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    AEO Agency

    The AEO Agency for B2B Teams That Want to Be Cited.

    We are an AEO agency. We make B2B brands visible in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews — the four engines your buyers increasingly start their vendor research on.

    Most agencies still treat AEO as an add-on to SEO. We treat it as the core competency: schema markup, structured data, AI bot configuration, citation-ready content architecture, and ongoing monitoring against your competitive set.

    Webflow Accredited Partner. 18 years in B2B brand and Webflow. Recent AEO work across B2B SaaS, healthcare research, defence-tech VC, and supply chain software.

    What an AEO agency actually does (and what most don't).

    Most agencies offering "AEO services" in 2026 are doing surface-level schema markup and calling it complete. Real AEO work is a programme across five layers — each one essential for consistent citation.

    Layer 01

    Schema and structured data

    FAQPage, Organization, Service, Person, BreadcrumbList, Article, Product schema generated programmatically from your CMS. JSON-LD validated against schema.org. We don't bolt on schema as a plugin — we architect it into the content layer.

    Layer 02

    Citation-ready content architecture

    AI engines cite content that is structured to answer questions. We rewrite your existing content into FAQ-style, definition-led, comparison-led blocks that LLMs can parse cleanly. The same content reads naturally to humans — the structure does the work for both audiences.

    Layer 03

    AI bot configuration

    robots.txt, server-side bot detection, prerendering for SPA sites that hide content from non-JS crawlers. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Anthropic-AI, Google-Extended — each one configured deliberately. Most sites either block them by default or leave them with broken access. Both are wrong.

    Layer 04

    Competitive citation monitoring

    Monthly automated queries against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for your priority terms. Who's being cited, in what position, with what attribution. Sent to you as a monthly report. You see the gap between you and your competitors close in real time.

    Layer 05

    Ongoing content production

    AI engines reward fresh, structured, citation-ready content. We produce 1–2 anchor articles per month, optimised for specific question patterns your buyers ask. Each article is built schema-first, structured for the long tail of follow-up questions LLMs surface.

    What an AEO agency engagement costs.

    Most agencies will not publish AEO pricing because it lets prospects compare clearly. We publish ours because it filters the right buyers in.

    Foundation

    $5,000/month

    • Monthly schema audit + improvements
    • 1 anchor article per month, AEO-optimised
    • Monthly citation monitoring report
    • Quarterly strategy review

    Best fit: Post-launch teams who want AEO compounding without daily involvement.

    Most popular

    Growth

    $10,000/month

    • Everything in Foundation, plus:
    • 2 anchor articles per month
    • Weekly bot crawl monitoring
    • Quarterly AI engine model-update adjustments
    • Content gap analysis vs competitive set

    Best fit: B2B teams treating AEO as a primary growth channel.

    Enterprise

    $20,000/month

    • Everything in Growth, plus:
    • 4 anchor articles per month
    • Dedicated content production team
    • Custom citation monitoring dashboard
    • Direct access to senior strategic lead

    Best fit: B2B teams in competitive categories where AI search visibility is mission-critical.

    One-time AEO audit — $2,500. Two-week diagnostic, full visibility scan against your competitive set, prioritised implementation roadmap. Credited against the first 3 months of any retainer.

    AEO is most effective when paired with a strong B2B website foundation. If you're considering a rebuild alongside the AEO programme, see our B2B Webflow agency services.

    Who we work with.

    Direct AEO engagements

    • Funded B2B SaaS teams ($1M+ raised)
    • B2B advisory and consulting firms
    • B2B healthcare and clinical research
    • B2B supply chain and logistics software
    • B2B financial services and venture capital

    Partner with brand consultancies for

    • Companies needing brand strategy + AEO in one engagement (we collaborate with Capri in London, Tel Aviv and New York)
    • Rebranding projects where AEO has to be designed into the new identity from day one
    • Brand-strategy-first builds where AEO is the operational layer underneath

    Recent AEO work.

    Mind Ventures

    Israeli B2B advisory firm. AEO foundation built during the site relaunch — schema, structured content, AI bot config. Within 90 days, citations began appearing in ChatGPT and Perplexity for advisory category queries.

