AEO agency: get your brand recommended by AI
Your buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Mode which company to hire. Complete Ranking is an Answer Engine Optimization agency that makes sure the answer includes you — accurately, favorably and with a link back to your site.
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What is Answer Engine Optimization?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of making a brand visible inside AI-generated answers. Where SEO earns a ranking in a list of links, AEO earns a mention, a recommendation or a cited source in the response that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot or Google AI Overviews writes for the user.
It matters because the answer is increasingly the whole experience. When someone asks "what's the best medical coding software for a mid-size hospital?" they get three or four names and a short rationale. If you're not one of them, you don't get a click to win — you were never in the running.
How answer engines decide who to recommend
Every major assistant blends what the model already knows with what it retrieves from the web at answer time. AEO works on both.
Retrieval
ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Copilot and AI Overviews pull live results from search indexes. If you don't rank or aren't crawlable by their bots, you can't be retrieved.
Consensus
Models favor brands that many independent, trusted sources agree on: reviews, best-of lists, industry press, forums and comparison pages.
Clarity
Clear, consistent facts — what you do, for whom, where, at what price — let a model describe you confidently instead of hedging or skipping you.
Extractability
Answer-first passages, definitions, tables and structured data are easy to lift into a response and attribute to your page.
We measure the prompts that make you money
AEO starts with a prompt set: the real questions your buyers ask assistants, grouped by intent — "best", "vs", "alternatives", "how much", "near me". We run them every week across engines and track whether you're mentioned, whether you're cited, how you're described and who's recommended instead.
- Mention rate and citation rate per engine
- Share of voice against your named competitors
- Accuracy of how AI describes your pricing, features and locations
- The exact sources each engine cited, so we know where to earn mentions
| Buyer prompt | ChatGPT | Perplexity | AI Overviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| best medical coding software for hospitals | Cited | Cited | Missing |
| autonomous coding vs computer-assisted coding | Mentioned | Cited | Cited |
| alternatives to legacy CAC vendors | Missing | Mentioned | Missing |
| how much does AI medical coding cost | Missing | Missing | Cited |
What our AEO agency does
Monitoring tools tell you there's a problem. We fix it — on your site and across the sources AI engines read.
AI visibility audit
A baseline of how every major engine describes you and your competitors today, with the specific gaps that cost you recommendations.
Prompt research & tracking
A prompt set built from sales calls, search data and query fan-out analysis, tracked weekly so you can see progress prompt by prompt.
Entity & brand facts
Consistent facts across your About page, Organization schema, Google Business Profile, Wikidata where eligible, and a canonical brand-facts page.
Answer-first content
Comparison, alternatives, pricing and "best for" pages written so the key answer sits in the first 50 words of each section — easy to extract and cite.
Third-party mentions
Placement on the best-of lists, review platforms, communities, podcasts and publications that answer engines retrieve for your category.
AI crawler access
robots.txt rules for OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended, server-rendered content, fast pages and optional llms.txt.
Every answer engine your buyers use
From invisible to recommended
A 90-day sprint to establish the baseline and ship the highest-impact fixes, then ongoing work to compound share of voice.
Baseline
Build the prompt set, run it across engines, and score mention rate, citation rate, accuracy and competitor share of voice.
Gap map
Trace every missing recommendation to its cause: not crawlable, not ranking, unclear facts, or absent from the sources engines cite.
Fix & publish
Ship crawler and schema fixes, rewrite key pages answer-first, and publish the comparison and pricing content engines look for.
Earn mentions
Win placement on the lists, reviews and publications engines retrieve — and report weekly on how answers change.
Same foundation, different scoreboard
| SEO | AEO | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank a page in search results | Be named, recommended or cited in the AI answer |
| Unit of measure | Keyword position, clicks | Prompt mention rate, citation rate, share of voice |
| Biggest lever | Relevance and links to your pages | Consensus across third-party sources plus clear entity facts |
| Content format | Comprehensive pages for a query | Self-contained, answer-first passages and tables |
| Where results show | Google and Bing results pages | ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, Copilot |
Generative Engine Optimization goes one level deeper into how models synthesize sources — see our GEO agency page. For the ranking foundation, see our SEO agency services.
Check your AI visibility yourself
The same tools we use in client audits. All free tools
AI Agent Readiness Check
Score any URL on the signals AI crawlers and agents look for: robots, llms.txt, schema, rendering and more.
AI Crawler Opt-Out Checker
See which AI crawlers a site allows or blocks across robots.txt, llms.txt, ai.txt and meta tags.
Query Fan-Out Generator
Map the sub-queries AI Mode and ChatGPT run behind a single prompt.
AI Instructions Page Generator
Build a canonical brand-facts page AI assistants can read and cite.
llms.txt Checker
Validate any llms.txt file: title, sections, links, warnings and errors.
llms.txt Generator
Generate a clean llms.txt and llms-full.txt from your sitemap.
Learn answer engine optimization
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
AEO is the work of becoming the source AI assistants quote and the business they recommend. Here is how answer engines pick sources, how AEO differs from SEO and GEO, and how to measure it.
How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT
ChatGPT recommends businesses it can find, verify and see described well elsewhere on the web. Here is how it chooses, what to fix on your site and a 60-day plan to get into its answers.
How to rank in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode
Google says there is no secret formula for its AI features, and it means it. Here is what earns citations, how query fan-out changes your keyword plan, and how to measure the results.
AEO agency questions
What does an AEO agency do?
Is AEO different from SEO?
How long does AEO take to work?
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?
Which AI platforms do you track?
Do we need an llms.txt file for AEO?
How much does AEO cost?
Find out what AI says about your brand.
We'll run your category's most important buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews and show you who gets recommended, who gets cited and where you're missing. Free.