AEO is the practice of structuring your content and data so AI answer engines cite your business as the answer — not bury it on page two of links no one clicks anymore.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the discipline of making your content easy for AI systems — ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot — to understand, trust, and cite when they answer a customer's question. Traditional SEO earns a ranking in a list of links. AEO earns a citation inside the answer itself. The two work together: strong technical SEO gets you into the pool of sources the AI reads, and AEO determines whether you're the one it names.
Order millions of pages. Compete for position.
Read thousands of pages. Write one answer. Name a few sources.
AI engines lift short, self-contained passages — often 130–170 words — that answer a question directly. We open sections with the answer instead of burying it under a story.
FAQ, HowTo, Product, and organization schema give machines unambiguous meaning. It doesn't guarantee a citation, but it clarifies what you are and what you answer.
A consistent business profile across the web, real author expertise, and named data points make you a source AI engines trust enough to credit.
Statistics, clear definitions, and concrete detail get cited far more than vague marketing copy. We write to be quoted.
A large share of AI citations for commercial queries come from pages updated within the last year. We keep your high-value pages current.
Different engines favor different formats — clean lists for some, original data and citations for others. We optimize across the surfaces your customers actually use.
When a prospective patient or client asks an AI assistant for a recommendation, there's no page of ten links to climb. The assistant reads the web, writes a short answer, and names one or two businesses. AEO is the work that puts you in that sentence.
Test how AI sees you →The citation is the new first place.
We'll run your key queries through the major AI engines and show you who gets cited today, and how to make it you.