Answer engine optimization: getting your business named when your customer asks ChatGPT
Five specialists scan ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity about your business every morning, build the pages and schema that get you named, and have them finished the moment you approve. The whole job is one thing: be one of the two or three names an AI gives back when your buyer asks it which one to go with.
Setup is a five-minute interview about your business, plus one file on your domain so we can submit pages to Bing. After that you approve: WordPress publishes through our plugin, and on every other platform you paste the finished output.
ChatGPT · a morning scan
Example> “best personal injury lawyer in austin”
For a personal injury case in Austin, the firms most often recommended are Bennett & Cole and Riverside Injury Group, both known for…
ChatGPT · a morning scan
Example> “best personal injury lawyer in austin”
For a personal injury case in Austin, the firms most often recommended are Bennett & Cole and Riverside Injury Group, both known for…
Work order · prepared 08:00 UTC
1 waitingFAQ page: “how much does a car accident lawyer cost in Austin”
Built by Builder from your own answers · 1,340 words · schema included
Shift log · your team of 5
todayScout: Morning scan done. Named in 4 of your 50 questions. Bennett & Cole took the pricing question.
Builder: Drafted an FAQ page for “car accident lawyer cost in Austin.” In your queue.
Indexer: Yesterday's approved page is submitted to Bing. Standing check is ready when you want it.
Amplifier: 3 Reddit threads worth a reply. Drafts ready. You post, always.
Analyst: Weekly report ready: 2 pages shipped, 1,900 words, and what moved.
Start here: the free AI Invisibility Audit
No. 001
We ask 10 buyer questions about your business across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity (30live queries) and show you who gets named, who gets cited, and who's taking your customers.
In the PDF: your three numbers · the verbatim answers · who AI names instead · up to 5 worked fixes · three moves, in order
Already sure? Start the 7-day trial instead. No card, and nothing charges when it ends.
Six AI engines covered: your plan picks which run daily
3 run daily on Solo, 4 on Solo Pro, all 6 on Agency. *Claude is checked in model mode, labeled that way, never passed off as a live capture. How we scan
Work order · prepared 08:00 UTC
1 waitingFAQ page: “how much does a car accident lawyer cost in Austin”
Built by Builder from your own answers · 1,340 words · schema included
Shift log · your team of 5
todayScout: Morning scan done. Named in 4 of your 50 questions. Bennett & Cole took the pricing question.
Builder: Drafted an FAQ page for “car accident lawyer cost in Austin.” In your queue.
Indexer: Yesterday's approved page is submitted to Bing. Standing check is ready when you want it.
Amplifier: 3 Reddit threads worth a reply. Drafts ready. You post, always.
Analyst: Weekly report ready: 2 pages shipped, 1,900 words, and what moved.
Every day, your next customer asks an AI which one to go with. It names two or three and stops. If yours isn't one of them, you didn't lose the deal: you were never in the room.
One honest way to find out: ask the engines themselves
The free audit
The whole diagnostic, the kind an agency bills as a one-off engagement, free. The PDF is yours whether or not you ever pay us a dollar.
Deliverables
$0.00
Your three numbers
How often the engines mentioned you, linked to your site, and named you first, measured across 10 buyer questions asked live on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity (30 queries in all).
The answers themselves, word for word
For the three questions that expose the most, exactly what each engine wrote, with your name and every competitor's highlighted in the text.
Where you stand against the names it picked instead
A plain-English read of which competitors the engines named, and how big the gap is.
Up to 5 worked examples
Real questions from your own scan: what the AI did with each one, why it happened, the specific fix, and roughly what it takes.
Three moves, in order
The first work order, the one for this week, and how the work is tracked after that.
A PDF that's yours for good
Download it and it's permanent, and the link to it opens without an account. The audit asks for your email so a link to the report reaches your inbox too; there is nothing else to fill in and no card at any point.
Your cost
No account · No call · No card · PDF yours to keep
01 · The front door moved
77%
of businesses ranking on Google page 1 are invisible in ChatGPT
AI Search Engineers visibility audit, 2026
48%
of Google searches now return an AI Overview above the organic results
Similarweb, March 2026
61%
fewer organic clicks on searches where an AI Overview answers first
Similarweb, 2026
40–60%
of the sources AI cites change every month
eMarketer, 2026
Which means the door reopens every month.
