Be the Answer When AI Recommends a Business
Your next customer isn't scrolling ten blue links — they're asking ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google's AI who to hire. After 20 years of helping local businesses win on the web, we make sure the answer is you.
What's included in our AEO service
AI assistants don't rank pages — they extract answers. We restructure how your business shows up to machines: your data, your content, and your reputation across the sources AI engines actually read.
AI Visibility Audit Across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & AI Overviews
Structured Data & Schema Engineering
Content Structured for Answer Extraction
Citations, Reviews & Brand Mentions
AI Mention Monitoring & Monthly Reporting
Local AEO for "Near Me" AI Answers
Why Ravenna for AEO?
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Developer-Grade Structured Data
AEO lives and dies on how machine-readable your business is. We write schema markup by hand, build sites for a living, and this site is the proof — most agencies bolt on a plugin and hope.
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Early-Mover Advantage
Most local service businesses haven't started optimizing for AI search — especially in the trades. The businesses that establish themselves as the cited answer now will be hard to displace later. We watched the same thing happen with early SEO twenty years ago; this time you can be the early one.
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Measurement First
We track where and how often AI assistants actually mention and recommend you, and report it monthly alongside traffic and leads. If we can't measure it, we don't sell it.
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Pairs With Local SEO
AI engines lean on the same signals Google Maps does: reviews, consistent listings, and real authority. Bundled with our local SEO service, every piece of work does double duty.
How we work
- Ask the AI engines what they say about you today
- Map the sources they cite in your category
- Score your structured data and content extractability
- Schema markup for your business, services, and FAQs
- Restructure key pages for answer extraction
- Technical foundations: speed, crawlability, llms.txt
- Earn mentions on the sources AI engines cite
- Grow reviews and third-party validation
- Publish content that answers real customer questions
- Track AI mentions and recommendations monthly
- Watch competitors and category shifts
- Iterate as the AI platforms evolve
Common questions about answer engine optimization
Answer engine optimization (AEO, sometimes called GEO — generative engine optimization) is the practice of making your business visible in AI-generated answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. Instead of competing for a ranking position, you're competing to be the source the AI cites or the business it recommends when someone asks a question you should be the answer to.
No — it builds on it. AI engines draw heavily on the same underlying signals: crawlable sites, structured data, reviews, and authoritative mentions. Strong SEO is the foundation; AEO is the layer that makes your business legible to language models specifically. For businesses with a local service area, our local SEO service and AEO reinforce each other, and many clients bundle them.
Our AEO retainers run between $750 and $2,500 per month depending on your market and how much foundational work your site needs, and it's frequently bundled with local SEO at a combined rate. Every engagement starts with a free AI visibility audit so you can see exactly where you stand before spending a dollar.
We query the major AI engines on a recurring schedule with the questions your customers actually ask, and track whether you're mentioned, how you're described, and which sources drove the answer. That goes into a monthly report alongside referral traffic from AI platforms and, most importantly, leads. It's a young discipline, but it is measurable — and we'd rather show you real mention data than hand-wave about 'AI readiness.'
Increasingly, yes. People ask AI assistants for 'the best electrician in Tacoma' or 'a good family dentist near Everett' and get a short list of two or three names, not a page of results. Being on that short list is winner-take-most. The inputs are your reviews, your listings consistency, and how clearly your site states who you serve — all things we build directly. We work with businesses across Seattle, Everett, Tacoma, and Spokane.