AI SEO · GEO · AEO · LLM SEO
CiteVantage is an AI SEO agency built for the answer, not the ten blue links.
Ranking is not the same as being recommended.
Search engines list pages. AI engines name names. An AI SEO agency exists to make sure the name they give is yours.
Unedited screenshot. Nobody in this answer paid to be there. Full set on our Houston AI SEO page.
What is an AI SEO agency?
An AI SEO agency is a company that gets a brand named, with a link, inside the answers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews give. Whether it calls itself an AI SEO company, a GEO agency or an LLM SEO agency, the work is one discipline: making a brand quotable and verifiable to a model.
Traditional SEO earns a position in a list of links. AI SEO earns a mention inside the answer itself, where most people now stop reading.
Optimised for a ranking. Reported in rankings.
- A position for a keyword. Nothing about what ChatGPT says when a buyer asks.
- Sessions and traffic, with no way to know which answer the buyer actually read.
- ChatGPT checked at best. Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews never looked at.
- You never find out which firms got named instead of you.
Optimised for a mention. Reported in screenshots.
- Your buyers' real questions, run live on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
- A screenshot of every answer you are in, and every one you are not.
- Who is being named instead of you, by name, with the source the engine trusted.
- Not newly cited on your agreed questions inside 90 days? We run a second sprint free.
The page stops being the product. The sentence does.
An engine does not hand a buyer ten options. It picks a few, names them, and stops. Everything we build is aimed at making your name one of the few it can safely quote.
Four engines, checked every time.
Most agencies check ChatGPT and call it AI visibility. Your buyers are spread across all four, so we measure all four.
ChatGPT
The largest assistant, and the one most likely to name a shortlist without links.
Google AI Overviews
Sits above the organic results, so it takes the click before your ranking matters.
Perplexity
Cites sources aggressively, which makes it the fastest engine to win a citation on.
Gemini
Pulls hard on structured data and Google Business Profile signals.
Generative engine optimization, answer engine optimization and LLM SEO.
Three names for overlapping work. Here is what each one actually changes on your site, in the order we do it.
Discipline 1
Answer engine optimization (AEO)
Rewriting your pages into blocks an engine can quote. A direct answer in the first two sentences, named entities, specific numbers, and a question heading that matches how people actually ask.
Discipline 2
Generative engine optimization (GEO)
Making your brand legible as an entity. Schema the engines parse, a machine-readable profile page, llms.txt, and consistent naming everywhere a model might cross-check you.
Discipline 3
LLM SEO and crawler access
Confirming the AI crawlers can actually reach you. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest, checked against your robots rules, your CDN and your server responses. Blocked crawlers are the most common cause we find.
Discipline 4
Third-party corroboration
Engines discount what you say about yourself. We build the mentions, listings and reviews that let a model verify you exist without taking your word for it.
We measured 181 brands. 87% were absent from every engine.
Original data, not borrowed statistics. It is also what makes our own pages quotable by the engines we optimise for. Read the study.
How our AI SEO services run.
Three steps. You see the evidence before you pay anything. It is the same process behind our real estate SEO agency work and our AI SEO agency in Houston.
Measure
We run your buyers' real questions live across all four engines and screenshot who gets named instead of you.
Fix
Answer blocks, schema, llms.txt, an AI profile page, crawler access, and the third-party proof that makes it credible.
Track
The same prompt set re-run every month, with a screenshot of every answer you appear in and every one you still do not.
AI SEO agency pricing, published.
You should not have to book a call to find out if you can afford us.
Cited within 90 days, or I keep working free.
Newly cited on your agreed buyer questions within 90 days, or I run a second sprint free until you are.
Free AI Visibility Audit
$0· 48-hour turnaroundFor any brand that wants to see exactly where it stands in AI answers. No pitch, no strings.
Starter
For solo agents and small teams new to AI search, testing the waters on a budget.
- ✓Up to 5 cited-grade guides / month
- ✓Tracking across 2 AI engines, monthly
- ✓Core technical + entity foundation
- ✓1 off-site corroboration channel
- ✓Monthly citation report
Growth
For agents, teams and growing local brands serious about owning their market in AI answers. Everything you need, nothing you do not.
- ✓Up to 15 cited-grade guides / month
- ✓Weekly tracking across all four AI engines
- ✓Full off-site engine: directories, reviews, digital-PR, Reddit / Quora
- ✓Ongoing schema + new-product coverage
- ✓Monthly lift report + strategy call
- ✓Includes the full Sprint build in month one
Scale
For brokerages, multi-office teams and multi-market operations that need AI visibility at scale.
- ✓Everything in Growth, across multiple brands or markets
- ✓Programmatic schema + content at catalog scale
- ✓Bi-weekly deep tracking + competitor monitoring
- ✓Priority delivery + quarterly strategy review
One-time. No subscription.
Want the full build without paying every month?
The AI Visibility Sprint is the full build, done once. You own it. No retainer, no lock-in.
Cited within 90 days, or the second sprint is free.
Questions people ask before hiring an AI SEO agency.
What is the difference between AI SEO, GEO, AEO and LLM SEO?+
They are four names for one job. Answer engine optimization (AEO) is writing pages in blocks an engine can quote. Generative engine optimization (GEO) is making your brand legible as an entity, through schema, a machine-readable profile and consistent naming. LLM SEO is the umbrella term, and in practice it also covers whether the AI crawlers can reach your site at all. An AI SEO agency does all of it, because a brand that is quotable but unverifiable, or verifiable but blocked, still does not get named.
Do I still need traditional SEO if I do AI SEO?+
Yes, and it comes first. Every AI engine leans on crawlable, fast, well-structured pages and on the third-party sources classic SEO earns. AI SEO is built on top of that foundation, not instead of it. What changes is the target: a mention inside the answer, rather than a position in a list of links.
How do you measure AI visibility?+
A fixed set of your buyers' real questions, run live across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, then re-run monthly. Every answer is screenshotted, so you can see the result yourself rather than trusting a dashboard number.
How long until I get cited?+
Most clients see a first citation between weeks four and ten. Perplexity usually moves first because it cites sources most aggressively. We put a hard line on it in writing: newly cited by a major AI engine on your agreed buyer questions within 90 days, or we run a second sprint free.
What does an AI SEO agency cost?+
Ours is published on this page: the audit is free, the AI Visibility Sprint is $499 one time, and monthly plans start at $249 with no lock-in. You do not need to book a call to find out.
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Find out which brand AI names instead of yours.
Two fields. We run your buyers' real questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, screenshot every answer, and email the report inside 48 hours. If you are already in the answer, the report says so.
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Three named. None of them you.