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Search is all we do. AI answers are the newest place it happens, and the same discipline wins them. Book a free strategy session and see exactly who gets recommended in your place.

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Getting cited by AI isn’t a trick, it takes solid technical foundations, content a model can lift cleanly and enough authority to be worth quoting.

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Our AI SEO services

GEO and AEO: the work that gets your brand cited

AI readiness audit

A realistic look at how your site performs in an AI-driven search world. Structured data, intent coverage, internal linking, speed, UX and E-E-A-T, and what each one is costing you.

Content built to be extracted

AI platforms scan and extract rather than read. We restructure pages with intent-led questions, tight topic clusters, clear answers, scannable headings and the right schema. That discipline is answer engine optimisation.

Authority and E-E-A-T

Expert authorship, real testimonials, case studies, credentials and correct schema, so when a model checks who it can rely on, your brand is an obvious answer.

Semantic keyword and intent

Volume is not the measure any more. We build topic clusters, optimise entities and expand across whole themes, so you move from ranking for keywords to owning categories.

Citation share

How often you are cited across AI platforms for your priority topics, brand mentions tracked against a baseline, and share of voice against named competitors. Winning that share is what generative engine optimisation sets out to do.

Traditional search, still counted

Rankings, snippet ownership and organic traffic tracked alongside the AI metrics rather than instead of them, because your customers move between the two without noticing.

Trusted by leading brands

Case studyVortexa

Vortexa case study

Vortexa. 250% increase in lead volume.

We optimised high intent landing pages for key search terms, improved internal linking to build organic authority, and aligned messaging across the site so the journey held together end to end.

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AI answers can’t be bought or guaranteed. We improve your odds with work you can measure, reported honestly.

Page one is no longer the finish line

More than a rankings report

Most AI SEO providers send you a rankings report and call it a strategy. We track citation share, which is how often you are cited across AI platforms for the topics that actually matter to you.

Mentions and share of voice

Then brand mentions in AI responses over time against a baseline, and share of voice against named competitors, so you can see who is winning the answers you are not.

Google in the same report

Traditional visibility sits in the same report. Your customers move between the two without noticing, so your measurement should too.

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What an AI SEO agency can actually influence

Start with what’s measurable

Start with what is measurable. We track how often your brand appears in AI Overviews and in the assistants your buyers use, which pages get cited, and what happens to the pages those citations point at. That is a different job from ranking, and pretending otherwise is how agencies end up selling the same SEO retainer with a new name on the invoice.

Getting Nory’s proof quoted

Nory came to us with the problem most software companies have: the proof of the product sat in case studies nobody reached. We restructured how those pages were written and marked up so they could be quoted rather than just crawled, and users reaching them rose 76%.

No promised placements

What we will not do is promise placement. No agency controls what a model returns, and anyone showing you a guaranteed position in an AI answer is describing something they cannot deliver. What we can influence is whether your pages are structured, sourced and specific enough to be worth quoting, and whether the claims on them can be verified elsewhere.

The gap is usually unglamorous

Most of the gap we find is unglamorous. Product pages written for people who already know the category, claims with no source behind them, and a site structure that makes it hard for anything to tell which page is the authority on a topic. Fixing that is slower than adding a schema block, and it is the part that actually changes whether you get cited.

Part of search, not instead of it

The work sits alongside the rest of search rather than replacing it. The same entity clarity that helps a model quote you correctly also helps Google understand what you sell. We track it and report it monthly against the prompts your buyers actually use, not a generic list. Every plan draws on the same AI SEO services in a different mix, depending on the size of the site and how competitive your category is. We scope every retainer to your site, and we do not sell PPC, paid social or paid media, so none of this depends on buying attention.

Our expertise

Google Search

When your audience moves from AI answers to deeper research, we make sure your brand dominates the traditional results page.

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Technical SEO

Our Technical SEO expertise helps you maximise the reach of your website in organic search through improved crawling and indexation of high-quality content.

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Data Insights

We define exactly who your search presence is built for, so every decision that follows is designed to attract people capable of engaging, converting and driving real business value.

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Social Search

Social Search makes your brand genuinely searchable and discoverable in the places modern audiences now turn to for answers, recommendations and inspiration.

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Digital PR

Stories the press actually wants, and the links and brand mentions that follow, supporting SEO growth and long term brand value at the same time.

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Conversion

We analyse behaviour, remove friction and tighten your funnels so more visitors convert. Higher sales, higher ROI and a website that works as hard as your marketing.

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Reporting

We show you what’s working, and what isn’t

Our own industry-leading reporting suite tracks the whole strategy across Google and every major AI platform. You see where you’re moving, what’s driving it, and what we’re changing.

