PRIME GEO · GENERATIVE ENGINE OPTIMISATION

Your buyers ask AI before they buy. The cited brand wins

When ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity answers a buying question, it cites a handful of sources and recommends a handful of brands. Prime GEO is a structured programme that puts your brand in that answer — readable, identifiable, extractable and trusted by every major AI engine — and measures it by citation share.

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Four principles that hold as AI engines evolve

Effective GEO is judged by whether AI engines cite and recommend a brand, not by where a page ranks in a list of links. The leading AI-search agencies operate on four shared principles, and the same discipline is applied to every engagement here.

Principle 01

Citation, not ranking

AI engines answer in synthesised prose and cite a handful of sources. The objective is to be one of those cited sources, consistently, across every major engine.

Principle 02

Extractable by design

Engines break a page into passages and read each one alone. Content is structured so an engine can lift a clean, self-contained, accurate answer.

Principle 03

Entities and authority

Structured data makes a brand identifiable; earned third-party signals make it trusted. AI engines favour corroborated sources over self-description.

Principle 04

Measured by share of model

Success is tracked as citation share and recommendation position across engines and prompt clusters, monitored over time rather than by traffic alone.

**AI engines cite brands that meet four conditions**

A brand earns citations when AI engines can read its pages, identify its entities, extract clean answers, and corroborate it against trusted third-party sources. Brands that meet all four conditions are cited and recommended; brands that miss any one of them are simply absent from the answer.

AI engines retrieve content through retrieval-augmented generation: they fetch live pages at answer time, break each page into passages, and cite the sources they judge most relevant, well-structured and credible. Research from Princeton and Georgia Tech presented at KDD 2024 found that adding statistics, expert quotations and authoritative citations can lift a source's visibility in AI answers by up to 40%.

AI-referred traffic rose sharply through 2025, and Gartner projects traditional search engine volume to fall 25% by 2026 as queries shift to conversational interfaces. Visibility in this environment is built across four layers, in order — each one a prerequisite for the next.

The GEO Stack: four layers, built in order

Every engagement is engineered bottom-up. A page that cannot be read will never be cited; a brand that cannot be identified will never be recommended. Each layer unlocks the one above it.

Technical foundation & AI crawlability

AI crawler access is opened and verified, content is served server-side rather than hidden behind JavaScript, and an llms.txt file helps engines understand the site.

Structured data & entities

JSON-LD schema is deployed and stacked, and brand, product and author entities are defined and disambiguated so engines can identify the brand without ambiguity.

Content engineering for extraction

Priority pages are rebuilt answer-first, under question-based headings, with self-contained passages, statistics and expert quotes placed where engines extract them.

Earned authority & corroboration

Digital PR, high-authority citations and presence on trusted third-party platforms build the off-site signals AI engines use to cite a source with confidence.

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What does this GEO service include ?

The service covers four workstreams: AI visibility audit and monitoring, technical implementation, content engineering for citation, and earned authority with multi-engine reach — each against a defined roadmap.

AI Visibility Audit, Strategy & Monitoring

What's included

AI visibility audit across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews & Copilot
Prompt-cluster mapping around buyer decisions
Citation baseline & competitor benchmark
Technical & entity readiness diagnosis
Ongoing citation-share & recommendation-position monitoring
Quarterly strategy & prioritised roadmap

THE EDGE

We measure where you are cited today, then prioritise the work that moves citation share.

Technical SEO & Implementation Management

What's included

AI crawler access (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and others)
Server-side rendering & crawlability fixes
JSON-LD schema deployment & stacking (Organization, Product, FAQPage, Article)
Entity definition, disambiguation & knowledge-graph presence
llms.txt deployment
Shopify-specific technical implementation

THE EDGE

The technical layer that lets an AI engine read your site cleanly and identify your brand without ambiguity.

Content Engineering for Citation

What's included

Answer-first restructuring of priority pages
Question-based heading architecture matching conversational queries
Self-contained, passage-level extractable sections
Statistics, expert quotes & citable claims placed for extraction
Topic clusters & depth around buyer questions
Content-freshness refresh cycles

THE EDGE

A shift from "blogging for traffic" to building page assets that capture commercial search intent.

Authority, Earned Media & Multi-Engine Reach

What's included

Digital PR & placements in trusted publications
High-authority link & citation building
Third-party presence (industry directories, review platforms)
Community & Reddit visibility for AI summaries
Multi-engine coverage, including Chinese AI engines for cross-border brands
Brand-mention monitoring across the web

THE EDGE

AI engines favour corroborated, earned sources; we build the off-site signals that make your brand citable with confidence.

Pricing

GEO

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$3,950

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AI search audit, across major answer engines and generative discovery platforms
Entity-led optimisation , including brand trust, topical depth and citation readiness
Content engineered, for AI retrieval, summaries, citations and answer inclusion
Structured data implementation, support machine understanding and visibility
Authority-building strategy, through digital PR, mentions and trusted source alignment

Monthly Retainer

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Retainer pricing in USD per month. Each tier defines a clear scope and deliverable cadence. Final scope and pricing are confirmed in a written proposal.

**A predictable rhythm, from baseline to compounding citation share**

Every engagement follows the same four-phase cadence: audit and baseline, build and engineer, monthly monitoring and reporting, and quarterly recalibration against engine changes.

Phase 01 · Weeks 1–3

Audit & Baseline

AI visibility audit, prompt-cluster mapping, technical and entity diagnosis, and a citation baseline across the major engines.

Phase 02 · Ongoing

Build & Engineer

Technical and schema fixes, content engineering, and authority and earned-media work, shipped against the roadmap.

Phase 03 · Monthly

Monitor & Report

Citation share and recommendation position tracked across engines and prompt clusters, with a formal report and strategy call.

Phase 04 · Quarterly

Recalibration

Content refreshed to freshness cycles and the program adjusted as AI engines change how they retrieve and cite sources.

How is GEO different from SEO?

SEO optimises a page to rank in a list of links. GEO optimises a brand to be cited inside an AI-generated answer. The two share a technical foundation, but GEO adds passage-level content engineering, entity definition, llms.txt and AI-crawler management, and earned corroboration — and it is measured by citation share rather than ranking position.

How long does GEO take to show results?

Technical and extraction fixes typically surface in AI answers within four to eight weeks. Authority and corroboration signals compound over three to six months. Every engagement begins with a measured citation baseline in weeks one to three, so progress is tracked against a documented starting point.

Does GEO replace an existing SEO programme?

No. GEO extends an SEO programme; it does not replace it. AI engines retrieve heavily from pages that already demonstrate organic authority, so strong SEO raises the ceiling of a GEO programme. The two run on one shared roadmap to avoid duplicated work.

Which AI engines does the programme cover?

ChatGPT, Google Gemini and AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude and Microsoft Copilot as standard. For cross-border brands, coverage extends to Chinese AI engines so a brand is represented consistently in both English-language and Chinese-language AI ecosystems.

Does GEO work for Shopify stores?

Yes. The programme includes Shopify-specific implementation: AI-crawler access at the platform level, Product and Offer schema stacking, feed integrity for AI Shopping surfaces, and answer-first restructuring of collection and product pages.

What does the free AI visibility snapshot include?

A snapshot tests a set of buyer prompts relevant to your brand across the major AI engines, records which brands are cited or recommended in each answer, and returns a short report showing your current citation share against named competitors, together with the three highest-impact gaps. Delivered within five business days, with no obligation.

Find out where AI is recommending your competitors instead of you

Book a consultation and we will audit your current AI visibility, your technical and entity readiness, and where citation share is winnable.

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