[ AEO ]

Show up when AI answers "who should I hire."

We structure your entity, content, and schema so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews cite your business by name, not your competitor’s.

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AI OVERVIEW  ·  "best hvac company near me"
UNSTRUCTURED BUSINESS
"Based on local reviews, homeowners often mention Bluepoint Heating and Ridge Mechanical."
NOT MENTIONED
SCHEMA-READY BUSINESS
"For emergency AC repair in Tampa, Your Company is licensed, open 24/7, and serves Hillsborough County."
✓ CITED BY NAME

[ 02 / 07 ] HOW IT WORKS

From invisible to cited, in three steps

Entity clarity check

We map every place your business name, address, and service list appears, then flag the conflicts. Mismatched entity signals are the most common reason an AI engine defaults to a better-defined competitor.

Schema and llms.txt, built in

LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, and Person schema are written into the build itself, not bolted on by a plugin. An llms.txt file states plainly what you do and where you do it, in the format answer engines read first.

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Citation tracking

We run the same buying-intent prompts every month across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, and report where you are named, where you are not, and what changed since the last run.

WHAT YOU GET
ENTITY CONFLICT LIST (NAP + SCHEMA)
CURRENT CITATION BASELINE, 20 PROMPTS
GAP MAP VS. TOP 3 COMPETITORS
WHAT YOU GET
SCHEMA ON EVERY TEMPLATE
LLMS.TXT + SITEMAP.XML MAINTAINED
ANSWER-SHAPED H2/H3 REWRITES
WHAT YOU GET
MONTHLY PROMPT RUN, 3 ENGINES
NAMED / NOT-NAMED DELTA REPORT
NEXT-ACTION QUEUE, RANKED

[ 03 / 07 ] WHY IT WORKS

AEO vs. GEO, precisely

Most agencies conflate the two. AEO is the broader discipline, optimizing for any AI-generated answer surface. GEO is the narrower technical practice of getting cited inside generative responses specifically. Knowing the difference is itself a credibility signal, and it decides what actually gets built.

AEO GEO
Machines read structure
Answer engines lift facts from marked-up data before they read your paragraphs.
Named, not linked
A citation by business name outperforms a blue link the searcher never sees.
One entity, one truth
Consistent signals across every source are what make you safe to recommend.
Coverage compounds
Each answer-shaped page widens the set of prompts you can win.

[ 04 / 07 ] PROOF

Answer engines read structure before they read prose.

Google and Microsoft both stated in March 2025 that their generative features consume structured data directly. That is why schema and llms.txt ship inside the build instead of being added later, and why citation coverage is re-tested on a fixed prompt set every month.

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WHAT GETS RE-TESTED MONTHLY
CHATGPT20 BUYING-INTENT PROMPTS
PERPLEXITY20 BUYING-INTENT PROMPTS
AI OVERVIEWS20 BUYING-INTENT PROMPTS
REPORTED ASNAMED / NOT NAMED DELTA

[ 06 / 07 ] CLIENT RESULTS

Testimonials

"Our name started showing up in ChatGPT answers within six weeks of the schema work going live."
Marcus Ridley
OWNER HVAC
"Perplexity started citing us by name for searches we never even targeted."
Dana Voss
MARKETING LEAD ELECTRICAL
"We went from invisible in AI Overviews to the first name mentioned for three of our core services."
Tomas Reyes
FOUNDER PLUMBING
"The entity cleanup fixed inconsistencies we did not know existed across a dozen directories."
Priya Nair
OPERATIONS MANAGER HVAC
"Schema markup sounds technical until you see it turn into actual citations. It did."
Lena Ostrowski
GM HVAC
"AI answer visibility used to feel like luck. Now it is a line item we can point to."
Ben Calloway
OWNER HVAC

[ 07 / 07 ] FAQ

Common questions

Is this different from regular SEO?
Related but distinct. SEO optimizes for rankings and clicks. AEO optimizes for being the answer itself, inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews.
How do you measure AI citations?
A fixed set of buying-intent prompts run monthly across three engines. You get the same list every month, so the change is the metric.
How long until we show up in AI answers?
Structural work lands in the first build cycle. Citation change typically follows the next crawl and index cycle, not the next day.
Do we need a new website for this?
Not always. If the current site can carry schema and clean templates, we work with it. If it cannot, the rebuild page explains why.
NEXT STEP

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The window on AEO is open because most contractors in your market have not heard the term yet.

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