Get your brand recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini.
Your buyers now ask AI which product to choose. We make sure the answer includes you — with technical AEO, answer-first content and the third-party citations AI engines trust.
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What is Answer Engine Optimization?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of making your brand the source that AI assistants cite and the name they recommend. Instead of competing for ten blue links, you compete to be part of a single generated answer.
AI engines decide what to say from two places: what their models learned from the public web, and the pages they retrieve live when they search. AEO improves both — so you are crawlable, quotable, and widely described in the sources these engines trust.
If a competitor is the brand ChatGPT suggests and you are not, you are losing buyers before they ever reach a search results page.
Every answer engine your buyers use
Each engine finds and ranks sources differently. Read our platform-by-platform guides, or let us handle all of them.
OpenAI
How to rank on ChatGPT
Get cited and recommended in ChatGPT search answers.
Anthropic
How to rank on Claude
Be the source Claude trusts when it searches and researches.
Perplexity AI
How to rank on Perplexity
Show up in the sources panel of every relevant Perplexity answer.
Google
How to rank on Gemini
Get recommended by Google’s Gemini app and assistant.
Google
How to rank on Google AI Overviews
Earn a link in AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.
Microsoft
How to rank on Microsoft Copilot
Win visibility in Copilot across Bing, Edge, Windows and Microsoft 365.
xAI
How to rank on Grok
Get your brand into Grok answers through X and the web.
Meta
How to rank on Meta AI
Reach users of Meta AI inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
DeepSeek
How to rank on DeepSeek
Be known by the open-weight model powering thousands of apps.
What our AEO service includes
One programme across technical, content, entity and off-site work — because AI engines weigh all four.
AI visibility audit & prompt tracking
We build a set of the real questions your buyers ask, run them across 9 AI engines, and record who gets mentioned, which pages get cited and how you are described. You see your share of answers by engine, every month.
Technical AEO
AI crawler access in robots.txt and your CDN, server-rendered content, schema.org markup, clean sitemaps, IndexNow and llms.txt. We remove the silent blockers that keep AI engines from reading your site.
Answer-first content
Pages built the way AI engines extract information: question headings, direct answers, comparison tables, specific numbers and visible update dates. Comparisons, alternatives and “best for” pages that earn citations.
Entity & knowledge graph
Consistent brand facts across your site, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, review sites and directories. Organization and Product schema, sameAs links, Knowledge Panel and Wikidata work where you qualify.
Off-site citation building
AI engines recommend brands that others talk about. We get you into the listicles, comparison pages, review platforms, communities and publications that AI already cites for your category.
Measurement & reporting
AI referral tracking in analytics, share-of-answer trends, citation wins and losses, and accuracy checks — tied back to traffic, leads and pipeline wherever possible.
How an AEO engagement works
A clear plan from day one, measured against a baseline you can see.
Weeks 1–2
1. Audit & baseline
Prompt set agreed, baseline run across all engines, technical audit, competitor citation map, and a prioritised 90-day plan.
Weeks 3–6
2. Foundation
Crawler access fixed, schema and entity data cleaned up, priority pages rewritten answer-first, tracking set up in analytics.
Months 2–4
3. Authority
New comparison and topic pages, off-site placements, review and community programmes. First citation gains typically appear here.
Month 4+
4. Compound
Monthly re-measurement, double down on what moves share of answers, expand to new prompts, products and markets.
AEO vs SEO: what changes
SEO is still the foundation. AEO adds what AI engines need on top of it.
| Traditional SEO | AEO | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank a page in a list of links | Be the answer or the recommended brand |
| Where | Google and Bing results pages | ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, Copilot and more |
| Key signals | Keywords, backlinks, page experience | Clear answers, entity consistency, third-party mentions, freshness |
| Content shape | Long-form pages targeting keywords | Question-led sections with quotable, self-contained answers |
| Measured by | Rankings and organic clicks | Share of answers, citations, AI referrals and accuracy |
Why work with Vidagdhan on AEO
We are a software company first. We build the tools AI engines read — so we optimise from the inside, not from guesswork.
We build AI-readiness software
Our WordPress plugin LLMER generates llms.txt files that help large language models understand a site’s content. The same engineering thinking drives our client work.
Engineers, not just marketers
Crawler rules, rendering, schema and analytics are handled by developers who can ship the fix, not just recommend it.
