Your next customer is asking an AI who to hire.
Right now it names someone else.
People used to search. Now they ask. When someone asks ChatGPT or Google which company to use, one business gets named and everyone else may as well not exist. We do the work that makes the answer your name.
What you get: More of the right people find you, trust you, and call you, because AI Search Engines finally describe your business correctly instead of skipping past it.
- Get found by AI
- Get described correctly
- Get more calls
- See proof every month
Transparent monthly packages from $799 to $3,500 per month. No free audit to sit through, and no discovery call before you can see a price. Responds within 24 hours during Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Pacific Time.
What is answer engine optimization, and what does it cost?
Answer engine optimization, or AEO, is the work of making your business easy for AI Search Engines to understand and recommend. Your buyers now ask ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot who to hire. Those tools name one or two companies and move on. If they cannot read your business clearly, they name a competitor, and you never find out you lost the job.
At AI Search Rankings it costs $799, $1,500, or $3,500 per month. That price buys a fixed list of work every month. It does not buy a promise about rankings. Nobody controls what an AI says, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we do control is what those tools read about you, and that is exactly what we go and fix.
Every figure on this page comes from our published brand facts, so it says the same thing everywhere you find us.
One plan covers every AI tool your buyers use.
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Grok
You do not need a separate bill for each one. The same clear facts and clean answers work across all of them, so you pay once and show up in all of them.
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ChatGPT
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Google AI Overviews
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Google AI Mode
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Perplexity
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Microsoft Copilot
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Grok
You rank on Google, and the AI still names your competitor.
This is the call we get most. The website looks fine. The rankings look fine. But the AI keeps recommending someone else. Here is what we find almost every time.
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Machines cannot read your basic facts
What you do, where you work, and your hours are stuck inside pictures and long paragraphs. Your competitor lists theirs in a way machines read instantly, so the AI uses that one.
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Nothing tells the AI what you are
Without the right code behind your pages, an AI cannot be sure what kind of business you run. It will not risk recommending a company it is unsure about.
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Your pages sell instead of answering
Your pages talk about how great you are. They never answer the question. An AI looking for one clear sentence to quote finds it on a page that was written to be quoted.
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Nobody is checking any of this
You do not know which questions you lose or who wins them. You cannot fix what you cannot see, and it quietly costs you jobs every single week.
Six things land in your inbox every month.
You always know what you paid for. Every item below is real work you can open your own website and check.
We ask what your buyers ask
We put your customers questions to the AI Search Engines, then record whether you were named, who was named instead, and what was said about you.
How we testWe make your facts machine readable
Your business, services, and areas get written in code that AI Search Engines read directly, so there is no guessing about who you are or what you do.
Schema workWe rewrite your key pages
The answer goes at the top in plain words, so a buyer in a hurry and an AI both get what they came for in the first few seconds.
Content workWe fix your Google profile
Categories, services, areas, hours, and photos, all matching your website exactly, because Google checks one against the other and trusts neither when they disagree.
Local workWe put your proof where it counts
Your reviews, licenses, and guarantees moved to the exact spot where someone decides to call you instead of the next company on the list.
You get a report in plain English
What moved, what your competitor did, what we shipped, and the one thing we are doing next. No charts that need explaining.
Answer engine optimization is one of six pillars, not a standalone tactic.
Buying a single tactic rarely moves visibility, because answer engines read the whole picture. Every package works all six pillars together at the level your tier defines.
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Google + Google Maps Visibility
Improve your Google Business Profile, categories, service areas, hours, and local listings so nearby customers can find you in Google and Google Maps.
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Google AI Overview + AI Answer Readiness
Test 25 local "who to hire" prompts and structure clear, direct answers so Google AI Overviews and AI engines understand when to mention your business.
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Website SEO Optimization
Clean up page titles, meta descriptions, and headings, and optimize one priority page each month so customers and search engines understand your services.
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Local Entity Authority
Make your business name, services, and service area consistent across your website, Google profile, listings, and schema.
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Reviews + Trust Signals
Monitor reviews and guide responses, then place real proof and trust signals where customers decide whether to call.
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Conversion + Lead Path Optimization
Review phone, form, and quote paths on priority pages so more visitors turn into calls, bookings, and inquiries.
