Answer Engine Optimization
Your customers are asking AI for answers. Make sure the answer is you.
Search is being replaced by answers. We get medium and large national brands cited and recommended inside ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Gemini — so you win the customer before they ever reach a list of links.
Get your brand mentioned in
The Shift
The way people search just changed. Most companies haven’t caught up.
For 25 years, the game was ranking on Google. That game is ending. Buyers now ask AI a question and get one answer — a recommendation, a shortlist, a name. If that name isn’t yours, you’re invisible, no matter how good your old SEO was. The brands that win the next decade are the ones AI trusts enough to recommend. That’s what we build.
The Proof
This isn’t theory. We’ve already done it.
We took InCorp from invisible in AI to the answer their market gets recommended.
#1
Most profitable year in their 28-year history
AI citations, up from zero
Website traffic in 9 months
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In nine months, CiteFirst increased our traffic fivefold, grew our AI mentions from zero to 641, and helped drive the largest year-over-year increase in new account orders in our 28-year history. They didn’t just keep us visible. They made us the answer.
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The Approach
We don’t chase rankings. We engineer authority AI can’t ignore.
AI engines don’t choose their answers at random. They pull from the brands that show up — credibly, repeatedly, and as a recognized expert — across the specific channels they read and trust most. So that’s what we build.
We design and run a coordinated authority strategy across LinkedIn, YouTube, podcasts, PR, Reddit, and the high-trust sources AI actually cites — all orchestrated around the questions your buyers are asking. Every piece reinforces the others, so your presence compounds instead of scatters.
Exactly how we sequence it, where we place it, and how the pieces compound into citation dominance — that’s the part our clients pay for. What you need to know: it’s a deliberate system, it’s proprietary, and it’s already working.
Why citeFirst
The specialists who got here first.
Most agencies are still selling you 2015’s playbook with “AI” stapled on. AEO is all we do. We’ve been building answer-engine visibility since before most marketers knew the category had a name — and we have the enterprise results to prove the approach works. When AEO becomes table stakes, our clients will already own the answer.
How It Works
Getting started is simple.
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Book a call
We learn your market and goals, and show you how AI currently sees you.
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Get your AEO game plan
A clear, prioritized strategy to become the answer in your category.
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Become the answer
We execute, measure, and compound your AI visibility month over month.