See How AI Recommends Your Business

AI Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of optimizing your online presence so that AI-powered search engines and assistants — like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude — accurately recommend your business when users ask relevant questions. Unlike traditional SEO which focuses on ranking in search engine results pages, AEO focuses on being mentioned, cited, and recommended in AI-generated responses.

Traditional SEO optimizes for search engine results pages (SERPs) where users see a list of links. AEO optimizes for AI-generated answers where users receive a direct response that may or may not mention your business. While SEO focuses on keywords and backlinks, AEO emphasizes structured data, authority signals, content clarity, and the factors that help AI engines understand and trust your business enough to recommend it.

We analyze your business across the same signals that power ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude. AI engines don't invent answers — they draw from indexed web content, citations, reviews, directory listings, and structured data. Our audit measures your presence across those signals for 30 real prompts, giving you the visibility picture that translates directly to how these platforms respond when your customers ask about your business.

We test 30 prompts per audit. These are the real questions your potential customers are asking AI assistants — tailored to your industry, location, and services. You provide the prompts you want tested, or we can help you identify the most impactful ones during your onboarding.

Your initial audit is typically completed within 24 hours of submitting your prompts. Our team runs each prompt through our AI visibility engine — measuring the web content, citations, and entity signals that AI assistants pull from when they generate answers — then audits your website, researches competitors, and compiles everything into your interactive dashboard. More complex audits may take up to 48 hours.

Your AEO score is a composite metric from 0 to 100 that measures how well your business performs across AI search engines. It takes into account how often you appear in AI responses, how prominently you are mentioned, whether you are recommended as a top choice, and how you compare to competitors. A higher score means AI engines are more likely to recommend your business.

In most cases, yes — but the changes are strategic improvements that also benefit your traditional SEO. Common recommendations include adding FAQ pages, improving schema markup, creating service-specific landing pages, and publishing content that directly answers the questions your customers ask AI. We provide a prioritized action plan so you know exactly what to do first.

We recommend running audits monthly to track your progress. AI engines update their models and data sources frequently, so your visibility can change from month to month. A monthly audit gives you a clear picture of how your AI presence is improving as you implement content and technical changes.

During your demo call, we'll walk you through a full sample report so you can see exactly what you'll receive — including the interactive dashboard, platform heatmap, competitor analysis, and website content recommendations. Book a Demo to see it in action.

Any business that relies on being found by local customers benefits from AEO. This includes service-based businesses like plumbers, dentists, lawyers, and mechanics, as well as retail businesses, restaurants, and professional services firms. If your customers might ask an AI assistant for recommendations in your industry, AEO can help ensure your business appears in those recommendations.