The AI answer names a competitor
Traditional SEO chases positions on a results page. Meanwhile buyers ask ChatGPT and Perplexity, and the answer either names you or it names someone else. Most programmes never look.
Services
AI Visibility Agency, Measured Monthly
Find out where buyers encounter your brand in search and AI answers. We audit the site, improve relevant pages and track citations alongside search traffic and enquiries, with a dated record of what changed.
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Scope and evidence
What does an AI visibility agency do?
An AI visibility agency checks whether relevant answers mention or cite your brand, investigates the sources behind those answers, and improves the website and content where evidence supports a change. Our work combines technical SEO, answer engine optimisation and a dated record of rankings, citations and enquiries.
One Measured Discipline
Why Rankings Alone No Longer Fill the Pipeline
The ProblemStandard Agency
SEO and AI visibility sit with two vendors
SEO sits with one specialist while AI visibility gets pitched as a separate service by another. Two roadmaps compete for the same pages, and neither owns the outcome.
Nobody shows you where you are actually cited
Agencies say the work helps AI visibility but never show where you are actually cited. Without measurement, you are buying a story.
The Solution
The Legency Approach
The Legency ApproachOne programme feeds both surfaces
SEO and answer engine optimization run as a single programme. The same pages, schema and authority work feed both, so effort compounds instead of competing.
You see the citation count every month
Every month we check where you appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, and who appears instead. ChannelSight is now the most-cited domain in its own answer set, at 16 of 56 answers.
Rankings, citations and AI traffic on one page
Rankings, citations and AI-referred traffic land in one monthly report your board can read without translation. You see movement, or you see us change the plan.
AI SEO Agency Services
Four Things That Decide Whether You Are Cited
Pages Written to Be Quoted
Question-led pages that answer what buyers actually ask, in the first sentences. Written to be quoted by engines and useful to humans, and refreshed on a set cycle.
A Site Engines Can Read
Schema on every page type, clean semantic structure, fast pages and a machine-readable site. The unglamorous layer that decides whether engines can read you at all.
Authority Built Off-Site as Well as On
Bylines tied to real author entities, and a citation plan that earns mentions on the sites engines already trust. Authority is built off-site as much as on it.
A Citation Count Every Month
Monthly citation checks across four AI engines, plus rankings and AI-referred sessions in analytics. Every recommendation traces back to a number you can show upward.
Two Surfaces
Your Buyers Now Search in Two Places at Once
The same person will type a query into Google and ask an assistant the same question an hour later, and the two return different companies. Running one discipline against both is the only way the answers stop contradicting each other. Our AI Visibility Index shows what that gap looks like across a whole category.
What a search engine rewards
A page that deserves a position: matched intent, real depth, links from places that matter, and a technical layer that lets a crawler reach it. Success is a rank and a click, and the click is the only way the visit ever reaches you.
What an answer engine rewards
A passage worth quoting: a question as the heading, an answer under it, short self-contained sentences, and a source behind any figure. Success is being the source inside an answer, which happens whether or not anybody clicks.
The Overlap
Why Running Them Separately Costs You Twice
The same pages
Both disciplines want the same twenty pages fixed. Split across two vendors, those pages get edited twice, in two directions, and each vendor reports the movement the other caused.
The same technical layer
Crawlability, structure, speed and clean markup decide whether either surface can use your site. It is one job. Paying for it twice is the most common waste we find on arriving.
The same authority
Being cited elsewhere lifts both. A mention on a source an engine already trusts helps the answer and the ranking, and no one has ever needed two separate plans to earn it.
The measurement is where they differ, and that is the part most programmes skip: rankings and clicks on one side, citation counts across four engines on the other, in one monthly report.
The Month
What a Month of the Programme Contains
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Measure both surfaces
Rankings and clicks from Search Console, and a citation panel run across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude on a fixed question set. Same questions every month, so month-on-month movement is comparable rather than a fresh snapshot each time.
- 02
Fix the pages that lose on both
The pages that neither rank nor get quoted are the ones that get rebuilt first, because the same work fixes both. Question-led headings, an answer directly beneath, sources behind the figures, and the technical faults cleared while we are in there.
- 03
Report what moved and what did not
One document covering both surfaces, with the method behind every number and an explicit note where an engine was too unstable across its own runs to support a claim. The plan changes on that evidence rather than on a quarterly instinct.
Case Study
Organic search now brings Blueflame more demo requests than paid.
Eighteen months of content, technical and authority work, all reported in one monthly format. Organic search now brings Blueflame more demo requests than paid search does, and AI citations are tracked monthly across four engines.
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One Discipline
See Both Surfaces on One Page
Rankings and citations, measured together, in one monthly document. A call about how the two surfaces are working for you today and what running them as one discipline would change.
- Search Console performance beside a citation panel across four AI engines
- The pages that lose on both, which are the cheapest ones to fix
- One report a marketing lead can send upward without rewriting it
Common QuestionsFrequently Asked
Frequently Asked
Questions
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of making your content the answer AI assistants give when buyers ask questions. It covers how pages are written, how the site is structured, and how much the engines trust your brand. Most of it is disciplined content and technical work, aimed at being the company the answer names.
Every month we run the questions that matter to your business through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, and record whether you are cited, who is cited instead, and how that changes over time. Alongside that, we segment AI-referred sessions in your analytics. Both land in the monthly report as numbers a board can read.
SEO earns positions on a search results page; AEO earns a place inside the answer an AI assistant gives. They draw on the same foundations of clear content, sound structure and real authority, so we run them as one programme rather than two. The measurement differs: rankings for one, citations for the other.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, checked monthly on a fixed question set so the count is comparable month to month. We run our own citation panel because no platform analytics product covers all four.
Yes. AI SEO, answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) are three names for one job: getting AI assistants to cite your company when a buyer asks who to shortlist. GEO is the term the academic research uses, AEO is the one the industry settled on, and AI SEO is what most buyers type. An AI SEO agency that sells them as separate services is selling the same work more than once.