Your brand deserves to be discovered. We optimize your digital presence for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and the next generation of AI search engines - AI engines that are now the new focus for brand visibility and discovery.
Updated 2026 insight: AI Overviews now appear in ~50-55% of Google searches, with citations increasingly pulling from non-top-10 pages (only ~38% from top 10), rewarding strong entity signals and structured content beyond traditional rankings.
The shift is happening. The rise of AI driven search marks the beginning of the AI search era, where optimizing for AI engines is essential. growthvibe helps you become the brand AI recommends - not the one it ignores, with future proof strategies to keep you competitive as AI search evolves.
By combining AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) with GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) techniques like semantic structure, information gain, and authoritative sourcing for maximum LLM visibility.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) - as a leading growth marketing agency and one of the top marketing agencies in the AEO space, we make your brand visible, cited, and recommended inside AI-generated search results.
Growth-focused businesses (£1m+ revenue), including SaaS companies, that want to be found where buyers are actually searching: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews. We are an AEO agency worth considering for SaaS companies and other ambitious brands seeking AI-driven visibility.
A measurable increase in AI citations, brand mentions, and referral traffic - tracked monthly with transparent reporting.
Get your free AI Visibility Score - a benchmark of how AI currently sees your brand vs. your competitors.
AI search is a $750 billion revenue channel by 2028. These are the services that get you visible inside it.
At growthvibe, our approach centers on robust digital strategies and a tailored content strategy designed specifically for AI-driven assistants, ensuring your brand is discoverable within AI engines. We combine advanced Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) with foundational search engine optimization to maximize your visibility, rankings, and organic traffic in both traditional and emerging AI search landscapes.
Plus Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) for how LLMs ingest, weight, and surface content.
A structured assessment of how AI models perceive your brand.
Find out exactly where you appear - and where you're missing - across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and AI Overviews. The audit also evaluates your technical SEO, using First Page Sage as a benchmark for technical SEO excellence in optimizing for AI search engines. Includes competitor benchmarking and a prioritised action plan.
Ongoing monitoring of when and where AI mentions your brand.
Track your AI Mention Rate, Citation Authority, and competitive position month-over-month. Know immediately when AI starts (or stops) recommending you.
Optimizing content for AI-driven search results is essential for modern digital visibility.
Understanding user intent guides how we create content, ensuring it directly addresses the needs and queries of your audience. As an AEO agency, we help clients create content that is structured for AI understanding and answerability, using clear headings, declarative sentences, and relevant schema markup. We structure content with semantic SEO principles, making it accessible and easily parsed by AI engines. We rebuild key pages to answer the questions your buyers are asking AI - with the structure, clarity, and signals that make you the source AI chooses to cite.
Additional AEO/GEO enhancements: creating information gain through unique insights/data, conversational Q&A formats, statistics/tables for verifiability, expert quotes with attribution, and multi-format content (video/audio transcripts) that AI can easily extract and cite.
Implementing structured data that helps AI understand your business is fundamental for effective AI search optimization.
Advanced markup (schema.org, entity signals, knowledge graph optimization) and schema markup are forms of structured data that tell AI tools - such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google Gemini - exactly what you do, who you serve, and why you're authoritative. Schema markup helps search engines and AI-driven platforms understand the context of your content, making it easier for them to parse and utilize your information effectively. Implementing structured data is essential for optimizing content for AI search engines, as it enables better understanding and citation of your content in AI-generated responses.
We also optimize llms.txt files, ensure AI crawler access, and build consistent entity signals across Wikidata and knowledge panels for stronger recognition.
Strengthening the trust signals AI relies on when choosing sources is crucial for building authority with AI driven engines and improving your brand's performance in conversational search environments.
Strategic work on E-E-A-T signals, authoritative mentions, and citation-worthy content increases the likelihood AI treats your brand as the definitive answer.
Including building consensus across third-party sources, Reddit/YouTube/social amplification (now ~9% of AI citations), and positioning as a unique authority with original research.
Custom dashboards showing your AI search presence over time.
Monthly reporting on AI Mention Rate, Citation Authority, Entity Clarity Score, and Answer Ownership - with trend analysis and specific next-step recommendations.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital marketing, partnering with an AEO agency is essential for businesses aiming to understand how to optimize for AI search visibility. As AI-driven platforms reshape how users discover information, the process of Answer Engine Optimization is focusing specifically on the unique requirements of these platforms, ensuring your content is tailored for maximum visibility and authority in AI-generated search results.
