AEO agency · answer engine optimization
The AEO Agency That Gets You Cited, Not Just Ranked
Your buyers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity who to hire. We make sure your business is in the answer, described correctly, and linked as the source.
Free 30-minute call with Cory. You keep the roadmap either way.
Who’s the best option for a company like mine?
Here are three worth a look:
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Why this matters
AI Search Is Already Picking Who Gets Recommended
Someone asks ChatGPT, “Who’s the best [your service] for a company like mine?”
They don’t get ten blue links. They get a short list of names.
Who’s the best option for a company like mine?
Here are three worth a look:
1Competitor Acited
2Competitor Bcited
3Competitor Ccited
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If you’re not on it, you never made the shortlist. You didn’t lose on price or on your pitch. You lost before they knew you existed.
That’s not a someday problem, it’s happening now.
And showing up isn’t enough. Being citation #17 is basically the same as not being cited.
That’s the job of answer engine optimization (AEO): getting your business surfaced, described correctly and cited as the source when people ask AI assistants, Google AI Overviews and voice search for an answer.
ThenSearch results
- Your business#4
Ten links. Rank #4 and you still get the click.
NowAI answer
1Competitor A
2Competitor B
3Competitor C
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Three names. Miss the list and you miss the buyer.
What's included
What Our AEO Services Cover
Every AEO engagement covers the same six pieces, prioritized by what’s costing you recommendations right now.
AI Visibility Audit
We run the questions your buyers actually ask through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Then we map where you show up, who shows up instead, and which sources the AI is citing.
Answer-First Content
Pages that answer the question in the first two sentences, then prove it. Clear, direct answers are the easiest thing for an AI model to quote.
Technical Fixes So AI Can Read Your Site
If AI crawlers are blocked, pages break, or your key facts are buried where AI can’t read them, you don’t get cited. We find those issues and fix them first. We also keep your schema markup (code that labels your pages for search engines) clean for regular Google results. We just won’t sell it to you as an AI shortcut.
Citations, Digital PR And Third-Party Mentions
AI trusts what other sites say about you more than what you say about yourself. We earn mentions on the review sites, directories, industry lists and Reddit threads your category’s answers are built from.
Consistent Brand Facts Everywhere AI Looks
Your name, services, locations and customers, stated the same way on every platform. When the facts match everywhere, every AI platform describes you the same way.
Citation Tracking And AI Referral Reporting
We track how often you’re cited across a fixed set of buyer prompts every month, and report traffic and leads from AI sources separately from regular organic.
Reporting tied to leads and revenue, not screenshots of one good answer.
The receipts
What AEO Results Look Like
The full story behind the numbers: what we did, why we did it, and what moved.
How we measure it
The 4 C’s Of AI Visibility
Every AEO program we run is scored on BCC’s 4 C’s. The audit shows where you stand. The work moves each one.
Want to score yourself first? The AI Visibility Playbook shows you how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity see your business across all four C’s, in about 15 minutes.
Clarity
AI Knows What You Do
If ChatGPT describes your business wrong, every answer built on that description is wrong too. We fix the pages and facts it’s pulling from.
Context
AI Knows Who You Serve
AI decides which customers you’re “for.” Often it decides wrong. We make your ideal customer, industry and service area explicit, on your site and off it.
Comparison
You Make The Shortlist
When someone asks for the best option in your category, we work to put you in the answer, with the reasons you win stated plainly.
Citation · Most overlooked
You’re The Source
Being named isn’t the same as being linked. We build the pages and third-party mentions that get you cited as the source, not just mentioned in passing.
AEO, GEO And AI Search Optimization: One Program, Three Names
Shopping for a GEO agency, an AI search optimization agency or a generative engine optimization agency? You’re looking for the same thing.
AEO
Answer engine optimization
The broader, older term. HubSpot and Ahrefs both use it as their umbrella label.
GEO
Generative engine optimization
The narrower term for visibility inside AI-generated answers. Researchers at Princeton and Georgia Tech coined it in their 2023 paper “GEO: Generative Engine Optimization.”
AI SEO
AI search optimization
“AI SEO” and “AI search optimization” get used for both.
The label matters less than the work. We lead with AEO, and every GEO service lives inside it.
Why AEO Works Best On Top Of Strong SEO
SEO isn’t dead. It’s evolving.
