AI SEO Agency
AI SEO Agency:SEO for ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Google
AI SEO is classic SEO work extended so your brand can be found, quoted and cited when people ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, as well as when they search Google. We are a reputation firm, so we also work on what the rest of the web says about you. The work is analyst-led, not software, and we measure the answers every month.
Analyst-Led AI SEO







- AI SEO is SEO, extended. Google's own documentation says no special optimizations are needed to appear in its AI features and that SEO fundamentals still apply. We build on those fundamentals and add the off-site work other AI engines lean on. Read the sources →
- Five workstreams, one plan. Site and content, entity facts and schema, third-party corroboration, your reputation footprint, and a monthly prompt panel that shows what the engines actually say. What we do →
- What we will not do. No fake reviews, no sockpuppet accounts, no bought mentions, no secret files or tricks, and no promise of a ranking or a citation. Start with the free audit. Get your free audit →
What does an AI SEO agency do?
The short answer
An AI SEO agency does classic SEO work with one added goal: that your brand is found, quoted and cited when people ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google's AI features, not only when they search. In practice that means pages engines can crawl and quote, consistent facts about you across the web, real third-party coverage and reviews, a clean reputation footprint, and a monthly check of what the engines actually say. No one can guarantee a mention, a citation or a ranking, so we measure rather than promise.
How our AI SEO work runs
AI SEO, without the mystique. AI SEO is classic SEO work extended so your brand can be found, quoted and cited in AI answers as well as in the ten blue links: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. It is not a separate discipline with secret levers. Google's documentation says no extra requirements or special optimizations are needed to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and that existing SEO fundamentals remain worthwhile. We take that at face value. The work that makes a page easy to crawl, clear to read and credible to cite is the work that matters, and anyone selling a special file or a trick is guessing.
How this page differs from our other AI pages. AI SEO is one part of our AI search optimization services, and the on-site playbook for it lives on our generative engine optimization services page. The umbrella program covers on-site work, off-site seeding, measurement and defense in one plan, and the on-site page goes deep on how pages are structured so engines can lift and cite them. This page is for the buyer who already thinks in SEO terms and wants one plan that treats Google rankings and AI answers as the same program, run by a firm that also works on what the rest of the web says about you. We would rather route you to the right page than sell you the wrong service.
Where we start. Every engagement starts with an AI visibility audit, which is free, delivered by an analyst and quoted separately in writing. The analyst asks the engines your buyers use the questions your buyers ask, records whether you are named, how you are described and which sources are cited, and separates what is a site problem from what is a corroboration problem and what is a reputation problem, because each is fixed differently. Anything beyond the audit is scoped in writing before it starts, billed on the scope you approve, and handled confidentially.
Site and content. We review whether your pages can be crawled and are indexed and eligible to show a snippet, which Google says a page needs in order to appear in its AI features. Then we write answer-first pages for the questions worth owning, with named authors, cited sources and visible review dates, written for people first. Google's helpful content guidance asks who wrote a page, how it was made and why, and we answer those questions on the page itself. Your team approves every page before it goes live. We change structure and wording, never facts.
Entity facts and schema. We align your name, descriptor, leadership, founding date and credentials across your site, profiles and directories, and we add structured data that matches the visible text on each page. Google says no special schema is needed for its AI features, so we use structured data for clarity and consistency, never as a switch that we claim makes any engine cite you. Where the work goes deeper, entity SEO services cover schema, Wikidata and knowledge graph work in their own right.
Third-party corroboration and your reputation footprint. Engines often draw on pages that are not yours: review sites, directories, news coverage, comparison articles and community threads. We map which of those appear for your category, then work on the ones that are real, accurate and worth earning, through accurate listings, honest reviews from real customers and earned coverage. The publication side has its own page on working with a PR agency for AI search visibility, which starts from the same map. Because we are a reputation firm, we also look at what negative or inaccurate material sits in your results, and if an engine states something false about you we hand that to our separate defense service rather than building growth on top of it.
Measurement, every month. A fixed list of your priority questions is asked across the engines each month, the answers are recorded word for word, and the next cycle's work goes where the answers are moving. Google says traffic from its AI features is included in the overall search traffic in Search Console, so some of the result shows up there, and the panel covers the engines that do not report to you. We make no claim about exactly how any engine ranks the sources it picks, and the panel exists so you can see what actually changed.
