Answer engine optimization:
Find out if AI search can find and cite your site.
Run a free 30-second readiness audit and get the exact fixes that get you named in ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.
No account needed. We fetch your homepage, robots.txt and sitemap and score how ready your site is for AI search. This measures readiness, not rankings. How we measure
"Who's the best interior designer for a modern coastal remodel in San Diego?"
Audit, fix, verify, repeat.
Audit
We fetch your site, robots.txt and sitemap, then score eight readiness categories against how answer engines actually read a page.
Fix
Every finding comes with the evidence, the business impact, an owner, an effort estimate and the exact change to make, grouped into Do now, Do next and Later.
Verify
Press verify on any task and we re-check your live site, record what changed, and move your readiness score accordingly.
Website readiness
Measured directly from your live site: AI crawler access, indexability and technical health, structured data, entity clarity, answer-ready structure, credibility signals, internal linking, and third-party references. This is fact, not opinion.
AI visibility (estimated)
A separate, clearly labelled model-reasoned estimate of how assistants are likely to describe your category and whether your name comes up. We do not query the engines live, so we never present this as proof of a ranking or a citation.
Read the full audit methodology for what each score does and does not mean.
Want the visibility estimate too?
Tell us your company, market and specialty and we'll add the estimated AI visibility view alongside your readiness score. This part is a model-reasoned estimate, not a live engine query.
Three ways to get the fixes done.
Self-serve
Free. Every finding ships with instructions, code snippets, templates and a verify button that re-checks your live site.
Guided
Office hours and implementation reviews with a strategist, so your team ships the fixes correctly the first time.
Done-for-you
Our team implements the approved technical and content work under a managed program, starting at $997/mo.
Flexible month-to-month execution.
Growth
A focused managed program for one site, with consistent content, authority, AI visibility tracking, and strategist support.
$997/mo
Month to month · Fixed monthly execution mix
- ✦Site optimization, topical mapping, and AEO prompt analysis for one site
- ✦30 on-brand SEO/AEO articles per month with supporting media
- ✦3 to 5 quality backlinks per month, targeting DR/DA 35+ average
- ✦One fully managed AI-optimized PR campaign per quarter, including 596+ placement instances across a 400+ outlet footprint
- ✦3 to 5 brand mentions per month across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook
Scale
A higher-velocity managed program with full-site optimization, doubled content output, and broader authority coverage.
$1,597/mo
Month to month · Fixed monthly execution mix
- ✦Full-site optimization, topical mapping, and AEO prompt analysis
- ✦60 on-brand SEO/AEO articles per month with supporting media
- ✦6 to 10 quality backlinks per month, targeting DR/DA 35+ average
- ✦One fully managed AI-optimized PR campaign per month, including 596+ placement instances across a 400+ outlet footprint
- ✦5 to 8 brand mentions per month across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook
Both programs are month-to-month, with a dedicated strategist and weekly reporting.
Answer engine optimization, answered.
The questions buyers actually ask before they run an audit.
What is answer engine optimization?
Answer engine optimization is the practice of making a website readable, quotable and verifiable for AI assistants. Where SEO competes for a blue link, AEO competes to be the source an assistant cites inside its answer, which depends on crawler access, structured data, entity clarity and question-shaped content.
Why doesn't ChatGPT mention my company?
Usually one of four reasons: AI crawlers are blocked in robots.txt, the site has no structured data identifying the business, the pages answer no specific question, or no third-party source corroborates what the site claims. The free GoAEO audit checks all four and tells you which one applies to you.
How does the GoAEO readiness audit work?
Enter a URL and GoAEO fetches the page, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt, then scores eight categories: crawler access, indexability, structured data, entity clarity, answer structure, credibility, internal linking and authority. Each finding carries the evidence found on your site, the business impact, an owner and an effort estimate.
How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO optimizes for ranked links and clicks. AEO optimizes for citation inside a generated answer, where there is often no click at all. The technical foundation overlaps, but AEO adds explicit entity declaration, question-shaped headings, self-contained answer passages and third-party corroboration that a model can verify.
How long does it take to see AI visibility improve?
Crawler and schema fixes are readable by engines within days of deployment. Content restructuring typically shows up over 30 to 60 days as pages are re-crawled, and authority signals such as directories, reviews and press compound over 60 to 90 days. GoAEO re-audits on a schedule so you can see the score move against your day-zero baseline.
Can you guarantee my business gets cited by AI?
No, and no honest provider can: the engines control their own ranking and citation. GoAEO guarantees measurable readiness improvement against a published methodology, with every fix verified against your live site before it is marked complete.
Our scoring follows public guidance from Schema.org and Google's structured data documentation. Read our full methodology.