AI tools that search the web pull their answers from pages search engines can already find and trust. Weak traditional SEO usually means weak AEO.
That’s why every AEO program we run sits on a real SEO foundation: technical health, content that ranks and authority from other sites. SEO and AEO run as one program, not two invoices.
You can’t build the second floor before the first one’s solid.
Before you hire anyone
How To Pick The Right AEO Agency
Some of the “best AEO agencies” lists out there are published by agencies on those same lists. So skip the rankings. Ask these five questions instead, to us or anyone else.
| Ask this | Why it matters | Our answer |
|---|---|---|
| Is AEO your core service or an add-on? | Almost every SEO agency lists AEO now. Fewer can show the work. | AEO and SEO run as one program here, and we publish our GEO research on our blog. |
| Can you show me a client’s citation share and the prompts you track? | Citation share is how often you’re cited across a set of buyer prompts. It’s the number that proves AEO is working. | Yes. You see the prompt set and the raw AI answers, every month. |
| Do you sell schema markup as an AI citation fix? | Plenty of agencies pitch schema as the key to AI answers. Google says its AI features need no special schema. | No. We keep schema clean for regular search and spend your budget on the content, mentions and technical fixes AI actually draws from. |
| Do you report AI traffic separately? | Otherwise your AI wins hide inside regular organic numbers. | Yes. AI referrals and the leads they drive get their own line. |
| Do you guarantee a spot in ChatGPT? | Nobody controls what an AI model says. | No. Anyone who guarantees that is guessing. We show you exactly what we did and what moved. |
Ask Cory all five on your roadmap call.
How it works
How The Free Roadmap Call Works
We’ll have already asked AI about you before you join. No discovery questions.
1
Pick A Time
Choose a 30-minute slot. Reschedule anytime with one click.
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We Do The Homework
We run your AI visibility check across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity before the call.
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30 Minutes With Cory
What AI says about you, who it recommends instead, and why.
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Keep The Roadmap
Recording, recap and a 90-day priority list within 24 hours, whether or not we work together.
Meet the founder
Cory Runs Every Roadmap Call Himself
Cory started agency-side on NBA, NFL and NASCAR accounts, then ran marketing teams at Comcast and Campbell’s. Now he brings that experience to B2B companies, local businesses and nonprofits: $500M+ in client revenue and $100M+ in managed ad spend.
BCC is based in Philadelphia and works with companies across the U.S. No corporate nonsense, no long-term contracts.
We’ve built a good relationship with them over these three years. They’ve supported us through busy seasons, staff changes, new hires, the ever-changing field of SEO, and AI gaining momentum.
Working with Cory and the team at BCC has been the exact opposite of my previous experience.
Who This Is For
A Good Fit
- An established business with a proven offer
- A website already getting some traffic
- Customers who research before they buy
- Want AI answers and search working together to grow revenue, not just traffic
Not A Fit
- Pre-launch with no website
- Looking for a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all audit
- Shopping for the cheapest option
- Looking for guarantees
AEO Questions, Answered
Still deciding? Ask Cory on the call. It’s free.
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the work of getting your business surfaced, described correctly and cited when people ask AI assistants, Google AI Overviews, featured snippets or voice search a question. SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. AEO gets you into the answer itself.
Mostly the name. AEO is the broader, older term. GEO (generative engine optimization) is the narrower term for visibility inside AI-generated answers, coined by Princeton and Georgia Tech researchers in 2023. Most people use them interchangeably, and the work is the same.
No. AI tools that search the web pull their answers from pages search engines can already find and trust. Weak SEO usually means weak AEO, so we run them as one program.
If your customers research before they buy, yes. They’re already asking AI for recommendations, and you’re either in that answer or you’re not. If your customers only find you through referrals or walk-ins, fix the basics first. We’ll tell you which one you are on the call.
Three layers. Citation share: how often you’re cited across a fixed set of buyer prompts. AI referral traffic: visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and others, tracked separately in GA4. Leads and revenue: form fills and calls from those visits, plus a “how did you hear about us” field that catches AI mentions that never click. Full breakdown: How To Measure GEO Performance.
Every plan is scoped to your goals, and your roadmap includes exact numbers, so you’ll know the investment before you commit to anything.
Maybe. Ask them the five questions above. If they can’t show you a citation share report or the prompts they track, they’ve added the label, not the work.
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