DoodleWeb
GEO Agency
Answer Engine Optimization · AEO

Answer engine optimization agency for brands that want to be cited by AI.

Written by Chandan Sharma, Co-founder & Lead Strategist · Updated September 22, 2026

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DoodleWeb is a Seattle answer engine optimization agency that helps brands earn citations and qualified leads from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. Done for you Core starts at $1,200 per month. Branded and long-tail prompts often move inside 30 days; broader commercial prompts commonly take 60 to 90 days.

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DoodleWeb co-founder Chandan Sharma joins WP Engine's Agency Partner Pulse with Brian Gardner to show how agencies audit, optimize, and prove AI search visibility — measuring which brands ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude actually cite, and shipping the entity, schema, and content work that flips a non-citation into a citation. Watch on YouTube
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Driving AI Search Visibility with SiteSonar — the session where we walk through the exact GEO workflow DoodleWeb runs for clients, on WP Engine’s own channel.

  • Why classic rankings no longer predict whether an AI assistant names your brand.
  • How to build a 40–80 prompt set from real buyer questions and baseline every engine.
  • The entity, schema, and llms.txt work that makes a page extractable by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude.
  • How DoodleWeb tracks citations weekly and reports lift against GA4 and Search Console.

What does an AEO agency do?

An AEO agency structures a brand's website and authority signals so answer engines can understand, trust, and cite it. DoodleWeb combines technical access, entity definition, answer-first content, schema, and third-party references, then tests priority prompts every week across 7 AI experiences to show where the brand is named and where competitors win.

How is answer engine optimization different from SEO?

SEO targets ranked links, while AEO targets the single synthesized response a buyer sees in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews or Google AI Mode. In 2026, the disciplines overlap, but AEO places extra weight on clear entities, self-contained answers, corroborating sources, structured data, and repeatable citation measurement.

How much does AEO cost per month?

DoodleWeb AEO plans are Done for you Core at $1,200 per month, Custom from $2,500 per month scoped on a call, or a quoted program after a booked meeting if you need more domains, languages or channels. Each proposal states the pages, prompts, reporting cadence, and fixed fee before the engagement begins.

How long until answer engines cite us?

Branded and long-tail prompts often move inside 30 days; broader commercial prompts commonly take 60 to 90 days. DoodleWeb records the baseline before production starts.

What is included in a DoodleWeb AEO engagement?

Each engagement covers 8 workstreams: prompt discovery, baseline testing, technical crawler access, entity consistency, answer-first rewrites, structured data, third-party citation opportunities, and weekly reporting. DoodleWeb also reviews GA4 and Search Console monthly so citation gains can be tied to AI-referred visits, conversions, and qualified leads.

Weekly multi-engine citation tracking.

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, sampled weekly for your priority queries with a competitor benchmark. You see exactly when a non-citation flips to a citation.

We measure the work every week.

The weekly AEO citation report shows where the brand appears, which pages are cited, and which competitors still win.

Schema + content + entity, in one shop.

Most agencies do schema OR content OR PR. AEO needs all three coordinated. We ship them in two-week sprints with measurable citation deltas.

Which answer engines do you cover?

The program covers 7 surfaces: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. DoodleWeb runs comparable prompts across each one because their sources and refresh patterns differ. Coverage is reported by engine, query, cited page, and competitor rather than reduced to one blended score.

ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGeminiPerplexityClaudeMicrosoft Copilot

How do you measure AEO performance?

DoodleWeb measures named citations, answer position, cited URLs, sentiment, competitor inclusion, and AI-referred website activity. A dated baseline is captured before production, prompt tests run weekly, and business outcomes are reviewed monthly in GA4 and Search Console. The full method is available on the 2026 AEO Citation Index page.

Who is AEO for?

AEO fits companies with at least 10 high-value buyer questions, an established offer, and a credible website that can support expert content. DoodleWeb most often works with B2B, SaaS, professional services, higher education, ecommerce, and agency partners that want qualified leads from AI-assisted research, not citation counts without commercial context.

Top answer engine optimization agencies (2026)

AEO remains a young category. Some providers relabel classic SEO without adding multi-engine testing, entity work, or citation reporting; the named organizations below publish genuine AI-search services. Independent consultants may suit audits, while ongoing programs need production capacity and repeatable measurement.

