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AI Search Optimization

Your Brand Found in AI. Before the Competition Catches Up.

We handle AI search optimization, including structuring your content, implementing LLMs.txt files, building FAQ schemas, and positioning your brand to be cited and featured across answer engines. Fewer agencies do this. No one is competing hard yet. That advantage doesn't last.
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What It Is

All-in-One AI Search Optimization. Built for Generative Engines.

Answer engine optimisation services (AEO), also called generative engine optimisation agency (GEO), is the practice of optimizing your digital presence so that AI-powered search platforms cite and feature your content. Unlike traditional SEO, which targets search rankings, AEO focuses on becoming a trusted source that AI systems pull from when generating answers.

This is the emerging category with the least competition right now. Most agencies haven't built this practice. By the time they do, the early positioning will be taken. The difference between appearing in an AI citation versus being invisible is the difference between being in the conversation and being irrelevant.
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15

years of expertise from the Prolific Group
Based on years of experience in real-world growth. We know what succeeds in various industries, what fails, 500+ Growth Specialists, and how to build on success.

500+

Growth Specialists
We bring strategists, media buyers, creatives, developers, and analysts together, each discipline deep, all working toward one goal: your revenue.

1,000+

Projects Delivered
Proven outcomes among startups finding product-market fit, growth companies growing consistently, and mature companies seeking profitability.
Platforms We Manage

Every AI Platform Where Your Buyers Actually Ask Questions

We optimize your presence across the entire landscape of answer engines and generative AI platforms, not just Google. Your audience is asking questions in multiple places. They should find you everywhere.
What You Get

What AI Search Optimisation Actually Includes

Every engagement includes the full scope of AEO strategy and implementation. This is not a tiered offering where advanced services cost extra.

AEO Audit & Competitive Analysis

We analyze your current presence across answer engines. Are you being cited? By which platforms? For what queries? We compare your positioning against competitors and identify gaps where you should be appearing but currently aren't.
Campaign structure
Audience mapping
Budget allocation

LLMs.txt Implementation & Optimization

We build and deploy your LLMs.txt file, a structured declaration of your authoritative content. This tells large language models where to find your most important information and signals that you've deliberately optimized for them.
Google Ads
Performance Max
Shopping Feed

Content Restructuring for AI Citation

AI systems need content formatted and positioned for machine parsing. We restructure your FAQ pages, product documentation, industry expertise content, and thought leadership to maximize the chances that AI systems extract and cite your answers.
Meta
LinkedIn
YouTube
Demand Gen

FAQ & Featured Snippet Strategy

Featured snippets are a precursor to AI citations. We identify high-value questions your audience asks, structure FAQ content to capture featured snippets, and position that same content for answer engine citation.
Hook testing
Format testing
Offer testing

Knowledge Panel & Entity Optimization

Answer engines recognize entities (brands, people, concepts). We ensure your brand entity is recognized across all major LLMs and optimized to appear when relevant. We build knowledge panels, entity attributes, and brand signals that make AI systems trust and cite you.
GA4
Server-side
Offline Imports

Citation Tracking & Monitoring

You need to know when you're being cited. We set up monitoring across answer engines and track how often your content appears in AI-generated responses. This tells us what's working and where to double down.
Live dashboard
Weekly cadence
Monthly strategy
Platforms We Manage

The AI Search Optimisation Process

AI Search Optimization is the strategic process of structuring your content so generative search engines cite, trust, and surface your brand in user queries.
01
Week 1

Audit & Analysis

We audit your current presence across all major answer engines. We search for you the way your audience does and see what appears.
02
Week 2

Strategy & Roadmap

Based on the audit, we build a prioritized roadmap. We project the impact: more traffic from answer engines, increased brand mentions, expanded audience reach.
03
Weeks 2–4

Implementation Sprint

We implement LLMs.txt, restructure high-priority content, build FAQ schemas, and optimize entity data.
04
Ongoing

Citation Building & Optimization

We monitor citations across platforms and make incremental optimizations. If a piece of content isn't getting cited, we reformat it.
05
Month 3+

Scale & Expansion

Once you're appearing in citations consistently, we expand to new content areas, new platforms, and new opportunities.
The Difference

