Plumbers, dentists, law firms, contractors
Be the name AI gives when someone asks "who should I call."
36%have discovered a new brand through ChatGPT
47%for Gen Z specifically
Answer Engine Optimization · Founder-Led
Google ranks you.
AI either names you, or it doesn't.
68% of Google searches now end without a click. When ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity answers your customer's question, there's no page two — just whoever the AI decided to mention. We make sure it's you.
• Now onboarding founding partners.
Direct Founder Access
Why this matters right now
The Numbers.
This is already happening, whether you show up in it or not. Every number below is independently sourced — click through and check any of them.
1.2B
weekly ChatGPT users as of September 2026 — up from 800M a year earlier.
Source: OpenAI / TechCrunch
68%
of U.S. Google searches now end without a single click — up from 60% just two years ago.
Source: SparkToro
~50%
of consumers already use AI-powered search to inform purchase decisions.
Source: McKinsey, Oct 2025
$750B
in projected U.S. consumer spend flowing through AI-powered search by 2028.
Source: McKinsey, Oct 2025
See it work
This is what your customer sees instead of a search results page.
One answer. Not ten blue links, not a page two. Either your name is in it, or your competitor's is.
AI Assistant — illustrative example
Why now
Ranked links are losing the moment that matters.
SEO still matters — it's a lot of the raw material AEO is built on. But it was built for a world where people click through ten links and compare. That world is shrinking fast.
What matters
AI Answers (Known)
Ranked Links Alone
Where you show up
AI AnswersNamed inside the answer itself
Ranked LinksA link 68% of people never click
Competition
AI AnswersA handful of names per answer
Ranked Links10 blue links plus paid ads
Trend direction
AI Answers1.2B weekly ChatGPT users, growing
Ranked LinksClick-through falling every year
What actually works
AI AnswersCitations, stats, real mentions
Ranked LinksGeneric schema (proven not to help)
How we're paid
AI AnswersPublished pricing, no hidden quote
Ranked Links"Book a call" to hear a number
Where this wins
Anywhere someone asks AI "who should I use."
The Known system
Four steps. Built on what's actually proven to work.
01
Visibility & citation audit
We run your real brand and category questions through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews to see exactly where you're named, where a competitor is named instead, and where nobody's named at all.
Your starting share of model
02
Citable content & direct-answer formatting
We rebuild your key pages around what the research actually shows moves the needle — real citations, data, and comparative content — not generic schema markup that a controlled study found does nothing.
Up to 40% visibility lift, per the original GEO study
03
Third-party authority building
AI tools weight how often you're mentioned across the rest of the web — Reddit, forums, review sites — more than they weight traditional backlinks. We build real, honest mentions in the places that count.
Mentions, not just links
04
Monthly tracking & iteration
We re-run your citation audit every month, show you exactly what moved, and adjust. No vague "visibility score" — the actual prompts and the actual answers.
Share of model, tracked monthlyFounding partner pricing
Every other AEO agency hides the price. We publish ours.
Locked-in founding rate, direct access, zero fine print. This rate goes up once the first cohort is full.
01
You work with the founder. Period.
No account manager, no rotating junior team, no three-layer escalation chain. The person who builds your strategy runs it, every month.
02
The price is on this page
Not a "book a call to find out." $1,000/month, flat. You know in ten seconds if this is a yes.
03
Every claim, checkable
We don't quote stats we can't link to. If a competitor can't show you the source, ask why.
Before you book
You might be thinking:
No. SEO fights for a click. AEO fights for the mention — the one name AI actually says out loud, with no page two and no competitor one click away. Pew Research found AI summaries cut click-through roughly in half. Different game, different prize.
This is the land-grab phase. $750 billion in consumer spend is projected to flow through AI search by 2028, and almost nobody is positioned for it yet. The brands that get named now become the default answer later — AI models don't reshuffle their favorites every week. Showing up early is the advantage. Waiting is how you hand it to a competitor.
1.2 billion people use ChatGPT every week. A billion more use Gemini every month. That's not a fad, that's a new front door to every purchase decision — and your customers are already walking through it. The only question left is whether you're the name they hear when they get there.
No, and we can prove it — a controlled Ahrefs study of 1,885 pages found generic schema does nothing for AI citations. What actually moves the needle: citations, real data, and comparative content, which lift visibility up to 40% per the original GEO research. We build what's proven, not what's easy to upsell you.
Your "share of model" — how often you're named versus every competitor, across real prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Tracked and reported every month, in plain numbers, not a vague "visibility score."
Your visibility audit is free. If you want us to actually go fix it, $1,000/month, flat — published right here, not locked behind a call. That's the founding rate, and it won't stay this low.
Directly, every month. No account manager, no rotating junior team three layers removed from your strategy.
Founding partner spots are limited
Find out what AI is already saying about you.
Takes one call. We'll show you exactly where you stand right now — and exactly what it costs you every week you're not named instead of your competitor.
$1,000/mo flat
Direct founder access
Every stat sourced
Booking calendar connects once a Calendly link is added — see note in README.
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