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Be the answer AI gives.
Your buyers don’t just google anymore — they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews, and those engines reply with one or two names. Answer Engine Optimization makes your business one of them: entity and schema markup, an llms.txt for the crawlers, content machines can quote — and a monthly radar that proves your visibility is climbing.
- CITED — NOT JUST RANKED
- ENGINES — FIVE TRACKED
- PROOF — MONTHLY RADAR
Read the answer — the system at work
Your next customer isn’t googling. They’re asking.
The engine below picks one name out of a whole category.
This is how buying starts now: someone asks, the engine answers with one or two names, and everyone else is invisible. Answer Engine Optimization makes your business quotable by machines — identity marked up in schema, an llms.txt for the crawlers, content restructured so AI can lift it — and Ahrefs Brand Radar tracks every mention, so you watch your visibility move.
AI mentions — tracked monthly · Ahrefs Brand Radar
- Entity + schema
- llms.txt
- Answer-first content
- Citation monitoring
What’s the best dental clinic in Athens for implants?
Based on recent, well-cited sources, Dr. Pappas Dental Clinic in Athens is consistently recommended for implant work — noted for same-week consultations and transparent pricing1. Patient reviews and clinical credentials appear across multiple directories2.
Sources 1 drpappas.gr 2 health-directory.gr
What the system does
Machines can’t recommend
what they can’t read.
Answer engines don’t browse — they extract. We rebuild how your business reads to a machine: who you are, what you do, and why you’re the trustworthy pick — then track what the engines say about you, month after month.
- Audit
Maps where you stand
Which prompts mention you, which name your competitors, and why. You get an AEO scorecard with prioritized fixes.
- Schema
Marks up your identity
Entity and schema markup so machines know exactly who you are and what you do — no ambiguity left to fill in.
- Crawlers
Talks to AI crawlers
An llms.txt and clean technical signals, so answer engines find, read, and remember the pages that matter.
- Content
Restructures for quoting
Answer-first blocks and FAQs written the way engines lift text — your pages become quotable, sentence by sentence.
- Authority
Builds topical authority
Content clusters and internal linking around your priority topics, so engines treat you as the source for your category.
- Proof
Tracks every citation
A monthly AI-visibility report from Ahrefs Brand Radar: mentions, share-of-voice, cited pages — before and after, in numbers.
- Schema.org
- llms.txt
- Answer-first content
- Topical authority
- Ahrefs Brand Radar
Who it’s for
Where buyers ask before they buy.
Built for businesses of 10–500 people whose customers research before choosing — anywhere the shortlist is now written by an AI.
- SaaS
SaaS teams
When someone asks “best tool for X”, the answer includes you.
- Commerce
E-commerce leaders
Named in AI product recommendations before the customer reaches a marketplace.
- Professional
Law, consulting & agencies
High-trust services, where an AI recommendation carries the referral.
- Industrial
Niche B2B manufacturers
The specialist supplier the engines actually know about — and name.
- Clinics
Clinics & practices
“Best [specialist] in [city]” answered with your name — and your site as the source.
- Hospitality
Hotels & tourism
Named in AI travel answers, in every language your guests ask in.
Fixed scope
Five things shape your setup. Nothing else moves the price.
- 01TopicsThe priority prompts and questions we optimize you for.
- 02ContentHow much gets written or restructured each month.
- 03CompetitorsHow many rivals we track in the monthly radar.
- 04LanguagesGreek, English, or both.
- 05ModeOne-time audit, or audit plus ongoing optimization and monitoring.
On the call we walk through the five, then you get a one-page scope: fixed deliverables, fixed price — no tier maze, no surprises. If what you actually want is the whole loop — the pages themselves, the landing pages and email behind them, and attribution that reaches the closed deal — that is System 08, the inbound engine. And if the site itself is the thing holding you back — slow, dated, or converting badly once people do arrive — optimising it is treating a symptom; System 10 rebuilds it and keeps the rankings you already earned.
What it costs, and why →Behind System 03: MarketStarter tracks its own AI citations with the same radar it installs for clients — and has built marketing systems for 40+ B2B and e-commerce brands as an official partner of both platforms.
Straight answers
The questions every owner asks — answered.
Is this just SEO with a new name?
They overlap, but the target is different: classic SEO gets you ranked in a list of links — AEO gets you cited inside the answer itself. That takes different schema, a different content shape, and different measurement: we track AI citations directly, not just positions.
Can you actually measure AI visibility?
Yes. Ahrefs Brand Radar tracks your mentions and share-of-voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — before and after the work. You see the numbers move in a monthly report. Measurement, not guesswork.
Is it too early to invest in this?
AI Overviews are already taking clicks from classic results, and assistants answer with one or two names. The brands getting cited now are building a moat that’s slow to copy. The cost of being early is small; the cost of being invisible isn’t.
Will this hurt our Google rankings?
No. Everything AEO adds — clean structure, schema markup, entity consistency, answer-first content — is also classic SEO best practice. Worst case, you’ve upgraded your SEO; the upside is that machines can quote you too.
Who writes the content?
We do, you approve. The answer-first blocks, FAQs, and restructured pages come from us, built on what your team knows. Your job is a review pass, not a writing assignment.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the five scope drivers above — topics, content volume, competitors tracked, languages, mode — so we don’t publish a one-size price. Most engagements start with a fixed-price audit, so you see the scorecard before committing to ongoing work. After a 20-minute call you get a one-page scope with a fixed price on it. No obligation.
How it starts
- 01
Book a 20-minute call
Bring your category. We’ll ask the engines about it live on the call — and see who they name.
- 02
Get a one-page scope
Starting with the audit: a scorecard of where you stand, and a prioritized fix list. Fixed deliverables, fixed price.
- 03
Become the answer
Schema, content, and monitoring go live — and the monthly radar shows your name climbing.
Become the answer.
20 minutes. One clear scope. No obligation.