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Be the business AI names when a buyer asks who to hire.
One client, a paint protection film specialist, was cited 21 times across AI platforms on July 1, 2026, and 84 times on October 7, 2026. That is the job: your business cited in AI answers, counted before the work and after, by platform and date. Your count is taken the same way, and you can repeat it.
The call is 30 minutes with Phil Belleville, the founder, and it is free. Paid work starts at $1,000 a month, month to month. Written scope and price before any paid work. No obligation.
Phil Belleville, founder.
PAINT PROTECTION FILM SPECIALIST · ENGLAND
21 to 84 AI citations.On 9 pages, then 24. July 1 to October 7, 2026.WELLNESS SPA · MONTANA
34 to 143 AI citations.On 13 pages, then 45. July 1 to October 7, 2026.IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM · SEATTLE AND VANCOUVER
21 to 80 in AI Overviews.Google’s AI answers. On 6 pages, then 22. July 1 to October 7, 2026.Since 1995Experience in search.
Founder ledWork directly with Phil.
Month to monthFor ongoing services.
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AI Search Engine Optimization is an AI SEO agency in Phoenix, Arizona that gets a business cited in AI answers and counts it by platform and date. The video shows three clients’ counts with the dates, how the work runs, and the terms. Read the transcript
Why you are here
You rank in Google. Is AI taking your search traffic anyway? Ranking well does not put you in the AI answer. A buyer reads the AI answer Google writes above the results, or asks an AI assistant who to hire, and a competitor is named. You never see it happen.
Traditional SEO earns the position. AI SEO also has to earn your name inside the answer, and each AI platform picks its sources its own way.
So you ask around. Every agency says AI now, and you cannot tell which ones only renamed the retainer they already sold. You get a few more blog posts and the same basic ranking report. “It published 200 articles… and my rankings actually dropped,” one owner wrote on Reddit about an AI article tool.
Whatever an agency calls itself, the test is the same. Can it show you what changed for a client, with the dates?
Ask any agency for one client’s AI citations by platform and date, and for the list of changes it made on that client’s site. Ours are on this page. Here are three.
Client results
Three clients, one source, two dates. Each count below was read from Ahrefs on October 8, 2026.
AUTOMOTIVE DETAILING · SURREY AND HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND.
Where it rose: Google AI Overviews 11 to 54. Gemini 0 to 17. Google AI Mode 3 to 8. Perplexity 0 to 2.
WELLNESS · MONTANA.
Where it rose: Gemini 0 to 56. Google AI Mode 4 to 28. Perplexity 2 to 26. Google AI Overviews 27 to 31. Copilot 0 to 2.
LAW · SEATTLE AND VANCOUVER.
Counted in Google’s AI Overviews. Perplexity 0 to 2. Gemini 0 to 1. Google AI Mode 0 to 1. Visits are from the firm’s own website analytics.
Check these the way you would check any agency. Most of the gain is in Google’s AI Overviews and in Gemini. Each platform is its own contest, which is why your count is split by platform. Some AI assistants build their recommendations mostly from other sites, so winning there takes mentions on those sites. Step two below covers that.
A citation is not a phone call, so visits are counted too. The immigration law firm’s site had 4 visits from ChatGPT in July 2026, 40 in August and 75 in September, by its own website analytics. The sixth measurement below shows how we count the visits and inquiries AI sends to your site.
Four records, each with its own dates.
These four are Google ranking records from the rank tracker in use at the time, published in full in the case studies. They do not measure AI citations or lead volume.
Three tools can give three answers to the same question. So AI Search Engine Optimization does not report a score. It reports the count, with the platform, the question and the date, from one source read on one day, so you can repeat it. Your first count is taken before any work starts. The same count is taken again later, the same way. A tool can revise its past counts as it adds data. That is why every figure here carries its read date.
The counts moved because the sites changed. For the immigration law firm, one week of work in August 2026 raised the references to government sources on its pages from 3 to 69. That work was done between its two counts.
A pain management clinic in Missoula had 12 separate copies of the code that labels its business on its own site, under 7 different IDs. There should be one. We made them one record on August 21 and 22, 2026. By the next day Google’s own score for how sure it is about the clinic’s name had gone from 29 to 75. On the same site, one search moved from 59th place to 1st within a day of a fix, rechecked on September 14, 2026.