  1. 1
    DoodleWebThat's us

    Seattle AEO agency combining content, schema, entity work, and weekly multi-engine citation tracking.

  2. 2
    Victorious SEO

    National SEO agency offering AI-search optimization within broader organic-search programs.

  3. 3
    iQuanti

    Performance-marketing agency with an enterprise-focused generative-search practice.

  4. 4
    Single Grain

    Content-marketing-led agency offering AEO alongside SEO and growth services.

What does it cost?

Done for you Core is $1,200 per month. Custom starts from $2,500 per month and is scoped on a call. Programs beyond Custom are quoted after a booked meeting.

Done for you · Core

$1,200/mo

One domain, run by our team. You approve, we publish.

  • Up to 20 buyer questions tracked daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot and Google AI Overviews
  • One fact-checked answer page drafted per working day, nothing goes live without approval
  • Schema, llms.txt and robots.txt fixed and kept current
  • Directory and listing submissions for your category
  • Monthly citation report with measured lift
  • Approvals by email, no meetings required

Billed monthly by invoice, card or ACH. Cancel with 30 days' notice.

Most complete

Done for you · Custom

from $2,500/mo

Everything in Core, scaled to your market, with a standing weekly session.

  • Up to 100 buyer questions tracked daily, all engines including Google AI Mode, with competitor tracking on the brands AI recommends instead of you
  • Two fact-checked answer pages per working day plus comparison and city pages where they win citations
  • Weekly LinkedIn posts for the brand and founder, written in your voice
  • Weekly YouTube answer video embedded on the matching page
  • Rival coverage: the questions competitors answer that you do not, drafted and queued for approval
  • Weekly 30-minute working session with Chandan and Dan, shared Slack channel, monthly strategy review
  • Up to two domains or languages

Scoped on a call, billed monthly by invoice, 3-month initial term.

Need more than Custom covers?

More posts, pages, domains, languages, markets or channels. We scope it with you on a meeting and quote it after the call. There is no checkout for this option.

All offers carry the 90-day AI Search Visibility Guarantee. If your AI visibility doesn't improve in 90 days, you don't pay.

How DoodleWeb is different from an AI visibility tool

Monitoring tools report which prompts you are losing. We change the answer.

We publish, not just report.

Answer pages, FAQ blocks and schema are drafted, edited, approved by you and published to your CMS. Re-checked seven days later.

One team, one invoice.

Tracking, content, technical fixes and off-site work run on our own platform, SiteSonar, by the same people who build your site.

A baseline you sign.

AI Visibility Score, citation rate and prompts won are recorded in writing before work starts. Every report is a delta.

Terms you can audit.

90-day visibility guarantee with three published thresholds. Month to month after the first 90 days.

Frequently asked questions

What is an answer engine optimization agency?+

An answer engine optimization (AEO) agency is a firm that helps brands get cited inside seven AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode) rather than only ranking on the classic Google blue-link results. The work spans entity definition, schema markup, content restructuring for LLM extractability, weekly multi-engine citation tracking, and competitive positioning inside model outputs.

How much does AEO cost in 2026?+

Market rates vary widely by scope. Done for you Core is $1,200 per month. Custom starts from $2,500 per month and is scoped on a call. Programs beyond Custom are quoted after a booked meeting.

How fast does AEO work?+

Branded and long-tail prompts often move inside 30 days; broader commercial prompts commonly take 60 to 90 days.

How do you measure AEO?+

We run weekly automated citation tests across seven engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode) for your priority queries — logging whether you're named, what's said about you, and which competitors are cited instead. The deliverable is a weekly delta report showing wins and gaps, not a vanity dashboard.

Is AEO the same as GEO or LLM SEO?+

Mostly yes — AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and LLM SEO are three names for the same job: making your brand the cited source inside AI-generated answers. The underlying work is 80–90% the same; the labels reflect which engines a buyer cares about most.

Do you work outside Seattle?+

Yes. DoodleWeb is headquartered in Columbia Tower (downtown Seattle) and delivers AEO programs across the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Async standups and recorded reviews keep remote engagements moving without meeting overload.

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