Your buyers ask ChatGPT first. Make sure it says your name.
Written by Chandan Sharma, Co-founder & Lead Strategist · Updated September 22, 2026
Short answer
DoodleWeb is a Seattle AI search optimization agency that helps brands earn citations and qualified leads from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. Monthly programs start at $4,000, and the first measurable citation changes commonly appear within 60–90 days after priority technical, content, entity, and authority improvements launch.
What does an AI search optimization agency do?
An AI search optimization agency improves the technical, content, entity, and authority signals used by answer engines. DoodleWeb works across 6 major AI experiences, then reports which prompts cite the client, which pages support those answers, and which competitors appear instead, connecting visibility work to qualified website visits and leads.
answer surfaces covered in every active visibility program
prompt and competitor checks, reported by engine and cited page
days planned for the first measurable citation changes
How is AI search optimization different from SEO?
SEO targets ranked links; AI search optimization targets inclusion in generated answers. In 2026, both require useful content and technical quality, but AI visibility adds entity clarity, extractable facts, source consistency, structured data, and direct testing across 6 answer experiences instead of relying only on rankings.
Audit and remediation
We make sure every answer engine can actually read, render, and trust your site.
- robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
- llms.txt and llms-full.txt setup for direct LLM ingestion
- Structured data: schema.org for FAQ, HowTo, Product, Organization
- Crawlability and rendering checks for headless agents
Restructured to be quoted
LLMs quote pages built a specific way. We rewrite the ones that matter most.
- Answer-first content patterns at the top of every page
- Comparison and listicle templates LLMs prefer to quote
- Source-of-truth pages for entity definitions in your category
- FAQ schema applied to every commercial page
Measure, report, improve
If you cannot see whether ChatGPT is citing you, you cannot fix it.
- Monthly position tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity
- Citation reports — where you are quoted, where competitors are quoted
- Recommendation reports — what to fix to gain ground
- Quarterly executive readout for leadership
How long until AI engines cite us?
DoodleWeb plans for the first measurable citation changes within 60–90 days after priority fixes and content go live. Narrow branded prompts can move sooner, while broad commercial prompts may need more than 3 months of repeated publishing and third-party corroboration. A dated baseline is captured before the 4-stage process starts.
Audit
Technical AEO scan, content gap analysis, baseline LLM visibility scores.
Remediation
robots, llms.txt, schema, rendering — fix the foundation in weeks one to three.
Content
Rewrite high-intent pages for citation. New source-of-truth and comparison pages.
Track
Monthly LLM position reports, citation tracking, and a recommendation backlog.
How much does AI search optimization cost per month?
DoodleWeb retainers start at $4,000 per month and typically range from $4,000 to $12,000 as prompt coverage and production increase. A focused 3–5 week sprint costs $8,000–$20,000. The proposal states the pages, prompts, reporting cadence, and fixed fee before work starts.
Starter engagement
Best for marketing sites under ~50 pages targeting a tight set of 10–20 priority queries. Foundation fixes, schema, and a focused content rewrite to start earning citations.
- Technical AEO audit + remediation
- Schema + llms.txt implementation
- Rewrite of 5–10 priority pages
- Baseline citation tracking across 4 LLMs
Growth engagement
Best for sites of 50–250 pages targeting 30–80 commercial queries. Ongoing remediation, monthly content production, and active position tracking.
- Everything in Starter
- Monthly content rewrites + new source-of-truth pages
- Monthly citation + competitor reports
- Async strategy support with your team
Enterprise engagement
Best for 250+ page sites and brands chasing visibility across 100+ queries. End-to-end embedded program across audit, remediation, content, and reporting.
- Everything in Growth
- Site-wide schema + rendering overhaul
- Page rewrites for top commercial queries at scale
- Embedded with your marketing + product team
What is included in a DoodleWeb engagement?
A DoodleWeb engagement covers 8 connected workstreams: prompt research, baseline tests, crawler access, entity cleanup, answer-first rewrites, structured data, third-party profile alignment, and weekly reporting. The senior team also reviews GA4 and Search Console monthly to connect citation gains with AI-referred sessions, conversions, and qualified leads.
We have implemented AEO for 30+ sites
From SaaS marketing sites to higher-ed and aerospace. We have seen what moves citation rates and what is theatre.
Not 2019 SEO with new branding
AEO and GEO are a different discipline. Token-aware content structure, citation patterns, agent rendering — built for how LLMs actually read.
