GEO · AI Search Optimization
Be the answer AI recommends. Get your business named by ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews.
Your next customer may never see a list of ten blue links. They ask ChatGPT or Google's AI which company to call, and it names two or three. Generative engine optimization, or GEO, is how you become one of them. You get clear answers on your own site, video AI can quote, listings that agree with each other and proof from real experience, plus a monthly check on whether the AI is naming you.
On set: filming an expert interview for the Leadership Experience Tour.
Where we start
- Where you standWe ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google the questions your buyers ask, and record who gets named.
- Why competitors winWhich of their pages, videos and listings the AI is quoting.
- Your fastest fixesThe pages and profiles to change first.
- A way to measure itAI referral traffic separated out in your analytics.
What is included
What actually earns a mention in an AI answer.
No tricks and no special files. The published research points at the same handful of things, and they are the things a buyer wants too.
See where you stand
Your buyers' questions asked across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, recorded monthly so you can watch the trend.
Pages AI can quote
Service, pricing and FAQ pages rewritten to answer the question in the opening lines, with specifics: prices, process, who it is for.
Video that says your name
YouTube videos with accurate titles, chapters and transcripts that name your business. YouTube is the most cited domain in Google's AI Overviews.
One clear identity everywhere
The same name, services, location and links on your site, Google Business Profile and every directory, so AI tools are sure who you are.
Proof you know your field
Case notes, real photos, named authors and your own data. Google's guidance favours first-hand experience over generic content.
Pages for buyers ready to choose
Comparisons, cost guides and buyer's guides: where AI traffic lands when people are ready to decide.
Talked about beyond your site
Reviews, partner pages, podcasts and local press. Brand mentions track with AI visibility far more than backlinks do.
Know what AI sends you
Visitors from AI tools counted separately in your analytics and judged on leads, alongside the monthly visibility check.
Why The Studio Creative
AI search rewards video and real answers. You get both.
Video the AI quotes
Google's AI features cite YouTube more than any other site, and Ahrefs found YouTube mentions track with AI brand visibility more closely than anything else it measured. Your videos are produced, published and transcribed in-house.
See the workFixes live fast
GEO lives on your service pages, FAQs and guides. Our web team edits them directly, so changes go live without a ticket queue.
Web designNothing that can backfire
We follow Google's own guidance: no special AI files sold as magic, no keyword stuffing, no fake reviews. Just real answers and real proof, measured.
SEO servicesThe process
From invisible to cited: the first 90 days.
- 1
Visibility audit
Weeks 1 to 2
Buyer questions asked across the major AI tools, competitors recorded, and your site, listings and video reviewed.
- From you
- Your top services and the questions customers ask you most.
- You get
- A baseline report and a prioritized plan.
- 2
Entity cleanup
Weeks 2 to 4
Business details matched everywhere: site, Google Business Profile, directories and social profiles.
- You get
- One consistent identity across the web.
- 3
Answer-first rewrites
Weeks 3 to 8
Your most important service, pricing and FAQ pages rewritten to answer first, with specifics and proof.
- From you
- A short interview per service.
- You get
- Pages that AI tools can quote.
- 4
Video and mentions
Weeks 5 to 12
Explainer and how-to videos published with transcripts, and outreach for mentions on partner and industry sites.
- You get
- New video AI can quote, every month.
- 5
Measure and repeat
Weeks 8 to 12
The visibility check re-run monthly, AI referral leads tracked, and the plan adjusted.
- You get
- A monthly report and call.
AI answers change fast and differ by tool, so we measure trends over months, not single answers on a single day.
Pricing
How GEO pricing works.
GEO is a monthly program, usually alongside SEO because the two share most of the work. We scope it from a first visibility check. For context, published agency pricing starts around $1,500 to $5,000 a month for small businesses.
Visibility check
The first baseline is quoted with the program. Monthly tracking is included in any program.
With SEO
Most clients add GEO to an SEO plan, which keeps the cost down because the technical and content work overlap.
Video
Explainer videos are produced as projects or in monthly batches. Price one with the free estimator.
No lock-in
Month to month after the first 90 days.
FAQs
What is GEO?
Generative engine optimization is the practice of earning mentions and citations in AI-generated answers, from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode. It is also called AEO or AI SEO.
Is GEO different from SEO?
It builds on SEO. AI tools lean on pages that already rank and on sources they trust, so technical health and good content still come first. GEO adds answer-first writing, video and transcripts, entity consistency and measurement of AI answers themselves.
Do I need an llms.txt file?
Google says no special AI files are needed for its AI features, and there is little evidence llms.txt changes anything. We can add one as cheap housekeeping, but we will never sell it as the reason you show up.
Does schema markup help with AI search?
It helps rich results and makes your details unambiguous. A 2026 Ahrefs study found adding schema did not by itself raise AI citations, so we treat it as hygiene, not a lever.
How do you measure AI visibility?
We re-run a fixed set of buyer questions across the major AI tools each month and record who is named and which sources are cited, and we separate AI referral traffic and leads in your analytics.
Is AI search traffic worth it?
Studies disagree on how well it converts, but visitors who arrive from an AI answer have usually already compared options. The bigger risk is being left out when the AI names your competitors.
Get a quote
Get an AI search quote.
Tell us your business and the questions your customers ask. We will reply with where we would start and what a monthly program would cost.
- Read by a person, not a bot
- A reply, usually the same business day
- Quoted with SEO when you need both