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An AI SEO agency has one job: get your brand cited in the answers AI gives when buyers ask who to hire. You see the proof in counts taken before the work and after, by platform and date. A client, a paint protection film specialist, was cited 21 times across AI platforms on July 1, 2026, and 84 times on October 7, 2026. An immigration law firm’s visits from ChatGPT went from 4 in July 2026 to 75 in September. Your own count will be taken the same way, from the same data, and shown in every report.
The call is 30 minutes with Phil Belleville, the founder, and it is free. Paid AI SEO 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 generated responses. On 6 pages, then 22. July 1 to October 7, 2026.Since 1995Experience in SEO.
Founder ledWork directly with Phil.
Month to monthFor ongoing SEO services.
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AI Search Engine Optimization is an AI SEO company in Phoenix, Arizona that combines SEO and content to get your brand 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, and neither does your marketing report.
Traditional SEO earns the position in the search results. AI SEO also has to earn your brand name inside the answer, and Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity each pick their sources their own way.
So you ask around. Every marketing 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. Software is no shortcut either. “It published 200 articles… and my rankings actually dropped,” an owner wrote on Reddit about an AI content tool.
Whatever a marketing agency calls itself, the test is the same. Can it show you what changed for its clients in AI search, with the dates?
Ask any SEO agency for a client’s AI citations by platform and date, and for the list of changes it made to that client’s site and content. Ours are on this page. Here are three.
AI SEO results
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 data.
Every count names its source and the date it was read, so the same count can be repeated for your business. Most of the gain is in Google’s AI Overviews and in Gemini. Each platform is its own contest, which is why your visibility count is split by platform. Some AI systems build their recommendations mostly from content on other sites, so winning there takes brand mentions and authority on those sites. Step two below covers that.
A citation is not a phone call, and your marketing is judged on calls, so your visits are counted too, from your own website analytics. The sixth measurement below shows how we count the visits and inquiries AI platforms send to your site.
Four SEO results, each with the dates its Google ranking moved.
These four are records of Google search rankings from the rank tracker in use at the time, published in full in the case studies. They are not AI citations or marketing leads; they show the traditional SEO the AI work is built on.
Three SEO tools can give three answers to the same question. So AI Search Engine Optimization does not report a visibility score. It reports the count, with the platform, the question and the date, from a single data source read on a single 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 and their content changed. For the immigration law firm, a week of content 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 labeled its business 12 separate times in its own site’s code, under 7 different IDs. There should be a single record. We merged them on August 21 and 22, 2026. By the next day, Google’s own score of how sure it is about the clinic’s name, its Knowledge Graph confidence score, had gone from 29 to 75. On the same site, a search term went from 59th place to 1st within a day of a fix, rechecked on September 14, 2026.
That is what to ask any agency for: the count, the change, and the count again.
AI SEO agency services
AI names the businesses whose facts it can check. So AI Search Engine Optimization does three things, and you can check each of them. Before any work starts, it counts how often each AI platform cites your pages, and on what date. 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 technical SEO basics come first on every site: AI crawlers can reach your pages, the structured data that labels your business matches the words a visitor sees, and your content holds passages AI models can quote. Some call it entity optimization, some answer engine optimization (AEO), some generative engine optimization (GEO). Under every name it is AI SEO built on traditional SEO, and the work on your site is the same.
Before you hire anyone
Any SEO, marketing or AI visibility agency can describe a method. Here is how to check them. Ranked lists of agencies are easy to find and hard to check. A list’s top AI SEO agency is often missing from the next list. Lists rank agencies by brand reputation, and you cannot check a reputation. You can check six measurements of AI visibility and search results.
Ask for all six before you sign with any SEO agency, us included. A real agency can show them for the brands it already serves, and then for you.
Ask for a visibility count taken before the SEO 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 result cards above.
Take a buyer question in your market. How many answers from AI engines such as ChatGPT and Perplexity name your brand, and how many name each competitor?
A real answer: your first count, with dated AI visibility for you and for every named competitor, by platform.
A page of content can rank on page one of traditional search and never appear in the AI generated answer above it.
A real answer: the immigration law firm above. On October 7, 2026 Google’s AI Overviews cited it 80 times, across 22 pages of its content.
Ask for the list of SEO and content changes installed, not the list of recommendations. Only the first moves a count.
