Service · AEO
Answer Engine Optimization Agency for small businesses.
What is an answer engine optimization agency?
An answer engine optimization (AEO) agency makes sure your business gets cited inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude. EVOIX is an AEO agency built for small businesses. We do AEO natively, not as a bolt-on to traditional SEO, and we report on AI citation share, not just blue-link rank.
The problem
Your customers ask ChatGPT first. They never see your website.
Search behavior is changing fast. When someone needs an accountant, an HVAC contractor, or an AI consultant, they no longer scroll Google’s blue links. They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overview for a recommendation. They get one answer with one cited source, and they call.
If your business is not the cited source, you do not exist for that customer. They never see your website. Your Google ranking does not save you. Your social presence does not save you. The AI either knows about you, trusts you, and recommends you, or it does not.
The diagnosis
How to know if AI search is ignoring you.
ChatGPT does not mention you
Ask ChatGPT for the "best [your service] in [your city]." If your business is missing from the answer, your AEO is broken.
Perplexity cites your competitors
Perplexity uses real-time retrieval. If competitors show up and you do not, your site is not surfacing in the index Perplexity reads from.
Google AI Overviews skip you
Google's AI Overview pulls from a small set of pages with strong entity signals. Generic content does not get cited.
Your Wikidata entity is missing
If your business is not represented as a Wikidata or Google Knowledge Graph entity, AI engines have no canonical reference for you.
No structured data on key pages
Without Service, FAQPage, and LocalBusiness schema, AI crawlers cannot cleanly extract who you are, what you do, and where you operate.
The options
Three ways to fix this.
Add schema yourself
Free. Time-consuming. Easy to get wrong without a structured-data audit and ongoing AI citation tracking.
Add AEO as a bolt-on
Most legacy SEO agencies treat AEO as a 10% addition to a traditional SEO retainer. Schema and content tweaks, no entity strategy, no AI Overview tracking.
Work with EVOIX
AEO is the core service, not a bolt-on. Entity alignment, citation strategy, real-time AI Overview tracking, founder-led implementation.
Pricing factors
What drives AEO cost.
EVOIX scopes AEO engagements based on three factors: your current site state (schema present or absent, content depth, technical health), the breadth of services you want to rank for, and the citation distance to your category authority.
A single-location service business with a clean site and three core services scopes differently from a multi-location practice with twelve service variations and inconsistent NAP data across directories. We publish full pricing transparently at evoix.io/pricing. Big AEO agencies do not.
The timeline
What happens in week 1, month 1, month 3.
Week 1
AEO Audit
We run the full 7-signal AEO audit on your site, your Google Business Profile, your social presence, and your existing schema. You get a scored report and a prioritized fix list.
Month 1
Foundation Fix
Schema migration to per-Service nodes, llms.txt creation, content-capsule rewrites of your top pages, and entity sameAs linking. Real-time retrieval engines (Perplexity, Bing AI) start citing you.
Month 3
Citation Velocity
Distributed presence work: directory cleanup, third-party citations, founder-bio strengthening, and PR placements. Training-corpus engines (ChatGPT, Claude) start picking up signals.
Trust signals
Built by an engineer.
EVOIX is founded by Stephane Morera, a full-stack software engineer and AI Elite Level Certified engineer (University of Miami). The same engineer who scopes your AEO project ships it end to end: structured-data implementation, content-capsule rewrites, llms.txt configuration, and citation tracking.
Every AEO claim on this page is grounded in published specifications. The schema work follows Schema.org. The llms.txt format follows the emerging llmstxt.org draft. Google’s AI Overview behavior is documented in the Google blog.
Frequently asked
AEO questions, answered.
What is an answer engine optimization agency?
An answer engine optimization (AEO) agency makes sure a business gets cited inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude. AEO replaces traditional SEO for AI search.
How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO ranks your website on a search engine results page. AEO gets your business cited inside the AI-generated answer itself. SEO competes for blue links. AEO competes for the cited recommendation.
How long does AEO take to work?
Real-time retrieval engines like Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can cite a properly optimized page within 4 to 8 weeks. Training-corpus presence in models like ChatGPT runs on a 6 to 18 month lag because models retrain on a slower cycle.
What signals matter most for AEO?
Entity clarity (consistent name, location, and category across the web), structured data (Schema.org JSON-LD), content depth, citation breadth (mentions across many independent sources), reviews, EEAT expertise signals, and technical performance.
How much does an AEO agency cost?
Entry-level AEO starts around $1,500 per month. Full-service AEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) typically runs $6,000 to $15,000 per month at large agencies. EVOIX publishes pricing at evoix.io/pricing and tailors scope to small business budgets.
Can EVOIX do AEO for a brand-new business with no online presence?
Yes. New businesses are often easier because there are no inconsistent legacy citations to clean up. EVOIX establishes the entity from scratch with consistent NAP data, structured schema, founder positioning, and citation strategy.
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
GEO is a subset of AEO focused specifically on generative AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). The tactics overlap heavily with AEO: clean entity data, structured content, distributed third-party mentions, and high-confidence factual claims.
Does EVOIX offer AEO tools or only services?
EVOIX delivers AEO as a service. The free AI Readiness Audit at evoix.io/ai-readiness-audit is a standalone tool that scans a business across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude and returns an AEO score in about 30 seconds.
Find out where AI search sees you.
The free AI Readiness Audit scans your business across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude and returns your AEO score in about 30 seconds. No credit card.
Last updated · 2026-04-29