Answer Engine Optimization, in terms you can repeat in a board meeting: when a buyer asks an AI assistant a question your business answers, you want to be the source it cites. Search used to end at a list of links; more and more it ends inside the answer. SEO got you ranked. AEO gets you quoted.
The method is simpler than the acronym. Answer engines cite pages they can parse and trust, so we start where trust starts: an audit of your structure, schema, crawl rules, and the facts about your business scattered across the web. We fix the plumbing before touching a word of copy, because most sites lose citations on mechanics, not on message. Only then do we publish: direct answers to the questions your buyers actually ask, written in your voice and marked up so a machine can quote them cleanly.
We hold this site to the standard we sell. These pages answer questions directly, carry structured data underneath, and publish an llms.txt for any assistant that comes reading. View source; the demo is free. What you will never hear from us is a citation guarantee. Nobody controls the engines, and anyone promising you a spot inside ChatGPT’s answer is selling something they don’t own. Our posture is simpler: engineered to be citable, measured monthly.
Everything stays legible to your team: the audit, the punch list, the shipped fixes, the monthly citation log, and documentation for keeping it all healthy without us. The work also pays twice. The questions buyers ask engines are the ones they ask your salespeople, and answering them well in public sharpens how your whole team talks about the business.