ChatGPT 900M weekly active users
The largest single surface where buyers ask which vendor to pick.
OpenAI, Feb 2026AEO Strategy
Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Most brands rank well on Google and still go missing from AI answers. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews pick sources based on entity trust, technical architecture, and content structure. This is the system that changes that.
AI Search Visibility Last 90 days
Brand mentions 1,284
AI citations 247
Avg. cited pages 3.4
Visibility by engine 
THE SHIFT
Search changed.
The strategy must too.
When a founder asks an AI engine which vendor to trust, they are not getting ten blue links. They get one answer, with one or two sources cited. That is the moment your brand either exists or it does not.
The brand that gets named is not the one with the best product. It is the one with the clearest technical architecture and the most entity-consistent content, which is what AEO is built to fix. It runs alongside SEO, not instead of it: the same cluster that earns rankings earns citations.
ChatGPT 
Google AI Overviews ~50% of US queries return one
Weights E-E-A-T and structured data more heavily than any other engine.
Google Perplexity 780M searches per month
Leans on freshness. Stale pages drop out of its answers fast.
Perplexity CEO, Jun 2025 Microsoft Copilot 20M paid enterprise seats
Runs on Bing, so Bing indexation is not optional here.
Microsoft earnings, Apr 2026 Claude 300K+ business customers
Rewards verifiable credibility and a non-promotional tone.
Anthropic Grok 117M monthly users (est.)
Reads real-time web and X signals, so recency carries unusual weight.
Third-party estimate 01 06
MY AI SEO PROCESS
How I convert AI visibility
into qualified leads.
Answer Engine Optimization only earns its keep when it brings you buyers. Before I open a single tool, I learn how you make money, who buys, and what they are up against. Everything after that is built to bring you leads with AI rankings.
01 Foundation Discovery · buyer · intent
Business brief Reading
Revenue modelSubscription + services
Sales pipeline4 stages · 62-day cycle
Growth goal3x qualified pipeline
01
Learn how you earn
I go deep on your product, your sales pipeline, and where you want the business a year out. If I cannot see how a lead becomes revenue, I am not ready to write your strategy.
Budget owner High intent Comparing vendors Pain: rising CAC
02
Map your buyer
Who buys, what they struggle to solve, how their market moves. I take the full picture end to end, so the plan is built for a person, not a search-volume chart.
03
Pick keywords that bring leads
I read demand and buyer intent in the tools, then choose a deliberate mix: high-intent easy wins with almost no volume, commercial queries that convert, and enough reach to compound. I build for pipeline from day one, because the brand mentions that earn AI citations earn leads too.
Filtering 340 queries
Scored buyer intent
Weighed value vs difficulty
Kept commercial + easy wins
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02 On-site build Technical · content
04
Fix the technical backbone
Technical SEO is the backbone of AI visibility, so I am blunt about it. Core Web Vitals, a lean tech stack, crawl budget spent where it counts, and a site that agentic AI bots can reach and read. The repetitive work gets automated, like sitemaps that keep themselves current.
$run audit
LCP 1.8s · INP 120ms · CLS 0.02
robots.txt · AI bots allowed
Bing index · 1,240 pages
sitemap · auto-updating
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Content pillars+ KGR picks
Comm. Info. BOFU MOFU
05
Build content pillars with intent
Clusters tied to your buyer: commercial, informational, BOFU and MOFU, in the mix your market needs, with Keyword Golden Ratio picks for fast wins. That is how topical authority turns into a recommendation.
Answer-first page
06
Write for people, structure for machines
First-hand expertise and E-E-A-T, written to be read by a person and cited by a machine. On-page SEO and AEO go in together, never as an afterthought.
03 Off-site & scale Distribute · measure · sustain
Distribution+ outreach
38 links on pages LLMs cite
07
Distribute and earn off-site authority
Your content goes where buyers and models both look. Social distribution to build presence, plus targeted outreach and links on the pages LLMs already cite in your category.
Pipeline impactLive
164leads / mo
Brand mentions 1,284
08
Track what pays
Rankings and AI visibility get watched. Brand mentions and real pipeline lead the report, and the data points to where we scale next.
09
Refresh before it fades
AI search rewards recent pages, so I update your content on a schedule, before its rankings soften. One story stays consistent on the site and everywhere off it, because when models find conflicting signals, they stop recommending you.
Content freshnessUpdated 2d ago
decaying92% fresh
Refreshed stats and examples
Re-verified every citation
Re-submitted to the index
10 Knowledge graph build
One entity every engine can trust
Everything above resolves into one knowledge graph: a single, consistent identity the models can recognise, connect, and cite. When your brand, your sources, and your content all say the same thing, you become the answer, not a link under it.
