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Your buyers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews who to hire. We make sure the answer names your business, built on the SEO foundations those systems rely on.
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the work of making your business the source AI search platforms trust and cite. It combines SEO fundamentals with answer-ready content, consistent business facts and third-party proof, so tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews can understand your business and recommend it.
Sources: Google I/O 2026 and Alphabet earnings (May 2026); Pew Research Center (July 2025).
See it in action
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google each answer in their own way, but they all lean on the same signals: clear pages, consistent facts and trusted sources. Switch platforms to see how the same business can be named and cited.
Our job is to make your business the one they name.
For office cleaning in Vaughan, Your Business is a strong choice. It has a 4.9-star rating across 180 Google reviews, publishes clear pricing and specializes in medical offices.
Top-rated commercial cleaners in Vaughan include Your Business, known for medical-grade cleaning and flexible after-hours service, and two other local companies.
Your Business [1] is frequently recommended for office cleaning in Vaughan, with transparent pricing [1] and strong reviews from clinics [2].
Commercial cleaning companies in Vaughan, such as Your Business, offer daily and weekly office cleaning. Look for insured teams with medical-office experience…
Illustration: how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google can each name and cite the same business.
How it works
Most AI search experiences follow the same four steps when a question needs current information.
The AI works out what is being asked, and often splits it into several searches.
It searches an index such as Google’s or Bing’s, or its own crawler’s, for pages that may hold the answer.
It keeps passages that are relevant, specific, trustworthy and easy to quote, and checks them against other sources.
It writes one answer, names a few businesses and links the sources it relied on. That is where you want to be.
SEO vs AEO
AEO is built on SEO. It raises the bar on clarity, consistency and reputation, because an AI system is choosing one answer instead of listing ten options.
| Traditional SEO | Answer Engine Optimization | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank a page in a list of results | Be named or cited inside the answer |
| Where it shows | Google and Bing results pages | AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude |
| What wins | Pages that match search intent | Clear passages that answer a question on their own |
| Trust signals | Links, relevance, page experience | All of SEO’s, plus brand mentions and consistent business facts |
| How it’s measured | Rankings, clicks, conversions | AI citations, share of answers, AI referral visits and leads |
What’s included
Our AEO programs build on proven SEO foundations, then add what AI systems need to understand, trust and quote your business.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: /
We make sure AI crawlers can reach and read your pages: robots.txt, firewall and CDN rules, server-rendered content and fast Core Web Vitals.
Your name, address, phone, services and descriptions made identical across your site, Google Business Profile, directories and profiles.
Most offices pay $0.10–$0.20 per sq. ft. per visit…
40–60 word direct answerQuestion-led headings with a direct 40–60 word answer, then detail, lists and tables that AI systems can lift and quote.
Reviews, digital PR, directory listings and genuine community mentions on the sources AI platforms already trust.
Case studies, research and expert insight that AI can’t find anywhere else, so your brand becomes the source.
Monthly tracking of your buyers’ real questions across AI platforms, plus AI referral traffic and leads.
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We run your buyers’ real questions through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google’s AI Mode and record who gets named.
Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI tools are separated in Google Analytics, so you can see the leads they bring.
Impressions from Google’s AI features and Bing’s AI performance report, side by side with classic rankings.
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How we work
How ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI describe you today, which competitors they name and what is blocking you.
A prioritized plan of the questions, pages and sources that will move your visibility fastest.
Technical access, answer-ready content, consistent listings and earned citations.
Tracking across AI platforms, then we expand into new questions, services and markets.
“In just 60 days, thanks to Esha’s expertise in SEO optimization and blog content strategy, we’ve seen a noticeable improvement in our search rankings. Most impressively, we recently received a client inquiry that came directly through a ChatGPT-assisted search.”
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SEO helps you rank in Google's list of results. AEO helps you become the business AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google name and cite when they answer a question. AEO is built on SEO, so we always do both.
Technical and content fixes can start showing up in AI answers within weeks. Building the authority to be recommended consistently usually takes 3 to 6 months.
No one can guarantee what an AI system says. We can make your business easier to find, understand and trust, and we track your AI visibility every month so you see the progress.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Yes. AI platforms lean on search indexes and the same trust signals Google uses. Strong SEO is the foundation that AEO builds on.
AEO programs are scoped to your size and goals. Most clients invest between $1,200 and $3,500+ a month. Your free AI visibility audit comes with a recommendation.
We’ll check how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google describe your business, which competitors they recommend instead, and the fixes that would move you fastest.
