# SEO Consultancy for AI Search Readiness

> Buyers ask AI before they Google. Be the answer it gives.

**SEO Consultancy**

AI answers are eating the top of your funnel, and the shift is no longer gradual — it's the default. This consultancy engagement gets your brand ready for AI search: measured visibility across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, and a concrete plan to become the source they cite instead of a link they skip.

The scale varies meaningfully by category, which matters for prioritising the work. Healthcare queries now trigger AI Overviews roughly 89% of the time; finance ranges from 91% for educational queries down to just 7% for stock-ticker lookups; B2B software buyers run an average of 17 AI search queries per week during a purchase process. Whatever your category, the honest first step is finding out where you actually sit — most brands I audit are somewhere between technically crawlable and entity-clear, which is progress, but well short of being the AI system's default cited source.

It combines an AI-readiness audit, entity and content fixes, and an ongoing AEO plan — the specific work that moves a brand from invisible to recommended inside the machines, not a generic checklist applied without regard for how differently AI treats different categories.

## AI-search problems I solve
- Losing clicks and mindshare to AI Overviews and chatbots without a clear diagnosis of why
- AI engines that don't mention — or actively misdescribe — your brand when asked directly
- Content that ranks well on Google but never gets cited by AI for the same queries
- No measurement of your 'share of model' against named competitors
- Uncertainty about whether the gap is access, entity clarity, or content structure

## How readiness is built
- **AI-readiness audit** — Score your crawler access, entity clarity, and answer-structure across 12+ real AI bots.
- **Entity + content fixes** — Make your brand and answers legible and quotable to LLMs, not just technically reachable.
- **Ongoing AEO** — Grow and track your share of AI answers over time, since the landscape shifts fast enough that a one-time fix decays.

## FAQ

**Is this different from normal SEO?**

It overlaps but optimises for being cited inside a generated answer, not just ranking — entity clarity, extractable structure, and trusted-source presence, layered on top of the SEO foundation that has to already be solid.

**Can you measure AI visibility?**

Yes — via structured prompt sampling across engines, tracked consistently over time so the number is genuinely comparable month to month.

**How fast can we see movement?**

Some fixes (crawler access, structured data) are close to immediate; citation growth compounds over months as corroboration and trust build, similar to how traditional authority accrues.

**Does this matter equally across every industry?**

No — AI Overview prevalence varies sharply by category and even by query type within a category, which is exactly why the first step is measuring your specific situation rather than applying a generic playbook.


## Services that deliver this
- [Detailed Agentic AI Readiness Audit Report](https://iliassami.com/services/agentic-ai-readiness-audit)
- [Answer / Ask Engine Optimization (AEO)](https://iliassami.com/services/answer-engine-optimization)
- [Monthly AEO Services (Retainer)](https://iliassami.com/services/monthly-aeo)


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