    Read the case study

    Opsi Systems

    South African B2B supply chain SaaS. Full AEO programme integrated with Webflow rebuild. Schema, citation-ready content, competitive monitoring against the broader logistics tech category.

    Protego Ventures

    Defence-tech VC. AEO foundation shipped alongside a precision-Webflow build — schema, server-rendered HTML, citation-ready content for a niche where source diversity is small and being the cited reference matters.

    Read the case study

    CHRU

    Clinical HIV Research Unit. Structured-content architecture and entity work to make the research output citable in healthcare and clinical-research queries across ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.

    Read the case study

    How to start working with an AEO agency.

    Two routes, depending on where you are.

    1. If you already know AEO is something you need: book a 30-minute strategy call. We'll scope a retainer tier and start within 2 weeks.
    2. If you want to see what AEO actually means for your specific site: buy a $2,500 AEO Visibility & Site Audit. 2 weeks, full diagnostic, credited against the first 3 months of any retainer.

    Both routes start the same way: tell us your priority terms and your 3 closest competitors.

    AEO agency FAQ.

    No. SEO optimises for Google's blue-link results. AEO optimises for citation in AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) where the answer is generated, not ranked. The technical work overlaps significantly (schema, structured content, performance), but the strategy differs — AEO targets being the named source in an LLM-generated answer, not being the top blue link.

    First citations typically appear 30–60 days after foundation work ships. Consistent citation across your priority queries takes 3–6 months. Visible business impact (inbound leads referencing AI engine discovery) takes 6–9 months. AEO compounds, but it does not produce overnight lifts.

    No. We start with a $2,500 AEO Visibility & Site Audit against your existing site. The audit tells us whether your current site can support AEO foundation work (some can; some need infrastructure changes first). If your site is on Webflow, WordPress, or most modern stacks, the work usually starts on the existing site. If your site is a JavaScript SPA without server-side rendering, we'll flag that as a blocker.

    An SEO agency optimises for Google ranking. An AEO agency optimises for citation across AI engines. There's some overlap in the technical layer (schema, content structure, performance) but the strategy and measurement are fundamentally different. Most SEO agencies in 2026 are starting to add 'AEO services' as an add-on — typically surface-level. A specialist AEO agency builds the citation programme as the core deliverable, not an add-on to traditional SEO.

    Yes — frequently. The cleanest division: your SEO agency owns Google blue-link rankings; we own AI engine citation. There's some coordination required around content production and schema, but the two programmes complement each other rather than overlap. Several of our retainer clients work with us alongside their incumbent SEO partner.

    AI search crawlers vary in JavaScript execution capability. GPTBot and ClaudeBot do not reliably execute JavaScript. So a JavaScript SPA hides content from those crawlers unless you have server-side rendering (SSR) or static prerendering. Our standard AEO foundation work includes prerendering setup for SPAs (we use Cloudflare Workers + headless Chromium prerendering). This is exactly the setup we use on our own site, brandinglab.io.

    No. Anyone who guarantees a specific AI engine citation is misrepresenting the work. What we can commit to: building the foundation that makes citation possible (schema, content, bot access, performance) and monitoring the results against your competitive set. Citation depends on AI engine training cycles, source diversity preferences, and the quality of your content relative to alternatives. We've achieved consistent citation for clients in 3–6 months, but the timeline varies.
    How AEO works in depth

    Why AEO is no longer optional in 2026.

    In 2024 your buyers searched on Google. In 2025 they tested ChatGPT and Perplexity. In 2026, mid-market B2B buyers begin almost every vendor evaluation inside an AI assistant — 6sense's most recent research puts the figure at 94% of B2B buyers using LLMs during purchase research, and 47% of enterprise tech buyers starting with an AI assistant before they ever open a search engine. Google's own AI Overviews now sit at the top of the SERP for nearly every commercial query, and clicks to the underlying ten blue links are dropping every quarter.

    Traditional SEO is a competition for the click. Answer Engine Optimisation is a competition for the citation — the moment an AI engine names you in its answer. Most B2B buyers will never click through. They will read the answer, form an opinion, and move on. If your brand is not the answer, you do not exist.