A lot can go wrong with answer engine optimization. We check every one of these.
Here is the honest part. This work is easy to get wrong and very hard to notice when it is wrong. A mistake here does not throw an error or break your website. It just quietly costs you customers for months. Knowing where it breaks is most of what you are paying us for.
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What usually goes wrong
The code says one thing, the page says another
Someone adds business code to your site. Later the page gets edited and nobody updates the code. Now your own website contradicts itself, and AI Search Engines trust neither version.
How we make sure it is right
We recheck the code every time a page changes
Whenever we touch a page, we check its code in the same pass. Your facts and your pages always agree, so nothing gets thrown out for being unreliable.
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What usually goes wrong
A rewrite kills rankings you already had
A page gets rewritten for AI and loses the depth that earned its Google position. Traffic drops. Nobody connects it to the rewrite until months later.
How we make sure it is right
We write down where you stand before touching anything
We record your positions, pages, and traffic first. The clear answer gets added above your existing content instead of replacing it, and we report rankings monthly so any drop shows up immediately.
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What usually goes wrong
Fake reviews and star ratings get you penalized
An agency adds rating code for reviews you never collected. It works for a while. Then Google issues a penalty that hits your whole website, not just that one page.
How we make sure it is right
We only publish proof you actually have
We add review code only where real reviews appear on the page. If you ask us to fake it, we will say no and tell you why. Your website stays safe.
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What usually goes wrong
You pay for months and cannot tell if it worked
There was no starting measurement, so every invoice turns into an argument about opinion. Most people cancel here, having paid for real work they could never see.
How we make sure it is right
We measure before we start, then every month
Month one records exactly where you stand. Every month after compares against it and names what we shipped. You always know what you are paying for.
This is the whole reason to hire someone. You are not buying a list of tasks. You are buying the confidence that this gets done properly the first time, by people who already know every way it goes wrong.
Six stages, and what each one produces for Answer engine optimization.
Every engagement runs on the same method, so you always know which stage you are in, what it is producing, and what comes next. The stages are Find, Fix, Structure, Prove, Track, and Grow.
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Find
Stage 1. Find
Establish what buyers actually ask and where you stand today.
You see the exact questions your buyers ask, and which competitor is being named instead of you.
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Fix
Stage 2. Fix
Remove the technical and factual blockers that stop a machine reading you correctly.
You get the list of what is holding you back, with the most costly problem fixed first.
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Structure
Stage 3. Structure
Rebuild the page and its data so an answer engine can lift a correct answer.
You get your best pages rebuilt to answer clearly, with matching code behind them.
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Prove
Stage 4. Prove
Attach the evidence a buyer and a model both need before recommending you.
You get your reviews and credentials placed where buyers and AI Search Engines both look.
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Track
Stage 5. Track
Measure the prompts, the competitors, and the movement every month.
You get a monthly report showing what moved, what competitors did, and what we shipped.
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Grow
Stage 6. Grow
Expand coverage into the next set of questions, services, and locations.
You get coverage extended into your next services, questions, and areas.
Two results we can show you, with their limits stated.
We publish the evidence label and the limitation next to every number, because a result without its scope is a claim, not proof. We do not guarantee AI rankings or citations, because third parties control those systems.
Toolsforhuman.com
AI Search Rankings used schema-first Answer Engine Optimization, layered JSON-LD, robust canonicals, and multilingual hreflang to help Toolsforhuman.com earn 26,300 Microsoft Copilot citations across 160 plus pages, including Spanish-language pages, in a sample window of about three months.
Measured on Microsoft Copilot. The result applies to the documented sample window and does not guarantee future citations.
Read the Toolsforhuman.com case studyLaser Tagging Inc.
AI Search Rankings rebuilt the Laser Tagging Inc. digital brand and website, expanded its service-area relevance across Newark, Fremont, San Jose, and nearby Bay Area communities, and documented 4,460 client-reported Google generative AI impressions in the selected last-three-month window.
Measured on Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. The report measures Google generative AI impressions. It does not prove a ChatGPT recommendation, a click, a booking, a lead, or revenue.
