Getting read by AI is the easy part. Getting chosen is the work.
Our free tool makes your pages readable to AI — that part's a one-time fix. But being readable only puts you in the running. Getting picked as the answer, across all the ways your customers ask, takes ongoing work. That's what we do.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Google's AI for a business like yours, only about 1.2% of local businesses ever get named (SOCi 2026 Local Visibility Index). The other 98% are invisible at the exact moment a buyer is choosing. Closing that gap — consistently, across every engine — is the whole job.
Why readable isn't the same as chosen
When someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for a business like yours, it names a few out of everyone it could mention. Getting your pages readable puts you in that pool. Getting picked out of it comes down to two things: pages that answer the real questions people ask — in their words — and genuine signs that others vouch for you.
Most businesses have one decent page and nothing for the dozens of other questions buyers actually type into AI every day. A page can be perfectly readable and still be invisible for the forty questions it doesn't answer. Closing that gap is the whole job.
Being #1 on Google doesn't decide it either — most of the pages AI quotes aren't even in Google's top 10 results (see the research).
What we do each month
Done-for-you means we do the work — not hand you a list.
- Buyer-query research. We map exactly how your customers phrase questions to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity — in their words, not your product language. This is the Alignment work: 35% of citation likelihood and the only signal that beats domain authority (Discovered Labs, 2026, β=+0.37).
- New content pages, written and shipped. We write and structure pages that answer those queries as standalone, quotable citation units, and apply them to your site — several per month, prioritized by query value.
- Index coverage most agencies miss. Claude reads Brave, ChatGPT reads Bing, Gemini reads Google — three separate indexes. We make sure you're present in all of them. Being #1 on Google does nothing for the buyer asking Claude.
- Weekly citation monitoring across every engine. We test your target queries in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews every week and report what moved — because 74% of ChatGPT's cited sources rotate week to week (SISTRIX, 2026). Visibility is something you hold, not something you set once.
- A prioritized authority roadmap. For the off-site signals you have to earn — real reviews, genuine press, directory presence — we show you exactly where you're short and hand you the plan. We don't fake it; faked signals don't survive the next model update.
We won't fake it
Some agencies will offer to plant reviews or run fake accounts to make you look popular. We won't — and not just because it's dishonest. It doesn't last: AI changes what it trusts all the time, and anything faked can disappear overnight. We help you earn the real thing, on the platforms that count.
We use it on ourselves first
Everything we do runs on the SIGNALS method — the same one behind our free tool. We ran our own site through SIGNALS, scored 28/100, and took it to 71 in a single afternoon — every change documented. You can see exactly what we changed and why: here's the teardown.
What happens on a call
You've seen your audit — the call is where we go past it. We walk through what's actually keeping you from getting picked by AI, what the work to fix it looks like, and whether a retainer makes sense for you. If it's a fit, we'll show you how we'd run it. If it's not, we'll tell you straight.
One thing we're upfront about: AI doesn't change overnight. It takes a few weeks for the engines to pick up new work, and we track and report the whole way — so you can watch it happen.
Frequently asked questions
What does an AEO agency actually do each month?
Done-for-you AEO is a monthly research-and-writing process, not a one-time cleanup. Each month we map how your buyers actually phrase questions to ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity; write and ship new pages built to be quoted as the answer; make sure you're indexed across Brave, Bing, and Google (the three indexes AI engines read); and test your target queries weekly across every engine, reporting what moved.
How is this different from my current SEO agency?
Your SEO agency optimizes for Google's ranking algorithm — backlinks and domain authority. AEO optimizes for AI citation, which runs on different signals and different indexes entirely: Claude reads Brave, ChatGPT reads Bing, Gemini reads Google. Ranking #1 on Google no longer predicts whether AI names you — the overlap has collapsed to roughly 17% (Demand Local, 2026). We do the work that gets you cited, not just ranked.
Why can't I just use the free SIGNALS tool myself?
You can — and you should start there. The free tool and one-time plans make your existing pages readable to AI: structure, answer-first openings, FAQ, schema. That's necessary, but it doesn't make AI choose you over competitors. Being chosen is gated by Alignment (new content matching how buyers prompt AI — the dominant signal, 35% of citation-likelihood weight) and off-site authority you have to earn. The retainer does that ongoing work; a self-serve tool can't generate it for you.
How long until my business shows up in ChatGPT or Claude?
Two timelines. Once we ship changes, AI engines re-crawl and can surface your fixed pages within about two to six weeks. But being chosen over an established competitor on a contested query takes longer — it depends on new content matching how buyers ask, plus off-site authority that builds over time. We track citations weekly across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI so you can watch it move rather than guess.
Do you guarantee AI citations?
No — and anyone who guarantees AI citations is lying. AI engines rotate their sources constantly and weigh signals no single vendor controls. What we do is remove every structural and content reason you'd be skipped, then earn the real off-site authority that makes AI trust you. We don't fake reviews or mentions; faked signals don't survive the next model update. We give you the work and the roadmap, not a promise we can't keep.
Why does staying cited require ongoing work instead of a one-time fix?
Because AI doesn't lock in its sources. SISTRIX found ChatGPT rotates roughly 74% of its cited sources week to week (2026) — being named once is no guarantee you're named next week. Competitors publish, engines re-rank, and what gets quoted shifts constantly. Staying cited is maintenance: fresh content matching how buyers ask, ongoing authority-building, and weekly monitoring to catch drops. That continuous work is exactly what the retainer is for.
A free 20-minute call. We'll talk through what it would actually take to get you chosen by AI — and whether it's worth it for you. No pressure, no obligation.
Book a free strategy call →Built on published research — see the method. We hold our own site to the same standard: our teardown.