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AEO & AI Search

AI SEO Agency &
Generative Engine Optimisation

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Mode for a shortlist before they ever visit a website. Generative engine optimisation gives those engines a clear, trustworthy reason to put your brand on it.

10+
years' experience each for the senior strategists who run your account

✓ ChatGPT ✓ Google AI Overviews ✓ Gemini & AI Mode ✓ Perplexity

AI engines don't rank pages — they assemble answers. The brands that get named are the ones the models can read, verify and quote with confidence.

AI SEO is the work of becoming that brand: content built to be extracted, entity signals that remove doubt, and third-party mentions that back up what you say about yourself.

What's included

Everything a generative engine
needs to recommend you.

Generative engine optimisation sits on top of solid SEO. We keep the foundations strong and add the layers AI answers actually draw on.

Answer-first content

Pages restructured so the direct answer, the supporting detail and the proof are easy for a model to lift — clear headings, concise definitions, comparison tables and FAQs.

Entity & brand signals

Consistent naming, About and author pages, Organization schema and profile alignment so engines are certain who you are, what you do and where you operate.

Citation-worthy sources

We identify the publications, directories, reviews and community threads AI engines lean on in your category, then earn your place in them.

Structured data

Schema markup that describes your services, products, people, locations and FAQs in a format machines parse without guessing.

AI crawler access

Robots rules, rendering and site speed checked so GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and friends can actually reach and read your best content.

Prompt-level reporting

We track the prompts your buyers use and report how often you're mentioned, cited or recommended — alongside your organic search results.

How we work

From overlooked by AI
to named in the answer.

01

Map the prompts that matter

We build a prompt set from your keywords, sales conversations and customer questions, then record what each engine says today — and who it recommends instead of you.

02

Fix the foundations

Crawlability, schema, entity consistency and content gaps are prioritised by impact, so the quickest, most defensible wins ship first.

03

Create and earn the sources

We rework key pages into answer-ready formats and build mentions on the third-party sites the models trust in your niche.

04

Measure, then refine

Monthly prompt tracking shows where visibility is moving. We double down on what's working and adjust what isn't.

Case studies

The SEO results AI search is built on.

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E-commerce · Homewares
+228%
organic visits
+200%
organic revenue
15,000
active users

Owning the searches that actually convert

Unable to match competitors' paid budgets, Miss Amara went all-in on organic. We targeted high-intent phrases and earned the rankings to match — compounding growth across 19 months.

Technical SEOContentCRO
Read the case study →
Medical Supplies · Ecommerce
+640%
estimated clicks
+320%
ranked keywords
$12,991
monthly traffic value

Rebuilding an ecommerce store's organic foundations

A previous agency had worked the site for nearly a year with little to show. From April 2022 we rebuilt the technical foundations and information architecture, remapped keywords and implemented GA4 — taking the store to 32,000 estimated clicks a month.

Technical SEOOn-pageLink Outreach
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Car Customisation · Sydney
+2500%
estimated clicks
1000+
ranked keywords
$1,372
monthly traffic value

On-page SEO that took a lead-gen site from invisible to 2,223 clicks

A Sydney car customisation business with almost no organic footprint. Focused on-page work and restructuring content for featured snippets took the site to 2,223 estimated clicks a month.

On-page SEOFeatured Snippets
Read the case study →
01

How generative engines choose who to cite

Each engine works differently, but the patterns are consistent enough to plan around:

  • Retrieval. Perplexity, ChatGPT search and Google AI Overviews fetch live pages. If your page ranks well and answers the question cleanly, it has a real chance of being quoted.
  • Consensus. Engines prefer claims that several independent sources agree on. A brand mentioned in industry press, reviews and comparison articles is a safer recommendation than one that only talks about itself.
  • Clarity. Ambiguous brand names, conflicting addresses and thin About pages make a model less confident. Structured data and consistent entity signals fix that.
  • Freshness. Outdated pricing, services or dates get passed over. Keeping key pages current matters more than it used to.
02

Why AI SEO starts with strong SEO

There is no separate secret index for AI. Google's AI features draw heavily on pages that already rank, and the other engines lean on search indexes too. That's why we treat generative engine optimisation as an extension of SEO rather than a replacement: technical health, helpful content and genuine authority still do most of the heavy lifting. What GEO adds is a sharper focus on answer formatting, entity clarity and the specific third-party sources each engine relies on.

03

What we can promise — and what nobody can

AI answers vary by engine, by wording and even by the day. Anyone guaranteeing that ChatGPT will always recommend you is overselling. What we can do is measure your visibility across a fixed set of prompts, make the changes that consistently improve it, and report honestly on the trend. If you want a baseline before committing, start with an AI visibility audit; if you're already investing, ongoing AI citation tracking keeps the picture current.

04

Senior strategists, no lock-in

Your account is run by senior strategists from our Sydney office, each with 10+ years in search. We don't tie clients into long contracts, and we only take on businesses we believe we can genuinely grow — so if AI search isn't the right priority for you yet, we'll say so.

Questions

AI SEO, answered.

Is generative engine optimisation different from AEO?+
They overlap heavily. Answer engine optimisation is the broad discipline of being surfaced in AI answers and featured results. Generative engine optimisation focuses specifically on the large language model engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode. We run them as one strategy.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?+
No, and you should be wary of anyone who does. AI responses change with phrasing, location and model updates. We measure visibility across a consistent prompt set so you can see the trend, and we focus on the changes that reliably improve it.
Do I need to change my whole website?+
Rarely. Most of the gains come from reworking a handful of high-value pages, tightening schema and entity signals, and earning mentions on the right third-party sites. We prioritise by impact so effort goes where it counts.
How long before I see results in AI answers?+
Engines that retrieve live pages, like Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, can reflect improvements within weeks of a page being recrawled. Changes in what a model has learned about your brand take longer. We report monthly so you can see movement as it happens.
Does AI SEO help my normal Google rankings too?+
Usually, yes. Clearer content, better structured data, stronger authority and a technically healthy site all support traditional rankings. That's one reason we never treat the two as competing budgets.
Do you implement the changes or just recommend them?+
Both. We can hand your developers a prioritised brief, or implement content, schema and on-page changes ourselves. Our content team can also produce the new answer-first pages.
Get in contact

Find out what AI says about you —
and what it should say.

✓ Prompt-level visibility across the major engines ✓ Senior strategists with 10+ years each ✓ No long lock-in contracts
Book an AI SEO consult → Or call +61 2 8999 3731