We assess your current AI visibility across all major platforms. You receive a detailed benchmark with competitor comparisons and a prioritised roadmap. Typical turnaround: 2 weeks.
We implement the changes - content restructuring, schema engineering, entity positioning, and authority signals - that move you from invisible to cited. Ongoing, with monthly milestones.
Every month, you see exactly how your AI Mention Rate, citations, and referral traffic are changing. No vanity metrics - only the numbers that connect to revenue.
"The brands winning tomorrow are the ones optimizing for AI search today. The window is open - but it won't stay open forever."
Previously founded Ocere (3,000+ clients, Queen's Award for Enterprise 2021). 80+ angel investments across AI, SaaS, and growth companies. Read Tom's story →
The way people discover brands has fundamentally changed. AI platforms, known as answer engines like ChatGPT and Gemini, don't serve lists of links - they synthesise answers. The brands that appear in those answers capture demand, while those that don't become invisible. This new search paradigm also includes features like featured snippets, where structured content and schema markup help brands appear in prominent answer-based positions. E-commerce businesses, in particular, must adapt their strategies to optimise for these AI-driven platforms to maintain visibility and drive conversions.
Risk of inaction: Brands not optimizing for AEO/GEO face declining visibility as zero-click searches rise and traditional SEO traffic erodes further.
2026 update: Cited brands in AI Overviews see 35% higher organic CTR; AI referral traffic continues strong growth with high conversion potential.
This is not a future trend - it is the current reality. The future of AEO is driven by the increasing reliance on AI-driven tools like ChatGPT and Google Assistant, which prioritise understanding user intent and context over traditional search engine ranking factors. The question is not whether AI will reshape search, but whether your brand will be in the answers when it does. Traditional SEO focused on being found in a list. AEO focuses on being cited in the answer itself. The unit of visibility has shifted from the ranked page to the cited passage.
AI platforms generate answers through two primary mechanisms, both powered by a large language model. Parametric knowledge - information embedded in the model's weights during training - is how ChatGPT knows about established brands without searching. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is how platforms like Perplexity and Google AI Overviews search the web in real time before generating a response.
When a user asks a complex question, AI doesn't issue one query. It decomposes the question into multiple sub-queries simultaneously - Google's AI Mode reportedly issues 100+ sub-queries for a single user question. Success means being the answer to the sub-queries, not just the head term.
For a deeper technical explanation, see our guides on AEO, GEO, and AI SEO.
Additional best practices: Optimize for natural language, unique positioning, statistics/data points, and clear definitions that outperform dense paragraphs for better AI parsing.
Built for AI search from day one. Not an SEO agency that added AI services. Our methodology, metrics, and tooling are designed specifically for the citation economy.
Four proprietary metrics tracked monthly with competitive benchmarking. No vanity metrics, no vague claims - you see exactly how your AI visibility is changing and why.
Every engagement is led by Tom Parling, who previously built Ocere to a Queen's Award for Enterprise-winning agency serving 3,000+ clients across 30+ countries. You work with the founder, not a junior account manager.
AEO is not a one-off project. Entity signals, citation authority, and topical depth compound over time. The earlier you build these foundations, the harder it becomes for competitors to catch up.
Early movers gain compounding advantages through stronger entity authority and consistent citations across evolving models.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of engineering a brand's visibility, citations, and recommendations inside AI-generated answers across platforms including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Unlike traditional SEO, which focuses on ranking in a list of links, AEO focuses on being the brand that AI names, cites, and recommends when a user asks a relevant question. With ChatGPT processing over 2.5 billion requests per day (OpenAI, 2026) and 60% of Google searches now ending without a click (SparkToro, 2024), AEO addresses the fundamental shift in how people discover and choose businesses. growthvibe is an AI-native AEO agency that helps brands build measurable visibility across all major AI platforms.
growthvibe optimizes for all major AI platforms: ChatGPT (900 million weekly active users), Google AI Overviews (appearing in 50% of Google searches, reaching 2 billion users), Perplexity (35–45 million daily queries), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), and Microsoft Copilot. Each platform retrieves and weights information differently, so our strategy addresses platform-specific signals - from ChatGPT's heavy Wikipedia weighting to Perplexity's emphasis on Reddit and real-time web content.
