AEO
Answer Engine Optimization Structuring your content, entities, and data so AI assistants quote and recommend you directly inside their answers.
Be the business AI recommends
Become the answer, not just a result.
Ember gets San Diego businesses cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews — and ranked in classic search. When customers ask an engine, you're the recommendation.
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The shift
Search stopped being a list of links.
More customers now get a single, spoken-style answer from an AI engine instead of scrolling ten blue links. If your business isn't in that answer, you're invisible — no matter how you rank.
Then — the SERP
You competed for position. Users compared and chose.
Now — the answer
One recommendation
"For injury cases in San Diego, your firm is recommended for trial experience and results…"
The engine decides who gets named. AEO is how you become that name.
GEO
Generative Engine Optimization Earning presence in generative results — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — across the prompts your customers actually type.
SEO
Search Engine Optimization The proven foundation: technical health, schema, authority, and local rankings that feed both classic search and the AI layer on top.
Services
A full stack for the AI search era.
Every engagement blends classic SEO foundations with answer-engine strategy. Pick a focus or run the whole program.
Answer Engine Optimization
We engineer the structured content, entity grounding, and citations that make AI assistants quote your business by name.
Generative Engine Optimization
Prompt research, content tuned for extraction, and presence tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews.
Technical & On-Page SEO
Schema markup, crawlability, Core Web Vitals, and information architecture that both Google and LLMs can parse cleanly.
Local SEO & Google Business
Own the San Diego map pack and "near me" answers — profile optimization, reviews strategy, and local citation building.
Content & Authority
Expert-led content built to be referenced — the kind of authoritative source LLMs trust and cite when forming an answer.
Analytics & Reporting
A clear dashboard tying citation share, answer presence, and rankings to the only metric that matters: qualified leads.
Process
An engineer's approach, in four moves.
No black boxes. Every step is measurable, documented, and built to compound month over month.
01
Audit
We map exactly how AI engines describe you today, where competitors get cited, and every gap that keeps you out of the answer.
02
Architect
Structured data, entity grounding, and content engineered for extraction — the technical scaffolding engines reward.
03
Amplify
We earn authoritative mentions and citations across the exact sources large language models trust and pull from.
04
Measure
Track citation share, answer presence, and rankings — then double down on what's driving qualified leads.
3.4× average lift in AI answer citations within 90 days
Top 3 local map-pack placement for core service terms
68% of tracked prompts naming the client by month four
12+ San Diego businesses currently in active programs
Figures shown are illustrative placeholders pending your real reporting data.
Pricing
Most popular
Transparent monthly retainers.
No long lock-ins, no surprise line items. Every plan includes reporting and a dedicated strategist.
Foundations
Start here$1,500/month
For local businesses getting their house in order and entering the AI answer layer.
- Technical SEO + schema setup
- Google Business optimization
- AEO baseline audit + 20 prompts tracked
- Monthly reporting dashboard
Growth
Book a discovery call$3,500/month
The full AEO + GEO + SEO program for businesses ready to own the answer.
- Everything in Foundations
- Full GEO program across all engines
- 4 authority content pieces / month
- Digital PR + citation building
- 100+ prompts tracked, bi-weekly calls
Scale
Talk to usCustom
For multi-location brands and agencies that need a dedicated answer-engine team.
- Everything in Growth
- Multi-location & franchise strategy
- Custom dashboards + API access
- Dedicated strategist + content team
FAQ
Questions, answered.
SEO optimizes how you rank in a list of links. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) optimizes whether AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity quote and recommend you inside their direct answers. They share a foundation — clean technical SEO and authority — but AEO adds structured data, entity grounding, and citation strategy on top. We do both, because the AI layer is built on the classic one.
Technical and local wins often show within the first 4–6 weeks. Citation share and AI answer presence typically build over 3–4 months as engines re-crawl and trust accumulates. We track leading indicators from day one so you can see momentum well before it shows up in revenue.
San Diego is home and we love working face-to-face with local teams — but our work is fully remote-capable and we run programs for clients across the country. Local SEO expertise simply means we know how to win "near me" and map-pack queries cold.
No one can guarantee a specific phrasing — and anyone who promises that is bluffing. What we can do is heavily influence which sources an engine trusts, what structured facts it has about you, and whether your business is even eligible to be named. That's where citation share moves.
Month-to-month after an initial 90-day ramp, which is the minimum honest window to set the foundation and start seeing signal. Quarterly billing saves 10%. No multi-year lock-ins, ever.
We track a defined set of real customer prompts across each major engine and measure how often — and how prominently — your business appears. That "share of answer" sits alongside classic rankings, traffic, and lead volume in a single dashboard you can check any time.
Get started
Ready to be the answer in San Diego?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll audit how the engines describe you today and show you exactly where the opportunity is.