SEO optimizes for ranking in a list of search results. AEO optimizes for being the source an AI engine cites directly in its answer — a different, additional set of technical signals: schema markup, entity clarity, and structured answer content that AI systems can extract and quote with confidence.
Most clients see initial AI citation changes within 6–14 days of implementation. Every engagement includes a 30-day verification report showing exactly which engines now cite you and for which queries.
We track citation frequency across up to 8 AI engines, the specific queries that trigger those citations, and before/after schema coverage. You get the same data we use internally — not a vanity dashboard.
For the Intelligence tier, we hand your team a prioritized implementation roadmap they can execute directly. For Implementation and Management, we make the changes ourselves and coordinate with your team on deploys — no plugin dependencies, no black-box tooling left behind.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, and DeepSeek. Each has slightly different citation behavior, which is why tracking happens per-engine, not as a single blended score.
Yes — local and service-area businesses are one of the fastest-moving categories in AI search, since AI engines increasingly answer "who does X near me" queries directly. Local implementation includes location entity data and service-area schema specific to that use case.
Primarily by page count — Starter covers up to 10 pages, Professional up to 30, Enterprise up to 100. Sites with unusual complexity (large catalogs, multi-location structures) are scoped individually before a quote.
You decide. Some clients stop there with a fully implemented site. Others move into Management for ongoing monitoring, since AI engines' citation behavior shifts as their models and retrieval systems update.
Access ($39/mo) tells you who's crawling your site right now — verified vs. suspicious vs. spoofed AI bots, with per-request logs and allow/block/redirect controls. Visibility ($99/mo) tells you what AI actually says about you — a monthly citation check across the engines we test, compared against competitors, with one prioritized fix. Access is about being reachable; Visibility is about being recommended.
A person checks it. Every Visibility cycle is manually re-run and reviewed each month, the same way our one-time Intelligence audits are today — not a live dashboard pulling from an automated pipeline. You get a real report from someone who looked at the actual results.
Pro ($199/mo) is built for agencies and multi-site teams — higher query volume, more competitors, API/export, white-label reporting, and team access. Those require real engineering work we haven't shipped yet, so we're not selling it until it's actually built. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when it's live.
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