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 the work that makes you one of them: clear answers on your own site, video AI can quote, listings that agree with each other, and proof from real experience. We do it, and we measure it.
Your free AI visibility check
- 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.
AI visibility audit
A fixed set of buyer questions asked across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, recorded monthly so you can see the trend.
Answer-first pages
Service, pricing and FAQ pages rewritten to answer the question in the opening lines, with specifics: prices, process, who it is for.
Video and transcripts
YouTube videos with accurate titles, chapters and transcripts that say your name. YouTube is the most cited domain in Google's AI Overviews.
Entity consistency
The same name, services, location and links on your site, schema, Google Business Profile and every directory, so AI tools are sure who you are.
First-hand proof
Case notes, real photos, named authors and your own data. Google's guidance favours first-hand experience over generic content.
Decision content
Comparisons, cost guides and buyer's guides: the pages AI traffic lands on when people are ready to choose.
Mentions beyond your site
Reviews, partner pages, podcasts and local press. Brand mentions track with AI visibility far more than backlinks do.
Measurement
AI referrals separated in GA4 and judged on leads, alongside the monthly visibility check.
Why The Studio Creative
AI search rewards the things we already make.
Video is our trade
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. We produce, publish and transcribe video in-house.
See the workWe control the pages
GEO lives on your service pages, FAQs and guides. Our web team edits them directly, no ticket queue.
Web designWe keep it honest
We follow Google's own guidance: no llms.txt promises, no keyword stuffing, no fake reviews. Real answers, 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, schema, 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 cited-ready video 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 the free visibility check. For context, published agency pricing starts around $1,500 to $5,000 a month for small businesses.
Visibility check
Free for the first baseline. 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.
Free consultation
Get a free AI visibility check.
Tell us your business and the questions your customers ask. We will check what ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI say today and send back who they name and why.
- Checked across four AI tools
- Competitors included
- What to fix first