Including optimization for Grok and other emerging models with real-time and social signals.
growthvibe tracks AI visibility through four proprietary metrics, measured monthly with competitive benchmarking. AI Mention Rate (0–100) measures how often your brand appears in AI-generated answers. Citation Authority (0–100) measures how often AI platforms cite your domain as a source. Entity Clarity Score (1–5) tests whether AI correctly understands your company. Answer Ownership counts queries where your brand is the primary AI recommendation. We test 30–50 queries across all major platforms each month, benchmarking against 3–5 competitors.
Technical and content changes typically improve AI citation visibility within 60–90 days. Brands implementing structured entity optimization, content restructuring, and citation authority building have seen 40–60% citation increases within 12 weeks. Entity authority and citation signals compound over time - brands that invest consistently see accelerating returns from month 3 onwards. growthvibe provides monthly reporting from day one so you can track progress against your baseline and competitors.
No - AEO and SEO are complementary but distinct disciplines. SEO focuses on ranking web pages through backlinks, keywords, and technical optimization. AEO focuses on being cited and recommended inside AI-generated answers through entity signals, content answerability, citation authority, and structured data. The signals differ: SEO values backlink volume and keyword density, while AEO values entity recognition and semantic completeness, which has a 0.87 correlation with AI citations. SEO is not dead - strong SEO fundamentals feed AEO success - but with 60% of searches ending without a click, AEO is where the growth is.
growthvibe works with growth-focused businesses generating £2 million or more in annual revenue, where 30% or more of demand comes through digital channels. Our clients typically operate in fintech, healthtech, legaltech, recruitment, professional services, and SaaS. The common thread is that they are underrepresented in AI answers relative to their market position. We take on fewer than 20 clients at any time to ensure deep, senior attention on every engagement.
growthvibe offers four monthly retainer tiers - Lite, Core, Pro, and Enterprise - each with a fixed monthly fee, a defined scope, and clear metrics. Pricing is tailored to your market complexity, competitive landscape, and objectives. There are no setup fees, no hourly billing, and no long-term lock-in contracts. The initial AI Visibility Audit and technical foundation work are included in month one.
Every growthvibe engagement follows a five-stage process: audit (testing how your brand appears across 5+ AI platforms for 30–50 queries), benchmark (scoring your readiness across the Five-Dimension AI Search Visibility Framework), strategy (prioritised plan targeting highest-impact dimensions), implementation (entity optimization, content engineering, citation authority building, technical foundation), and measurement (monthly tracking of AI Mention Rate, Citation Authority, Entity Clarity Score, and Answer Ownership against baseline and competitors).
The commercial evidence is measurable. Traffic referred by AI platforms converts at 6x the rate of non-branded organic search - 24% vs 4% (Webflow, 2025). Brands cited in Google AI Overviews earn 35% more organic clicks (Seer Interactive, 2025). McKinsey projects $750 billion in US revenue will funnel through AI-powered search by 2028. Case studies from the SMX Advanced GEO Masterclass (April 2026) showed 40–60% citation increases within 12 weeks from consistent entity optimization, content restructuring, and citation authority building.
Yes - SEO and AEO work together. Strong SEO fundamentals feed directly into AEO success because AI platforms use many of the same signals when retrieving content. Google AI Overviews draw heavily from pages that already rank well in traditional search. The difference is that SEO alone is no longer sufficient - with AI Overviews appearing in 50% of Google searches and 60% of searches ending without a click, optimizing only for traditional rankings means optimizing for a shrinking channel. AEO builds on your SEO foundation to capture AI-driven discovery.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) focuses on the outcome - making your brand visible, cited, and recommended in AI-generated answers. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) focuses on the mechanism - how large language models ingest, weight, and surface your content during generation. AEO covers entity optimization, content answerability, and citation authority. GEO covers semantic completeness, content structure for LLM extraction, and source grounding. growthvibe delivers both disciplines together because both are essential for sustained AI visibility.
An AI Visibility Score is a diagnostic that benchmarks how your brand currently appears across AI platforms. growthvibe's free AI Visibility Score tests your brand against 30+ commercially relevant queries across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, comparing your visibility against 3–5 competitors. The output includes your AI Mention Rate, a competitive heatmap, sentiment analysis, and a prioritised list of opportunities. It takes approximately 48 hours and costs nothing.
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