Get recommended by AI, not just ranked by Google.

Your buyers are shortlisting inside Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot before they ever reach your website. If those LLMs don't name you, you're not in the running, and you'll never see the traffic you lost. Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) gets your brand cited in the answers your buyers are already receiving. We measure where you stand on day one, then work to move it.

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Problems we solve

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Invisible in AI search

Ask ChatGPT to recommend a vendor in your category and your competitor comes back instead of you. No click, no session, nothing in your analytics. A shortlist formed without you on it.

02

Rankings hold, clicks don't

Your positions look fine and your organic traffic is falling anyway. Around 60% of Google searches now end without a click, because the answer is delivered above your result.

03

Your SEO reporting stopped being useful

You're still getting a monthly report on keyword positions and domain rating. None of it tells you whether an AI assistant would name your brand, which is the thing that now decides the shortlist.

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Nobody can tell you where you stand

You suspect there's a problem and you have no number. No baseline, no competitor comparison, no way to know whether last quarter's content did anything at all.

Marketing and sales leaders trust us

GTM leaders at SMB, mid-market and enterprise companies trust Content Chemistry to get results.

What our clients say

Award-winning and accredited

We’re an award-winning and accredited HubSpot Platinum Solution Partner, Google Partner and Microsoft Partner, with 5-star HubSpot and Google reviews.

We start with a number, not a theory

  • We build a prompt set that mirrors how your buyers actually ask, then run it across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode to record where you appear and who appears instead.
  • You get a baseline in the first fortnight, with your named competitors measured alongside you, so every month after that is a comparison rather than an opinion.
  • We track this on ourselves too, across 25 prompts covering every service we sell, and we publish the results.
  • Reporting is on mentions and citations, not impressions. AEO is not about keyword rankings or more traffic. It is about being named, and what that converts to.
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We fix what AI reads on your site

  • LLMs have to work out what your company is before they can recommend it for anything. Most B2B sites describe fifteen capabilities with equal weight, which teaches a model nothing. We sharpen the entity first.
  • We restructure content the way models consume it. Around 87% of cited pages anchor on a single H1, and close to 80% of pages cited in ChatGPT use lists to break up key information.
  • We implement schema properly. About 61% of cited pages carry three or more schema types, and pages that do are meaningfully more likely to be cited.
  • We keep it fresh. Pages left more than three months without an update are over three times more likely to lose visibility, so we build a refresh cadence rather than a one-off cleanup.
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We build the off-site presence that actually moves it

  • Roughly 85% of brand mentions that AI models draw on come from domains that aren't yours. Brands investing in off-site presence are around 6.5 times more likely to earn AI visibility than through owned content alone.
  • Earned media and peer sites together account for well over half of all citations. Your own website accounts for about 8%. We work on the other 92%.
  • Community carries more weight than most marketers expect. Close to half of AI citations come from user-generated sources, with Reddit appearing in roughly one in five AI answers and YouTube ranking second across Gemini and Perplexity.
  • Nearly 90% of third-party mentions sit inside listicles, comparison pages and review roundups, and about 80% of mentioned brands appear in the first three positions. We work to get you into those, in those positions.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)?

Answer Engine Optimisation, also called AEO or GEO or AI Search, is the practice of getting your brand accurately represented in answers generated by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, and in AI-generated results like Google's AI Overviews. Traditional SEO optimises for a ranked list of links. AEO optimises for being named inside an answer.

How is AEO different from SEO?

 They overlap and they are not the same. Around 59.6% of Google AI Overview citations come from URLs that don't rank in the top 20 organic results, so ranking well is no guarantee of being cited. AI assistants weight entity clarity, third-party corroboration and content freshness far more heavily than a search engine ranking a page. Plenty of companies sit on page one of Google and are never mentioned by ChatGPT.

Is AI search traffic actually worth anything?

Yes, and more than organic. Semrush found visitors arriving from AI engines convert at around 4.4 times the rate of organic search visitors. The reason is intent. A buyer who has already had a five-turn conversation with an assistant and arrives at your site is a long way further down the decision than someone who clicked a blue link.

How do I know if my brand is visible in AI search?

Run your real buying questions through Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot and see whether you appear. Do it more than once, because answers vary between runs. The useful version is a fixed prompt set measured over time against named competitors, which is the baseline we build in the first fortnight of any engagement.

Why does my AI visibility keep changing?

AI search is volatile by design. More than half of brands that drop out of an answer resurface within two runs as models diversify their source mix. A single disappearance means very little. The brands that come back fastest tend to have fresher content, deeper citation presence and clearer off-site validation, which is exactly what the work is aimed at.

Can you guarantee my brand will be cited?

No, and nobody honestly can. Model outputs are probabilistic and the providers change their retrieval behaviour without notice. What we commit to is a measured baseline, a defined body of work, and monthly reporting on movement against it.

How long does AEO take?

Structural and entity work usually shows movement in four to six weeks. Off-site authority and corroboration compound over three to six months. Categories with entrenched incumbents take longer than emerging ones. We price this on how fast you want to move rather than on hours logged.

Do we need to be on HubSpot?

No. The AEO work is platform-agnostic and we work on any stack. We're a HubSpot Platinum Solutions Partner, so reporting is cleanest there, but it isn't a requirement.

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