That is what to ask an AI visibility agency for: the count, the change, and the count again.
AI SEO agency services
AI names the businesses it can check. So AI Search Engine Optimization does three things, and you can check each one. It counts how often each AI platform cites your pages today, by platform and date, before any work starts. It changes the site you own, so an AI can verify who you are, what you do and why you are a sound choice, and can quote you. Then it counts again, the same way.
Three basics come first on every site: AI crawlers can reach your pages, the code that labels your business (structured data) matches the words a visitor sees, and your pages hold passages an AI can quote. Some call it answer engine optimization (AEO), some generative engine optimization (GEO). The work on your site is the same.
Before you hire anyone
Any agency can describe a method. Here is how to check one. Lists of the best AI SEO agencies are easy to find and hard to check. A top AI SEO agency on one list is missing from the next. Lists rank agencies by reputation, and you cannot check a reputation. You can check six measurements.
Ask for all six before you sign with anyone, us included. A real agency can show them for a client first, and then for you.
Ask for a count taken before the work started, and the same count after. An AI SEO firm that cannot produce both cannot show you what changed.
A real answer: the three client cards above.
Take one buyer question in your market. How many AI answers name you, and how many name each competitor?
A real answer: a dated count for you and for every named competitor, by platform.
A page can rank on page one and never appear in the answer above.
A real answer: the immigration law firm above. On October 7, 2026 Google’s AI Overviews cited it 80 times, across 22 pages.
Ask for the list of changes installed, not the list of recommendations. Only one of them moves a count.
A real answer: the clinic above. 12 records made one on August 21 and 22, 2026, and checked the next day.
AI builds its recommendations partly from other sites: lists, reviews, press, forums and video. Ask which sites, and why those.
A real answer: a measured list. In our own check of 26 questions in our trade on September 16, 2026, YouTube was a source in 16.7 percent of AI answers, a review directory in 9.7 percent and Reddit in 8 percent.
Ask whether the agency reports the visits each AI platform sends, and whether the inquiry form asks which AI assistant sent the buyer. A visibility score that never reaches an inquiry count tells you nothing about sales.
A real answer: monthly visits from each AI platform, from your own analytics, and the inquiries that named one. The immigration law firm above: visits from ChatGPT went from 4 to 75 a month.
Bring your site to the call. You leave knowing where AI names you today, and with the six measurements to ask anyone you hire.
A direct working relationship
The person on your call leads the work. Nothing is handed from a sales team to a delivery team you have never met.
“After trying 3 SEO companies in the past, and paying money for promises, I finally found this company. My website started to work literally after the first month of their work.”
A client of more than a year.
“Phil is great at communicating what he is doing and keeping me up-to-date.”
A client who had paid for other SEO services before.
“He helped set us on an amazing path, gave us specific actions to take, and taught us a lot as well.”
A roofing company.
“They did a massive clean-up of our site (which was a mess from our previous SEO firm), and we were back on page one within the first two months.”
From a client who came from another SEO firm.
These reviews are word for word. They were written about Phil’s work at his other SEO agency. The same Phil leads your work here. They tell you what he is like to work with, and the dated counts above tell you what the work did.
Phil takes your call and leads your engagement from that call on. A USA-based team installs the changes, and the people who did the analysis are the ones who make them. You get a report every month, and an answer sooner whenever you have a question.
Fit
You should hear this before the call, not after the invoice.
Right for you: you own a business with a WordPress website, your buyers research before they call, and you want to check the work yourself. Keep your own rank tracking account if you have one. Bring it to the call.
Not for you: anyone wanting content by the hundred, or a guaranteed mention. The work is installed on WordPress only. If your site runs on something else, this is not for you.
Too early? If your customers do not find you through search, it is too early, and you will be told so on the call.
Can software do this on its own? A tool can write pages. It cannot make an AI able to verify who you are. Add pages without that and the site gets bigger but no easier to find.
Price and terms
If it fits, the next question is the price. Here are the floor and the terms, before any call.
Engagements start at $1,000 a month. There is no setup fee. What yours costs depends on your site and your market, so that part is settled on the call. You get a written scope and price before any paid work begins. Then the first month is billed in advance.
