134K clicks in 4 months
1.01M impressions at a 13.2% click-through rate.
- 134K
- Clicks
- 1.01M
- Impressions
- 13.2%
- CTR
- 7.7
- Avg. position
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AEO Services
AEO Services: One Managed Program for Search and AI Answers
Hiring AEO services means one accountable team plans, publishes, improves technical foundations, builds authority, and reports what changed across Google search and AI answers—without promising a specific citation or ranking.
Managed program (not only a hire-an-agency pitch page). Growth and Scale are month to month. Custom AEO plans use a 90-day rolling term. Limited to 5 new clients a month.
- 58.5%
- of US Google searches now end without a click
- Sparktoro 2024 Study
- 9×
- higher conversion rate from AI-driven (LLM) traffic
- Lutz Finger via Forbes, 2025
- 920%
- average AI traffic growth across managed AEO campaigns
- Internal campaign data
- 4.4×
- AI search visitors are more likely to convert than organic search visitors
- Semrush, 2025
134K clicks in 4 monthsGoogle Search Console
From zero to 1,250 clicksGoogle Search Console
952K impressions in 3 monthsGoogle Search Console
What Are AEO Services?
A managed AEO engagement combines buyer-question research, useful content, technical search foundations, structured data where relevant, and authority work. The team sets a baseline, ships improvements, and reports observed search and AI-answer outcomes separately. No individual citation or ranking can be guaranteed.
This page describes the managed program: scope, deliverables, plans, and weekly cadence. If you are comparing commercial partners first, start with our answer engine optimization agency pillar, then return here for execution details.
This is the full program, not a standalone analytics or citation task. The strategist owns priorities and review; the Technical Operations Specialist coordinates research, page improvements, publishing, and measurement each week.
- AI visibility baselining across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude
- Entity-first content architecture built from real customer questions
- Structured data deployed and maintained, not audited once
- Off-page authority: trusted links, real mentions, social posts, and Reddit & Quora seeding
- SEO and AEO run as one program by one team
- Weekly written reporting and direct Slack access to your strategist
"Most AEO tools tell you that you are invisible. We are hired to fix it."
Who Should Choose the Managed AEO Program?
A marketing lead without enough execution capacity
You need one team to set priorities and carry out the content, technical, and reporting work rather than another list of recommendations.
An SEO team adding AI-answer visibility
You already track search performance and want a coordinated way to improve answer coverage while keeping Google search foundations intact.
A founder seeking accountable delivery
You want a defined scope, a named point of contact, weekly updates, and a clear view of what shipped before committing more budget.
Review Growth, Scale, and Custom options on our AEO pricing page.
Comparing agencies before you buy a program? Read the answer engine optimization agency overview.
For a plain-language explanation of the work, see what AEO means in practice.
Why Hire an AEO Agency Instead of Building It Yourself?
AI assistants now sit between your buyer and their decision. The Sparktoro 2024 Study found 58.5% of US Google searches end without a click, and the visits that do come from AI convert far better: Semrush measured AI search visitors as 4.4× more likely to convert than organic search visitors in 2025. The brands building AEO authority now are the ones models will keep naming.
Building an In-House Team
AEO needs content strategy, technical SEO, schema, digital PR, and continuous prompt tracking running at the same time. Most teams can staff two of those five, so the work ships in bursts and the compounding never starts.
Working With a Managed Team
You get senior strategists who own the plan and stay accountable, plus a Technical Operations Specialist doing the volume work across research, content, schema, authority, and reporting. Velocity stops depending on who has time this week.
What the Research Shows
Research published on Forbes by Cornell faculty member Lutz Finger in 2025 found AI-driven traffic converting at 9× the rate of traditional search. Across our managed AEO campaigns, average AI traffic growth is 920%.
How Our AEO Services Deliver Results
Fourteen days to onboard. Then a weekly shipping cadence that does not slow down.
01
Onboarding and Baseline (Days 1-14)
We audit your visibility across the major assistants, map your customer topics against the real questions models are answering, and agree on the answers we go after first.
