What is AI SEO (Answer Engine Optimization)?

AI SEO, also called Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), is the practice of structuring your digital presence so AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity can accurately understand, verify, and cite your business when users ask questions. Unlike traditional SEO, which focuses on ranking in Google search results, AI SEO ensures AI engines have the structured data, entity clarity, and extractable content they need to recommend you by name in conversational answers. It builds on SEO fundamentals but adds three critical layers: machine-readable structured data (JSON-LD schema), entity consistency across platforms, and content formatted for AI retrieval and citation.

What does an AEO agency do?

An AEO agency helps businesses optimize their digital presence for AI citation. This includes implementing structured data markup (JSON-LD schema), building AI-readable content files (llms.txt and llms-full.txt), ensuring entity consistency across directories and citations, and monitoring how AI platforms cite or ignore your business over time.

How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO helps you rank in search. AEO helps AI systems cite or recommend you in answers. In practice, AEO starts with solid SEO, then adds structured data, entity clarity, and content formatted for retrieval.

How long does it take to see results?

It depends on your baseline, market, competition, and prompt volatility. We do not promise a fixed timeline because AI visibility can change without notice.

Which AI platforms do you optimize for?

We focus on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity. Each platform behaves differently, so the work needs to hold up across multiple systems.

Do you only serve NYC businesses?

No. We are based in New York City and do deep NYC local work, but engagements are delivered remotely and we work with teams nationwide.

The instant AEO check is free. If you want the full AI Visibility Report and execution plan, submit your details and we will send a scoped quote by email.

Does AI NYC offer AI consulting services?

Yes. AI NYC provides AI consulting focused on AI search visibility and answer engine optimization. Our AI consulting services help businesses understand how AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity discover, evaluate, and recommend businesses, then implement the technical and content strategies to improve those outcomes.

Free AEO Audit

Check Your AI Visibility

Enter any page URL and find out what AI models can infer from it today. We scan one page at a time across 13 public factors tied to AI readability, entity clarity, and answer-engine visibility.

How It Works

Four steps from URL to actionable results.

The free audit crawls your site, scores 13 public factors, and queries a live AI model so you can see exactly what answer engines understand about your business today.

Enter your URL

Paste any page URL. We analyze that single page only, not your whole site. This lets you check your homepage, a key landing page, or any page you want AI to understand.

We crawl and analyze 13 factors

Our engine checks structured data, entity clarity, content depth, trust signals, and 9 other public factors on that page that affect how AI understands it.

An AI model reads your site live

We send your page content to an AI model and ask it to extract the key phrases it can infer about your business, services, location, and credibility.

You get a score, evidence, and fixes

The results show a 0 to 100 score, a signal-by-signal breakdown, the exact phrases AI extracted from your page, and the top 3 actions ranked by impact.

See the 13-factor methodology Visit the NYC AEO agency page