Get named in the answer, not just the search results.
AEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) services that get your business cited by name in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude — not just ranked on page one. Schema, structured content, and the directory presence AI assistants actually trust.
Employment history, not current Forefront Industries clients.
AI search optimization (AEO/GEO) is the practice of structuring a website's content, schema, and off-site presence so that AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude — can find it, trust it, and cite it directly in a generated answer, instead of only ranking it in a list of blue links.
It's a different discipline from traditional SEO: AI assistants lean heavily on third-party directories and review platforms as trust signals, answer in direct, citable sentences rather than keyword-matched pages, and weigh structured data (FAQPage, Service, Organization schema) more heavily than backlink volume. We build for both — the ranking signals Google still uses, and the citation signals AI engines use to decide who gets named in the answer.
Ranking on Google doesn't mean you get named by AI.
AI answer engines don't just crawl your site — they lean on third-party directories, reviews, and structured data to decide who to cite by name.
A complete AEO/GEO system, not a one-time schema fix.
AI visibility comes from on-site structure and off-site trust signals working together. We build both.
Structured Data & Schema
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, and FAQPage JSON-LD across every page that should be citable, not just the homepage.
Answer-First Content
Pages restructured to open with a direct, quotable answer to the question someone would actually ask an AI assistant.
Directory & Citation Strategy
Identifying and building out the specific third-party directories and review platforms AI engines cite most for your category.
Technical Crawlability
robots.txt and sitemap configuration that explicitly allows OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, and other AI crawlers, not just Googlebot.
AI Visibility Tracking
Monthly share-of-voice tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews against a fixed set of real prompts for your business.
Local + Service Page Architecture
City and service landing pages built as real content with unique schema, so AI engines have a specific page to cite instead of defaulting to a directory.
Built by the same team that runs this for itself.
Simple process. Built for speed.
Baseline
We run your business against a real prompt set across ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews to see exactly where you're named, missed, or losing to directories.
Structure
We deploy schema and restructure key pages to answer-first format so AI engines can parse and quote you directly.
Build Trust Signals
We prioritize and build out the directory listings, reviews, and citations AI engines actually weight for your category.
Track & Improve
We re-run the prompt set monthly, showing exactly which answers you gained and which still need work.
How we track and move AI answer-engine visibility.
We run our own share-of-voice tracking against a fixed set of real prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews — the same method we apply for clients — rather than guessing at AI visibility.
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real prompts tracked monthly across ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews to measure answer-engine share of voice.
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structured data types (Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList) deployed sitewide to make pages machine-citable.
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our own current AI answer-engine share-of-voice ranking in our category — tracked, published, and improved the same way we'd run it for you.
Common questions.
What's the difference between AEO, GEO, and traditional SEO?+
SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) are about getting named directly inside an AI-generated answer — a different set of signals, including schema, directory citations, and answer-first content structure, layered on top of good SEO rather than replacing it.
How do you measure AI search visibility?+
We run a fixed set of real prompts a prospective customer would actually ask against ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, track whether and how your business is named, and re-run it monthly to show movement.
Why do AI engines cite directories instead of my own website?+
Assistants weight third-party trust signals — reviews, consistent business info across platforms, established directory listings — heavily, especially when your own site is light on structured data or reviews. Fixing both sides is the point of this service.
Do I need a new website to do this?+
Usually not. Most AEO work is schema, content structure, and off-site presence layered onto your existing site. A rebuild only comes up if the current site is a fundamental technical blocker.
How long before I see results in AI answers?+
Schema and technical fixes can affect how AI crawlers read your site within weeks. Directory and review-driven citation gains typically take longer, since those depend on third-party platforms re-indexing your updated presence.
Find out where AI is leaving you out.
We'll run your business against real prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, and show you exactly what to fix first.
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