Monthly AI search optimization across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google. Citation monitoring, schema and entity work, AI-ready content, crawler health, and reactive response to platform changes — scoped per engagement, priced against your starting point.
For two decades, being found online meant ranking on Google. That equation has changed. Buyers turn to AI assistants before they ever open a results page. Most businesses are not yet visible there. The ones that act now will own their categories for years.
The Carbacio Stack™ is our methodology for AI-era visibility: three layers of getting found, working from one foundation. SEO wins the click. AEO wins the answer box. GEO wins the AI citation. You don't pick one — you stack them. Whatever name you've heard the discipline called — AEO, GEO, LLM SEO, AI search optimization — this is how the layers fit.
Search Engine Optimization: the classic, measurable playbook of keywords, technical health, and authority that ranks pages on Google and Bing. Still the traffic engine — and the structural foundation everything above it is built on. Ranking #1 doesn't guarantee an AI will cite you, but without SEO's crawlability and structure, the layers above never get considered.
Answer Engine Optimization: structuring content so it gets extracted as the single, direct answer — featured snippets, voice assistants, position zero. Question-based headings, concise answers, FAQ and schema markup. Mostly a content-structuring layer on top of existing SEO. One winner per query; second place is invisible.
Generative Engine Optimization: being named when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, or Google synthesize an answer. The fastest-growing channel — built on authority signals: clear entities, hard statistics, factual specificity, structured data. Being cited builds trust before a prospect ever reaches your site.
How they fit: SEO gets you into the pool — it earns the rankings that put your pages among the sources an engine even considers. AEO makes you extractable — clear questions, concise answers, and schema let engines lift your content into the answer box. GEO makes the AI choose you — authority signals convince models to name you when they synthesize. SEO isn't being replaced; it's being expanded.
One honest note: placement in an AI answer can't be bought or guaranteed — anyone promising that is selling snake oil. What we engineer is probability, and we measure it monthly: citation rates tracked across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, reported with movement and context. We run the Carbacio Stack™ on our own site — this page is the proof.
What's included, every month. Reactive to platform changes inside the monthly cycle — not batched into quarterly reviews. Tactical, transparent, and measurable.
Monthly execution of a tailored prompt set across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude — designed around your buyers' actual procurement-intent queries. Citation rate tracked over time. Movement reported with context: new mentions, lost mentions, competitor displacement. Monthly visibility dashboard delivered.
Ongoing refinement of structured data — Organization, Product, Service, FAQ, Speakable — across your site. New page schema applied as content expands. Knowledge graph signals (Google Knowledge Panel, Wikidata, industry directories) submitted and maintained.
Existing pages refined for AI retrieval: entity salience, FAQ depth, factual specificity, citation-friendly phrasing. Two new AI-optimized pages or sections per month, targeting buyer questions identified from AI citation gaps.
Monthly check on AI bot crawl behavior — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, anthropic-ai. robots.txt and llms.txt maintained. IndexNow submissions managed. New URLs submitted within 24 hours of publish.
Once per quarter, a strategic review: what's working, what's not, what's changed in the AI search landscape, and what your business should do in the coming 90 days. Includes a refreshed prompt set as buyer behavior evolves.
When AI platforms launch new models or change their citation behavior, we adjust your posture immediately — not at the next quarterly review. Included in the monthly scope, not billed separately.
Every AI SEO engagement is scoped against your starting point — current digital footprint, vertical, competitive landscape, and goals. The number is in writing before you commit, with no hourly billing and no annual lock-in.
We confirm fit, identify any foundation-phase work needed, and align on goals. Both partners on the line.
Inside one week. Plain-English engagement letter — fixed scope, fixed timeline, no time-and-materials surprises.
From signature to first prompt set built. Foundation-phase work (if needed) scoped separately.
No annual commitment. 30 days written notice from either party. The work continues because it's producing.
Delivered electronically. Quarterly strategic review delivered as a formatted PDF.
Scheduled calls on request. No vanity weekly status meetings or theater consulting.
30 minutes. We align on your buyer profile, identify any foundation-phase work needed, and confirm scope. Onboarding follows within 5 business days of acceptance.