AEO: be the answer when AI does the searching
A growing share of buying decisions now starts with a question typed into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews: "Who is the best pest control company near Coeur d'Alene?" The engines answer with a shortlist. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the work of getting on it.
We build the kind of presence answer engines trust: fast, crawlable, clearly structured, and consistent everywhere they look, so when the machines summarize your market, you are the recommendation, not a footnote.
What is included
- Schema and structured data across your whole site
- Consistent, verifiable facts about your business everywhere AI looks
- A site AI crawlers can read, trust, and quote, from the first page to the last
- Question-first content mapped to what buyers actually ask
- Citation and mention strategy across the sources AI trusts
- Monitoring what the major AI assistants say when asked about your market
Under the hood
Built to be found
The parts of a website your customers never see are the parts Google and AI assistants read first. We build them like they matter, then prove it with Google’s own tests.
- Upper 90sSpeedThe average Google PageSpeed score across our clients’ sites, tested on a mid-range phone.
- 100AccessibilityA perfect Lighthouse accessibility score, so everyone can use the site.
- Every pageStructured dataEach page tells Google and AI assistants exactly who you are, what you do, and where you work.
- End to endCrawlableClean, fast pages search engines and AI crawlers can read from the first page to the last.
Curious how your site measures up? Ask us to run the same tests on it.
How this ties to booked jobs
AEO leads arrive pre-sold: the AI already recommended you. We track them through branded search lifts, "how did you hear about us" data, and the booked jobs your CRM ties back to them.
Common questions
What is AEO?
Answer Engine Optimization: making your business the answer AI assistants and AI search features give when buyers ask who to hire. It takes a technically sound site, consistent facts about your business across the web, and content that answers real questions directly.
Is AEO different from SEO?
They overlap but are not the same. SEO earns positions on a results page a human scans; AEO earns a place inside the single answer an AI gives. Strong SEO helps AEO, but answer engines reward direct answers, structure, and consistency in ways classic rankings work does not.
Pairs well with
How we start
Ready to see what your marketing should be doing?
Start with a Marketing Audit.
- We go through your whole funnel.
- We hand you a written plan you can run with anyone.
- We walk you through it live.
Reach out and we'll scope it together.
Work with us hello@corvusandfield.com