Someone who arrives from an AI answer isn't browsing. They asked which one to go with, an assistant they trust named you, and they came to confirm it. That's a different visitor than a blue link delivers, which is why a name in the answer is worth more than a ranking under it.
From AI
From Google
Converts at
7%
5%
Stays on site
15 min
8 min
Pages per visit
12
9
thestacc.com, 2026
Who this is for
Local service businesses
Law, dental, medical, home services, fitness, real estate: anywhere buyers ask an AI for someone nearby.
eCommerce and DTC brands
Buyers now ask which product to get before they ever hit a category page.
B2B SaaS
Your buyers shortlist tools by asking an assistant, not by reading a review site.
Marketers and in-house SEO
You already own the rankings. This is the surface that started answering above them.
Agencies
Run the whole department per client, under your name. That's the $549 plan.
Free audit first. The trial is a separate decision, and it never asks for a card.
02 · Your department
A working department that reports to you, and it asks for exactly one thing: your Approve.
They aren't people. They're five automated roles, each with one job. That's the whole reason this costs $149 a month instead of a retainer.
Inside the product this roster is the War Room: a live work log where every specialist's shift is recorded, artifact by artifact.
Scout
Monitoring
“Every morning I ask the engines the same tracked buyer questions for your business and log who they named: you, or the competitor that took your spot.”
Builder
Content
“I write the schema, FAQ pages, and landing pages aimed at the exact questions you're losing, in your voice, from your own words.”
Amplifier
Distribution
“I find the Reddit threads and mention opportunities AI actually cites, and draft the reply. You post it, always.”
Indexer
Indexing
“When a page you approved goes live, I submit it to Bing, where most of ChatGPT's cited pages also rank. You can check your domain's Bing standing for those questions any time.”
Analyst
Reporting
“Every week I write up what the team shipped, what moved, and what's queued next, in plain English, from real logged work.”
The rule they can't break: Every line they write maps 1:1 to a real logged event in your account. They never invent work. The code doesn't let them.
03 · A day on shift
After 06:00 UTC
Scout asks the engines the buyer questions for your business: ChatGPT and Gemini through the live consumer interface, the answers real users see. Every reply is logged, named competitors and all.
08:00 UTC
The orchestrator reads your scan history and picks the single highest-value action, then builds the whole artifact: the schema, the FAQ page, the landing page, the Reddit pack. Finished work, not a suggestion. If your queue is already full, it holds and says so.
Your moment
The artifact waits in your queue with the reason attached: which question it targets and why that one. Approve it, or skip it and the department moves to the next play.
Minutes later
Approved landing pages reach WordPress through our plugin, or come out as finished HTML to paste on Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, and everything else. Once live they're submitted to Bing, and each one is watched on every following scan, for up to 120 days, for the citation it was built to win.
The department never publishes on its own
Day one of the trial ends with work waiting for you, not a dashboard tour. 7 days, no card.
04 · From Approve to Cited
Marketing tools show you charts and let you connect the dots. Your department hands you a dated receipt instead: the page went live on this day, was submitted to Bing on this day, and an engine cited it on this day, on the exact question it was built to win.
And because we store the engines' answers verbatim, a win is the sentence that changed, with the date it was captured.From Solo up, Live AI Replay puts those answers side by side, scan over scan.
Our own honesty rule, straight from the product: we show the timeline and let it speak. We never claim a single page was the sole cause of a move.
Your first receipts start with the first page you approve. 7 days, no card.
Fate-tracking receipt
Example · not your data
JUN 12
You approved: FAQ page targeting “how much does a car accident lawyer cost in Austin”
JUN 12
Published, then submitted to Bing (IndexNow)
JUN 13 →
Watched on every daily scan. 18 scans so far
JUL 1 · Cited
Captured live · PerplexityPerplexity now cites your page on that exact question, and Scout logged the win in your shift log.
05 · The honest comparison
Who does the work
How it reads the engines
What actually ships
How you learn it worked
How you start
Plenty of tools will now tell you what to write. The gap is between the draft and the live page: the CMS push, the index ping, and the scan that watches whether it worked. That gap is what the $149 covers here, self-serve.
The gap isn't a discount. Agencies bill for people: strategists, writers, developers. Here the scans, the drafting, the schema, the publishing, the index submissions, and the reporting run as software, supervised by you with one click.
Tool prices are published list prices, August 2026. Agency range: Published AEO agency pricing guides, 2026, boutique AEO retainers.
06 · What $149 actually buys
“I don't know where I stand.”