Pages for specific surfaces and business types. If you are weighing one surface, see AI Overview optimization for Google's answers and Perplexity SEO for Perplexity. If your business is local or sells online, see AI search optimization for local businesses and AI search optimization for ecommerce. If you are still comparing providers, read how to choose an AI SEO agency for the questions to ask any firm, including us, and see the GEO checklist and what is LLMO for the vocabulary. We are a provider, so weigh our own page accordingly.
What we will not do. We do not write fake reviews, run sockpuppet or undisclosed accounts, or buy mentions in places that exist only to be scraped. We do not sell a software platform, and we do not guarantee rankings, traffic, mentions or citations. These tactics are dishonest, they tend to be found and reversed, and they put your reputation at risk to chase a result no one controls. Everything we do is something you could explain to a customer, a journalist or a platform's trust team without embarrassment.
Sources and what we know
What Google says about AI SEO, and what nobody can promise
Google pages last checked November 12, 2026. We update this block when Google changes its guidance.
What has been reported
- Google says there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and no other special optimizations are necessary. Source: Google Search Central: AI features and your website
- Google says a page must be indexed and eligible to be shown in Google Search with a snippet, and that there are no additional technical requirements. Source: Google Search Central: AI features and your website
- Google says no special schema.org structured data is needed, and that you do not need new machine readable files, AI text files or markup to appear in these features. Source: Google Search Central: AI features and your website
- Google says existing SEO fundamentals continue to be worthwhile, and that traffic from AI features is included in overall search traffic in the Search Console Performance report, under the Web search type. Source: Google Search Central: AI features and your website
- Google describes helpful content as content created primarily for people, says trust is the most important part of E-E-A-T, and says E-E-A-T itself is not a specific ranking factor. Source: Google Search Central: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content
- Google encourages clear authorship and asks whether automation or AI use is evident to visitors through disclosures, as part of its Who, How and Why questions. Source: Google Search Central: Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content
What Reddit has not said
In the coverage we reviewed.
- Whether any specific engine will name or cite a specific brand. Nobody outside the engines can state this with certainty.
- How ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other assistants weigh the sources they pick. We make no claim beyond what each engine's own documentation says.
- How long a given change takes to show up in answers. It depends on when each engine recrawls, refreshes or retrains.
These are Google's statements about its own features, not statements about other AI engines. We cite them because they set the honest baseline: most of AI SEO is fundamentals, so be cautious of any provider that promises a special file, a secret markup or a guaranteed citation. Corrections: tell us.
Why AI SEO Is Mostly SEO
The fundamentals still decide who gets quoted
There is no separate checklist from Google
Google says no additional requirements or special optimizations are needed to appear in its AI Overviews or AI Mode. That is good news if you already do SEO well, and a warning if a vendor sells you a special file or markup as a requirement.
Being indexed is the entry ticket
Google says a page must be indexed and eligible to show a snippet to appear in its AI features. A page that cannot be crawled, or is blocked from snippets, is out of the running no matter how well it is written. The check takes days, not a quarter.
Other engines add a corroboration problem
Assistants that name brands tend to rely on what several sources say about you. One clear descriptor repeated accurately across your site, profiles, press and reviews does more than a hundred mismatched mentions. We make no claim about exactly how any engine chooses.
Reputation is part of the answer
The pages engines cite are often review sites, news coverage and community threads, not your own site. A firm that only edits your pages misses that half of the picture, which is why we start from your whole reputation footprint.
Who This Is For
Who an AI SEO engagement fits
AI SEO suits brands that already care about search and want AI answers handled in the same plan. It is not the right fit for everyone, and we say so on the audit call.
Brands already investing in SEO
You rank or want to rank in Google and want ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews covered in the same plan, not by a second vendor.
Brands absent from AI answers
Buyers ask an assistant who to hire or buy from and your competitors are named instead of you. The free audit shows whether that is a site, corroboration or reputation problem.
Brands with a mixed reputation
Reviews, news or old search results are muddying how you are described. We handle growth and the reputation footprint together, and hand any false AI answer to our defense service.
Teams with an in-house SEO
Your SEO runs the site. We cover third-party corroboration, entity facts and the monthly panel, and we work with your team on the page changes.
Learn more →Local and service businesses
Local AI answers lean on listings, reviews and citations, which is our core trade.
Learn more →Law, healthcare and B2B SaaS
Industries with advertising rules or long buying cycles have dedicated pages that explain how the work changes.
