AEO & AI search
Be the answer when customers ask AI
Your customers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews for recommendations. I help small businesses get mentioned, cited and described accurately in those answers.
AEO (answer engine optimization) is the practice of making your business show up inside AI-generated answers. I check how AI tools currently describe you, find the questions your customers ask them, and fix the gaps: clear content, consistent brand information across the web, structured data, and pages AI tools can easily read and quote.
This is for you if…
- You want to know what ChatGPT says when someone asks about your industry
- Competitors show up in AI answers and you don’t
- AI tools describe your business incorrectly, or not at all
- You want to get ahead while most small businesses are still ignoring this
What’s included
What we’ll work on together
AI visibility check
I test the real questions your customers ask across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews, and record who gets mentioned and cited.
Prompt & question map
The conversational questions behind your sales, grouped by stage, so you know which answers you need to be part of.
Answer-ready content
How to structure pages with direct answers, clear definitions, comparisons and FAQs that AI tools can quote accurately.
Brand consistency across the web
AI models learn about you from reviews, directories, profiles and partner sites. I find inconsistencies and gaps to fix.
Technical AI readiness
Crawler access for AI bots, structured data, llms.txt, fast server-rendered pages and Bing indexing (which feeds ChatGPT search).
Tracking that makes sense
A simple way to monitor AI mentions over time and connect AI-referred visits to real enquiries and sales.
What you walk away with
Deliverables you keep, forever.
Everything is yours: documents, data and know-how. No lock-in, no black box.
- AI visibility report: where you appear today, and where competitors do
- Prioritized question map for your business
- Page-by-page recommendations to become “answer-ready”
- Brand consistency checklist (profiles, reviews, directories)
- Technical checklist: crawler access, schema, llms.txt and Bing
Frequently asked questions
What is AEO?
AEO stands for answer engine optimization. It’s the practice of helping your business appear in answers generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews, so that when someone asks for a recommendation, your business is mentioned or cited.
Is AEO different from SEO?
They overlap a lot. Both need a fast, trustworthy, well-structured website. SEO focuses on ranking pages in search results; AEO focuses on being included and accurately described in AI answers, which also depends on what the rest of the web says about you.
Is AEO the same as GEO?
Mostly, yes. GEO (generative engine optimization) and AEO are two names for the same goal: visibility in AI-generated answers. You may also hear “AI SEO” or “LLM optimization.”
Can you guarantee my business will appear in ChatGPT?
No one can guarantee that. AI answers change and vary by user. What I can do is remove the obstacles, strengthen the signals AI tools rely on, and measure progress over time.
Got a small idea with big plans?
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