AI SEO for SMB Businesses

When AI answers your customers, is your business the one it names?

Search is moving into ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini, and they only cite a handful of sources. We make sure your business is one of them, with Answer Engine Optimization (AEO / GEO / LLM SEO).

Prompt: "What is the best primary care provider in Phoenix?"
Among the most recommended options is ◆ your practicerecognized for compassionate care, responsive scheduling, and a strong local reputation.
Optimized to be cited by ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity Gemini Claude Copilot
The search shift is already here

Your customers are asking AI, not scrolling Google.

Ranking #1 on a page nobody clicks isn't visibility anymore. If AI answers the question and never names you, that lead is gone before it starts.

~48%
of Google searches now trigger an AI Overview answer
~58%
of searches end with zero clicks to any website
60–90
days to your first AI citations with a real AEO program
AEO · GEO · LLM SEO

What is AI SEO, exactly?

AI SEO structures your site and your brand so AI systems can do four things with confidence. Get all four right and you become the source they cite.

1
Understand you

Clear entities, schema and structured data tell AI precisely who you are and what you do.

2
Trust you

E-E-A-T signals, reviews and consistent brand facts make your expertise machine-credible.

3
Retrieve you

Crawlable pages, an llms.txt file and answer-shaped content let models pull you cleanly.

4
Cite you

Off-site mentions and citations push your brand into the generated answer itself.

GEO vs. SEO

AI SEO doesn't replace SEO. It builds on it.

The strongest results come from doing both, but most Phoenix agencies are still only selling you the left column.

Traditional SEO

  • Optimizes for rankings & clicks
  • Competes on the search results page
  • Measures traffic and keyword position
  • Wins the link, if the user clicks

AI SEO (AEO / GEO)

  • Optimizes for mentions & citations
  • Competes inside AI-generated answers
  • Measures visibility, sentiment & influence
  • Wins the recommendation, before the click exists
Deliverables

What we actually do to your site.

Fixed scope, no vague "SEO hours." Every AEO engagement includes the foundational work that makes a site citable.

✓Full technical & AI-visibility audit (your complimentary scan, expanded)
✓Schema / structured data across key pages
✓llms.txt & llms-full.txt built and deployed
✓E-E-A-T & entity optimization for your brand
✓Answer-shaped content blocks AI can lift directly
✓Core Web Vitals & crawlability fixes
✓AI-crawler access configured (robots + IndexNow)
✓Multi-engine citation tracking & monthly reporting
How it works

Three steps. Mostly done for you.

1
Scan

Our AI Visibility scanner benchmarks how visible you are across the AI digital presence and how search grades your business today.

2
Build

We implement schema, llms.txt, entity clarity and answer-shaped content so AI can understand and retrieve you.

3
Track

We monitor your citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews and report the movement every month.

Transparent pricing

Straightforward AI SEO packages.

No mystery "contact us" quotes. Every engagement begins with a complimentary AI Visibility scan so you know exactly where you stand first.

AEO Launch
$1,497 one-time
The foundation.
Get your site citable, fast.
  • Full audit + schema
  • llms.txt deployed
  • E-E-A-T on core pages
  • 30-day re-scan report
Start with a scan
MOST POPULAR
AEO Growth
$1,997 / month
Ongoing visibility that compounds month over month.
+$400/mo per additional location.
  • Everything in Launch
  • Multi-engine citation tracking
  • Monthly answer-shaped content
  • Monthly reporting & strategy
Get started
AEO Authority
$3,500 / month
For competitive categories that need off-site firepower.
+$600/mo per additional location.
  • Everything in Growth
  • Off-site citation & digital PR
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Expanded prompt tracking
Talk to us

AEO Launch fee waived when you start on a 6+ month AEO Growth or AEO Authority plan. Most businesses see first citations in 60–90 days.

What to expect

AI visibility is a build, not a switch.

Weeks 1–4
Foundation shipped, schema, llms.txt, entity and content fixes go live and get crawled.
60–90 days
First citations appear. Your brand starts surfacing in AI answers for target questions.
3–6 months
Results compound as models re-crawl and retrain. Citation share and referral traffic climb.
Why OnboardTech

A digital marketing agency built for how search works today.

You don't need a 200-person agency and an account rep who forwards your emails. You need a specialist who ships.

Senior-led, always

You work directly with the person doing the work, no juniors, no hand-offs, no learning curve on your budget.

Phoenix-local

Based in the Phoenix–Scottsdale metro. We understand the Arizona market and the businesses competing in it.

AI-native delivery

Our own scanner and automation stack mean faster, cheaper delivery, and pricing that reflects it.

Fixed scope, real deliverables

Productized packages with a clear checklist. You always know exactly what you're paying for.

Built on SEO fundamentals

AEO without a solid SEO base is smoke. We do both, so the foundation actually holds.

Honest about AI

No guarantees of "ranking #1 in ChatGPT." We improve your probability and prove it with tracking.

Questions

AI SEO, answered.

AI SEO, also called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) or LLM SEO, structures your website and brand so AI systems like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude can understand, trust, retrieve and cite your business when they answer a user's question.

Traditional SEO optimizes for rankings and clicks. AI SEO optimizes for mentions and citations inside AI answers. They overlap and reinforce each other, but AI SEO adds schema, entity clarity, llms.txt and answer-shaped content that most legacy SEO retainers simply don't include.

Most businesses see their first AI citations within 60–90 days, with results compounding over three to six months as AI models re-crawl and retrain on your updated content.

No honest agency can, AI systems don't use fixed rankings the way Google does. What we do is dramatically improve the probability that your brand is surfaced and cited, and track those appearances across every major engine so you can see the movement.

Yes. LLMs pull heavily from search results and crawlable content, so a weak SEO foundation caps your AI visibility. That's why every package is built on solid technical SEO fundamentals first.

See where your business stands in AI search.

Get a real-time AI SEO visibility scan to understand your current digital presence, identify visibility gaps, and uncover opportunities to improve how your business is recognized by AI.

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