Read the Laser Tagging Inc. case study
The four questions serious buyers ask before they sign.
Each answer sits next to the doubt that prompts it, with the evidence we can actually stand behind.
This sounds like SEO with a new name on the bill.
It keeps all your SEO and adds what SEO never had.
Old SEO tries to get your link into a list. AEO makes sure an AI can describe your business well enough to recommend it out loud. We keep every bit of the SEO basics, because a page Google cannot read is a page an AI cannot quote. You get both for one price.
Every package includes normal technical SEO and Google Business Profile work, so you are not paying two companies for one job.
Nobody can really change what ChatGPT says.
True. But you can change what it reads.
We will never sell you a promise about AI rankings, because no honest company can. What we change is the input: whether your facts are readable, whether your pages give a straight answer, and whether other websites back up what you claim. That is what these tools actually use to decide.
Real result: this approach helped Toolsforhuman.com earn 26,300 Microsoft Copilot citations across more than 160 pages in about three months.
We will be locked into a contract before we see anything.
You see everything before you speak to us.
The three prices, what each one includes, and the line by line list of work are all on this page. The fit review is a written answer telling you which package suits you and what is not covered. There is no contract at that point and nothing to sign.
If what you need falls outside a package, we tell you in writing before anything starts.
Our own team already looks after the website.
Good. We tell them exactly what to do.
Plenty of our clients have a capable developer or marketer already. We write the monthly plan so your team can act on it without calling us to ask what we meant. If you would rather we did the work ourselves, that is included at the higher packages.
Who does what is agreed in writing before work starts, so nobody is left guessing.
Answer five questions and see which package fits.
This runs entirely in your browser using the published package scope. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored, and you do not have to give an email address to see the answer.
Answer all five questions above and the recommendation will appear here, along with the reason behind it.
Answer engine optimization is delivered inside one of three monthly packages.
Local small businesses
Local AI Answer Starter
Help nearby customers find, trust, and choose your business across Google, Google Maps, and AI answers.
$799per month
Build your local AI answer foundation
This is the entry package that includes Answer engine optimization.
- Google Business Profile + Google Maps optimization (categories, services, areas, hours, photos)
- Get found in Google AI Overviews + AI answers when customers ask "who to hire"
- 25 high-intent local buyer prompts tracked every month
- Competitor AI visibility comparison against 3 local rivals
- 1 answer-first page optimized + 3-5 new local FAQs every month
- LocalBusiness, Service & FAQ schema + NAP citation cleanup
Growing local businesses
Local AI Answer Growth
Win more calls, bookings, and quote requests across Google, Google Maps, and AI answer engines.
$1,500per month
Turn local AI visibility into more calls
- Everything in Starter, expanded for faster local growth
- 50-75 buyer-intent prompts tracked across every major AI answer engine
- Competitor AI + SEO gap analysis against 5 local rivals
- 2-3 pages optimized + 1 new local content asset (city, service, or cost guide) monthly
- 5-10 new local FAQs + full on-page SEO (titles, meta, links, alt text)
- Local entity authority + schema (LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, Review)
Competitive & multi-location businesses
Local AI Answer Authority
Build a complete local authority system across Google, Maps, AI answers, reviews, and content.
$3,500per month
Become the trusted local answer at scale
- Everything in Growth, built for competitive and multi-location markets
- 150-250 local prompts tracked + 10 competitors monitored
- 5-8 pages optimized + 2 new local content assets every month
- 10-20 new local FAQs, definitions & direct-answer blocks monthly
- Complete local entity authority system (business, service, location, owner/founder + SameAs)
- Advanced schema + local authority & PR opportunity building
Not sure which one applies to you? Use the package fit finder above, or compare every line item on the full pricing page. Every package includes answer engine optimization at the level shown in the table below.
Exactly what Answer engine optimization covers at each package level.