How This Differs From Standard AI & SEO Services

A comparative breakdown of how specialized AI Search Optimization stacks up against traditional search and content marketing approaches:
Feature Traditional SEO Agency AI Search Optimisation Standard Content Agency
Primary Focus Search rankings (Google) Answer engine citations Blog content production
Strategy Keywords, backlinks, technical SEO AI citation patterns, LLMs.txt, schema Writing more content
Optimization For Google's algorithm For LLM training data and citation For reader engagement
Your Ownership You own nothing, agency gets credit You own all optimization, AI credits you Agency owns the content narrative
Competitive Position Crowded, everyone does this First-mover advantage right now Oversaturated market
Timeline to Results 6-12 months for ranking movement 4-8 weeks for citation appearance Months for traffic impact
Brands optimized for answer engines get discovered. Brands that aren't disappear. By the time this is obvious to everyone, positioning will be taken.
How It Works

AI Search Optimization for Your Specific Business

SaaS & Software

Ecommerce & DTC

Professional Services

Healthcare

Finance & Fintech

Real Estate

B2B Manufacturing

Education

Travel & Hospitality

Consumer Brands

How It Works

AI Search Optimization Transparent Pricing & Partnership

Aligned Incentives

We win when your brand becomes the definitive cited answer, not when we bloat your site with low-value AI content.

Senior Ownership

You won't be handed off to a junior coordinator after signing. Your account is led directly by an AI Search Strategist who understands everything, ensuring your brand's authority is built correctly from day one.

Revenue Accountability

We measure success in brand citation share, conversational presence, and referral traffic from engines like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, not vanity keyword rankings.

Complete Data Ownership

Everything we build remains 100% yours. Your structured data schemas, custom llms.txt files, entity maps, and prompt testing documentation stay in your hands.

Continuous Prompt & Model Testing

We run an ongoing testing calendar across every core generative vector, evaluating prompt variations, citation triggers, and structured schema updates to keep your brand at the top of AI answers.
Fit Check

Is This Right For Your Business?

A Strong Fit Looks Like This

  • Brands with strong existing content.
  • Professionals and informed buyers use generative AI.
  • Teams that can handle an increase in inbound inquiries.
  • Businesses with enough authority/reputation to be citation-worthy.
  • Companies committed to maintaining and updating their content regularly.
  • Founders or CMOs who understand the value of being early to a new channel.

We Are Likely Not Right For You If

  • You're a brand-new company with minimal content or authority.
  • Your business model depends entirely on paid ads.
  • You're looking for immediate results.
  • You expect AI to dramatically change your business model overnight.
  • You're only interested in traditional Google SEO and think AEO is hype.
  • You don't have the internal resources to support more inbound volume.
Questions

AI Search Optimisation Questions, Answered.

They're often used interchangeably. Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) is the broader practice of optimizing for any AI platform that generates answers. Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) is specifically optimizing for generative AI systems that use large language models to create responses.

Ranking in ChatGPT differs fundamentally from traditional Google SEO because there is no search engine results page. Instead, ChatGPT cites your brand when your content is part of its training model or live retrieval systems, structured clearly for easy extraction, and recognized as an authoritative answer to a user's prompt.

An LLMs.txt file is a structured text file placed in your site's root directory that tells large language models where your authoritative content is located. It's similar to a robots.txt file, but specifically designed for AI systems.

Traditional SEO optimizes for Google's ranking algorithm. The goal is to appear on Google's search results page. AI Search Optimisation optimizes for being cited by AI systems. The goal is for your content to be chosen as a source when an AI generates an answer.

You can monitor this manually by searching how to get cited by Perplexity and checking if your brand appears in the citations. Using ChatGPT and ask questions where your content would be relevant. Checking Google AI Overviews for branded and industry queries to see if your content appears.

The timeline depends heavily on whether you're optimizing existing content or creating new content, how authoritative your brand already is, and whether you're implementing LLMs.txt and schema markup.

No. Traditional SEO is still foundational. Google is still where most search volume is, at least for now. Answer engines are growing rapidly, but they're not a replacement for Google SEO yet.

Most are not; that's why this is such a valuable window right now. Very few agencies are doing this work yet. Very few companies have implemented it. If your competitors haven't, you have a first-mover advantage.

Most are not, that's why this is such a valuable window right now. Very few agencies are doing this work yet. Very few companies have implemented it. If your competitors haven't, you have a first-mover advantage.

Works With

Services That Compound Together.

01 / Management

Paid Media Management

When you're appearing in answer engines, traffic increases. You need conversion-optimized landing pages and paid media to complement organic discovery. We manage Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and YouTube for established brands, turning that answer engine traffic into measurable revenue.
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02 / Strategy

Creative Strategy & Production

We work with our creative team to produce high-quality content, guides, FAQs, industry resources, and thought leadership, specifically structured for AI citation and human readability.
Explore Creative Strategy
03 / SEO

Search Engine Optimisation

Traditional SEO and AI Search Optimisation are complementary. We optimize your content for both Google rankings and answer engine citations simultaneously.
Explore SEO Services
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