What does ChatGPT say about you?
Answer engine optimization is the work of getting a business quoted by AI assistants and AI search results (ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, Perplexity) rather than only ranking in a list of links. We build the pages that get cited, in-house.
Customers increasingly ask an assistant before they open a list of links, and the assistant answers in a paragraph that quotes somebody. The work is making your business the somebody: answering the real questions in full sentences, under a name, with the same facts everywhere.
It is the same craft as writing a good page. What changes is that the audience includes a machine deciding whether your sentence is safe to repeat.
The unit an answer engine quotes is a passage, not a page. So every page gets the questions its readers actually ask, answered in complete sentences that still make sense lifted out and read aloud with no context.
A question inventory
What customers actually ask, gathered from what they ask you.
A page for every answer
Each question placed on the page that should answer it.
Buried answers rewritten
So the answer comes first, not in paragraph four.
A system deciding whether to repeat a claim is reading for who stands behind it. Named authors with stated roles, marked up as people rather than as strings, so the byline is an entity a machine can resolve.
Named authors
A real person on every piece, with the role they hold.
Author profiles
A short page for each person who writes for you.
Marked up as people
So the byline is a person to a machine, not a line of text.
FAQ, Article, Person, and LocalBusiness markup that matches what is visible on the page, never a claim asserted only to a crawler. Structured data that disagrees with the page is worse than none.
FAQ, Article, Person, LocalBusiness
The markup that says what each page is and who wrote it.
Matches the page
Every answer in the markup is also on the page, word for word.
Nothing for crawlers only
No claim made to a machine that a reader can’t see.
One address, one phone number, one service list, one price band, stated identically across the site and the listings. Contradictions are the fastest way to become the source a model declines to use.
A consistency audit
Your facts, checked on the site and every listing.
Listings corrected
Fixed to match the site, where they’re listed.
One version of you
The same hours, services and prices, everywhere.
Every stage below is something this team does. None of them is something a model is obliged to do back.
The real questions customers put to an assistant about a business like yours, gathered from what they ask you and what the category is asked, rather than from a keyword tool built for a list of links.
What lands
Each question answered in complete sentences that still make sense lifted out of the page and read aloud with nothing around them, because a passage is the unit an answer engine quotes.
What lands
Named authors with stated roles, marked up as people rather than as strings, plus FAQ, Article and LocalBusiness markup that matches what is visible on the page.
What lands
One address, one phone number, one service list, one price band, stated the same way everywhere. Contradictions are the fastest way to become the source a model declines to use.
What lands
We will read the site the way an assistant does and tell you what we find.
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Answer engine optimization is the work of getting a business quoted by AI assistants and AI search results (ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, Perplexity, Copilot) rather than only ranking in a list of blue links. The unit is a passage that answers a question, not a page that targets a keyword.
SEO competes for a position in a list a person then clicks. AEO competes to be the source an answer is assembled from, where there may be no click at all. The technical groundwork overlaps almost entirely; what differs is the writing: clear, self-contained answers, structured data that identifies who is answering, and facts stated plainly enough to be quoted without distortion.
No. No one controls what a model returns, the systems change without notice, and any agency promising placement is describing something it cannot deliver. What can be done is make a site genuinely citable: answer real questions, mark up who is answering, and keep the facts consistent everywhere they appear.
Questions answered directly, in complete sentences that survive being lifted out of the page. A named author with a stated role. Structured data that tells a machine what the page is. Consistent facts: an address, a price, a service list that says the same thing everywhere. And no unverifiable claims, because a claim nothing supports is the one thing a careful system will not repeat.
Most small businesses invest $1,500–$5,000 per month for ongoing work. Individual projects are quoted per engagement, and every engagement starts with a free consultation.
Yes. Most searches still return a conventional results page, and the technical and content groundwork underneath both is largely the same work. AEO is an additional surface to be found on, not a replacement for the one that already sends people to your door.
A free consultation, no obligation, and no promise about what a model will say afterwards.
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