GEO & AEO services

Visibility for the AI-driven buyer.

A managed program that makes AI systems cite you: weekly citation tracking across five engines, competitor gap analysis with names attached, and the content, schema, and entity work that flips the cells from missed to cited.

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AI citation matrix — live
78% cited
AI OverviewChatGPTPerplexityClaudeGeminibest crm for small agencies+++×+how to sell a dental practice+×++·top hvac companies in austin×++++saas pricing benchmarks 2026++·+×is invisalign worth it+×+++
5 engines · 42 priority querieschecked 2 min ago

The program: a loop, not a launch.

01

Track

We build your query portfolio — the real questions buyers ask AI assistants, from sales calls and support tickets, tagged by intent and priority.

02

Check

Weekly automated checks across all five engines, logging every citation and every miss — including who got cited instead of you.

03

Act

Gaps become a prioritized build queue: answer-first pages, schema, entity cleanup, freshness passes, and off-site corroboration.

04

Report

Monthly narratives grounded in the data: citation rate deltas, wins and losses by name, and next month's plan with expected impact.

What you get every month.

Everything grounds in checks we actually run — real buyer questions, put to five engines, week after week. No estimated “AI visibility scores,” no black boxes.

The methodology is public in our GEO field guides — starting with the working guide. We’d rather you judge the thinking before you pay for it.

  • +Query portfolio (30–60 real buyer questions, reviewed quarterly)
  • +Weekly citation matrix across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini
  • +Competitor citation leaderboard and gap diagnosis
  • +Content briefs and implementation: answer-first pages, comparison tables, schema
  • +Schema implemented end to end via Tag Manager — no developers needed; you direct, we execute
  • +Entity cleanup across your site and third-party profiles
  • +Dev-ready requirements docs on every technical change: background, problem, goal, estimated impact
  • +Monthly report: citation rate, share of voice, work completed, plan

The quiet weapon

Schema: the part most agencies skip.

Structured data is how you state facts in the format machines were built to read — and AI engines lean on it harder than classic search ever did. Most marketing teams have never touched it. We handle the whole chain: map your site’s data to schema, validate it, and deploy through Tag Manager. No developers needed — you direct, we execute.

+108%

organic clicks after schema deployment

+50%

rich-result presence on target pages

From past client engagements. Results vary by company and industry — treat these as what’s possible, not what’s promised.

How we work

A proactive partner, not just an agency.

Proactive by default

We don't wait for you to ask. Strategies, findings, and updates come to you — you'll never have to chase your own agency for a status.

Slack with your team

We integrate into your Slack so you can talk to us every day, not once a month through an account manager.

Month-to-month contracts

Needs change fast. Our contracts are built to bob and weave with you — give us 30 days' notice and we shift gears, no hostage clauses.

Sprints synced to yours

Two-week sprint meetings matched to your team's cycle, so our work lands inside your pipeline instead of next to it.

Impact on every line item

Every recommendation ships with estimated impact — and dev-ready requirements docs: background, problem, goal, expected result. Your engineers know exactly where it fits.

Revenue, not vanity metrics

Businesses run on money. We prioritize by what moves pipeline — not impressions, not clicks, and not a prettier dashboard.

Common questions

What's the difference between GEO and AEO?
They overlap heavily and the industry uses them loosely. GEO (generative engine optimization) targets generative systems — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude — while AEO (answer engine optimization) targets answer surfaces like Google AI Overviews and featured snippets. In practice we run one program: the same measurement loop and mostly the same fixes win both.
How do you measure results?
Citation rate over repeated weekly checks: of your priority buyer questions, what share cite you on each engine, trended over time, plus share of voice against named competitors. Single checks are noise — engines answer the same question differently across runs — so everything reports as a trend.
How long until we see movement?
Faster engines (Perplexity, ChatGPT browsing) can pick up a genuinely better page within days to weeks. Google AI Overviews follow Google's index and move slower. We tell clients to expect first citation movement inside 60 days on at least one engine, with the caveat that nobody can guarantee non-deterministic systems.
Do you replace our SEO agency?
Not necessarily. Classic technical SEO still matters — every AI engine rides on a search index. If you have a solid SEO program, we add the citation layer on top and coordinate. If you don't, we cover the fundamentals as part of the work.
What are your contract terms?
Month-to-month, modular by design. Priorities change fast and our contracts are built to bob and weave with you — 30 days' notice and we shift gears or part ways, no lock-in. We'd rather earn the renewal every month than write it into the paper.

Get started

The engines are already
answering for you.

Tell us what you’re trying to get cited for — or what we should build. We’ll come back with a baseline and a fixed-scope plan, usually within a week.

or email jeremy@meetcrescendo.com