AEO Agency
Answer Engine Optimization From the #1 Rated AEO Agency
Escape Web Development is an AEO agency that gets local service businesses named and cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews. When a customer asks an AI who to hire, the answer names two or three businesses. Our answer engine optimization services make sure yours is one of them, and we measure it every month in our own platform, Escape AEO.
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is SEO for AI assistants. It structures your website, content and business details so tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews can find you, trust you and name you as the answer. Traditional SEO works to rank a link. AEO works to make your business the recommendation. Read our full guide to answer engine optimization.
The Real Problem
AEO and GEO
Generative engine optimization (GEO) vs AEO: what’s the difference?
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the newer name for getting your business mentioned and cited inside answers that AI tools write from many sources. AEO started with featured snippets and voice assistants, where one answer is pulled from one page. Today the two terms overlap, and our AEO services cover both.
Where it started
The goal
What moves it
How Escape measures it
If you’re comparing a GEO agency with an AEO agency, ask what each one measures. We track both sides for every client, every month.
Why AEO services matter now
More customers now ask an AI who to call, and the answer names a handful of businesses. If yours isn’t one of them, that customer never reaches your website. Semrush reported in 2025 that visitors from AI search convert at about 4.4 times the rate of traditional organic visitors. So the traffic AI does send is worth more.
For local businesses, AI answers lean on the same signals as the map pack: your Google Business Profile, your reviews and your listings across the web. That’s why AEO and local SEO work best together.
An AEO agency makes your business easy for AI tools to understand, trust and cite, then tracks whether it worked. At Escape that work has four parts: • Content structure: answer-first pages with clear headings, lists and FAQs that AI can quote. • Schema and structured data: markup that tells AI exactly who you are, what you do and where. • Topical authority and citations: depth on every service you offer, plus listings on the sites AI engines read. • Prompt tracking: monthly checks on which customer prompts name you, and which name a competitor.
The Real Solution
Services
6 AEO services that get your business recommended by AI
AI search optimization
We position your pages to be cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google’s AI Overviews.
Schema markup and structured data
Business, service and FAQ schema that spells out your business entity, services and credibility for AI and Google.
Competitive and citation analysis
We find which competitors AI names for your services, and which websites it read to decide.
Technical SEO
Fast, crawlable pages, a clean sitemap, and AI crawlers allowed in your robots.txt. See our SEO agency services.
Content optimization
We rewrite pages answer-first and cover the terms the AI-cited pages in your market use.
Real Data
Escape AEO: the AI visibility platform behind our AEO agency
We built our own platform, Escape AEO, so every AEO client is measured the same way, every month. It asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews the questions your customers actually ask. Then it records whether your business gets named, who gets named instead, and which websites the AI read to decide.
Escape AEO dashboard screenshot
How it works
1. We paste in your website address. Escape AEO reads your site and writes 5 to 6 service topics with 5 real customer questions each, plus branded questions and a list of your local competitors.
2. It asks every question to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, and Claude if you want it included.
3. The same questions run again every month, so the results compare month to month.
4. You get a branded AI Visibility Report as a PDF and a PowerPoint, ready to share.
What Escape AEO measures
• AI visibility: the share of non-branded AI answers that name your business. This is the headline number.
• Mentions and position: how often you’re named, and how high in the answer.
• Competitors: who gets named instead of you.
• Citations: which websites the AI read to answer, from directories and review sites to competitors’ pages. This list becomes your outreach and content plan.
• Sentiment: how favorably each AI describes you compared with your competitors.
• AI traffic: real visits from AI assistants, taken from your Google Analytics 4.
• AI crawler access: whether your robots.txt lets each AI company’s crawler read your site.
Your AEO health score, out of 100
The health score shows whether your website is built to be found and cited. It comes from page fetches and APIs, not from an AI’s opinion.
Page readability
35
Your target keyword in the title and H1, coverage of the terms AI-cited pages use, and depth
Google’s verdict
20
Whether Google chose to index each page, from Search Console
Crawl and AI access
15
AI crawlers allowed, sitemap, broken pages and speed
Structured data
15
Correct schema and business entity
Trust
15
About and contact pages, address, phone, reviews and authors
Every score comes with a ranked list of fixes and the points each one adds. That list, plus the citation sources, becomes your monthly work plan.
A real client in Escape AEO
LeakLab Pool Leak Detection, a pool leak detection company in Arizona:
• AEO health score of 87 out of 100, with 47 of 55 pages fully readable to Google and AI
• Named in 50% of AI answers for “pool leak detection Mesa AZ”, up 15 points since September
• Named in 40% of tracked Google AI Overviews answers, 28% on ChatGPT and 16% on Perplexity
• 0 of 16 AI crawlers blocked
Kelsie Schwager founded Escape and leads development and SEO, with a master’s degree in computer science. Aden Wallis holds an MBA and runs strategy and the numbers. You talk to them directly, never an account manager.
Our Process
How our AEO agency works, step by step
Technical audit
Prompt and citation analysis
Site content audit
AEO strategy
Implementation
Reporting and adjustments
Monthly retainer
Monthly Retainer
AEO services pricing
Monthly
Get found and start producing
4 service or location pages / month
2 blog posts / month
Google Business Profile management
Google and AI visibility tracking
2 backlinks / month
Monthly keyword and competitor analytics
Monthly report and website maintenance
Monthly
Compete and improve
6 pages / month
4 blog posts / month
Everything in Foundation
4 backlinks / month
Monthly
Win in tough markets
10 pages / month
8 blog posts / month
6 backlinks / month
Everything in Foundation
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Find out if AI is recommending you
Get a free AI visibility audit from our AEO agency. We run your business through Escape AEO, show which AI answers name you or a competitor, and tell you what we’d fix first. Or call (480) 818-0124 to talk to a founder.