AI search visibility, stated plainly.
Answer engine optimization (AEO) makes your pages easy for AI assistants to quote: direct answers, clean structured data, and facts an engine can verify. We build that structure and measure what changes. Nobody can guarantee citations, including us.
What is answer engine optimization?
When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI who to hire, the answer is assembled from pages those systems can read, trust, and quote. AEO is the work of making your pages quotable: a clear question, a self-contained answer, proof beside the claim, and structured data that says plainly who you are.
AEO extends SEO rather than replacing it. A page still has to be indexed and eligible before any assistant can cite it, and Google's own documentation says no special file or markup buys placement in AI features. The work is disciplined structure, not a trick.
What's included
- An audit of how assistants answer for your category today, recorded so it can be re-run
- Question-to-answer restructuring of the pages that matter most
- Structured data and entity cleanup: organization, services, people, authorship
- A facts page assistants can verify your claims against
- Measurement: Search Console's generative-AI data plus scheduled assistant checks
Four phases, one throughline.
Discover
We record how assistants currently describe you and your category, so change is measured against a baseline.
Design
A page-by-page brief: which question each page answers, what the quotable answer is, what proof sits beside it.
Develop
The restructuring and schema work, shipped alongside your SEO so the two never conflict.
Deploy
Scheduled re-checks of the same questions, read next to Search Console data. What changed is reported; what didn't is too.
This site is the demo
Every practice we sell runs here first. Our posts carry quotable answers, the whole site ships one connected structured-data graph, our company facts live on a page built for verification, and our editorial standards are public.
Ask an assistant about MapleGrowth Digital and check its answer against our facts page. That is the test we build toward for clients, and it is one you can run yourself in a minute.
We have no client AEO results to publish yet, and this is a young discipline where anyone claiming a guaranteed outcome is guessing. What we commit to is structure, measurement, and honest reporting of both.
Asked before signing.
Is AEO different from SEO?
They overlap heavily, and Google treats AI-feature visibility as ordinary search work. The practical difference is the unit: SEO optimizes pages to rank, AEO structures passages to be quoted. We deliver them together, because a quotable answer on an unindexed page helps nobody.
Can you guarantee my business gets cited by AI assistants?
No. Assistants decide what to cite, their behaviour changes without notice, and no markup or file forces inclusion. We measure how you appear before and after the work, on a repeatable set of questions, and report the difference. Measured is the honest ceiling of this service.
Does adding schema markup get me into AI answers?
Not by itself. Structured data clarifies who you are and what the page says; it does not purchase placement, and Google says no special markup is required for its AI features. Schema earns its place by removing ambiguity, and that is how we use it.
What does it cost?
AEO fits our published tiers: as the single focus of a $500-per-month Starter, or folded into a wider retainer alongside SEO. The audit is scoped and priced before anything starts, and the pricing page carries every number we charge.