Get your business cited & recommended on ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
Buyers no longer Google — they ask AI. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews now answer over a billion buyer questions per day. If your brand isn't in those answers, your competitors are getting your leads. We make sure AI search engines mention you — by name, with a link, as the recommended choice.
+58%
AI search queries YoY
73%
Trust AI answers
47%
Google searches show AI Overviews
ChatGPT · Live answer
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⚡ This is GEO in action
We make AI engines cite YOUR brand — by name, with a link — to high-intent buyer prompts.
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The Shift Is Already Happening
AI is quietly stealing your traffic — and your leads
Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Gemini now answer most buyer questions before a single blue link is clicked. Here's what every business owner is feeling right now:
Your traffic is dropping but rankings haven't moved — Google AI Overviews are eating your clicks
Competitors are getting mentioned in ChatGPT and you're not
Buyers ask AI before they ever Google you — and you're invisible there
Your SEO agency has zero strategy for AI search engines
The Traffic Migration
Search traffic is moving from Google to AI — fast
In 9 months, AI-driven discovery has gone from a rounding error to up to 70% of pre-purchase research in some industries. Brands that optimize for AI now will own the next decade of inbound leads. Brands that don't will quietly disappear.
- ChatGPT alone = 5B+ visits/month (Q3 2025)
- Google AI Overviews now appear on ~47% of US searches
- Click-through rates on traditional SERPs are down 34% YoY
Search behavior index (Google traditional vs AI engines)
What is GEO?
Generative Engine Optimization, explained simply
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — also called AI Search Optimization or Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) — is the practice of getting your brand, products and content cited inside the answers generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
Traditional SEO is about ranking #1 on a list of 10 blue links. GEO is about becoming the answer itself — the brand the AI mentions by name when a buyer asks a question. It's a completely different optimization stack: instead of backlinks and keywords, GEO is built on citations, brand mentions across training data, structured entities, and answer-shaped content.
When done correctly, GEO produces the highest-intent traffic on the internet. Why? Because AI engines only recommend a handful of brands per query — and users trust those recommendations. A single citation in ChatGPT for the prompt "best CRM for small business" can drive more qualified leads than ranking #3 on Google for the same term.
AI Search Results
Win the answer. Win the lead.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) results from clients we've made citable across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
73%
Share of AI citations
In tracked buyer prompts
8.4×
Branded query lift
From AI-driven discovery
+261%
AI-attributed leads
Within first 6 months
12 sec
Avg. answer placement
Top of generated response
B2B SaaS client — tracked across 240 high-intent buyer prompts.
The Old World vs The AI Era
How buyer behavior has fundamentally changed
Where We Get You Visible
Every major AI platform — covered
We optimize your brand presence across every AI engine your buyers use to research, compare and choose.
ChatGPT
800M+ weekly users. The #1 AI search destination.
Google AI Overviews
Now shown on 47% of Google searches. Replaces 10 blue links.
Gemini
Built into Google, Android & Workspace. 350M+ users.
Perplexity
The fastest-growing AI answer engine for B2B research.
Claude
Anthropic's assistant — preferred by professionals & devs.
Microsoft Copilot
Built into Bing, Windows, Edge & Microsoft 365.
Estimated weekly active users across AI search platforms (millions)
Our GEO Services
What we do to make AI engines recommend you
Six pillars of Generative Engine Optimization. Together they form the most advanced AI visibility stack available today.
AI-Optimized Content Architecture
Restructure your content using question-based H2s, direct definitions, statistics, and entity-rich passages — the exact patterns LLMs extract and quote.
Brand Mention & Citation Building
Get your brand mentioned on the high-authority sources LLMs train on — Reddit, Quora, G2, Capterra, industry forums, niche Wikipedia pages, and trusted publications.
Schema & Entity Optimization
Structured data, knowledge-graph entries, Wikidata, and entity disambiguation so AI engines understand exactly who you are and what you do.
AI Visibility Tracking
Daily monitoring of how often your brand is mentioned across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & Claude — for hundreds of buyer-intent prompts.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Optimize for Google AI Overviews and featured snippets with TL;DR boxes, FAQ schema, comparison tables, and crawlable answer formats.
LLM Prompt Targeting
We reverse-engineer the exact prompts your buyers use, then build the content, citations and authority signals that make AI recommend YOU.
Real Results
From invisible to cited everywhere — in 4 months
Sample client growth: monthly brand citations across the top 3 AI engines for 200+ buyer-intent prompts.
Monthly AI citations per platform
AI Visibility Score
82 / 100
vs. industry benchmark of 18
How To Thrive In The AI Era
The 5-step playbook to dominate AI search
Surviving the AI shift isn't about chasing every new model — it's about fundamentally re-engineering how your brand exists on the internet, so that any LLM trained on the open web naturally surfaces you. Here's the exact framework we deploy for every client:
- Prompt Discovery. We map the 200–500 buyer prompts your customers ask AI engines — from "best [your category]" to "alternatives to [competitor]" to deep technical evaluation queries.
- Visibility Audit. We test every prompt across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews to score where you appear, where competitors appear, and where the gap is biggest.
- Authority Engineering. We seed your brand into the sources LLMs actually trust — Reddit threads, Quora answers, G2/Capterra reviews, niche industry blogs, podcast transcripts, YouTube descriptions, Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Answer-Shaped Content. We rebuild your site with TL;DR summaries, comparison tables, FAQ schema, statistic-rich passages and entity-clear writing — the formats LLMs prefer to quote verbatim.
- Continuous Citation Monitoring. Weekly tracking of every mention across every AI engine, with rapid optimization cycles to defend wins and capture new prompts as buyer behavior evolves.
The result: within 90–120 days, your brand becomes the default recommendation across the AI engines your customers use — generating high-intent leads that your competitors literally cannot see in any analytics dashboard.
Lead Generation Examples
Real prompts. Real leads. Real revenue.
Examples of how being cited by AI engines turns into qualified pipeline.
Buyer asks AI:
"Best project management tool for remote teams under $20/user"
Get cited as a top-3 recommendation in ChatGPT & Gemini → 40+ qualified demo requests/mo from AI traffic
Buyer asks AI:
"Top-rated roofing companies in Austin TX with financing"
Featured in Google AI Overviews & Perplexity local answers → 28 quote requests/mo at $0 ad cost
Buyer asks AI:
"Safest non-surgical body contouring treatments near me"
Cited as authority source in ChatGPT health answers → 19% increase in branded search & consults
Buyer asks AI:
"Best sustainable running shoes for flat feet 2025"
Recommended by name in Perplexity shopping queries → 6.2× ROAS from AI-referred buyers
Buyer asks AI:
"Do I need a lawyer after a minor car accident in California?"
Cited as the legal authority in Gemini & Claude answers → 22 case inquiries/mo from AI traffic
Buyer asks AI:
"Best fee-only fiduciary advisor for tech employees with RSUs"
Top recommendation in ChatGPT & Perplexity wealth queries → $4.8M new AUM in 90 days
Find out what AI is saying about your brand — for free
We'll run 50+ buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity and send you a full AI Visibility Report — showing exactly where you appear, where your competitors win, and the fastest path to becoming the default answer.
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