Answer Engine Optimization
Your competitors are getting the best leads through AI.
Buyers now research through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. If AI isn't recommending you, your competitors take the lead — and the revenue.
$ rankgarage optimize --target yourbrand.com ✓ live
of Google searches now end without a click — AI answers the question directly
SparkToro / Datos, 2025
weekly active users on ChatGPT alone — your buyers are already there
OpenAI, 2025
higher conversion rate from AI-referred traffic vs traditional organic traffic
Industry benchmark, 2026
of organic search traffic shifting to AI assistants by end of 2026
Gartner Research
Right now, AI engines are answering buyer questions in your category.
They're recommending 3-5 brands per answer.
If your brand isn't one of them, those buyers never see you.
We track and optimize your brand across
While you read this, AI might have recommended your competitor to a buyer
The shift already happened. Buyers ask AI before they ever see your website. If AI is not recommending you, those high-intent, ready-to-buy leads go straight to the brands that are optimized.
of Google searches end without a click — AI answers steal the lead
of genuine buyers research through AI before making a buying decision, not just Google any more
is what you earn from AI traffic if you are not optimized
brands get AI recommendations per query — the rest get nothing
The cost of doing nothing:
- Your paid ads cost more every quarter, but AI traffic is free
- Competitors who optimize for AI now will lock you out for years
- Every day without AEO = qualified buyers going to your competitors
- AI recommendations compound — the longer you wait, the harder it gets
The transformation
From invisible to inevitable
See exactly what changes when AI starts recommending your brand to every buyer in your market.
Revenue you are leaving on the table
Calculate your AI revenue gap
See exactly how much revenue you are losing by not being recommended by AI platforms.
Without AEO, these leads go directly to competitors who are already optimized for AI recommendations.
Estimates based on industry averages for B2B companies. Actual results vary by industry, competition, and current AI visibility.
Claim your revenue opportunityProcess
From invisible to AI-recommended in 30 days
A proven 4-step process to turn AI into your #1 lead source. No guesswork. No long timelines.
Free Audit
Day 1
Strategy
Week 1
Launch
Week 2-4
Scale
Ongoing
Free Audit
Day 1We show you exactly which competitors AI recommends over you — and how many leads you are losing. Free, no commitment. Most clients are shocked.
$999 value — freeStrategy
Week 1We design the exact schema, content, and llms.txt strategy to make AI choose you over every competitor in your category. You approve before we build.
Custom battle planLaunch
Week 2-4We implement everything — no work required from your team. AI starts recognizing and recommending your brand. First leads typically arrive within weeks.
Done-for-you setupScale
OngoingWe track every AI-driven lead, optimize what converts, and expand into new queries. Your pipeline grows month over month while cost per lead drops.
Compounding returnsTakes 30 seconds. No commitment required.
The AEO Platform
Eight engines working together to make AI recommend your brand
Why us
The AEO landscape has two camps. We're the third.
Content mills generate volume. Dashboards generate reports. We guarantee AI discovery & traffic.
- 100+ AI-generated pages/month
- Backlinks from private partner networks
- Basic structured data
- Basic lead tracking
- ~$800-$2,500/month
High volume, low depth
- Zero pages created
- No authority building
- No implementation
- Advanced AI tracking
- ~$200-$2,000/month
Great data, no action
- 15-25 expert-reviewed pages/month
- Digital PR from real publications
- Deep schema, llms.txt, entity optimization
- AI tracking + full execution engine
- $999 audit / from $1,500/month
Execution + intelligence
Our approach
What we actually do (and how it works)
Most agencies hand you a dashboard or flood your site with AI content. We engineer how AI understands, trusts, and recommends your brand.
Research
We map the exact prompts your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity — and reverse-engineer why AI cites one brand over another in your category.
Schema
We engineer deep Schema.org markup, llms.txt, entity graphs, and semantic structure so AI knowledge graphs can parse exactly what your brand is, what it sells, and who it serves.
Engineer Content
Expert-reviewed pages with answer blocks, original data, and citation-ready structure. The content AI engines weight most heavily — because it can't be regenerated by other AI.
Train AI Platforms
We weaponize your brand with reverse engineering. Hundreds of AI agents engage and train ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude to recognize, trust, and recommend you.
See what we deliver
What a real AEO audit looks like
We ran an audit on a mid-market B2B company. Here's what we found.
$ rankgarage audit acme-b2b-software.com --engines all
✓ Crawl complete — 142 pages · 6 engines queried
VISIBILITY SCORE
23/100
ENGINES MENTIONING
2 of 6
CITATION ACCURACY
45%
! Schema.org markup missing on 85% of pages
! No llms.txt · no answer blocks · zero entity optimization
→ Competitor X appears in 5 of 6 engines
Results delivered within 48 hours. No commitment required.
Engineering, not guesswork
This is what AI engines actually read
We don't write "AI-friendly blog posts." We engineer the machine-readable layer — llms.txt, entity-rich Schema.org markup, answer blocks — that makes engines trust and cite you.
# yourbrand.com — llms.txt
# Optimized by RankGarage
> YourBrand builds payroll automation for startups.
> Founded 2019 · SOC 2 Type II · 4,000+ customers.
## Products
- [Payroll Engine](https://yourbrand.com/payroll): automated
multi-state payroll with same-day off-cycle runs
- [Benefits Sync](https://yourbrand.com/benefits): carrier
integrations with zero manual enrollment
## Compare
- [vs Competitor X](https://yourbrand.com/vs/competitor-x){
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"name": "YourBrand Payroll",
"applicationCategory": "BusinessApplication",
"aggregateRating": {
"@type": "AggregateRating",
"ratingValue": "4.8",
"ratingCount": "1247"
},
"offers": { "@type": "Offer", "price": "39.00" },
"sameAs": [
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/yourbrand",
"https://www.g2.com/products/yourbrand"
]
}Our commitment
Within 90 days, your brand will appear in at least 3 major AI engines for buyer-intent queries in your category. If we don't deliver that, Month 4 and onward is free of cost on us — no questions asked.
Specific, measurable goal
Not vague "improvement" — real AI engine visibility
No long-term lock-in
Month-to-month after initial onboarding
Full transparency
You see every metric we track
Every day you wait, a competitor takes your leads
Get your free AI visibility audit. See which competitors AI recommends over you — and the revenue you're leaving on the table. Takes 30 seconds.