Up to 50 buyer questions a day across the 3 engines you pick: around 4,500 answer-captures a month when the engines answer. Every one is stored, so the count in your report is the real count, not an estimate.
“I don't have time to do the work.”
Each morning the orchestrator picks the single highest-value move and prepares the whole artifact: schema, an FAQ page, a landing page, or a Reddit pack. When your queue is already full or there's nothing worth building, it says so and holds instead of making work.
“I don't have a developer.”
On WordPress, our plugin picks up approved landing pages and publishes them as real pages, usually within the hour, schema included. On Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, and custom sites you get the finished page and the schema block with the exact place to paste each one, and we verify it went live on your URL.
“Nothing happens for months.”
Pages our WordPress plugin publishes are submitted to Bing via IndexNow automatically; on any other platform you submit the live URL from the Bing page in one click once you've pasted it. Bing is the index where most of ChatGPT's cited pages also rank (Seer Interactive, 2026). Either way it needs a single key file on your domain first. You can check where your domain ranks in Bing for your questions any time, which is the indicator that moves in days rather than weeks.
“I can't tell if it's working.”
Every approved landing page is registered against the question it was built to win, then checked on each following scan for up to 120 days. When an engine cites it, you get the receipt: page shipped on date A, cited on date B.
“I wouldn't know what to do next.”
Winnable-query rankings from your own scan history, a business interview so everything it writes sounds like you, a weekly plain-English work report, and 150 messages a month.
We're not going to invent a “total value” number here. The honest version: an agency quotes $2,000–6,000/month to do this work with people (Published AEO agency pricing guides, 2026). Here the same work is prepared daily, and your entire job is one click.
Seven days, no card. The department starts the day you do.
07 · The honest clock
Anyone promising you a ChatGPT citation by Friday is guessing. Here's the sequence we actually run, and what each stage is built to show you.
About two minutes
10 buyer questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity: 30 live queries. You see who got named, who got cited, and who got recommended instead of you.
Day 1 of the trial
Your department's first shift ends with up to four things waiting for approval (schema, an FAQ page, a landing-page draft, a Reddit pack), depending on what your scan says you need. Work, not a chart.
The first days
Pages our WordPress plugin publishes are submitted to Bing the moment they go live; a page you paste elsewhere is one click from the Bing page. Then you can check your Bing standing. Why Bing: independent testing found roughly 87% of ChatGPT's citations match Bing's top results (Seer Interactive, 2026). That's a third-party correlation, not an OpenAI mechanism, and it's still the fastest indicator you can watch.
The following weeks
We never promise a citation by a date. Nobody honest can. In practitioner testing across 2026, pages that do get cited reached a first ChatGPT citation at a median of about 6.8 days once indexed, and roughly 42% of pages were cited within 30 days (Semrush / practitioner testing, 2026). Fate-tracking hands you the receipt when it happens, and shows you plainly when it hasn't.
Every 7 days
What the team built, what went live, what moved, what's queued. Every number from real logged rows. The rhythm an agency reports in.
08 · Plans
An AEO agency quotes $2,000–6,000/month to run this with people. Below is the same work, run as software. Every signup starts with a 7-day free trial of the Solo plan (no credit card) and your department starts the same day.
Free Scan
$0
once
One diagnostic: 10 buyer questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity (30 live queries, about two minutes), the full report to keep. Just an email: no account and no card.
Solo
or $119/mo billed annually · save 20%
The full department on one business: daily scans, one prepared move a day, publishing included.
Solo Pro
or $239/mo billed annually · save 20%
Twice the daily depth, plus Claude.
Upgrade to Solo Pro any time. The trial runs on Solo.
Agency
or $439/mo billed annually · save 20%
Run your AEO practice on our rails.
Up to 3 client projects during the trial.
You risk nothing, because we take nothing
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Free audit first
You see everything (verbatim answers, gaps, competitors) before paying anything.
02
7-day trial, no card
We can't charge money we never collected. The trial simply ends unless you choose to continue.
03
Cancel anytime
Keep every report and every page the department published to your site.
04
No setup fee, no contract, no sales call
Your department starts today, self-serve.
09 · FAQ
10 buyer questions across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity: 30 live queries. Free, about two minutes, and the report downloads as a PDF that's yours.
No demo call · No credit card · Your report in about two minutes
Or go straight to the plans
The trial runs the department on your business at the Solo tier for seven days. No card, and nothing charges when it ends.