Be the answer AI gives, not the link it skips.
Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity before they reach Google - and read one answer that names a few brands. We make yours the source those engines cite, recommend, and rank.
AI Search optimization is two disciplines working together: Answer Engine Optimization (showing up inside the answer) and Generative Engine Optimization (being understood and trusted by the model in the first place). We do both, on the same foundations that scaled our own properties past 100K monthly visitors.
For twenty years, SEO meant one thing: rank a blue link on Google. That game still matters - but it is no longer the whole board. Your buyer now opens ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity, asks a question in plain language, and reads a single synthesized answer that names a few brands. If you are not one of them, the rank you fought for never gets seen.
AI Search optimization is how you become one of those named brands. It is two disciplines working as one: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) - getting cited inside the answer - and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) - being understood and trusted by the model in the first place.
We run both on the same foundations that scaled our own properties past 100K monthly visitors: clear entities, quotable structure, and the dense corroboration that makes a model confident enough to recommend you by name.
Two disciplines, one outcome.
AEO gets you into the answer. GEO gets the model to trust you. Together they make your brand the recommendation across every engine.
How we make your brand the answer
AEO and GEO aren't a checklist of tricks - they're a loop. This is the one we run.
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Audit every engine
We test the prompts that decide your category across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, and document where you appear, where a competitor does, and exactly why.
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Engineer the entity
Your brand, products and people become unambiguous, machine-readable entities - consistent identity, schema and knowledge-graph presence the models can resolve and trust.
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Structure the answer
We restructure and build the pages that should own those answers - extractable passages, clear claims, comparisons and FAQs the engines lift and attribute to you.
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Corroborate & monitor
Digital PR and citations build the trust signal models reward, while we re-test every engine monthly and double down on what got you cited.
Why teams trust Ankivo
The difference between work that compounds and work that quietly fades is the operator. Here is our bar.
Entity-first, not keyword-first
Models reason about entities and relationships. We make your brand a clearly defined entity the engines can resolve, connect, and cite with confidence.
Structured to be quoted
Answer engines lift specific passages. We structure content - clear claims, definitions, comparisons, FAQs - so the quotable answer is yours.
Authority the models trust
LLMs lean on sources they see corroborated across the web. We earn the citations, mentions and links that move you into that trusted set.
Measured across every engine
We track your presence in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity - not just Google rank - so the work is accountable to where buyers actually decide.
The same engine, dogfooded
We point our own programmatic-SEO and citation machine at this - the one that took our properties past 100K monthly visitors. You get the playbook, not a theory.
Solo-maintainable systems
Everything we ship is documented and runnable by one team - no dependency on a department you’ll never meet.
A repeatable system, not a one-off
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Audit
We map exactly where you appear - and vanish - across Google and every major AI engine today, and which prompts decide your category.
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Architect
Entities, schema and content clusters engineered so machines understand who you are, what you do, and why to recommend you.
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Amplify
Programmatic pages, digital PR and citations that earn the trust signals the models reward - concentrated on the answers that convert.
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Monitor
We track your AI mentions and rankings every month and iterate. Visibility that compounds instead of spiking and fading.
Questions, answered
It overlaps but the target is different. Classic SEO optimizes to rank a link; AI Search optimizes to be named and recommended inside an AI-generated answer. Clean technical SEO and authority help both, but AEO and GEO add answer-structure, entity clarity, knowledge-graph presence and engine-specific monitoring that traditional SEO never touched.
Almost always both, and we usually start with GEO. If the model doesn't understand or trust who you are (GEO), no amount of answer-structuring (AEO) will get you cited. GEO is the foundation; AEO is the conversion layer that turns that understanding into citations.
No one honestly can - the engines are third parties we don't control. What we commit to is the deliverables and methodology that demonstrably move brands into answers, plus transparent monthly reporting on exactly where you appear, so the work stays accountable.
We run structured prompts across every major engine and log how each describes, categorizes and recommends your brand versus competitors - then track that over time as the entity and authority signals we build take hold.
Yes. Entity clarity, schema and authority are exactly what modern Google rewards, and Google's AI Overviews run on the same signals. AI Search work compounds across classic search and every AI engine at once.
Your competitor is already
the answer. Make it you.
Get a free AI visibility audit - we’ll show you exactly where you appear across Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, and what it takes to win.