AI Search Optimization
AI search optimization services that get you cited, not just crawled
AI search optimization makes your brand show up inside the answers of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews. Sourcelift delivers it as one productized system, GEO, AEO and Technical GEO together, with a citation baseline re-measured every 30 days across all five engines.
01 / The difference
Being crawled is not being chosen.
Most sites are already in the training data and retrieval indexes of AI engines. That is table stakes. The question that moves revenue: when a buyer asks for the best option in your category, does the engine name you, cite you and link you, or does it hand the deal to someone else?
02 / What we actually do
Six workstreams, in impact order.
Prompt and query research
The buying prompts your category lives or dies on, mapped before anything is optimized. This set becomes your baseline.
Entity clarity
Engines cite brands they can identify without ambiguity. We align your name, description and facts across your site, schema, llms.txt and the external sources engines lean on.
Answer-first content
AEO in practice: key pages open with self-contained sentences an engine can lift as the answer, then the depth. We write and rebuild the pages your buyers' prompts deserve.
Technical GEO
Structured data, site architecture, internal linking, crawlability for AI bots and machine-readable content, so engines can crawl, understand, retrieve and cite you.
External citation signals
The sources AI engines already trust need to mention you: comparison pages, industry lists, communities, data studies worth citing. We earn those mentions; we do not buy link spam.
Tracking and competitive intelligence
Citations won, share of voice and competitor movement per engine, re-measured every 30 days against a locked prompt set. You see who owns your category's answers.
03 / Offer
Start free, then fixed prices at every step.
The entry point is the free AI Visibility Diagnosis: where you stand today across five engines, plus three fixes. From there: a $490 GEO / AEO audit (founder rate) credited 100% against the sprint if you start within 30 days, a fixed-scope 90-day sprint at $2,400, and monthly growth programs matched to your stage on the pricing page.
04 / FAQ
AI search optimization, common questions
What are AI search optimization services?
Work that makes a brand visible inside AI search results: the answers generated by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews. It covers entity clarity, answer-first content, Technical GEO and external citation signals, measured against a fixed prompt set.
Is AI search optimization the same as GEO and AEO?
They overlap heavily. GEO (generative engine optimization) is the practice of earning citations inside generated answers; AEO (answer engine optimization) structures content so engines can lift it as the direct answer. AI search optimization is the buyer-side name for both. At Sourcelift you get them as one service.
How much do AI search optimization services cost?
At Sourcelift: free diagnosis, $490 GEO / AEO audit (founder rate), 90-day sprint at $2,400, and monthly growth programs matched to your company stage. Entry prices are published on the pricing page.
Can you optimize for just one engine, like ChatGPT?
Yes. The Foothold program targets your single highest-value engine first. We still measure all five, because citation gains usually spill over.
If you ask ChatGPT for the best GEO agency and we are not there, do not hire us.
We publish our own baseline and you can re-run every prompt yourself.