02
Technical and Schema Foundation
Your site gets tuned for Google and AI crawlers together: crawlability, internal structure, entity clarity, and the structured data models rely on to understand who you are and why you are credible.
03
Content in Production
On-brand articles ship every week with images and answer-ready structure. 30 a month on Growth, 60 on Scale, and 45 to 90 on-brand SEO & AEO articles on Custom AEO plans.
04
Authority, Posts, and Seeding
Trusted links, real mentions across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook, social posts on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Quora, and Reddit & Quora seeding.
05
Weekly Review and Strategy Calls
We track up to 70 AI questions on Growth, 140 on Scale, and 500 on Custom AEO plans, report in writing every week, and hold weekly strategy calls to reset priorities. Your strategist is in Slack the rest of the time.
AEO Services Deliverables
AI Visibility Baseline and Tracking
Where you appear today across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude, then up to 500 tracked questions depending on plan.
Topic and Question Mapping
The topics your customers care about, mapped against the real prompts assistants answer, turned into a publishing and authority roadmap.
On-Brand Articles Every Month
30 a month on Growth, 60 on Scale, 45 to 90 on-brand SEO & AEO articles on Custom AEO plans. All with images, all yours to keep forever.
Schema and Technical Maintenance
FAQ, HowTo, Organization, Product, and custom entity markup deployed as content ships, then maintained instead of audited once and forgotten.
Links, Mentions, Posts, and Seeding
3 to 20 trusted links a month depending on plan, real mentions on the platforms models read, social posts on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Quora, and Reddit & Quora seeding.
Direct Access to Your Team
A dedicated strategist and Technical Operations Specialist, weekly written updates, weekly strategy calls, and direct Slack access.
AEO Services Tailored to Your Goals
Growth
$797/month
One site, fully managed. Content, links, mentions, social posts, and AI question tracking with a strategist who owns the account.
- Your site tuned for Google and AI crawlers, plus topical mapping and AEO analysis
- 30 on-brand SEO & AEO articles a month, with images
- 3 to 5 links a month from trusted sites, average trust score 35+
- 3 to 5 real mentions a month across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook
- 10 to 15 posts a month on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Quora
- Reddit & Quora seeding, 1-2/mo
- Up to 70 AI questions tracked, with weekly written updates and weekly strategy calls
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Scale
$1,297/month
Everything in Growth at higher velocity, with whole-site tuning and double the content, links, and AI tracking.
- Whole-site tuning for Google and AI crawlers, with expanded topic and question mapping
- 60 on-brand SEO & AEO articles a month (2× content velocity), with images
- 6 to 10 links a month from trusted sites
- 5 to 8 real mentions a month across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook
- 20 to 30 posts a month on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Quora
- Reddit & Quora seeding, 3-5/mo
- Up to 140 AI questions tracked, with weekly written updates and weekly strategy calls
Custom AEO Plans
Custom
For multi-brand and multi-market footprints, scoped to your markets on a 90-day rolling term.
- 45 to 90 on-brand SEO & AEO articles a month, with images
- 12 to 20 high-authority links a month
- 15 to 20 real mentions a month across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook
- 40 to 60 posts a month on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Quora
- Reddit & Quora seeding, 5-10/mo
- Up to 500 AI questions tracked across every market
- Dynamic Budget Allocation toward what is working best each month
- A senior leader, Client Success Manager, and Technical Operations Specialist, with weekly strategy calls
Every Package Includes
SEO and AEO in one program, never two retainers
A dedicated strategist and Technical Operations Specialist
Weekly written updates, weekly strategy calls, and direct Slack access
Schema and technical work maintained as content ships
Full ownership of every article we create, forever
14-day onboarding, month to month on Growth and Scale
The 90-Day AI Traffic Growth Guarantee for qualified Growth and Scale clients
Google Search Performance Exhibits
These Search Console screenshots document web-search metrics from separate programs. They do not show every AI-answer outcome.
From zero to 1,250 clicks
80.9K impressions at average position 5.6.
- 1.25K
- Clicks
- 80.9K
- Impressions
- 1.5%
- CTR
- 5.6
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952K impressions in 3 months
226 clicks on the closing day, up from single digits in January.