Learn more →What We Do
What an AI SEO engagement covers
Site and content
A crawl and indexing review, then answer-first pages for the questions worth owning, with named authors, cited sources and visible review dates, written for people and approved by your team before they go live.
Entity facts and schema
One consistent name, descriptor, leadership and credentials across your site, profiles and directories, with structured data that matches the visible text. Used for clarity, not sold as a switch.
Third-party corroboration
Accurate listings, honest reviews from real customers and earned coverage on sources worth earning, chosen from a map of what the engines cite for your category. No fake reviews, no sockpuppets, no bought mentions.
Reputation footprint
A review of the reviews, news and search results that describe you, with a plan for what is inaccurate or outdated. If an engine states something false about you, we hand it to our defense service so growth never builds on a false description.
Google AI Overviews and AI Mode
Covered by the same fundamentals Google documents: crawlable, indexed pages that can show a snippet, with content written for people. We log what Google's answers show for your priority questions each month.
The monthly prompt panel
A fixed list of your questions asked across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI features, answers recorded word for word, and next month's work placed where the answers are moving.
The Process
How we run an AI SEO engagement
- 01
Audit the answers today
Start from the answers.An analyst asks the engines your buyers use the questions your buyers ask and records whether you are named, how you are described and which sources are cited. Free, with no obligation.
- 02
Check the foundations
Be reachable.Crawl access, indexing and snippet eligibility, and whether key content appears without heavy scripting. We fix what blocks you before writing anything new.
- 03
Write the answer pages
Be quotable.Answer-first pages and comparison content for the questions worth owning, with named authors, sources and review dates, approved by your team before they go live.
- 04
Align facts and earn real coverage
Be corroborated.One consistent descriptor across the web, matching structured data, then accurate listings, honest reviews and earned coverage. We review your reputation footprint in the same pass.
- 05
Run the monthly panel
Measure, don't promise.Your priority questions asked monthly across the engines, answers recorded word for word, and the next cycle's work placed where the answers are moving.
Free to find out. No obligation, no pressure.
A free analyst-run audit with no obligation. Anything we build is quoted in writing first, and only if you choose it.
Honest Timelines
How long AI SEO takes
Timing depends on the engine and on what is holding you back. Nothing here is a promise, and the monthly panel exists so you can see what actually moved.
Removing a technical barrier is usually quick to do, but when engines recrawl is their decision. It clears the way and does not by itself earn a mention.
Pages can start to be picked up within weeks of being crawled, especially by engines that search the web at answer time. Recrawl timing is up to each engine.
Corroboration builds as more independent sources agree, so how you are described improves over repeated monthly cycles rather than overnight.
These change only when a model is refreshed. We cannot set that date, and we will not pretend to.
No one can promise a ranking, a mention or a citation. We control the inputs and verify with monthly measurement.
Why We're Different
Full-service AI SEO vs a tool subscription or an SEO retainer that ignores AI answers
What you get
A Tool Subscription or a Traditional SEO Retainer
A dashboard, or Google-only SEO reporting that never asks an AI engine anything
Reputation Resolutions
A plan across site, entity facts, coverage and reputation, plus a monthly panel of what the engines actually say
Measurement
A Tool Subscription or a Traditional SEO Retainer
Software scores you decode yourself, or rankings and traffic only
Reputation Resolutions
Your own priority questions asked monthly across the engines, answers recorded word for word, with an explanation of what moved
Page changes
A Tool Subscription or a Traditional SEO Retainer
None from a tool, and often no AI-aware content from a traditional retainer
Reputation Resolutions
Answer-first pages with named authors, sources and review dates, approved by your team before publishing
Off-site work
A Tool Subscription or a Traditional SEO Retainer
Reported at best, left for you to fix
Reputation Resolutions
Accurate listings, honest reviews and earned coverage on the sources the engines cite for your category
Reputation footprint
A Tool Subscription or a Traditional SEO Retainer
Outside the scope of both
Reputation Resolutions
Reviews, news and search results reviewed alongside the growth work, with false AI answers handed to our defense service
The promise
A Tool Subscription or a Traditional SEO Retainer
Visibility data, or rankings promised without AI in view
Reputation Resolutions
Honest: we raise the odds by controlling the inputs, and no one can guarantee a ranking or a citation
Who runs your case
Senior specialists, no junior handoffs
Reputation Resolutions is run and managed by a world-class team of online reputation management experts. Your case is handled by senior, multidisciplinary specialists: removal strategists who know each platform's rulebook, SEO and content experts who rebuild your search results, legal partners for the matters that need them, veteran PR professionals, and AI-search specialists who help you control what LLMs like ChatGPT say about you. There are no junior handoffs and no learning on your case, and every person here treats your name as if it were their own.