A real answer: the clinic above. 12 structured data records merged on August 21 and 22, 2026, and checked the next day.
AI systems build their recommendations partly from content on other sites across the web: lists, reviews, press, forums and video. Earning a place on them is digital PR and brand authority building. Ask which sites, and why those.
A real answer: a measured list of the sites AI draws on in your market. 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 SEO agency reports the visits each AI platform sends, ChatGPT included, and whether your inquiry form asks which AI assistant sent the buyer. An AI visibility score that never reaches an inquiry count tells you nothing about sales.
A real answer: monthly AI referral traffic, meaning the visits each AI platform sends, from your own analytics data, and the inquiries your marketing can trace to an AI assistant. The immigration law firm’s ChatGPT visits above are that kind of count.
Bring your site and your marketing reports to the call. You leave knowing where AI names your brand today, and with the six measurements to ask any SEO agency you hire.
A direct working relationship
The person on your call leads the SEO work. There is no account management layer: 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 AI SEO work here. They tell you what he is like to work with, and the dated AI visibility figures above tell you what the work did.
Phil takes your call and leads your SEO engagement from that call on. A USA-based marketing team installs the changes to your pages and content, 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 results yourself. If your marketing team keeps its own rank tracking or analytics data, bring it to the call.
Not for you: anyone shopping for cheap content marketing by the page, or a guaranteed mention. The work is installed only on WordPress, the content management system it is built for. 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 prove to an AI who you are. Add pages of content without the brand authority behind them and the site gets bigger but no easier to find. Where AI helps draft your content, Phil decides what each page claims and approves it. Google’s own guidance, published February 8, 2023: “Appropriate use of AI or automation is not against our guidelines.”
Price and terms
The starting price and the terms for AI SEO, stated before any call.
AI SEO 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 marketing agencies’ customers describe the opposite. “You will pay up to $18,000 after deciding to leave,” an 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 our SEO team touches 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. Nobody can, because the AI platforms decide what they cite.
A marketing report every month on your AI visibility and search results, and three dated checkpoints written into your scope before work starts. They fall at 6 weeks, 12 weeks and 6 months.
Page and content changes are installed and verified in the first weeks. On one client’s site, a fix went live within 3 days of the audit. Your AI visibility is counted again every month, by platform, so you and your marketing team see the trend.
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 the agency that runs your SEO services or content marketing for the six measurements above. If what comes back is a traditional SEO ranking report, you have found the visibility 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.
Keep the SEO and content work that already earns its place in your budget. This work adds what your current reports do not measure: whether AI platforms name your brand, and how often.
Before we talk
The five questions owners raise most come first.
No, and you can test it with a question a traditional SEO retainer cannot answer. Ask any AI SEO marketing agency for a 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 the same data source each time, read on a stated day, and names the platform, the question and the date. AI Search Engine Optimization measures your visibility that way before work starts and again later.
It can be. If your customers do not find you through search, it is too early for SEO of any kind. On the 30-minute call you will be told so plainly, before any money changes hands.
No. Ongoing SEO services run month to month, and you can stop with 30 days’ notice. You keep the content and everything built on your site, your logins and your reports, and you approve the changes you want to approve.
No. Software can help an AI search optimization company, but it cannot take its place. A marketing tool can write content and track brand mentions. It cannot prove to an AI who you are, or earn the authority of mentions on the sites AI systems already trust. That takes people doing the work, on your site and on the other sites AI reads.
The minimum for AI SEO 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 company gets a brand cited and named in AI generated answers: Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. It combines SEO, content marketing and structured data that artificial intelligence platforms can read and trust. You will also see it called an AI optimization agency or an AI search optimization agency.
Your next move
Until you have a first visibility count, 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, all three counts had risen. Every week without a first count is a week AI may be naming a competitor in your place, and you will never know how often. 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 SEO proposal with the scope, timeline and price. Take the time you need to decide.
Before you decide
Still deciding? These seven short reads answer the questions owners and marketing leads ask before they hire. When yours is answered, book the free call with Phil.
What to check before you hire for Google and AI search.
Your own marketing team or an outside agency: who should own your visibility.
What changes when buyers read AI search results instead of scanning a list of links.
How to read the scope behind a monthly SEO price.
How to change SEO providers with a clean handover.
What direct access to the person who decides looks like.
Access, control and what stays yours: the site, the content and the data.
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.
