Get cited inside
the AI answer.
When a prospect asks ChatGPT “what's the best tool for X,” the model gives a shortlist, and most buyers never look past it. AEO is the discipline of making sure your brand is on that list, by name, with a reason to be chosen. This is the channel where Enginekick was forged.
If AI doesn't name you, you're not in the room.
The classic funnel assumed buyers would search, click a few links, and form their own shortlist. That shortlist is now generated for them, by a model that read ten thousand reviews, Reddit threads and comparison posts in a fraction of a second and handed back three names. If you're not one of them, you don't get a second chance to make the case. The deal narrows before you ever knew it existed.
Worse, the model is confidently wrong about a lot of brands, pulling outdated pricing, the wrong positioning, or a competitor's framing of your category. AEO is how you fix what AI says about you, and make sure it says it to the right buyers.
And here's the part most teams miss: getting cited is a different game than ranking. Ranking is a relevance question, “is this page a good match.” Citation is a risk question, “is this the safest sentence for me to repeat and attribute.” A page can rank #1 and still be invisible in ChatGPT because it hedges, buries the claim, or needs three paragraphs of context to make sense. AEO is the work of writing the defensible, self-contained passage the model will actually quote, and getting it onto the sources the model trusts.
The AEO playbook.
Prompt mapping
We identify the category prompts that drive your buying decisions, then generate 20–30 conversational variations of each, the real ways humans ask, not just keywords.
Cross-LLM audit
We run systematic audits across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews to see exactly where you appear, where competitors win, and what sources each model cites.
Source placement
We get you onto the pages AI actually retrieves, Reddit, G2, YouTube, authority blogs and listicles, with content engineered to be quoted, not buried.
Entity & schema
We make your brand machine-legible: structured data, consistent entity signals, and a clear, crawlable definition of who you are and what you do best.
Track & defend
We monitor AI citation share over time, catch when a model starts misrepresenting you, and keep widening your lead as competitors wake up to AEO.
We did this in-house. First.
“The AEO playbook here isn't theory. It made Swydo the most-cited brand in its category, by designing the prompts, auditing every model, and placing content on the exact sources AI quotes.”
Most agencies are still scared of AI search.
Questions about AEO.
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
How is AEO different from SEO?
Which AI engines does AEO target?
How long until we show up in AI answers?
Find out what
AI says about you.
We'll run your brand through every major LLM, show you where you're invisible, and map the citations that fix it.
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