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Generative engine optimisation

Visible when the answer is written for you

AI Overviews and assistants increasingly answer the question before anyone clicks. Being cited in that answer is a different discipline to ranking, and it rewards clarity, evidence and machine-readable structure.

AI Search (GEO)

Be cited, referenced and recommended by AI systems.

  • Entity and citation audit
  • Answer-asset content plan
  • Structured data implementation
  • Monthly citation share reporting
  • Quarterly strategy review
The problem

What usually goes wrong

Brands that were comfortable at position three are discovering that the summary above them satisfies most of the demand. Ranking made you findable; being quotable is what gets you into the answer. That means saying something specific enough, clearly enough, that a model can lift it without distorting your meaning.

Fit

Who this is for — and who it is not

We would rather tell you now than three months into an engagement.

A good fit if

  • Businesses whose buyers research in public before deciding
  • Brands with original data or a defensible point of view
  • Sites already technically sound enough to be crawled and parsed

Probably not right if

  • Anyone expecting a guaranteed placement in an AI answer
  • Sites with fundamental crawl or content problems still unaddressed
Outcomes

What this work is meant to produce

Commercial outcomes, stated without a ranking guarantee — because nobody can honestly offer one.

  • Citation share in AI answers

    Measured against the queries that matter to your pipeline, not a vanity list.

  • Stronger entity understanding

    Consistent, machine-readable facts about who you are and what you sell.

  • Content that answers first

    Concise, extractable passages placed where the question is asked.

  • Technical readiness

    Crawl access, structured data and performance that let a model reach and parse you.

Scope

What is included

  • 01

    Entity and knowledge audit

    How consistently you are described across your site and the wider web.

  • 02

    Answer-asset development

    Concise, evidenced passages built to be quoted accurately.

  • 03

    Structured data alignment

    Markup that matches visible content, validated in CI.

  • 04

    Citation tracking

    Monitoring which queries cite you, and which cite a competitor instead.

  • 05

    Digital PR alignment

    Corroboration from sources a model already trusts.

Method

How we run it

  1. Map intent and entities

    The questions asked, and the entities a model must connect you to.

  2. Create answer assets

    Expert-led answers placed close to the question.

  3. Prove trust

    Author credentials, source data and third-party validation.

  4. Optimise the technicals

    Crawl access, speed and structured data that matches the page.

  5. Earn corroboration

    Mentions off your own domain that support the same facts.

FAQ

AI Search (GEO) questions

Can you guarantee we appear in AI Overviews?

No. Selection is model-driven and changes frequently. What we can do is remove the technical barriers, publish the kind of evidence-led content that tends to be cited, keep your entity data consistent, and measure citation share honestly over time.

Is this just SEO with a new name?

It shares foundations — crawl access, structure, authority — but the optimisation target is different. Answer engines reward concise extractable passages, first-hand evidence and factual consistency more heavily than a classic ranking algorithm does.

Should we block AI crawlers?

For most commercial sites, no. Blocking removes you from the answer without removing the answer. There are cases — paywalled or licensed content — where it is the right call, and we will say so.

Proof

Related results

  • A product team working together around a table
    Technology & SaaS

    Content-led growth for a SaaS platform entering a new category.

    Establishing category authority before the category had a settled name, using comparison and evaluation content.

    Qualified demos
    +156%Qualified demos
    Non-brand clicks
    +289%Non-brand clicks
    Cost per demo
    −41%Cost per demo
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