional rankings while the AI work compounds.

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Content Engineering

We build and rewrite the pages, answers, and FAQs that target your highest-value prompts, structured passage by passage for retrieval and citation. Where a topic needs real expertise, a human writes it; where scale helps, we use AI with governance and QA so nothing off-brand ships. Every piece is written to be quoted and attributed.

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Authority & Digital PR

We earn the third-party signals models weigh most: press, reviews, community presence, and inclusion in the listicles AI quotes back. This is the supply chain for AI citations, and it is where durable advantage is built. Placements are structured for both machine extraction and human readers.

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Monitor, Report & Compound

We track citation rate, share of voice, sentiment, and LLM referral conversions, and feed what we learn back into the next cycle. AI search is an always-on program, so we run it on a steady deploy-and-measure rhythm. As your authority builds, the results compound and your lead becomes harder for competitors to close.

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(03)THE FIRST 90 DAYS

A plan, from day one.

DAYS 0-30
Baseline and blockers
We stand up your AI share-of-voice tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, and document your starting citation rate against named competitors. We audit content, entities, schema, and crawl access, then hand you a prioritized roadmap. You see exactly how AI describes you today and where the gaps are.
DAYS 31-60
Foundation and first content
We fix the technical and entity blockers, ship schema and structured data, and confirm AI bots can crawl you. The first batch of retrieval-ready content and answers goes live against your highest-value prompts. Early digital PR outreach begins to seed the sources models trust.
DAYS 61-90
Authority and first citations
Earned placements and reviews start landing in the sources AI reads, and we target first measurable citation wins on priority prompts. Reporting shows movement in share of voice and sentiment. We tune the roadmap based on which prompts and sources are converting.
(04)WHAT YOU GET

Deliverables that ship.

Your brand named and cited in AI answers for the prompts your buyers actually use.
A plain-English read on your AI share of voice across the four major engines.
A higher citation rate and more accurate sentiment in how models describe you.
Traditional SEO rankings and snippet wins that rise alongside your AI visibility.
Third-party authority in the sources AI trusts: press, reviews, and communities.
LLM referral traffic tracked to conversions and pipeline.
A FIT WHEN
  • You sell a considered purchase in B2B SaaS, ecommerce, or services, and buyers now research you through AI before they ever reach your site.
  • Your Google traffic is softening as AI Overviews answer the questions that used to send you clicks.
  • Competitors are getting named by ChatGPT or Perplexity for your category and you are not, or you have no idea either way.
  • You already invest in SEO and content and want to move first on AI search while the advantage is still cheap to claim.
(05)FAQ

Questions, answered.

SEO is optimizing to rank in a list of links on a results page. AEO, answer engine optimization, is getting your brand into the direct answer an AI gives, cited and recommended rather than ranked. GEO, generative engine optimization, is the broader craft of shaping how generative models like ChatGPT and Gemini retrieve, summarize, and attribute your content. In practice AEO and GEO overlap heavily, so we run them as one program built on an SEO foundation you still need. We use all three labels because buyers do, but the work is one connected system.

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