What is AEO (answer engine optimization)?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your content so AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite your brand when they reply to a buyer's question. Where SEO competes for a ranked link, AEO competes for the answer itself.
What is the difference between an answer engine optimization (AEO) agency and a traditional SEO agency?
A traditional SEO agency optimizes for Google rankings. An AEO agency also optimizes for being cited inside AI answers on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. We do both, scoring every content decision, technical fix, and link target against pipeline impact rather than keyword difficulty, and layering AEO from day one so you’re not invisible in AI search while Google catches up.
What AI engines do you optimize for?
AEO principles travel across generative surfaces, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok among them. We track results where B2B buying answers happen today: ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, with your buyer prompts running daily on all three and visibility, share of answer, and position reported weekly. Buyers sometimes call this AI search optimization; the work is the same. When a new engine starts answering your buyers’ questions, it joins the tracking set.
What is GEO (generative engine optimization)?
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the work of keeping your brand described the same way across every generative AI surface. SEO earns the ranking and AEO earns the citation. GEO makes sure the entity behind both stays coherent everywhere a model encounters it.
We run a dedicated GEO service.Is AEO replacing SEO?
No. AEO sits on top of SEO. The domain authority and content quality that rank you on Google are the same signals that teach an AI engine to trust and cite you. Drop SEO and your AEO loses its foundation.
How do you measure AI visibility?
We track a set of buyer prompts across the engines and measure how often your brand is cited, at what position, and against which competitors. The core metrics are visibility, share of answer, and average position inside the answer, reported weekly and tied back to branded search and pipeline. The methodology is public:
we published the 90-day study we ran on our own site.
How fast can AI citations land?
Faster than most agencies admit and slower than most vendors promise, depending on the surface. Google AI Overviews can pick up a well-structured page within days because it rides Google’s index. ChatGPT and Perplexity citations usually take weeks of consistent publishing. Dominant visibility on a competitive prompt cluster takes a quarter or more. We set expectations by surface instead of quoting one blended number.
How much does an AEO agency cost?
Most B2B SaaS SEO and AEO programs at LoudFace start
from $5k per month as a continuous Autopilot retainer; fixed-scope engagements run inside a retainer with a three-month minimum. After the foundation audit you get a fixed monthly proposal scoped to the goals in your 90-day roadmap.
See full pricing and tiers.How long before I see results?
Technical fixes and early AEO wins often move inside the first 30 to 60 days. Content authority and organic rankings compound over 90 to 180 days. We set 90-day goals and report against them honestly, with no inflated projections. Running this program on our own site moved us from 0.18% to 10.35% of our category’s AI answers between April and June 2026.
Do you only work with Webflow sites?
No. Webflow is a delivery capability we happen to be deep in rather than a requirement. The program runs the same on Next.js, Sanity, WordPress, or whatever your marketing site is built on. If you are on Webflow, the same team ships the site changes without a handoff.
What happens in the first 90 days of an AEO engagement?
Weeks one to two: the foundation audit maps technical health, entity coverage, and where you stand inside AI answers today. Week three: a 90-day roadmap with three to five measurable goals. From there the program ships weekly: entity-first content, technical fixes, structured data, and distribution, with a live weekly walkthrough of what moved.
What results should an AEO agency show you?
Receipts, not decks. Per-prompt visibility with position, the actual AI answers your buyers see, and movement tied to a named measurement window. If an agency cannot show which prompts it moved and when, it is reporting activity rather than results.