This is the operational scope, written the way it appears in your monthly plan. Scroll the table sideways on a small screen.
| Included work | Local AI Answer Starter$799/mo | Local AI Answer Growth$1,500/mo | Local AI Answer Authority$3,500/mo |
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| Buyer questions tracked each month | 25 | 50 to 75 | 150 to 250 |
| Competitors compared | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| Pages improved each month | 1 | 2 to 3 | 5 to 8 |
| New answers and FAQs added | 3 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 20 |
| New content published | Not included | 1 per month | 2 per month |
| Business code on your site | Business, service and FAQ | Adds reviews and linked services | Adds articles, people and ratings where real |
| Checking AI describes you correctly | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Strategy call | Not included | Monthly | Monthly, with priority help |
| Reporting | Monthly report | Adds competitor and local view | Monthly report for leadership |
Anything outside this scope is quoted separately and explained before the engagement starts, so there is never an invoice you did not expect.
Three situations where this engagement pays for itself.
If one of these describes your position, the fit review will be short and useful. If none of them do, say so and we will tell you honestly.
You rank but nobody recommends you
Your Google positions look healthy and AI Search Engines still name a competitor. That is a structure problem, not a content problem, and it is fixable in months rather than years.
You are newer than your competitors
They have years of mentions behind them. Clear facts and outside listings are how a newer business catches up faster than by writing more blog posts nobody reads.
The AI is getting you wrong
It lists the wrong services, the wrong area, or an old price. Every week this continues, the wrong version spreads a little further.
When this is the wrong purchase
This is not right for you if you need leads this week. This work builds over months, not days. It is also wrong if nobody at your company can approve website changes, because the plan needs someone to say yes. If either is true, paid ads will serve you better right now, and we will tell you that instead of taking your money.
Questions about answer engine optimization.
Each answer opens with the direct answer, so you can read one line and move on.
How much does answer engine optimization cost?
It costs $799, $1,500, or $3,500 per month at AI Search Rankings. Local AI Answer Starter is $799, Local AI Answer Growth is $1,500, and Local AI Answer Authority is $3,500. Each price buys a fixed list of work every month rather than a promise about results.
What is the difference between AEO and SEO?
SEO tries to get your link into a list of results. AEO makes sure an AI can describe your business well enough to recommend it. We do both in one package, because a page a search engine cannot read is also a page an AI cannot quote.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend my business?
No, and be careful of anyone who says they can. Other companies own those tools and change them without warning. We guarantee the work instead: the questions tested, the pages rebuilt, the code added, and the monthly report you can check.
How long before we see a change?
Technical fixes can show up within weeks. Winning competitive questions takes longer and depends on your website, your competitors, and how fast changes get published. Month one sets the starting point that every later month is measured against.
Do we have to leave our current SEO company?
No. We often work alongside an existing agency or an in house team. During the fit review we agree who does what, so nothing gets done twice and nothing gets missed.
Which package should we start with?
Most single location businesses start at $799 per month. Most businesses with several services or areas start at $1,500. The package fit finder on this page gives you a specific answer in about a minute, and the written review confirms it.
What do you need from us to start?
Access to your website or a developer contact, access to your Google Business Profile, and one person who can approve changes. We propose the questions to track, the competitors to watch, and the pages to fix, then confirm them with you in month one.
Tell us where you are losing the recommendation.
We look at your website, your Google profile, and what AI Search Engines currently say about you. Then we send a written answer telling you which package fits and what is not covered.
- A written recommendation of which package fits, and why.
- The specific gaps we can see on your site before we speak.
- A clear statement of anything that falls outside package scope.
- Responds within 24 hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Pacific Time.
- No obligation, no contract at this stage, and we never sell your details.
Three short steps
Request your Answer engine optimization fit review
We ask more than a typical form on purpose. The extra detail is what lets us answer with a real recommendation instead of a sales call.
Your request is in. Thank you.
A confirmation email is on its way, and Jagdeep Singh reviews these personally.
- Responds within 24 hours during Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Pacific Time.
- You will get a written package recommendation, not a sales deck.
- In a hurry? Call or text +1 (510) 399-5523.
See the price, see the work, then decide.
Everything you need is already on this page. The fit review just tells you which of the three packages matches your situation, and what falls outside it.
More of the right people find you, trust you, and call you, because AI Search Engines finally describe your business correctly instead of skipping past it.
- Published pricing, no discovery call required
- Evidence and limitations stated together
- Responds within 24 hours
Prefer to talk first? Call or text +1 (510) 399-5523 or email jd@aisearchrankings.com.