Invisible in AI answers
Your category gets queried hundreds of times a day inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. But your brand isn't in the response, and buyers move on before they ever hear your name.
AEO consulting for SaaS and B2B companies that need to be retrieved, cited, and recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
Free · 30 minutes · Limited capacity
Led by Nathan Gotch, an AEO consultant with a 99% success rate driving brand visibility across AI platforms.
Trusted by brands like
§ 01 · The shift
When prospects ask AI tools who to trust, compare, or buy from, they may never reach your website. Traditional SEO still matters, but ranking is no longer the whole game.
The new question is: does AI understand your brand well enough to recommend it?
ChatGPT answer · sample
Prompt: "best [category] tools 2026"
The top tools in 2026 are Competitor A, Competitor B, and Competitor C. They're cited across G2, Reddit, and industry roundups for ease of use, integrations, and pricing transparency...
Your brand: not mentioned in 84 of 142 priority prompts.
Your category gets queried hundreds of times a day inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. But your brand isn't in the response, and buyers move on before they ever hear your name.
Answer engines lean on a small set of trusted sources. When your competitors are referenced and you aren't, AI defaults to recommending them, even when your offering is stronger.
Without prompt-level tracking, you can't tell what AI says about you, what sources it relies on, or whether your work this quarter actually moved the answers.
§ 02 · The offer
Three engagement tiers, one operator. Pick the level of involvement that fits where you are. We'll move from there.
A complete audit of where you stand in AI search today: visibility, citations, competitor positioning, and the gaps holding you back. You leave with a prioritized roadmap your team can execute, with or without me.
Typical outcome
A prioritized AEO roadmap, with the highest-impact fixes sized for who needs to touch them and how long they take.
Best for
Brands and agencies who need clarity before committing to ongoing work.
Hands-on AEO leadership, embedded with your team. I drive measurement, content direction, technical strategy, and authority building, and stay accountable to outcomes month over month.
Typical outcome
Measurable gains in AI mention rate, citation share, and answer inclusion, tracked month over month.
Best for
In-house teams ready to move, and agencies plugging a senior specialist into client work.
Senior strategic oversight without execution. Calls, reviews, and direction for capable teams who already have the muscle and want a sparring partner at the top.
Typical outcome
A senior sparring partner keeping your team focused on the work that actually moves visibility.
Best for
Founders, CMOs, and agency leads with teams already in motion.
Most engagements begin with an AI search visibility audit and 90-day action plan · By application only
Not sure which fits?
§ 03 · Process
Five stages, each with a deliverable your team can act on. No deck-only deliverables, no recommendations without an owner or a timeline.
Stage
Measure
Audit current AI visibility
Score how AI platforms currently describe your category, brand, and competitors across the engines that matter, with a baseline you can hold work against.
Deliverable
Brand Visibility Index report
Stage
Map
Identify the prompts and sources that drive answers
Build a prompt map of high-intent questions, the entities AI associates with your category, and the sources answer engines lean on most.
Deliverable
Prompt + citation map
Stage
Optimize
Restructure pages, schema, and entities
Improve retrievability and clarity: question-led structure, schema, internal linking, entity reinforcement, and clear expertise signals across high-value pages.
Deliverable
Prioritized fix backlog
Stage
Amplify
Build authority where AI looks
Earn mentions, reviews, and citations on the third-party surfaces AI engines retrieve from: industry publications, communities, comparison sites, and reviews.
Deliverable
Source + PR plan
Stage
Monitor
Track citations and share over time
Measure answer inclusion, citation share, sentiment, and competitor movement. Course-correct monthly and report impact to leadership in plain language.
Deliverable
Monthly visibility report
Lead consultant Nathan Gotch
Lead AEO Consultant · Co-Founder, Rankability
§ 04 · Expertise
AEO is still an emerging category, which means buyers need more than a faceless service page. They need to trust the person interpreting the data, setting the strategy, and helping them make decisions.
AEOconsultant.ai is led by Nathan Gotch, an AEO consultant helping brands and agencies understand and improve how they appear inside AI-generated answers, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
§ 05 · Why this
A focused, senior-led engagement built around your category. We prioritize the highest-leverage fixes first, translate technical findings into executive-ready decisions, and give your team (or your client's) a roadmap they can actually execute.
Prompt-level data, not vanity dashboards. You see exactly where AI mentions you, where it doesn't, and why.
Every finding maps to a specific page, schema field, source, or piece of content, with effort sized for who has to do it.
We rank fixes by likely impact on AI visibility and revenue influence, not alphabetically. Highest-leverage moves go first.
Findings translated into one-pagers leadership can act on, without making them learn the difference between RAG and retrieval scoring.
Recommendations are scoped for SEO, content, PR, and leadership, so the work doesn't pile onto one team and stall.
§ 06 · Proof
Live AI search ranking snapshots from real engagements. Competitive visibility tracked across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. Specific prompts redacted.
Rankings last verified July 2026
AI search rankings
AI citations
In their words
"The consult with Nathan was the best consult I've ever received. He identified several technical issues that could be game-changers for my business, and helped us brainstorm content ideas to drive more backlinks. Nathan was highly prepared. He did a thorough audit of our site and our competitors."
"Nathan delivered more than he promised. What outstanding results we achieved by teaming with Nathan and Gotch SEO. I absolutely would recommend him for any size company looking for top-tier results."
"Nathan did an amazing job auditing our website and making recommendations. The report was over 60 pages and full of actionable steps."
§ 07 · Questions
If your question isn't here, bring it to the discovery call.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of making your brand easier for AI systems to retrieve, cite, and recommend. It covers how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews understand your category, brand, products, and competitors, and what it takes to influence the answers they generate.
SEO optimizes for traditional search engines and ranking pages. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is one slice of AEO focused on generative answers. AEO is the broader strategy: measurement, entity authority, citations, retrievability, and the technical foundation that influences every AI surface, not just the ranked page.
Yes. Most engagements start by auditing and restructuring high-value pages already attracting traffic, before producing new content. The fastest wins typically come from improving entity clarity, internal linking, schema, and retrievability on pages your audience already reads.
We track a defined set of high-intent prompts across the major answer engines and score brand mention rate, citation share, answer inclusion, source coverage, and competitor share of voice. Results are delivered as a diagnostic with prioritized next steps, not a dashboard you have to interpret yourself.
Audit findings are typically delivered within 2–4 weeks. Visibility improvements depend on the change required: schema, on-page, and entity fixes can move within weeks, while authority and citation-side work compounds over months.
Most recommendations are executable by an SEO or web team. Some technical changes (schema, internal linking, CMS-level templates) benefit from a developer, but every recommendation is sized for who needs to touch it and how long it should take.
Yes. Better entity clarity, internal linking, technical SEO, schema, and authority signals improve both traditional rankings and AI retrievability. AEO is not a replacement for SEO. It is the next layer.
§ 08 · Engage
Engagements are limited and selective. Book a discovery call to discuss fit, scope, and whether AEOconsultant.ai is the right partner for your team.