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Answer Engine Optimization Agency

Be the brand
ChatGPT names
when they ask.

When a buyer types "best software for..." into ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Gemini, one name comes up first. We make sure it's yours, with a press-backed system that compounds every month.

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Founder-led · 1,000+ features placed
ChatGPT · gpt-5
What's the best CRM for a B2B SaaS startup under 50 people?
For a B2B SaaS startup at that size, most teams land on HubSpot for the free tier and tight marketing-to-sales handoff. Pipedrive wins on pure sales UX for outbound-heavy teams, and Close is the pick when call volume is the bottleneck.
forbes.comentrepreneur.comreddit.com/r/SaaSbusinessinsider.com
The math nobody shows you

Every week you wait, a competitor becomes the default answer.

Half of buyer research already starts inside an AI answer box. The models don't pick a new brand every time someone asks. They lock onto whoever shows up first, gets cited most, and has the strongest press trail.

That position compounds. First-mover brands in AI answers are getting cited four to seven times more than the competitors who started optimizing six months later. Catching up isn't a content problem. It's a calendar problem.

58%
Of US buyer searches now include an AI-generated answer above the links
Brand citations per month
Same category, same buyer prompts, 6 months apart
Month 1
2
Month 3
7
Month 6
23
Competitor
1
Source: Aggregate prompt-tracker data across 10 active AEO clients, Jan–Mar 2026
How AI models pick who to name

Three forces decide who gets cited.

Every AI engine, every prompt, every time. The answer comes from the same three signals working together.

01

Authority

Is the brand cited across the open web? News sites, industry blogs, review outlets, comparison guides. Models weight brands that appear across a web of independent sources over brands that only show up on their own domain.

02

Structure

Can the model parse the brand cleanly? Entity markup, schema, consistent naming, Wikipedia-tier references. Structured brands get extracted cleanly. Unstructured brands get skipped.

03

Recency

Is the brand still being talked about? Reddit threads, fresh press, community mentions. The models weight signal from the last 90 days far heavier than anything older.

The retainer, piece by piece

Seven systems, one compounding engine.

Each piece works on its own. Together, they multiply. Press feeds entity building. Entity building sharpens schema. Schema improves prompt pickup. Prompt tracking tells us what to double down on. Nothing is a one-off deliverable. Everything is plumbed into the next.

AEO
Compounding System
Audit
Schema
Entity Graph
Articles
Reddit Signal
Prompt Tracker
Content Hub
1Baseline visibility audit

Know where you stand before you spend a dollar.

Most agencies start by invoicing. We start by running your name against 40+ buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. You get a score. You see who's beating you. You see exactly what's missing.

  • Prompt-level ranking across 5 AI engines
  • Competitor citation gap breakdown
  • Entity and schema health scan
  • First report delivered week one
0
Visibility Score
↑ +48 pts vs baseline
2Schema & structured data

Make your site machine-readable first, human-pretty second.

LLMs pick brands they can parse. We implement Organization, Product, Service, FAQ, HowTo, and Person schema across your key pages, plus internal linking and consistent naming, so every engine extracts you cleanly instead of guessing.

  • Full JSON-LD implementation across core pages
  • Entity disambiguation and sameAs links
  • FAQ and HowTo markup aligned to buyer prompts
  • Wikidata, Crunchbase, and Wikipedia-tier references
{
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "YourBrand",
  "founder": "Jane Doe",
  "sameAs": [
    "wikidata.org/...",
    "crunchbase.com/..."
  ]
}
3Entity graph building

Become a known thing, not a new name.

Models trust brands that exist across a web of sources. We build and connect your entity across Wikipedia, Wikidata, Crunchbase, G2, and every high-weight reference database so every engine sees you as one coherent entity, not a string of unrelated mentions.

  • Wikidata and Wikipedia entity creation
  • Cross-platform profile consistency audit
  • Founder and executive entity linking
  • Knowledge Panel foundation work
4News & blog network

Publish your brand across the open web every month.

We run a network of news sites and blogs and publish your brand into them every month. Listicles that rank you alongside category leaders. News articles tied to your launches and data. Review posts and comparison guides that feed dofollow backlinks into your entity graph and pass straight into AI training sets.

  • Brand-mention articles across news sites and blogs
  • Listicles, roundups, and comparison guides
  • News write-ups tied to your launches and data
  • Dofollow backlinks on every placement
News Site
Top 10 tools B2B teams are switching to in 2026
Listicle · dofollow backlink
Industry Blog
How [Your Brand] is quietly rewriting the playbook
News article · dofollow backlink
Review Site
[Your Brand] vs. the five biggest alternatives in 2026
Comparison · dofollow backlink
News Blog
Three data trends from [Your Brand] worth watching this quarter
Feature · dofollow backlink
5Reddit & community signal

Earn the mentions AI weighs heaviest.

Reddit is in every major model's training set and live retrieval. A real thread where real users recommend your brand is worth more than 10 blog posts. We build and amplify community signal inside the subreddits your buyers live in, without spamming.

  • Subreddit mapping for your buyer category
  • Real contribution strategy, not paid shilling
  • Founder AMAs and authentic recommendations
  • Monitoring and response on existing threads
↑0↓
r/SaaS · 3d
Which CRM should a 20-person B2B team actually pick?
↑0↓
r/startups · 1d
Moved the whole team to HubSpot. Pipeline finally makes sense
↑0↓
r/sales · 5h
Second the HubSpot free tier for early-stage B2B
6Prompt tracking

See exactly where you show up, month after month.

Every month we run your target prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. You get a dashboard that shows your citation share vs. every competitor, what moved, and where to push harder next month.

