Search Engine Optimization
Getting found on the classic Google results — the blue links and the map pack. Still where most local searches start.
AI visibility · AEO / GEO
When customers ask AI "who's the best near me?" — be the answer.
Your customers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI who to call. AI visibility makes you the answer — measured honestly.
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The shift already happened
This isn't the future. It's this year.
45%
800M
−25%
When Google shows an AI summary, clicks to the open web nearly halve — 15% → 8% (Pew, 2025). The question is no longer whether you rank — it's whether you're named.
Under the hood
How AI decides who to recommend.
An assistant doesn't guess. It names the business with the strongest, cleanest signals — and those aren't a black box. They're things you can build.
- Reputation — review volume, ratings, recency, and how you respond. 97% of consumers read reviews before choosing.
- Consistency — the same name, address, services, and hours everywhere AI looks.
- Readability — a site structured so a machine can quote you with confidence.
Your business
- Reputation★ 4.9 · 214 reviews94
- ConsistencyName, address & hours matched · 14 sources89
- Readability12 schema types an AI can quote86
Strong, clean signals → named first in the answer.
AI doesn't take your word for it — it leans on reviews, mentions, and third-party sources. In one study, only 6–27% of the most-talked-about brands were the ones AI actually cited (Semrush, 2025) — yet optimizing for AI answers can lift visibility up to 40% (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024).
Our method, in the open
Tracked as a trend — not a one-off screenshot.
AI answers shift run to run — so we never promise a fixed spot. We track the trend instead:
- 1Fixed prompts, real buyer intent — the questions your customers actually ask.
- 2Run across the engines on a rolling four-week window (answers vary, so we average).
- 3Report your rising share of mentions as a trend — never a one-off screenshot.
Reported alongside your calls, bookings, and rankings — with a change log of every move.
6%→34%over six months
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Example only — your trend depends on your market and starting point. We never present a single screenshot as proof.
Plain English
SEO, AEO, GEO — what they actually mean.
Three acronyms, one goal: be the business people are pointed to. Here's the difference without the jargon.
Answer Engine Optimization
Getting named when someone asks an assistant a question and gets one answer back — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google’s AI Overviews.
Generative Engine Optimization
The same idea, the term some people prefer for AI/generative search. We treat AEO and GEO as one job: be the business AI recommends.
What we actually do
No AI magic. Just the work that makes AI trust you.
You can't prompt your way to being recommended. AI names whoever has the strongest real-world signals — so that's what we build.
- 01
Make your business machine-readable
Clean schema, consistent name/address/phone, services, and hours across your site and listings — so an AI can read who you are and trust it.
- 02
Build the signals AI leans on
Reviews, your Google Business Profile, and citations on the third-party sources these models pull from — because being talked about isn’t enough; AI has to cite you.
- 03
Write answer-first content
Pages that answer the questions buyers ask — structured so an assistant lifts a clean, quotable answer that names you, not a competitor.
- 04
Monitor the engines every month
We run real buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity each month, and track how often you’re named over time.
Real questions
Is this real? Fair question.
Is "getting found on AI" actually a real thing, or marketing hype?
It’s real and measurable. 45% of consumers used AI to find a local business this year, up from 6% — and who gets named tracks the same signals as local search: reviews, structured data, authority. A free check shows where you stand.
Can you guarantee I’ll be the one AI recommends?
No — anyone who guarantees a specific AI answer or a #1 ranking is selling you something. AI answers vary run to run. What we can do: build the signals that make you far more likely to be named, and report your rising share of mentions over time, honestly.
Which AI engines do you optimize for?
The ones your customers actually use: Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — plus Perplexity for monitoring. The underlying work (trustworthy signals, clean structure, answer-first content) helps across all of them, not just one.
How is this different from regular SEO?
It’s the same foundation extended one step. Classic SEO gets you into the links and the map pack; AEO/GEO gets you named inside the single answer AI hands back. We do both, because most local searches still start on Google — but more and more end on an AI answer.
Where do these numbers come from?
Every statistic on this page is from a named, public source — Pew Research, Gartner, BrightLocal, Semrush, OpenAI, and peer-reviewed research — linked in “The research behind this” below. We don’t expect you to take our word for it.
The receipts
The research behind this page.
We don't expect you to take our word for it. Every claim above traces to a named, public source.
- Pew Research Center2025 Google users are less likely to click when an AI summary appears
- Gartner2024 Search engine volume will drop 25% by 2026 (forecast)
- BrightLocal2026 Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 — AI & trust
- Semrush2025 AI Search Visibility Study — what AI engines cite
- Aggarwal et al.2024 GEO: Generative Engine Optimization (KDD 2024)
- Adobe2025 Generative-AI shopping traffic & consumer survey
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