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Be the business AI assistants recommend by name.
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Answer-engine optimization (AEO), also called generative engine optimization (GEO), is the practice of making a business the one AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews recommend and cite when buyers ask a question. It builds on SEO, but success is measured by mentions and citations inside AI answers, not only by search rankings. CWV Consulting runs AEO programs for clients and sets them up for in-house teams.
Who it is for
When AEO is worth the investment
- Your buyers research by asking AI assistants, and a competitor's name comes back instead of yours.
- You rank in Google but are missing from AI Overviews and chat answers.
- Your site was built before AI crawlers existed and may be blocking or confusing them.
- You are launching a product or entering a market and want to be in the answers from day one.
- You want an in-house team to own AI visibility, with the system and training to do it.
What is included
The work, in numbered deliverables
Every proposal lists exactly which of these you are buying, with the same numbers carried through to the invoice and the cover memo.
- 01
AI visibility audit
The questions your buyers actually ask, run across the major assistants, with a record of who gets named and cited.
- 02
Technical foundation
Crawler access, robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data, sitemaps and Bing indexing, which feeds several AI search products.
- 03
Answer-first content
Service, comparison and FAQ pages written so an assistant can lift a clear, correct answer about you.
- 04
Third-party authority
Mentions, listings and links on the sites AI models already trust, built through a steady backlink program.
- 05
Long-tail page generation
Pages that cover the specific questions in your market, generated by our agent system and reviewed before publishing.
- 06
Monthly measurement
The same buyer questions re-run every month, so you can see your share of AI answers change over time.
How it works
What the first months look like
- 01Weeks 1–2
Audit
Buyer questions, current AI answers, competitor citations and a technical review of your site.
- 02Weeks 3–4
Fix the foundation
Crawler access, structured data, llms.txt and the highest-value content gaps closed first.
- 03Ongoing
Run the agent system
Content, backlinks and long-tail pages produced each month by CWV's AI agents, reviewed by a person.
- 04Your choice
Run it or hand it over
CWV keeps running the program, or sets it up on your side and trains your team to operate it.
Related work
Where this has worked
Clients are not named publicly without permission. References are available on request.
Questions
AEO & AI Search Visibility: common questions
What is answer-engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer-engine optimization is the work of making a business show up, by name, when people ask AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews for a recommendation or an answer. It combines technical access for AI crawlers, structured data, answer-first content and authority on the third-party sites AI models rely on.
What is the difference between AEO and SEO?
SEO aims to rank pages in a list of search results. AEO aims to be named and cited inside an AI-written answer, where there may be only one or two recommendations. They share foundations, such as crawlable pages and authoritative links, but AEO puts more weight on clear factual answers, structured data, entity consistency and mentions across the web.
How long does AEO take to work?
Technical fixes can be picked up within weeks, once AI crawlers and search indexes revisit your site. Building enough authority to be recommended consistently usually takes months of steady content and backlink work. CWV measures the same buyer questions every month so progress is visible rather than assumed.
How do you measure AI search visibility?
By running a fixed set of real buyer questions across the major AI assistants each month and recording whether you are mentioned, cited or recommended, alongside competitors. That share of answers is reported with the work done that month.
Is AI-generated content risky for search?
Low-quality content is risky however it is produced. CWV's agent system drafts pages, but every page is reviewed by a person for accuracy and usefulness before it is published.
How much does AEO cost?
It depends on the size of the market and whether CWV runs the program or sets it up for your team. Every engagement is quoted in a one-page proposal after a free 30-minute call.
Next step
Bring the problem. The first call is free.
Thirty minutes, no deck. If it is a fit, you will have a one-page proposal within a week.