Honest measurement
No guaranteed rankings and no vanity metrics. You get a prompt-level baseline and a monthly report you can verify yourself.
Senior attention, global clients
A focused team that works with companies worldwide, with fast turnaround and direct access to the people doing the work.
Is AEO right for you?
A strong fit if you…
- Sell a product people research and compare before buying
- See competitors named in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, but not you
- Already have a website and some organic traffic to build on
- Can commit to at least 3 months to see compounding results
Probably not yet if you…
- Need guaranteed results in under 30 days
- Don’t have a live website or product yet
- Want only paid ads or social media management
AEO pricing
Transparent monthly retainers. Every plan starts with a baseline audit so you can measure what changes.
Foundation
Startups and single-product SaaS
$1,500/month
Get found and cited by the big four answer engines.
- Tracking of 50 buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & Google AI Overviews
- Technical AEO audit and fixes: AI crawler access, schema, rendering, llms.txt
- 4 answer-first pages written or rewritten per month
- Entity cleanup: Organization schema, About page, consistent brand facts
- Monthly AI visibility report with share-of-answer by engine
- Email support
Growth
Growing B2B, SaaS and D2C brands
$3,500/month
Win the recommendations your competitors are getting today.
- Everything in Foundation
- Tracking of 150 prompts across all 9 engines, including Claude, Copilot, Grok, Meta AI & DeepSeek
- 10 answer-first pages per month plus comparison and “best X” content
- Off-site citation building: 4 earned placements per month on sources AI engines already cite
- Community and review-site strategy (Reddit, G2, Capterra, YouTube, industry forums)
- Knowledge graph and Wikidata work where you qualify
- Bi-weekly strategy calls
Scale
Multi-product companies and enterprise
From $7,000/month
Own the answer across markets, products and languages.
- Everything in Growth
- 400+ tracked prompts, multi-brand or multi-market
- 20+ pages per month and full content cluster builds
- 10+ earned placements per month and digital PR campaigns
- Competitor share-of-voice benchmarking every month
- Dedicated AEO strategist and shared Slack channel
- Analytics setup for AI referral attribution to pipeline and revenue
One-time AI Visibility Audit · $750
Not ready for a retainer? We test your brand across 9 AI engines, map where competitors are recommended instead of you, and hand over a prioritised fix list. The fee is credited to your first month if you continue.
All retainers start with a 3-month initial term, then continue month to month. Prices in USD, excluding applicable taxes.
AEO services: frequently asked questions
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making your brand and content the source AI assistants and answer engines use and recommend. Instead of ranking a page in a list of links, the goal is to be cited or named in the answer that ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews gives.
What is the difference between AEO, GEO and SEO?
SEO optimises for traditional search rankings. AEO focuses on being the direct answer in AI and voice assistants. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is a closely related term for influencing what generative AI models say. In practice they overlap heavily, and our service covers all three as one programme built on solid SEO foundations.
Which AI platforms do you optimise for?
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI and DeepSeek. The Foundation plan tracks the four highest-traffic engines; Growth and Scale track all nine.
Can you guarantee my brand will be recommended by ChatGPT?
No honest agency can guarantee AI recommendations — the engines are not controlled by anyone outside their makers. What we guarantee is the work: technical fixes, content and placements delivered every month, and transparent measurement of your share of answers so you can see whether it is working.
How long does AEO take to show results?
Technical fixes such as unblocking AI crawlers can affect search-based answers within days. Measurable gains in citations for competitive prompts typically appear between months 2 and 4, and compound from there.
Do I still need SEO if I invest in AEO?
Yes. Most AI engines retrieve from search indexes, so pages that are not crawlable and trusted in search rarely get cited. Our AEO work includes the technical SEO it depends on.
How much do AEO services cost?
Our retainers start at $1,500/month for Foundation, $3,500/month for Growth, and From $7,000/month for Scale. A one-time AI Visibility Audit is $750 and is credited to your first month if you continue.
How do you measure AEO success?
We track an agreed set of buyer prompts across each engine every month and report share of answers, citations of your pages, accuracy of how you are described, and AI referral traffic and conversions in your analytics.
Find out what AI says about your brand.
Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We will run your most important buyer questions through ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini live, show you who gets recommended instead of you, and outline what it would take to change that.
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