San Diego AEO & GEO agency
When customers ask AI who to hire, be the answer.
We get your business named and cited in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, then show you the numbers every month.
Search now answers before it links.
Customers get a summary, and often a shortlist of businesses, before they see a single website. Ranking first no longer guarantees the click.
People use AI Overviews
Google says AI Overviews reach more than 2.5 billion people a month, and AI Mode more than 1 billion.
Google, May 2026 · source list
Fewer clicks on the #1 result
When an AI Overview shows, the top-ranking page gets far fewer clicks, because the answer is already on the screen.
Ahrefs, 300,000 keywords, Feb 2026 · source list
Better conversion from AI visitors
Shoppers who arrive from AI tools convert better than other visitors. They’ve already been told you’re a good fit.
Adobe, US retail, Jun 2026 · source list
Three names. Are you one of them?
Ask an AI assistant for the best company in your trade in San Diego and you’ll usually get two or three names with a reason for each. Customers call those first.
Illustration. Business names are placeholders.
Here are three well-reviewed options for same-day HVAC repair in San Diego:
- Company A — 4.9 stars, licensed, same-day service across North County.
- Company B — known for upfront pricing and weekend availability.
- Company C — family-owned, strong reviews for older systems.
Five things AI needs to recommend you.
AI tools recommend businesses that are easy to find, easy to understand and vouched for by sources they trust. We work on all of it.
Get crawled
We make sure AI search crawlers can read your site, set up Bing Webmaster Tools and Bing Places, and fix indexing and speed problems.
Be understood
One consistent name, address, phone and service list everywhere, plus schema markup that spells out who you are, where you work and what you do.
Answer the questions
We rewrite your key pages so each one opens with a direct answer, and add the Q&A, pricing and comparison content customers actually ask about.
Get vouched for
Listings and reviews on the directories and “best of” lists AI tools cite, local press, and a review program that keeps them coming.
Measure and adjust
Every month we ask the AI tools your customers’ real questions and track whether you’re named, cited and described correctly.
What we won’t do
Promise you a spot in ChatGPT, buy fake reviews, or flood the web with AI-written pages. Nobody controls AI answers, and shortcuts can backfire.
AI visibility you can actually see.
We agree on 25 to 100 real customer questions at kickoff. Each month we run them across the major AI tools several times and report the results against your competitors.
- Mention rate: how often AI names you
- Share of voice: you vs. your top 3 competitors
- Citation rate: how often AI links to you
- Accuracy: whether what AI says about you is true
- AI visits and leads: tracked in your analytics
Share of voice across 50 prompts
A baseline in two weeks. Movement in two to four months.
We agree your customer questions and 3 competitors, and get access to your analytics, Search Console and listings.
Week 1Your first scorecard, a crawler access check, a consistency check across 30+ listings, and your top 10 fixes, ranked.
Week 2Crawler access, schema, listings cleanup, Bing setup, AI traffic tracking, and answer-first rewrites of your most important pages.
Weeks 3–6Directory and “best of” listings, a review program, local PR pitches and new Q&A content.
Month 2Your second scorecard against the baseline, and a plan for what to push next.
Day 60A monthly cycle of tracking, fixes, content and authority work, with a competitor study every quarter.
Month 3 onStart with an audit. Grow from there.
Monthly plans have a 3-month minimum, then go month to month. Already an SEO client? AI visibility is an add-on from $750/month.
AI Visibility Audit
One-time
Credited toward month 1 if you sign
- 25-question baseline scorecard
- Crawler and listing check
- Top 10 fixes, ranked
Local
One location
25 questions tracked
- Get crawled + be understood
- Answer-first page rewrites
- Listings cleanup
- Monthly scorecard
Growth
Competitive local markets
50 questions tracked
- All five workstreams
- 2 answer-first pages a month
- Review program
- Monthly scorecard
Authority
Multi-location, legal, medical
100 questions tracked
- Everything in Growth
- Digital PR
- Quarterly competitor study
Three names, one goal: be found.
SEO
Search engine optimization
Ranking your pages in Google’s regular results. Still the base everything else stands on.
AEO
Answer engine optimization
Making your content the direct answer, in AI Overviews, featured snippets and voice assistants.
GEO
Generative engine optimization
Getting named and cited when ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity write a recommendation.
We do all three together, because AI tools lean on the same signals Google does: a clear, crawlable site and trusted sources that vouch for you. See our San Diego SEO services.
AEO & GEO FAQ
What’s the difference between AEO and GEO?
AEO (answer engine optimization) is about being the direct answer, in Google’s AI Overviews, featured snippets and voice search. GEO (generative engine optimization) is about being named and cited when AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity write a recommendation. The work overlaps heavily, so we do both.
Do I still need SEO?
Yes. AI tools lean on search indexes and the same trust signals Google uses. Strong SEO makes AEO and GEO work faster, and if we already handle your SEO, AI visibility is an add-on.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend me?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. AI answers change from one run to the next and from one person to another. We guarantee the work and honest monthly measurement, and we report ranges from repeated runs instead of one lucky screenshot.
How long until I see results?
You get a baseline in week 2 and a comparison at day 60. Most real movement takes 2 to 4 months, because reviews, listings and press take time to build and AI tools refresh unevenly.
Which AI tools do you track?
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity. We add others if your customers use them.
Is this right for my business?
It works best for businesses customers choose from a shortlist: home services, law firms, medical and dental practices, and B2B services. If you have very few reviews or no website yet, we’ll tell you to start with the basics first.
Find out what AI says about you.
Get a free AI visibility check: we ask the major AI tools five questions your customers ask, and send you who they recommend. No pitch deck, no obligation.