AI SEO AGENCY · ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION · PAY PER RESULT
Your company cited in the AI answers your buyers read.
The result is agreed before we start: your brand cited for the buyer prompts that matter, tracked per engine in a report you can open any day.
- Cited above the incumbents for the prompts your category gets asked in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini.
- Buyers who arrive already sold on you, so demos and trials convert better.
- An AI search system you own: the pages, the schema, the citation layer and the weekly routine that keeps it compounding.
You only pay for results, and we stay on it with you until they arrive.
What does an AI search optimization agency actually do?
An AI search optimization agency gets a company named and cited in the answers that AI assistants give to buyers: Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. The work is answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization run as one system: the pages that answer the buyer's questions directly, the structured data that makes them extractable, the entity signals that tell the engines who you are, and the third-party corroboration that makes them trust it.
Most of what is sold under AI SEO today is classic SEO with a new label: keyword pages, backlinks, a report on rankings. Rankings are not the promise here. Being the company the answer names is.
StudioGTM builds The Citation Engine the way we build every part of a go to market engine: the buyer prompts mapped first, a baseline per engine, then the citation layer built on your own site and measured against that baseline, with the number yours to check.
Is AEO different from SEO, and do you need both?
Yes, and yes. Search engine optimization earns a position on a results page. Answer engine optimization earns a place inside the answer itself, where there is no page two and often no click. The engines read your site differently: they extract, they verify against other sources, and they favour direct answers over long introductions.
If you already work with an SEO agency, keep them. The Citation Engine sits on top of that work rather than replacing it: the same pages are rebuilt so they can be cited, the schema and entity layer are added, and the corroboration your SEO team never had a mandate for gets built.
What changes is the measure. We report share of answers per engine for the agreed prompts, not traffic. Traffic follows when the answer names you.
What gets built in the first 30 days?
Week one is the map: the prompts your buyers actually ask, grouped by stage, and a baseline of who each engine cites for them today. That baseline is the number everything is measured against.
Weeks two and three build the citation layer on your site: answer-first pages for the prompts that matter, structured data, the entity and corroboration work that lets the engines trust the source, and the technical access that lets AI crawlers read it.
Week four turns it into a routine: the weekly reading per engine, the next prompts to take, and the documentation so your team can run it, or we run it with you through the Run.
- 01
The prompt map
The questions your buyers ask AI assistants before they shortlist, grouped by stage, with who gets cited for each one today.
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The baseline per engine
Where you stand in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini before any work starts, so the result is measured, not claimed.
- 03
Answer-first pages and schema
Pages rebuilt so an engine can quote them: direct answers, question headings, structured data, and crawler access checked.
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The entity and citation layer
The signals that tell the engines who you are and the third-party corroboration that makes them trust it.
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The weekly reading
Share of answers per engine for the agreed prompts, in a report you can open any day, with the next moves listed.
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Documentation and handover
Everything written down as it is built. Your team can run it, or we run it with you. Leaving is always clean.
Frequently asked questions
Do you guarantee rankings?
No. Rankings are a page position; the result we agree is your company cited in AI answers for the buyer prompts we map together. That is what gets tracked and what you pay for.
How do you measure being cited?
Per engine, per prompt. We check the agreed prompts across Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, record which sources each answer cites, and report your share of answers against the baseline taken before the work started. The report is yours to open any day.
We already have an SEO agency. Does this replace them?
No. Keep them. The Citation Engine adds the layer classic SEO does not cover: answer-first pages, structured data, entity signals and third-party corroboration, measured by citations rather than positions. The two compound.
What does it cost?
You only pay for results. Here a result is your company cited in AI answers for the buyer prompts we agree before we start, tracked in a shared report so the number is yours to check. No retainers for effort. The specifics are walked through on the intro call once we know your market.
How fast do we see results?
The prompt map and baseline land first, the citation layer is live within the first month, and the weekly reading shows movement per engine from there. How quickly an engine picks up a new source depends on your category and the strength of the corroboration, so we report movement rather than promise dates.
What do you need from us?
One accountable owner, access to your site and analytics in the first week, and about two hours a week for decisions and reviews. We do the work.
Start the map from here.
Two short steps: who you are, then which company the Blueprint is for. We pick it up from there.