- 5.27K
- Clicks
- 952K
- Impressions
- 0.6%
- CTR
- 14.8
- Avg. position
Google Search Console
What Makes Our AEO Services Different
Aspect
Typical AEO Vendor
TopFound
What you buy
A dashboard and a report
Executed work, shipped weekly
Who runs it
A shared account manager
A senior strategist plus a Technical Operations Specialist
Execution capacity
Whoever has bandwidth
A dedicated strategist and Technical Operations Specialist behind the strategy
SEO and AEO
Two retainers, two teams
One program, one plan, one report
Content
A few posts a month
30 to 90 on-brand articles a month by plan
Authority
Link packages
Trusted links, real mentions, social posts, and Reddit & Quora seeding
Commitment
Annual contracts
Month to month on Growth and Scale
Accountability
Best effort
90-Day AI Traffic Growth Guarantee for qualified clients
Bottom line: AEO is not a line item we added to a service list. It is the program. Traditional SEO gets you ranked; we are hired to get you recommended.
AEO Services FAQ
What are AEO services?
AEO services are a managed program to improve how AI assistants and search represent your brand. The work spans content built from buyer questions, technical structure and schema, authority signals, and weekly reporting. Traditional SEO competes for a blue-link ranking; AEO also competes for useful source links and recommendations in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude. No single citation or ranking is guaranteed.
How are managed AEO services different from hiring an AEO agency page?
This page is the managed program: deliverables, plans, and weekly execution. Our answer engine optimization agency page is the commercial hire-an-agency pillar for buyers comparing partners. Both describe TopFound; use the agency page to evaluate fit, then this page (and pricing) for what ships each month.
What exactly do AEO services include?
Site tuning for Google and AI crawlers, topic and question mapping, on-brand articles every month, schema deployment and maintenance, trusted links, real mentions across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook, social posts, Reddit & Quora seeding, AI question tracking, and weekly written reporting from a dedicated strategist.
How much do AEO services cost?
Our AEO services start at $797/month for the Growth package, $1,297/month for the Scale package, with custom enterprise solutions available for larger organizations.
Can AEO services work alongside my existing SEO?
They absorb it. One team runs both against one plan, which removes the duplicated audits, conflicting content calendars, and split reporting you get from two vendors pointed at the same website.
How do I measure AEO services success?
How often assistants name you, which questions you gained or lost, what AI-referred traffic did, and how it converted. We track up to 70 questions on Growth, 140 on Scale, and up to 500 across markets on Custom AEO plans, and report in writing every week.
Are AEO services worth the investment?
Semrush found in 2025 that AI search visitors are 4.4× more likely to convert than organic search visitors, and research published on Forbes by Cornell faculty member Lutz Finger the same year put AI-driven traffic conversion at 9× traditional search. Across our managed AEO campaigns, average AI traffic growth is 920%.
What industries benefit most from AEO services?
Anything with a research step before the purchase. Ecommerce, SaaS, B2B services, healthcare, legal, and financial services all perform well, because those are the categories where buyers ask an assistant for a shortlist before they contact anyone.
How long does it take to see results from AEO services?
Most clients see initial AI visibility improvements within 30-60 days, with significant growth over 3-6 months. Our average time to measurable results is 4 months.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes. Under the 90-Day AI Traffic Growth Guarantee, qualified Growth and Scale clients get 30% more organic and AI search traffic within 90 days, or we work free until they do.
What makes TopFound different from other AEO agencies?
We are human-managed and AI-powered. Senior strategists set the strategy, own the account, and stay accountable; a Technical Operations Specialist does the heavy lifting across research, content, schema, authority, and reporting. We take on only 5 new clients a month so strategists stay close to the work, and we ship rather than monitor.
Start a Managed AEO Program
Book a strategy call. We will show you where you are absent from AI answers and exactly what we would ship in the first 90 days.
- A visibility baseline across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude
- The questions your competitors currently own
- A first-90-days plan for content, schema, and authority
- Clear pricing and a straight answer on fit
We take on 5 new clients per month