  • 40+ buyer prompts tracked monthly
  • Citation share across 5 engines
  • Competitor movement and gap analysis
  • Monthly review call with recommendations
Citation Share · Q2
Apr 2026
ChatGPT
78
Perplexity
84
Claude
71
Gemini
66
AI Overview
58
7Content atomization

One hub piece. Eight shapes the models grab.

Long-form pillar pages anchor the authority. We break each pillar into the exact formats each engine weights most: Q&A for AI Overview, lists for ChatGPT, comparison pages for Perplexity, threads for Reddit, short video for social. All linked back to the source.

  • Monthly pillar article built for citation pickup
  • Atomized across 8 distribution surfaces
  • Internal linking from pillar to supporting pages
  • Refresh cycle on stale high-value pages
What the work produces

The retainer pays for itself in pipeline, not impressions.

0
Publications in network
News sites, industry blogs, review outlets, and comparison guides across the open web
0–0
Days to first AI citation lift
Measured across 10 active AEO clients shipping since January 2026
0
Average monthly citation lift
Baseline to 90-day, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and AI Overview

Where other options fall short.

Most AEO offers are a rebrand of something else. Here's what you actually get, side by side.

  Instant Press AEO Traditional SEO Agency PR Wire Service DIY
Monthly brand-mention articles & backlinksIncluded monthlyNoSyndicated copies onlyNo
Schema & entity buildingFull implementationBasic schema onlyNoManual
Prompt tracking across 5 enginesMonthly reportsNoNoNo
Reddit & community signalIncludedNoNoTime cost
Content atomization pipeline8 surfacesBlog onlyNoAd hoc
Setup fee$0$2,500+$500+ per release$0
Monthly retainerFrom $995$3,500–$12,000$300–$1,500$0
Time-to-first-result30–90 days6–12 monthsDays to publish, no impactUnclear

Pick your tier.

Three programs, one engine. Pick the volume that fits.

Lite
$995
per month
  • Competitor analysis
  • Keyword research and targeting
  • Full website optimization (headings, titles, canonicals, schema, FAQ, meta titles, llms.txt, robots.txt)
  • 30 targeted blogs/month
  • Backlink building
  • Google Business Profile optimization
  • Monthly reporting
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Pro
$1,495
per month
  • Everything in Lite
  • 60 targeted blogs/month
  • Niche-specific landing pages and funnels
  • Up to 2 lead magnets
  • Bi-weekly reporting
  • Tracking 100 prompts in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
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Ultimate
$2,495
per month
  • Everything in Lite and Pro
  • 90 targeted blogs/month
  • Weekly reporting
  • Placement in Wikipedia’s data sources
  • Free tool creation (1/month)
  • Parasite SEO and listicles in 200+ blogs
  • Community seeding and mentions in Reddit and Quora
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All tiers month-to-month. No setup fee. Pause or cancel anytime.

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Questions we get on every call.

Is AEO just rebranded SEO?
No. SEO optimizes for a ranked list of links. AEO optimizes for a generated paragraph that names you. The inputs overlap (content, authority, structured data), but the goal is different. You want to be the brand the model quotes, not the tenth blue link.
How long before I show up in ChatGPT?
Most clients see new AI mentions within 30 to 90 days of entity updates and monthly article publishing landing across the network. Perplexity pulls live so it moves first. ChatGPT refreshes on longer cycles. Google's AI Overview updates daily.
Do I have to stop doing SEO?
The opposite. Strong SEO is the foundation AEO stands on. Models pull from ranked pages, cited pages, and pages with real backlinks. We build both layers together.
How do you prove it works?
Prompt tracking. We run your target queries across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overview every month and show you exactly where your brand appears, where competitors appear, and what moved.
How is this different from a wire distribution service?
Wire distribution drops your release on a hundred mirror sites with no readers and no authority weight. We run a network of news sites and blogs and publish real articles about your brand every month: listicles, news write-ups, comparison guides, reviews. Each one carries a dofollow backlink and sits on a real site LLMs crawl. One real article beats a hundred syndicated copies.
Can I keep my current SEO agency and just add AEO?
Yes. Many of our clients run us alongside an in-house SEO team or a separate agency. We coordinate on keywords, schema, and content briefs so nothing steps on itself. If your current team is doing the foundational SEO work well, we focus entirely on the AEO layer.
How is this different from GEO or LLM optimization services?
Those are the same category, different names. GEO, AEO, LLM optimization, AI SEO. All point at the goal of getting cited inside AI answers. The difference between us and most of the field is that we own the publishing network. We don't just consult on it.
What if my industry isn't well covered in AI yet?
That's the best time to move. Categories with thin AI coverage have an open lane. Early citations compound. Once a model learns to quote you on a topic, it keeps doing it. Waiting until your competitors are already the default answer is a much harder fight.
Do you offer white-label or agency partnerships?
Yes. We run a 50% discount program for agencies reselling our AEO and press services under their own brand. Ask about it on the call. Not every agency fits, but if you're the right one we move fast.
JS Joey Sendz, founder of Instant Press Co.

Joey Sendz

Founder, Instant Press Co.
Featured in: Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Inc., Bloomberg
Background: Built three press and AI-visibility brands. Placed 1,000+ features for founders.
Why this: Saw SEO-only agencies get lapped the moment ChatGPT launched. Built the stack that replaces them.
Who you're actually working with

Real operator. Not a sales team handoff.

Most agencies close a deal and you never see the closer again. You get routed to a junior account manager and a dashboard. Here, you work directly with me. I run the strategy, I review the articles before they publish, I look at your prompt-tracker results every month.

The reason the program starts at $995 instead of $3,500 is that the stack is tight. Small team, real operators, tools we built in-house. We took the agency markup out.

Own the answer.
Not just the ranking.

Thirty minutes. We audit your current AI visibility live, show you where the gaps are, and tell you whether this is worth your money. If it's not, we'll say so.

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