Generative Engine Optimization

Be the source the answer comes from.

Your customers already ask AI before they search. We make sure that when ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot answer, you are one of the sources they cite.

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The shift

AI answers are replacing search results.

When someone asks an AI a question, they don’t get a page of results to pick from. They get a single answer, assembled from the handful of sources it decided to trust. If you’re not one of those sources, the customer never sees you.

4.4×
the conversion rate of AI referrals, versus traditional organic traffic. Conductor / Lantern, 2026
40–59%
of the domains AI engines cite change every month. Profound
89%
of AI-cited links come from earned, third-party media.
Illustrative: an answer engine reads and scores candidate sources, then cites only the top few. GEO is the work of getting you into that set and keeping you there.
The method · three pillars

Getting cited rests on three things.

01 · Accessibility

AI can actually read you

Retrieval crawlers read raw HTML and never run JavaScript. If your content isn’t in the source code, they can’t see it. We make every page machine-readable: server-rendered, fast, and indexed in Bing (which feeds ChatGPT and Copilot) as well as Google.

02 · Structure

Your answer is extractable

Engines extract passages rather than ranking whole pages. We rewrite the pages that matter answer-first: the claim stated plainly up front, backed by dated statistics, named quotes and cited sources. These are the factors the Princeton GEO study measured.

03 · Authority

The citations stay

Good structure can get you cited within weeks, but citations decay without reinforcement. We build the third-party corroboration that keeps you cited as the engines change: earned media, community presence, reviews, and entity signals.

Technical and structural work can show results in weeks. Authority takes months to build, and it is what makes the results last.

Engine by engine

Each engine finds its sources differently.

We optimize once for clean structure, then handle what each engine needs on top of that.

ChatGPT · Copilot

Retrieve through Bing

Both pull sources from Bing’s index. If you’re not in it, they can’t cite you, no matter how well you rank on Google. Bing verification and IndexNow fix this, and most teams never set them up.

Google AI Overviews · Gemini

Built on Google’s index

They reward complete, well-organized pages and demonstrated expertise. Ranking still helps, but it no longer decides on its own whether you get cited.

Perplexity

Its own crawler, biased to fresh content

It strongly favors fresh, well-structured, original content. It is usually the first engine to cite new work, which makes it a useful early indicator that the fundamentals are in place.

Claude

Its own index, plus Brave

Rewards passage-level structure more than any other engine: a single clear paragraph can earn a citation. It reads the web through Claude-SearchBot and, reportedly, Brave Search, so Brave indexing matters here too. It favors writing that reads like analysis.

How we work

A program in four stages.

We run GEO the way we run everything else: find what will actually move the numbers, build that, and leave you able to run it. Four stages, measured from week one.

01Weeks 1–2

Foundation

Fix crawler access, confirm the site renders server-side, verify Bing, set up IndexNow, and add clean schema. This is the highest-impact work, and it is where most sites turn out to be broken.

02Weeks 2–8

Structure

Rebuild priority pages answer-first: question-led headings, self-contained answer capsules, dated statistics, named quotes, inline citations, and one or two pillar-and-cluster topic hubs.

03Months 2–6

Authority

The work that makes citations last: earned media, real community presence, reviews, entity work across Wikipedia and Wikidata, and original research other sites want to cite.

04Ongoing

Measurement

Baseline your citation share across all four engines before we touch anything, then report monthly. When a competitor is cited and you aren’t, that gap becomes the next month’s work.

How we know

We plan from what the engines actually do.

We track citations across every engine and test what actually changes them. A few things we rely on in the work:

Google · fast to index

Clean, well-structured pages get indexed and ranking within days, often before authority builds. It is the quickest surface to show early progress.

Perplexity · first to cite

It rewards structure and recency, so well-built content tends to land here first. We use it as an early read that the fundamentals are right.

Authority · what makes citations last

Citations without corroboration decay within weeks. We build the earned media, community and entity signals that keep you cited for the long run.

Bing & Brave · the overlooked indexes

ChatGPT and Copilot pull from Bing. Claude reportedly uses Brave. We make sure you are indexed in both, which most teams never check.

Half of the sources AI cites change every month. Our job is to make you one that lasts.

What you’ll see

Reported plainly, every month.

Citation share

How often AI answers your customers’ questions with your name in the sources, tracked across every engine.

Share of voice

Where you stand against the competitors being cited for the same questions, and the exact gaps to close.

AI referral traffic

The visits arriving from AI answers, and how much better they convert than everything else.

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Let’s get you cited.

If your customers are already asking AI about what you do, the only question is whether it knows to mention you. Let’s find out where you stand.