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AI SEO Agency FAQs
AI SEO, Answered Honestly.
Straight answers on what an AI SEO agency does, how it differs from SEO, how to choose a company or consultant, local, ecommerce, law, healthcare and SaaS, cost, guarantees and measurement.
It does classic SEO work with the added goal that your brand is found, named and cited in AI answers such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. For us that means a crawl and indexing review, answer-first pages written for people, consistent entity facts with matching structured data, third-party corroboration through listings, honest reviews and earned coverage, a review of your reputation footprint, and a monthly panel that records what the engines say. It is analyst-led work, not a software subscription, and no one can guarantee a mention or a citation.
AI SEO services extend search optimization to the places people now get answers. A sound scope includes a technical review so pages are crawlable and indexed, content built to answer real buyer questions, entity facts that match everywhere, third-party sources that corroborate you, and measurement of the answers themselves. Be cautious of any list that leads with a special file or markup. Google says none is needed to appear in its AI features, so those items are at best housekeeping. Everything we scope is quoted in writing, and the free audit comes first.
Mostly it is the same work with a wider target. Google says no additional requirements or special optimizations are needed to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and that existing SEO fundamentals remain worthwhile. What is genuinely different is that assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity lean on what several sources say about you, so off-site corroboration and consistent facts matter more, and results have to be measured by asking the engines rather than by looking at a ranking report.
It starts with finding out what the engines say today, not with changes to your site. An analyst asks them your buyers' questions and records whether you are named, how you are described and which sources are cited. That shows whether your gap is technical, content, corroboration or reputation, and each is fixed differently. Optimization then means working the inputs we control and re-asking the same questions every month to see what moved.
Ask any company, including us, what exactly it will change, who does the work, how it measures results and what it will not do. Be wary of guaranteed rankings or citations, secret files or markup sold as requirements, fake or incentivized reviews, and a dashboard offered in place of explanation. Ask for scope in writing and for a sample of how answers are recorded. We are a provider, so treat our own page as one input and compare it against our guide on how to choose an AI SEO agency.
A consultant or specialist usually advises, and your team carries out the work. An agency also does the work. Neither title is regulated, so judge on specifics: who writes and approves pages, who handles the off-site work, who runs the monthly measurement. We work as an analyst-led agency, and we are happy to work alongside an in-house SEO who owns the site while we cover corroboration, entity facts and the panel.
Often a good in-house SEO can handle the on-site fundamentals. The parts that tend to need outside help are the ones that happen away from your site: earning accurate third-party coverage, building honest review volume, aligning entity facts across directories and profiles, reviewing the reputation footprint, and running a consistent monthly panel across several engines. The free audit shows which of those apply to you, and we will say plainly if you do not need us for a given piece.
The method carries over, and the weighting changes. Local AI answers lean on listings, reviews and citations, which is core to what we do, so we have a dedicated page for AI search optimization for local businesses. For ecommerce and DTC brands we cover reviews, publications, community presence and product-page content. We do not build product feeds, Shopify apps or agent checkout integrations, and we will say so if that is what you need.
Yes, and each has its own page because the sources engines draw on differ. Law firms and healthcare practices work under advertising and privacy rules, so every claim and page is reviewed by your own compliance or counsel before it goes live, and we do not give legal or medical advice. B2B SaaS buyers lean on comparison and review sites, so third-party corroboration weighs heavily. In all of them the guarantee is the same: none, other than honest measurement.
It depends on scope, not a flat rate: how many questions and engines go on the monthly panel, how many pages need writing or restructuring, how much technical work is involved and how much third-party work is realistic for your category. We do not publish figures because any number without your scope would be a guess. Every engagement starts with a free audit, and anything beyond it is quoted in writing before you commit.
No, and be wary of anyone who says they can. Each engine decides for itself which sources to use, those choices change, and the same question can get different answers on different days. What we can do is control the inputs on and off your site, measure the answers every month and tell you what moved and what did not, including the months when nothing did.
We keep a fixed list of your priority questions and ask them across the engines each month, recording the answers word for word: whether you are named, how you are described and which sources are cited. Google says traffic from its AI features is included in overall search traffic in Search Console, so that report is one input for Google. The panel covers the engines that do not report to you, and we explain what changed instead of handing you a score.
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