Services / GEO & AEO
Get cited by the engines that answer.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews, featured snippets, and voice assistants answer your buyers’ questions without a click. GEO makes your brand the source generative answers cite; AEO wins the extracted answer boxes — one program, measured prompt by prompt.
What’s inside the program
AI visibility baseline
A tracked prompt set across your buying journey — who gets named today in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, and why.
Entity & schema architecture
Structured data, consistent entity signals, and a site models can parse — the technical layer of being citable.
Citation-worthy content
Comparison-grade, statistic-dense assets built to be quoted: original data, clear claims, verifiable sourcing.
Third-party corroboration
Digital PR aimed at the sources LLMs already trust — review sites, analyst coverage, and high-authority publications.
AI crawler readiness
GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and CCBot access, rendering, and freshness — so your best pages are actually in the training and retrieval loop.
Prompt-space tracking
Monthly share-of-answer reporting across 40+ tracked prompts, with movement attributed to shipped work.
Snippet & answer-box takeover (AEO)
Featured snippets, People Also Ask chains, and voice answers engineered question by question — with FAQ and HowTo schema deployed where it earns rich results.
Industries we serve
GEO programs tuned to how your buyers ask.
How it runs
Weeks 1–3
Baseline
Prompt-set definition, citation audit, entity gap analysis. You see exactly where you stand before we build.
Months 1–3
Build
Ship the entity layer, first citation-worthy assets, and corroboration campaigns — the inputs models need to start naming you.
Ongoing
Compound
Expand the prompt footprint, defend won answers, and feed fresh data assets. Citations compound; we keep them compounding.
$2.92M
revenue from organic search on a $7,000 annual spend
267%
organic traffic growth for TaxGoddess
600 → 25k
monthly organic sessions for Kintsugi
Questions we get
Service & Engagement
What does a Generative Engine Optimization agency actually do?
A GEO agency increases how often AI platforms — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — mention, cite, or recommend your brand. The work spans four areas: engineering content AI can extract, building structured data and entity consistency, earning mentions in the third-party sources AI engines trust, and tracking your share of AI answers against competitors.
What’s included in HITOX’s GEO service?
Every engagement includes: a full AI visibility audit, buyer-intent prompt research, answer-first content creation and optimization, JSON-LD schema implementation, entity and brand-fact consistency work, citation-source strategy with earned third-party mentions, monthly share-of-model tracking across four AI engines, and a prioritized gap analysis. You see exactly what was done and what moved.
What does a GEO engagement look like month by month?
Months 1–2: audit, prompt research, and technical foundation — schema, entity fixes, content restructuring. Months 3–4: authority building — earned mentions in cited sources, review-platform depth, community presence. Months 5–6: measurable citation movement on your prompt set, competitive gap-closing, and scaling what works. GEO compounds like SEO: early wins in weeks, defensible visibility in two quarters.
What is a GEO audit and what does it cover?
A GEO audit answers three questions: What do AI engines currently say about your brand — and is it accurate? Which prompts in your category trigger competitor mentions instead of yours? Which sources do those engines cite, and are you present in them? The output is a scored gap analysis with a prioritized action plan — not a generic checklist.
Do you offer GEO as a standalone service or only with SEO?
Both. If you have a strong SEO foundation (in-house or another agency), HITOX layers GEO on top: prompt research, citation-source work, AI tracking, and content engineering. If your foundation is weak, we’ll tell you honestly — GEO built on poor SEO underperforms, because AI engines pull heavily from content that already ranks and from established authority.
Do you offer white-label GEO for agencies?
Yes. Agencies facing sudden “AEO and GEO” client requests can white-label HITOX’s delivery: audits, prompt research, AI visibility reporting, and citation-building executed under your brand. You keep the client relationship; we supply the methodology, tooling, and fulfillment. Ideal for SEO and marketing agencies that want to answer the demand without building a GEO team from scratch.
Methodology
What is prompt research and why does GEO start with it?
Prompt research is keyword research for the AI era: identifying the actual questions and follow-up prompts your buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — “best X for Y,” “X vs Y,” “is X worth it.” Every GEO decision flows from it: which content to build, which sources to earn mentions in, and which prompts to measure your visibility against monthly.
What is “share of model” and how do you track it?
Share of model is the percentage of AI-generated answers, across your defined buyer-intent prompt set, in which your brand is mentioned or cited versus competitors — the AI-era equivalent of share of voice. Because AI answers vary run to run, HITOX samples each prompt repeatedly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews, then reports the trend monthly.
What if AI engines say something wrong about my brand?
AI hallucinations about pricing, features, or even your company’s existence are a real commercial risk — and fixable. We trace the wrong claim to its likely sources, correct the record everywhere the engines look (your site, structured data, directories, review platforms, authoritative third parties), and monitor until the corrected fact propagates into AI answers. Accuracy monitoring is part of every HITOX engagement.
What is entity optimization and why does it matter for AI visibility?
Entity optimization means making your brand a clear, consistent “thing” AI systems can verify: identical facts (name, category, offerings, locations, leadership) across your site, schema, Wikipedia-adjacent sources, directories, LinkedIn, and review platforms. LLMs cross-reference sources before trusting a claim — inconsistent entity data reads as unreliable, and unreliable brands don’t get recommended.
What is citation environment decay?
Citation environment decay is when the third-party sources AI engines cite about your category go stale, get deleted, or shift toward competitors — quietly eroding your AI visibility even when your own site is perfect. GEO isn’t set-and-forget: HITOX monitors your citation environment continuously and keeps refreshing the sources engines pull from, so visibility compounds instead of decaying.
Which sources do AI engines cite in my industry — and how do you get us into them?
It varies by category, which is why we reverse-engineer it: we run your buyer prompts, log every source the engines cite, and rank them by frequency. Typical mix: Reddit and niche communities, review platforms (G2, Trustpilot, industry-specific), comparison publishers, and authoritative blogs. Then we earn presence in each — genuine contributions, reviews, digital PR — never fake seeding.