Answer engine optimization for small businesses
Answer engines don't show ten links. They give one answer. AEO is the work of being in it: content that answers the question outright, structured data that hands machines your facts, and weekly checks of what the engines actually say. We do that work for local and small businesses, from $99 a month.
Why "the answer" is the new front page
When someone asks an AI assistant "who should I call for a burst pipe?" or "which dentist near me does same-day crowns?", they get a composed answer naming one to three businesses, and most people act on it without ever seeing a results page. Google's own AI summaries now sit above the links for a fast-growing share of searches, doing the same thing to ordinary Google traffic.
Being the answer is a different competition than ranking. The engines composing answers reward businesses whose facts are stated plainly, marked up for machines, and confirmed consistently across the web. That's learnable, checkable work, and because the answers keep changing, it's weekly work rather than a one-time project.
What the service does
The same engine as our GEO service (the industry uses both names for this work), aimed squarely at winning answers:
Question research from real AI answers
We don't guess what people ask. We run the questions weekly and read what the engines answer today. The gap between those answers and your business is the work list.
Answer-first content
Pages and FAQs that open with the answer: what it costs, how long it takes, whether you're available, which areas you cover. The format answer engines are built to quote.
Structured data for answers
FAQPage, Service, and LocalBusiness schema that hands machines your facts unambiguously. That's the difference between being quoted correctly and being paraphrased wrongly.
A weekly loop
Answer engines re-decide constantly. We re-check every Monday, so when an answer changes or drops you, we catch it in days instead of finding out from a quarterly report.
Common questions
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?+
AEO is the practice of making your business the answer that answer engines give: AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini, and the AI summaries at the top of search results. Instead of competing for a spot in a list of links, you're competing to be quoted in the single answer most people read. The work: direct answer-first content, structured data, consistent facts about your business everywhere machines look.
AEO vs GEO vs SEO: what's the actual difference?+
SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. GEO (generative engine optimization) gets you named when generative AI composes an answer. AEO overlaps heavily with GEO (the industry uses the terms almost interchangeably), with AEO emphasizing being the direct answer to a question. In practice we do the same underlying work under either name: quotable content, schema, consistency, and weekly measurement.
Do I need AEO if I already rank well on Google?+
Ranking and being the answer are different games. AI-generated answers sit above the links, and the engines composing them lean on direct statements, structured data, and third-party confirmation more than rank position. It's common to rank on page one and still never be named in the AI answer. That mismatch is what our weekly checks reveal.
Which engines does the service cover?+
Weekly tracking runs on ChatGPT and Gemini on Starter, adds Claude on Pro, and Grok and Perplexity on Enterprise. The content and schema work helps across all answer surfaces, since they read the same web.
What does it cost?+
Same plans as our GEO service, because it's the same engine underneath: from $99 a month for weekly tracking and a prioritized fix list, $249 for Pro, and a $399 a month Do It For Me add-on where our team makes the changes for you. The first audit is free.
Find out if you're the answer
Free first look at how AI reads your website. No account, and it takes a few minutes.
Run the free check