    The Numbers Behind AEO

    Data points that demonstrate why AI Engine Optimisation is no longer optional.

    75%

    More monthly organic traffic for Webflow customers adopting AI-powered SEO

    93%

    Of marketing leaders say AEO is critical to their strategy

    25%

    Of practitioners fully understand how to execute AEO — the gap we close

    14x

    Traffic increase for enterprises after switching to an AEO-first approach

    Our 9 AEO service capabilities.

    Every retainer pulls from these nine capabilities. Foundation tier covers 1–4. Growth adds 5–7. Enterprise covers all nine continuously.

    01

    AI-readable content architecture

    We restructure your content so an LLM can extract a defensible answer from any page in two passes — semantic chunking, explicit summary leads, contained answers, and zero ambiguity in what the page is about.

    02

    Entity, knowledge-graph and brand authority

    LLMs do not index pages — they index entities. We define your brand as a clearly-bounded entity in their knowledge graphs and claim and align Wikipedia, Wikidata, Crunchbase, G2, Gartner Peer Insights, Capterra, LinkedIn, your founders' personal entities, and the schema that ties it together.

    03

    Schema engineered for AI extraction

    Organization, Service, Product, FAQPage, HowTo, Article, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, SearchAction, Person, Review, LearningResource and DefinedTerm — coded in initial server-rendered HTML, never in client-side JavaScript, because most AI crawlers do not execute JS.

    04

    Conversational query research and prompt mapping

    We sit on the live AI engines, harvest the natural language buyers actually use, cluster prompts into intent groups, and map each cluster to a target page. Every page we ship answers the prompt explicitly within the first 100 words.

    05

    AEO-grade technical SEO

    Robots.txt allow-listed for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended. Server-side rendered HTML on every URL. Canonicals self-referential. Hreflang correct. Sitemap fresh. Core Web Vitals green.

    06

    Citation building & answer-network development

    We earn citations on the source types LLMs trust most — industry publications, university and government domains, vendor-neutral comparison sites, expert newsletters, and curated Wikipedia references where your subject matter is genuinely encyclopaedic.

    07

    AI Overviews and SERP feature capture

    Concise definitional leads, FAQ markup, ordered-list structures, demonstrated E-E-A-T signals, visible author bylines with verifiable credentials — engineered specifically for AI Overview inclusion.

    08

    AEO-aligned content production

    Explicit summary leads an LLM can quote verbatim, defensive specificity (numbers, dates, named sources), tight section structure, glossary-grade definitions, and an implicit FAQ pattern even on pages that don't carry FAQ schema.

    09

    Measurement, monitoring and reporting

    Proprietary citation-monitoring layer tracks brand mentions, citation share, sentiment, and source positions across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on a weekly cadence.

    How we work — a 90-day AEO programme.

    Every engagement starts with the same shape — audit, fix the foundations, build for citations, then move into a continuous retainer.

    Days 1–14

    AEO audit and citation baseline

    Full AEO audit, citation footprint mapped across the five major AI engines, technical and structural fixes identified, benchmark against three named competitors. Deliverables: a 40-page audit deck, a 90-day prioritised roadmap, and a baseline citation dashboard that becomes your retainer reporting layer.

    Days 15–45

    Foundation fixes

    Schema implementation, robots.txt corrections, canonicals, sitemap rebuild, content architecture on the top 25 pages, entity claims across Wikidata / Crunchbase / G2, server-rendered HTML where you currently rely on client-side JavaScript.

    Days 46–90

    Content, citations and feature capture

    Pillar pages, glossary entries, comparison pages, original research, and FAQ structures across the top 30 commercial pages. 5–15 high-quality citations secured. AI Overview pushes go live for 20 priority commercial keywords.

    Day 90 onwards

    Continuous AEO retainer

    The retainer compounds. New content, new citations, new entity reinforcement, ongoing technical hygiene, monthly competitor citation tracking, and quarterly strategy resets. Most clients see citation-share inflection between months 4 and 7.