AEO. GET CITED IN
CHATGPT AND GOOGLE AI.
AEO, or Answer Engine Optimisation, is the work of getting your business named and quoted inside AI answers, in ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, rather than only in the list of blue links underneath. IBIX is an AEO agency in Grimsby working UK wide. We make your pages readable to those engines, make your business resolvable as a real entity, and then measure which answers actually cite you.
Book a Free AI Visibility Audit → or message on WhatsApp →Many searches never reach a list of links now. The answer is generated for the user by Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, and only a handful of businesses get cited in it. If your business isn't optimised for how these engines read the web, you're invisible at the moment a customer is being given a recommendation. AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) fixes that. You get a clear fixed price in writing before any work starts.
How We Get You Cited
The work that makes AI engines understand, trust and recommend your business.
Machine-Readable Content
We restructure your pages into the question-and-answer format AI engines extract from, so your expertise is easy to lift and quote.
Structured Data & Schema
Schema markup tells AI systems who you are, what you do and where you operate, so machines can cite you with confidence.
Entity & Citation Building
AI engines trust businesses that appear consistently across the web. We strengthen your Google Business Profile, reviews and mentions so the signals line up.
Tracking & Iteration
We monitor how often you surface in AI answers and traditional search, then refine. This is an ongoing discipline, not a one-off.
Be The Name
The AI Gives.
When someone asks an AI "who's the best removals company in Grimsby?" or "find me an SEO agency in Lincolnshire," it doesn't show ten links. It recommends a few businesses by name.
Almost no local business is optimised for this yet. Getting in early means you're the one the AI recommends while your competitors are still invisible to it. That window won't stay open forever.
Built on how search actually works
We grew a YouTube channel to 628,000 subscribers by understanding how algorithms surface and recommend content, the same thinking that drives AEO.
We run a deliberately small number of clients, so your AI visibility gets hands-on attention, not an outsourced checklist.
AEO, Explained
AEO is the practice of optimising your business so AI answer engines (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and similar) understand, trust and cite you when they answer a question. Traditional SEO gets you ranked in a list of blue links; AEO gets you named in the AI's answer itself.
SEO optimises for ranking in the classic list of search results. AEO optimises for being the source an AI engine quotes when it generates a direct answer. They overlap, because clean content, structured data and a well-managed Google Business Profile help both, but AEO focuses on machine-readable clarity, entity associations and citations so AI systems can reference your business with confidence.
There's no paid placement in AI answers; visibility is earned. We structure your content, schema markup and Google Business Profile so AI engines can parse and trust your business, build the supporting signals AI systems look for, and track how often you appear. It's an ongoing discipline, not a one-time switch.
Yes, and it's a genuine first-mover advantage. When someone asks an AI "who's the best removals company in Grimsby?" or "find me an SEO agency in Lincolnshire," the AI names specific businesses. Very few local businesses are optimised for this yet, so getting in early means you're the one the AI recommends while your competitors are still invisible to it.
READY TO BE
THE ANSWER?
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