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Resources for answer engine optimisation

A free automated check of your website, our guides, and the pages to read first if AEO is new to you.

Check how ready your website is for AI assistants.

Enter your address and email. An automated check reads a sample of your pages and sends you a report. It is a quick first look; client work goes much deeper.

What the check looks at

  • Whether your structured data describes your company clearly
  • Whether your pages answer questions directly
  • Technical basics that affect how AI assistants read your site
  • A short list of what to fix first, sent by email

If AEO is new to you

  • What is AEO?

    A plain definition, how AI assistants arrive at an answer, and how AEO differs from SEO.

  • How we work

    The three layers of work and the three levels of engagement.

  • Case studies

    Where five companies started, what we did and where they stand now.

Our guides

Longer pieces on how AI assistants choose sources. The journal has shorter notes from Dori on Substack.
  • Buyer's Guide8 min read

    What Does AEO Cost in the UK?

    What UK businesses pay for answer engine optimisation: published agency retainers, audit and project prices, AI visibility tool costs, the factors that drive the price, and how to budget sensibly.

  • Buyer's Guide7 min read

    AEO Agency vs SEO Agency: Which Do You Need?

    How an AEO agency differs from an SEO agency, what Google, OpenAI and Microsoft say about optimising for AI answers, when your SEO agency is enough, and when a specialist is worth it.

  • Buyer's Guide8 min read

    How to Choose an AEO Agency in the UK

    A practical guide to choosing an answer engine optimisation agency in London and the UK: the questions to ask, the red flags, a fair list of UK agencies offering AEO and GEO, and how to compare them.

  • AI Visibility5 min read

    You're Winning on ChatGPT and Invisible on Gemini

    Each AI model reads a different slice of the internet, so a brand can be the obvious answer in ChatGPT and missing from Gemini, Perplexity or Claude. Why that happens and what travels across all of them.

  • AI Visibility6 min read

    When Your Sources Disagree, AI Picks Someone Else

    AI models trust a brand that tells one story everywhere and quietly hedge on the ones that don't. Why inconsistent company facts across the web cost you AI recommendations, and how to fix them.

  • Industry Analysis10 min read

    AEO and the Future of Search: Why AI Is Replacing Blue Links

    More than half of consumers now use AI when deciding what to buy. Answer engine optimisation is how brands stay visible as AI answers replace blue links. Here is why AEO matters and what to do about it.

  • Guide11 min read

    The Complete Guide to Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)

    What answer engine optimisation is, how AI assistants decide which companies to recommend, and the three layers of work that get a business named in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini.

  • Research8 min read

    How ChatGPT Chooses Which Sources to Cite

    How ChatGPT decides what to search, which pages to read and which companies to name, from its crawlers and search index to the signals that make a page worth quoting, with practical steps.

  • Technical8 min read

    Structured Data for AEO: What It Does and What It Doesn't

    Which schema.org markup helps AI assistants understand your company, how to implement Organization, Service, Person, Article and FAQ schema properly, and the claims about structured data to ignore.

  • Comparison7 min read

    AEO vs SEO: What Is Different and What Is Not

    How answer engine optimisation differs from SEO in goals, content, sources and measurement, where the two overlap, and how to decide how much effort each deserves for your business.

  • Analytics8 min read

    How to Measure AEO: The Metrics That Mean Something

    How to measure answer engine optimisation: building a buyer question set, tracking mentions, position, description and cited sources across AI assistants, and connecting AI visibility to traffic and leads.

Find out who AI recommends when your buyers ask.

On a first call we show you what ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity say about your market today, and what it would take for them to name you.