Show up in the answer, not just the results.
Answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) get your brand cited when someone asks ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity, or Copilot a question you should be the answer to. We do the work and measure it in RhythmSM, so you see the citations.
Buyers used to search, scan ten links, and click. Now they ask, and an assistant answers with a handful of names. If yours isn’t one of them, you’re not in the conversation. In a May 2025 Whitespark study of 540 searches about local businesses, Google showed an AI Overview on 68% of them. And 51% of B2B software buyers now start their research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google (G2, 2026).
Find out where you show up.
Baseline
We ask the assistants the questions your buyers ask and record who gets cited. That’s your starting score.
Entity work
We make your company, people, services, and locations unambiguous to AI engines: structured data, consistent profiles, and the sources they trust.
Answer content
Each page answers one question directly, with a fact only you can supply. Assistants cite specifics.
Measurement
Monthly: which questions you’re cited on, where you gained and lost, and the next three moves. We also read Search Console’s generative AI report, which shows how often Google puts your pages in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Rhycom immediately got what makes our product unique, even the complex, technical parts. The team was easy to work with, responsive, and respectful of our expertise. They made it simple to tell our story the right way.
AI answers start with the pages search trusts.
About two in three pages cited in Google’s AI Overviews also rank in the top 100 for the same search (Ahrefs, 2026). For Manildra Group USA, we rebuilt the site with search in mind from day one. In 16 weeks, it moved from ninth to first among the sites competing for the same 41 keywords, and organic search became its top traffic source.
Search Visibility, Jan 7 to Apr 29, 2026
| Date | Search visibility |
|---|---|
| Jan 7 | 11.43% |
| Jan 14 | 17.1% |
| Jan 21 | 14.04% |
| Jan 28 | 16.2% |
| Feb 4 | 14.78% |
| Feb 11 | 17.46% |
| Feb 18 | 10.41% |
| Feb 25 | 21.98% |
| Mar 4 | 25.92% |
| Mar 11 | 44.88% |
| Mar 18 | 36.24% |
| Mar 25 | 39.42% |
| Apr 1 | 29.93% |
| Apr 8 | 35.34% |
| Apr 15 | 39.59% |
| Apr 22 | 43.61% |
| Apr 29 | 61.87% |
SEMrush Position Tracking, 7 January to 29 April 2026, the 41 keywords tracked since the campaign began. See how we did it →
An AEO agency finds the questions your buyers ask AI assistants, makes your pages the clearest answer, fixes the structure and profiles assistants read, and measures the citations every month. We report all of it in RhythmSM, next to your search rankings, so you can see both moving together.