Written by Chandan Sharma, Co-founder & Lead Strategist · Updated September 22, 2026
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DoodleWeb is a Seattle answer engine optimization agency that helps brands earn citations and qualified leads from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. Monthly AEO programs start at $4,000, and the first measurable citation changes commonly appear within 60–90 days after priority technical, content, and entity improvements launch.
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An AEO agency structures a brand's website and authority signals so answer engines can understand, trust, and cite it. DoodleWeb combines technical access, entity definition, answer-first content, schema, and third-party references, then tests priority prompts every week across 6 AI experiences to show where the brand is named and where competitors win.
SEO targets ranked links, while AEO targets the single synthesized response a buyer sees in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, or Google AI Overviews. In 2026, the disciplines overlap, but AEO places extra weight on clear entities, self-contained answers, corroborating sources, structured data, and repeatable citation measurement.
DoodleWeb AEO retainers start at $4,000 per month and range from $4,000 to $12,000 as prompt coverage and production increase. A one-time 3–5 week sprint costs $8,000–$20,000. Each proposal states the pages, prompts, reporting cadence, and fixed fee before the engagement begins.
DoodleWeb plans for the first measurable answer-engine citation changes within 60–90 days of publishing the initial technical, content, and entity improvements. Narrow brand prompts may change earlier; competitive service prompts can take longer than 3 months because they depend on repeated crawling and corroboration from credible third-party sources.
Each engagement covers 8 workstreams: prompt discovery, baseline testing, technical crawler access, entity consistency, answer-first rewrites, structured data, third-party citation opportunities, and weekly reporting. DoodleWeb also reviews GA4 and Search Console monthly so citation gains can be tied to AI-referred visits, conversions, and qualified leads.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — sampled weekly for your priority queries with a competitor benchmark. You see exactly when a non-citation flips to a citation.
The weekly AEO citation report shows where the brand appears, which pages are cited, and which competitors still win.
Most agencies do schema OR content OR PR. AEO needs all three coordinated. We ship them in two-week sprints with measurable citation deltas.
The program covers 6 surfaces: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. DoodleWeb runs comparable prompts across each one because their sources and refresh patterns differ. Coverage is reported by engine, query, cited page, and competitor rather than reduced to one blended score.
DoodleWeb measures named citations, answer position, cited URLs, sentiment, competitor inclusion, and AI-referred website activity. A dated baseline is captured before production, prompt tests run weekly, and business outcomes are reviewed monthly in GA4 and Search Console. The full method is available on the 2026 AEO Citation Index page.
AEO fits companies with at least 10 high-value buyer questions, an established offer, and a credible website that can support expert content. DoodleWeb most often works with B2B, SaaS, professional services, higher education, ecommerce, and agency partners that want qualified leads from AI-assisted research, not citation counts without commercial context.
AEO remains a young category. Some providers relabel classic SEO without adding multi-engine testing, entity work, or citation reporting; the named organizations below publish genuine AI-search services. Independent consultants may suit audits, while ongoing programs need production capacity and repeatable measurement.
Seattle AEO agency combining content, schema, entity work, and weekly multi-engine citation tracking.
National SEO agency offering AI-search optimization within broader organic-search programs.
Performance-marketing agency with an enterprise-focused generative-search practice.
Content-marketing-led agency offering AEO alongside SEO and growth services.
Frequently asked questions
An answer engine optimization (AEO) agency is a firm that helps brands get cited inside AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — rather than only ranking on the classic Google blue-link results. The work spans entity definition, schema markup, content restructuring for LLM extractability, weekly multi-engine citation tracking, and competitive positioning inside model outputs.
Honest US/Canada market ranges: a one-off AEO sprint (audit, entity page, schema rollout, 5 ranked listicles, baseline citation report) runs $8K–$20K over 3–5 weeks. An ongoing AEO retainer is $4K–$12K/mo. Enterprise programs with full content production land at $12K–$35K/mo.
Brand-name and long-tail queries usually flip within 1–4 weeks because the major engines re-crawl frequently. Competitive service queries take 8–16 weeks. Head terms take longer and require directory and PR work alongside on-site changes.
We run weekly automated citation tests across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude for your priority queries — logging whether you're named, what's said about you, and which competitors are cited instead. The deliverable is a weekly delta report showing wins and gaps, not a vanity dashboard.
Mostly yes — AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and LLM SEO are three names for the same job: making your brand the cited source inside AI-generated answers. The underlying work is 80–90% the same; the labels reflect which engines a buyer cares about most.
Yes. DoodleWeb is headquartered in Columbia Tower (downtown Seattle) and delivers AEO programs across the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Async standups and recorded reviews keep remote engagements moving without meeting overload.
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