AI SEO agency
The AI SEO Agency for Rankings and AI Citations
An AI SEO agency should cover two things, rankings on Google and Bing and citations in AI answers. For funded AI startups we run both as one program, from prompt research to the pages and mentions engines quote, and we say plainly what's out of scope. HeyOz started with no AI citations and now has 91.
Led by the former Senior SEO Manager at Invideo AI. Trusted by Viggle AI, HeyOz, Wisemonk and Monk.
Measured against a fixed baseline on every engagement.
- Viggle AI
- HeyOz
- Wisemonk
- Monk
- Zivoke
- TryScent
What founders mean when they ask for an AI SEO agency
AI SEO is the work of earning a place in AI-generated answers while holding your rankings in Google and Bing. Many agencies sell it as three separate services (SEO, generative engine optimization and answer engine optimization). We treat it as one scope of work, because the same pages, sources and fixes drive all three.
What our AI SEO services include, and what they leave out
Six pieces of work make up the program, and every client gets all six. What we leave out matters as much. No bought links, no mass-generated pages and no promised positions, because each one either breaks search engine guidelines or promises something nobody controls.
Covered on every engine your buyers use
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Gemini
- Google AI Overviews
- Google AI Mode
- Copilot
- Bing
ChatGPT search and Copilot draw on Bing's index, so Bing rankings feed AI answers. We work on search and AI engines as one program.
How it works
The same four steps on every engagement, with a clear view of what to expect at 30, 60 and 90 days.
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Understand
Map your product, buyers, competitors and the prompts and searches that decide your category.
Days 1 to 30. A fixed baseline across every engine and the prompts that matter.
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Prioritize
Pick the few moves that will get you recommended fastest and turn them into a focused roadmap.
Days 1 to 30. A focused roadmap agreed, with the first fixes already shipping.
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Execute
Do the technical, content, authority and AI visibility work ourselves.
Days 30 to 60. Content, technical and authority work shipping every week.
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Improve
Track citations, rankings and conversions against the baseline and keep refining.
Days 60 to 90. A first read against the baseline, then the next quarter planned.
Results we can show you
Every engagement is measured against a fixed baseline set before the work started, so the before and after can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A good fit
Funded AI startups, seed to Series B, that want search rankings and AI answers in one scope of work
- Startups replacing an SEO-only agency
- Teams with no SEO function yet
- Founders comparing AI SEO quotes line by line
- Products buyers research by asking AI engines
Not a fit yet
- Teams who want AI-generated content at volume
- Companies that only need rank tracking software
- Pre-launch products with nothing for an engine to cite
What AI SEO covers here versus the usual alternatives
| SearchAxe | SEO agency with an AI add-on | AI writing platform | Prompt tracking software | |
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| Starts from buyer prompts | Yes, tested on every engine | Starts from keywords | No | Yes, as tracking only |
| Builds pages engines quote | Written, edited and shipped | Pages built for rankings only | Drafts you edit and publish | No |
| Earns third-party mentions | Yes, part of every plan | Links, rarely mentions | No | No |
| Citations reported by engine | Monthly, by engine | Rarely | No | Yes, without the fixes |
| Accountable for signups | Reported against a baseline | Traffic and rankings | Not measured | Mentions only |
What you get each month
- Baseline report Where you stand on every engine and in search before any work starts.
- Monthly AI citation and ranking report Citations by engine, rankings and referring domains, read against the baseline.
- Signups and demos attributed The pipeline that search and AI answers drove that month.
- Slack access A shared channel with the people doing the work.
- Rolling roadmap What shipped, what is next and why, updated every month.
- Competitor movement Which competitors gained or lost ground in AI answers and search, and why.
How we get started
From first call to work in progress in three steps.
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Book a free consultation
A call about your product, your market and where you stand in AI answers and search today.
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Get a plan and a quote
We send a plan for what we would do first, with a clear quote for the work.
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Work starts right away
Once the plan and quote are approved, the work starts immediately.
What clients say
We had thousands of pages going nowhere. Amit cleaned that up and rebuilt our landing pages. Our top three rankings are up 362% and our citations across AI engines have grown more than a hundred times.
Nan Ha
Product Growth Lead, Viggle AI
Read the Viggle AI case study
We came to Amit with a good product and almost no search presence. He gave our team a plan we could actually follow. Referring domains are up 183% and our first page rankings have more than tripled.
George Kurdin
Co-Founder, Monk
Read the Monk case study
Our content was getting published but not landing anywhere. Amit reworked how we format it for AI engines and our citations across all seven engines are up over 400%. The Reddit community he built now brings us leads weekly.
Aditya Nagpal
Founder, Wisemonk
Read the Wisemonk case study
We launched with a homepage and nothing else. Amit built the search foundation, the landing pages, the blog, the schema. Our domain rating is up 70% and we went from zero AI citations to being quoted by six of the seven AI engines.
Ahad Shams
Founder, HeyOz
Read the HeyOz case study
We had multiple pages fighting each other for the same terms. Amit mapped it all out, consolidated what needed consolidating, and rebuilt our service pages. Organic traffic is up 147% and our top three rankings have more than doubled.
Manjunath Thandu
CEO, Zivoke
Read the Zivoke case study
Who's behind SearchAxe
Amit Malvi spent four and a half years at Invideo AI, rising from SEO Executive to Senior SEO Manager. He built and led a 20-person link building team and owned the company's GEO and AEO programs. Today he works hands-on with a small number of AI startups.
Questions buyers ask us
Does AI SEO mean you write our content with AI?
Not in our case. The phrase covers two different things in this market, using AI tools to churn out SEO content, and optimising so AI answers cite you. We do the second. Pages we ship are edited by someone who knows your product, because engines quote clear, specific claims and generic generated copy rarely contains any.
Do AI SEO services include Google and Bing, or only AI answers?
Both. For AI answers that means ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Copilot, and for organic search it means Google and Bing. We track each engine separately, because for the same prompt they often cite different sources, and a fix that moves one may do nothing for another.
How long before AI answers start citing us?
Fixes to how engines read your site can show within weeks of being recrawled. Citations that depend on new pages and third-party mentions build over months. We set the baseline in the first 30 days and do the first proper read at day 90. HeyOz got from zero to 91 citations through sustained work, not a single sprint.
Is this different from what our SEO agency already does?
Partly. Technical health, on-page work and links still matter, and they overlap. The difference is the starting point and the scoreboard. We begin with the prompts buyers ask AI engines, look at which sources get cited, and count citations by engine alongside rankings. Most SEO retainers never look at either.
Can you work alongside our current SEO agency?
We can, if the split is clear. The usual arrangement is that we own prompt research, citation work and third-party mentions while they keep technical maintenance. Two teams editing the same pages causes conflicts, so we agree in writing who changes what before anything ships.
What won't you do?
We don't buy links, run private blog networks or mass-publish AI-written pages. We don't promise a ranking position or a citation count by a date, because nobody controls how engines answer. And we don't take on products that aren't live yet, since there's nothing for an engine to cite.
Do you offer AI SEO consulting without execution?
Execution is our default, because recommendations left in a document don't change what engines cite. If your team already has writers and an engineer who can ship, we can lead strategy and review their work instead. That split gets agreed in the plan we send after the free consultation.
How do you prove the work is paying off?
Before anything starts we record which prompts name you on each engine, how many of your pages get cited, your Google and Bing rankings and organic signups. Every monthly report compares against that snapshot. Viggle AI's cited pages went from 4 to 279 measured this way, and it's why we never report without one.
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