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SERVICES
Everything it takes
to get you cited.
Each service maps to one goal: your brand named when buyers ask AI, and the pipeline that follows.
Audit
AI Visibility Audit
Where your brand shows up, and where it does not, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot and Grok, for the queries your buyers actually ask.
Start with thisEntity and Schema
Person, Organization and Product schema with sameAs signals, so the models can identify you before they cite you.
Start with thisAnswer-First Content
Built on real expertise, written so a person understands it and a model can quote it, structured to rank on Google and get named in AI answers.
Start with thisTechnical AI Access
Core Web Vitals, crawl budget, Bing indexation and AI bot access, so the engines can read what you publish.
Start with thisOff-Site Authority
Targeted outreach and links on the pages LLMs already cite in your category, plus presence where buyers compare vendors before they visit your site.
Start with thisContent Refresh
Monitoring for decay and updating what is slipping, because AI search rewards recent pages and so does Google.
Start with thisTracking and Reporting
Your brand across the engines every month, with brand mentions and pipeline impact, so the data decides what to do next.
Start with thisAI SURFACES
Where your buyers ask,
compare, and decide.
I track, optimise, and earn citations across the AI surfaces that already shape your shortlist, so your brand shows up at the moment buyers choose.
01 Conversational
ChatGPT Where most buyers start a vendor question.
02 Conversational
Gemini Wired straight into Google's own ecosystem.
03 Conversational
Claude Leaned on for considered, high-stakes research.
04 Answer engine
Perplexity Cites its sources on every single answer.
05 Work assistant
Copilot Sits inside the tools your buyers use all day.
06 Social AI
Grok Real-time, tied into the conversation on X.
07 Open model
DeepSeek Fast-growing, and powering a wave of new tools.
08 Search overlay
AI Overviews Sits on top of the searches you already rank for.
VERIFIED AEO RESULTS
Real outcomes,
measured in AI.
Pulled from Bing Webmaster and GA4 on live client work. AI citations from zero, and the leads that follow.
SaaS platform · Australia
0 → 237 organic leads from AI
In three months, from zero AI presence when I started. Every lead tracked in GA4 as AI-sourced traffic.
See the work 30+ brands made AI-visible USA · UK · Germany · Australia
8.2K AI citations B2B services · USA · from zero, 3 months
2.8K AI citations Logistics · Germany · from zero, 3 months
5.3K AI citations SaaS platform · Australia · 3 months
2-3 days to first citation as fast as, on a clean build
AI citation volumes are Microsoft Copilot data from Bing Webmaster Tools; totals across all engines run higher. Leads tracked in GA4. Client names withheld under NDA. See the full case studies.
FAQ
Your questions,
answered.
Yes, within reason. AI engines name brands they can identify, trust, and read cleanly. I build exactly those signals: consistent entity data, content a model can quote, and mentions on the sources engines already pull from in your category. No one can promise a specific engine names you on a specific day, but I can make you the obvious answer to the questions your buyers ask.
SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. AEO gets your brand named inside the AI answer itself, on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and the rest. Same technical foundation, a different surface. You do not choose between them: the same content cluster that ranks on Google earns the citation in AI.
First citations usually appear in 30 to 90 days if your site already has some authority, longer on a new domain. The quickest wins come from removing what blocks you today: AI bots shut out in robots.txt, no Bing indexation, no entity schema. Those get fixed first because they move the needle fastest.
No. Most of the gain comes from work that never touches your design: opening AI bot access, getting indexed by Bing, adding entity schema, and rewriting a handful of pages so the answer comes first. A redesign is rarely what is holding you back.
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek. Each weighs signals differently, so I track your brand across all of them every month and work wherever the gap is, not one engine in isolation.
I track your brand across the engines for your real buyer queries, checked by hand against live answers, alongside brand mentions and the leads that follow in GA4. You see which engines cite you, for which questions, and how that turns into pipeline. Rankings are the byproduct, not the goal.
No, the fundamentals hold everywhere: B2B services, logistics, health tech, ecommerce, SaaS, local businesses. What changes is the buyer query set and which sources each field's answers pull from. I have made brands visible across the US, UK, Germany and Australia.
Find out where you stand
with AI engines today.
The audit covers your current AI citation gaps, Bing indexation, AI bot access, entity schema, and a prioritised fix list. Free, no commitment, replied within 4 hours.