Ongoing services run month to month, with no long-term contract. To stop, you give 30 days’ notice. When you leave, you keep everything built on your site, your logins and your reports.
Other agencies’ customers describe the opposite. “You will pay up to $18,000 after deciding to leave,” one agency’s customer wrote in a review. “I tried asking for the passwords and logins to fix these issues they denied us,” wrote another.
You keep your logins and your accounts. You say which changes need your approval. Every page we touch has a before-and-after record, so any change can be undone.
We guarantee the work: every change in your scope is installed on your site, checked live and reported. We cannot promise a mention. No one honestly can, because the AI platforms decide what they cite.
A report every month, and three dated checkpoints written into your scope before work starts. They fall at 6 weeks, 12 weeks and 6 months.
Changes to your site are installed and verified in the first weeks. One client fix went live within 3 days of the audit. Your AI count is read again every month, by platform.
If you have been here before
You do not have to start over, and you do not have to take our word for it.
Ask your current agency for the six measurements above. If what comes back is a Google ranking report, you have found the gap.
If you were let down before, hold us to what the last agency would not do. Here you get a dated count before the work, a log of every change, and the count again.
Before we talk
The five doubts owners raise most come first.
No, and one question tests it. Ask any AI SEO marketing agency for one client’s AI citations on two dates, and for what it changed on that client’s site. Three such records are on this page.
Yes, if the count comes from one source, read on one day, and names the platform, the question and the date. AI Search Engine Optimization takes that count before work starts and again later, the same way.
It can be. If your customers do not find you through search, it is too early. On the 30-minute call you will be told so plainly, before any money changes hands.
No. Ongoing services run month to month, and you can stop with 30 days’ notice. You keep everything built on your site, your logins and your reports, and you approve the changes you want to approve.
A tool can write pages and track mentions. It cannot make an AI able to verify who you are, or earn mentions on the sites AI already trusts. That is the difference between software and an AI search optimization company.
The minimum is $1,000 a month, with no setup fee. Your own price comes on the call and then in a written scope, before any paid work begins. Then the first month is billed in advance.
Lists of the top AI SEO agencies disagree with each other, because each ranks by reputation. No list can tell you which is the best AI SEO agency for your business. The six measurements on this page can.
An AI SEO agency gets a business cited and named in AI answers: Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. You will also see it called an AI optimization agency or an AI search optimization agency.
Your next move
Until you have a baseline, you cannot tell whether AI gives buyers your company name or a competitor’s. The three clients above were first counted on July 1, 2026. 14 weeks later their counts had moved. Every week without a first count is a week of change you can never measure. Yours starts the day you ask.
Book 30 minutes with Phil and bring your site. You leave knowing where AI names you today and where it names someone else. If working together makes sense, you receive a written proposal with the scope, timeline and price. Take the time you need to decide.
Before you decide
Still deciding? These seven short reads cover the questions owners ask before they hire.
What to check before you hire for Google and AI search.
Your own team or an outside agency: who should own it.
What changes when buyers ask AI instead of scanning results.
How to read the scope behind a monthly price.
How to change providers with a clean handover.
What direct access to the person who decides looks like.
Access, control and what stays yours.
Video transcript
You rank in Google. But when a buyer asks AI who to hire, is it your name, or a competitor’s?
AI Search Engine Optimization, an AI SEO agency based in Phoenix, Arizona, gets your business cited in AI answers, and counts it by platform and date. Ranking well does not put you in the AI answer. Every agency says AI now, so ask for the dates.
A paint protection film specialist was cited 21 times on July 1, 2026. On October 7, 84 times. A wellness spa in Montana went from 34 citations to 143. An immigration law firm went from 21 to 80 in Google’s AI Overviews. Its visits from ChatGPT went from 4 in July to 75 in September.
How it works. We count where AI names you today. We change the site you own, so AI can verify who you are. Then we count again, the same way.
It is month to month, with a written scope and price first. We cannot promise a mention. We guarantee the work.
Every week without a first count is a week of change you can never measure. Book a free strategy call: 30 minutes with Phil Belleville, the founder. You leave knowing where AI names you today.