We ship AI into websites for a living
Hero Chat — our own AI product — runs on client sites in production. We optimize for LLMs because we build with them every week.
Which engines do you cover?
DoodleWeb covers 6 major answer surfaces: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. Comparable prompts are tested separately because each engine uses different source mixes and refresh schedules. Reporting preserves the engine, query, cited page, and competitor details rather than reducing everything to one blended score.
Find out if ChatGPT is citing you today.
Free AEO audit. We pull your current LLM visibility, compare it to your top competitors, and send the report back in 5 business days.
Quantified proof
How do you measure AI visibility?
| Metric | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Engines tracked weekly per client | 4 | ChatGPT (search), Gemini, Claude (web_search), Perplexity — automated query runs. |
| Time to first AI citation | 30–60 days | Measured from the day schema + llms.txt + entity page ships to first observed citation. |
| Schema types deployed per site | 5+ | Organization, WebSite, Service / Product, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList — JSON-LD inline at SSR. |
| AI-crawler allowlist coverage | 12 bots | GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider, and more — opt-in via robots.txt. |
| Weekly client report cadence | Every Monday | Per-engine citation log, top-cited competitors, and recommended page-level edits. |
Source: DoodleWeb internal delivery records, 2019–2026. Trailing-twelve-month averages refreshed quarterly. Partner-tier claims verified against the respective partner directories.
What has DoodleWeb delivered in real engagements?
DoodleWeb has delivered AI-search foundations alongside more than 4 featured website and product engagements across aerospace, SaaS, and nonprofit organizations. Each example links to a complete case study showing the strategy, design, engineering, or measurable outcome rather than presenting an unsupported result without project context.
Ursa Major
Ursa Major delivers mission-ready aerospace and defense systems across hypersonics, solid rocket motors, and space-based defense, leveraging additive manufacturing and modular architectures to produce scalable all-up rounds, engines, and SRMs faster than legacy providers. From throttleable, storable hypersonics to tactically responsive satellite propulsion and extended-range solid rocket motors, Ursa Major is powering the joint force with flexible, American-made systems for any mission, in any domain. DoodleWeb replatformed them onto WordPress — shipping a procurement-grade marketing site with significantly faster page loads, restructured navigation for defense and government stakeholders, and an editor-friendly CMS that lets internal comms publish at the pace of an engineering organization. Shipped in 16 weeks.
Amplify AI
Amplify AI, a B2B SaaS startup, replaced a slow custom WordPress site with a Webflow rebuild from DoodleWeb. Outcome: 4× demo bookings in the first 60 days post-launch, demo-to-customer rate up 60%, and a marketing team that ships pages independently without engineering involvement. Shipped in 10 weeks.
Young Americans Center
Young Americans Center for Financial Education runs the only bank in the world for kids alongside a set of hands-on programs, AmeriTowne, International Towne, Money Matters, YouthBiz, and summer camp, that teach financial literacy to youth. Two audiences, two brands, one mission, and previously two disconnected websites. DoodleWeb ran a brand and experience repositioning, then rebuilt the platform on WordPress at WP Engine: a sub-brand system that lets Young Americans Center, Young Americans Bank, and each program keep its own color world while sharing one component library, program pages that lead with a plain-language promise instead of nonprofit jargon, and an editorial model that keeps mission content and regulated bank content cleanly separated. Shipped in 18 weeks. WCAG 2.2 AA conformant.
SiteSonar
SiteSonar is a DoodleWeb-built product: a no-code website performance adapter that lifts AI-search (GEO/AEO) visibility, identifies high-intent traffic, and converts more pipeline — without rebuilding the underlying site. Starts at $99/month, installs in 14 days, requires zero CMS migration. Used by marketing teams that need AI-search citation share without a replatform.
Got an AI search optimization project in motion?
Tell us where you are and where you'd like to be. A senior strategist replies — not a sales BDR — usually within a business day.
- Reply within one business day
- Senior team only — no juniors, no offshoring
- Fixed-fee proposals, no change-order surprises
Specialized programs
Who is AI search optimization for?
AI search optimization is best for established B2B, SaaS, higher-education, ecommerce, professional-service, and agency-partner teams with at least 10 valuable buyer prompts. DoodleWeb adapts the same engineering core to each market, then measures the citation targets and business outcomes that matter to that buyer journey.
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