Be the answer ChatGPT gives.

The work overlaps heavily, but the measurement, structure, and citation sources are different enough that ignoring them costs you. SEO optimizes for blue link rankings on Google. AEO and GEO optimize for whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews quote you in the synthesized answer, and that requires question-led structure, entity authority, and third-party citations that traditional SEO retainers rarely prioritize.

No honest provider can. LLM responses are non-deterministic, and the same prompt can return different brands run to run. What we can guarantee is a measurable lift in citation frequency across a tracked prompt library, plus monthly reporting that shows where you appear, where you do not, and which competitors are eating your share.

Foundational fixes like schema, content restructuring, and llms.txt land in the first 30 to 60 days. Real citation lift typically shows up in months two through six as third-party mentions, original data, and authority signals compound. Anyone promising faster is overselling.

Not with us. We run AEO, GEO, content, and traditional SEO on one integrated roadmap because most of the underlying work, like E-E-A-T signals, structured data, and authority building, helps both channels. Hiring a separate AEO retainer on top of an SEO retainer is how agencies double-charge for the same work.

We build a custom prompt library, run it weekly against each engine, and log citation share in a dashboard. For on-site attribution, we set up GA4 custom channel groups, parse referrers like chatgpt.com and perplexity.ai, and tag UTM-supported citations. Industry estimates suggest 20 to 40 percent of answer-engine referral traffic gets misattributed as direct, so we account for that gap.

That is the best time to start. Most B2B and local categories have light AEO competition, citation positions are still up for grabs, and 70 percent of organizations expect AEO to matter within three years while only 20 percent have started. Locking in citation share now is materially cheaper than clawing it back from a competitor in 2027.

No. Almost everything that helps answer engines cite you, like clear answers, schema, original data, and topical authority, also strengthens classic Google rankings. The exception is over-optimized question and answer stuffing, which we avoid. The work compounds across both surfaces.

We treat answer engines as one job, not two budgets. Our content, brand, SEO, and AEO teams ship under one roadmap with one dashboard, so the same brief that earns a citation in Perplexity also reinforces your topical authority on Google. We bring machine intelligence and human intelligence together to ship faster than a single-discipline shop and prove results with real citation data instead of vanity acronyms.