An audit tells you where you are invisible. This is the task that changes it. Answer engines quote sources that are crawlable, unambiguous and quotable, so we engineer all three against a specific gap list, then re-test your target questions after the work lands rather than asking you to take it on faith.
Robots.txt gives explicit, documented access to GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, and llms.txt is rebuilt with prioritized pages and accurate descriptions. Nothing cites a page it cannot fetch.
Organization schema with sameAs to authoritative profiles, brand facts made consistent everywhere they appear, and the About page shaped as the entity hub. This teaches machines who you are, without ambiguity.
Each target query gets a self-contained, answer-first block under a question-form H2, sized to be quoted, with evidence below and FAQ or HowTo schema where the results page shows appetite for it.
Dates and facts are made current and true, and each target page is made readable without JavaScript execution, because AI crawlers mostly do not render pages the way a browser does.
Where rivals win citations we brief the page to beat them, then re-test every target query 2 to 4 weeks after implementation and hand the results to monitoring. Optimization without a re-test is faith, not strategy.
It is for brands with a real footprint and a known gap, usually straight from an AEO Visibility Audit. If you already know which questions you lose and to whom, this is the task that closes them.
It is not for sites with nothing published yet; there is no entity to clean and no page to make quotable. Build the foundation first, the Growth Plan sequences that in the right order.
Your gap list, a brand facts sheet to teach the machines the truth, and whether we implement directly or ship a spec.
Crawler rules, llms.txt, Organization schema and profile consistency go in first.
Answer blocks written, target pages made readable, competitor gaps briefed for content.
Automated verifier then human review, into your dashboard with one revision round. The re-test is scheduled for 2 to 4 weeks out.
| Alternative | Typical cost | What you actually get |
|---|---|---|
| Agency AEO retainer add-on | $2,000+/mo | The same work, unbundled into a retainer you cannot leave |
| DIY schema plugin | $0 to $100/mo | Markup with no entity strategy and nothing written to be quoted |
| Waiting for AI to notice you | Free | Competitors compounding citations while you stay invisible |
Usually yes. The AEO Visibility Audit produces the gap list this task closes. Buying this alone works only if you already know which queries and engines you lose.
No, and anyone promising it is lying. We control the inputs engines reward, crawlability, entity clarity and quotable structure, then re-test to prove movement.
Mostly yes. Clean entities, valid schema and answer-first structure serve classic search and AI answers at the same time.
Your choice at scoping. With CMS access we make the changes; without it, everything ships as paste-ready code and exact do-this specs.
We re-test your target questions 2 to 4 weeks after the work lands and show before and after. AI Citation Monitoring keeps watching after that.
Tell us, or run monitoring. Stale facts are the main cause of AI misrepresentation, so freshness is part of the build, not a one-time fix.