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AI searchAI referral traffic
Visits sent by AI platforms, month by month · from Google Analytics
1,284visits from AI platforms in October213% year on year
ChatGPT61%
Perplexity18%
Gemini12%
Copilot6%
Claude3%
Nov410Dec455Jan520Feb498Mar610Apr690May742Jun815Jul930Aug1,010Sep1,150Oct1,284 visits
1,284 visits
NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
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ConversionsOctober conversions1–31 Oct, compared with October 2025
Conversion rate12.4%+1.6 pts
October 2025912conversions
1,43557% year on year
Where they came from
Form submissions612
Phone clicks391
Strategy calls booked248
Demo requests184
October 2025 · 912Growth this year · +523
Across every assistant trackedVisibility
Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on monthImprovedDeclined
Brand mentionsAI search
214
18%from 181 in September
Answers naming youAI search
31%
9 ptsfrom 22% in September
Times your site was citedAI search
118
24%from 95 in September
Prompts trackedAI search
240
40 addedfrom 200 in September
Competitors trackedAI search
6
2 addedfrom 4 in September
Answers analysedAI search
640
7%from 600 in September
Average position in answersAI search
3.4
Holdingfrom 3.3 in September
AI Overview citationsGoogle
12
3from 15 in September
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Assistants and competitorsWho named you
Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on monthYouOthers
Assistants
Gemini96
36% of 266 answers
ChatGPT71
27% of 263 answers
Perplexity47
18% of 261 answers
Share of answers across competitors
Competitor A268
37% of mentions
Your brand (you)214
29% of mentions
Competitor B112
15% of mentions
Competitor C58
8% of mentions
Competitor D44
6% of mentions
Competitor E38
5% of mentions
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Visibility by assistantPrompts you appeared in
Prompts checked 1–31 Oct · compared with September, month on month
PromptVisible onSentimentCheckedChange
Best [your service] provider in the UKGPTGEMPPXPositive6New
[Your brand] vs [competitor]GPTGEMPPXPositive6+1 answer
Top alternatives to [competitor]GPTGEMPPXNeutral6+2 answers
Is [your brand] worth it?GPTGEMPPXPositive6No change
Which [your service] provider is best for [use case]?GPTGEMPPXNot named6−1 answer
What does [your service] cost in the UK?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6No prior scan
[Your service] agency near meGPTGEMPPXPositive6+1 answer
Who are the leading [your service] companies?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6New
Is [competitor] better than [your brand]?GPTGEMPPXNeutral6No change
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AudienceWhere your audience is
1–31 Oct · from Google AnalyticsMost visitsSome visitsNo visits
41%of visits came from the United Kingdom, out of 32 countries sending traffic.
Sessions by country
United Kingdom41%
United States18%
Ireland7%
Germany6%
Netherlands5%
Australia4%
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Site healthTechnical SEO
PageSpeed and crawl data · compared with last monthGoodNeeds workPoor
Mobile PageSpeedPageSpeed
82/100Needs work+11 month on month
Desktop PageSpeedPageSpeed
97/100Good+4 month on month
Crawl healthSite audit
94/100Good+6 month on month
Largest contentful paintMobile
2.9sNeeds work−0.8s month on month
Interaction to next paintMobile
140msGood
Cumulative layout shiftMobile
0.02Good
Pages with errorsSite audit
3GoodDown from 41
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Demo data. Your report uses your prompts, your competitors and your numbers.

AI SEO agency FAQs

Will I work with an AI SEO consultant?

Yes. Every account is run by a senior AI SEO consultant, an AI SEO specialist rather than a generalist. Your AI SEO expert tracks where your brand is cited in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews, then fixes what stops you being named.

What does SEO mean in AI?

Making your business visible in traditional search and in AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews, rather than treating them as separate problems. Generative Engine Optimisation goes further than ranking and aims for citations inside AI answers.

Will AI SEO replace traditional SEO?

It is a major change, not a replacement. Conversational AI is taking over the research phase for considered purchases, while traditional search still brings in most transactional traffic. The strongest brands run both.

Can you guarantee my content will appear in AI summaries?

No credible agency can. The platforms do not sell placements and their selection criteria are not public. We increase your chances through data-led optimisation and measure them honestly.

Is AI search relevant for every business?

If your customers find you through search, local, national or global, you need to be ready for AI-driven discovery. The exact channel mix varies by sector, but the shift affects all of them.

How do you measure AI visibility?

Citation share across AI platforms, brand mentions in AI responses against a baseline, and share of voice against named competitors, reported alongside rankings, snippet ownership and organic traffic.

How much does AI SEO cost?

Our fixed retainers start from £3,000 p/m. Most of the work overlaps with the rest of search rather than sitting apart from it, so it is usually bought as part of a wider programme. Where it is the whole engagement, the first month leans towards tracking and prompt research, since measuring appearance rate properly has to come before changing anything.

What is an AI SEO agency?

An AI SEO agency works on how your brand appears in AI answers as well as in search results. That means the technical foundations the models crawl, content written so a clear passage can be lifted from it, brand facts that stay consistent everywhere they appear, and coverage on the sources models tend to cite. Most of it overlaps with good SEO. What changes is what you are optimising towards. You will also see the same service sold as an AI SEO company or an AI search agency. The label varies, the work does not.

Is there an AI that can do SEO?

AI tools do parts of it well. Clustering keywords, drafting outlines, spotting patterns in crawl data and writing schema are all faster with them. What no tool does on its own is decide what is worth doing, judge whether a claim is true, or earn coverage from a real publication. We use AI across the work and check what it produces, because a confident wrong answer published at scale is harder to undo than slow progress.

Is SEO still worth it in 2026?

Yes, and it has not fallen away the way the headlines suggested. Google still carries the bulk of commercial search, and the same groundwork now feeds the AI answers as well, so the work pays twice. What has changed is measurement. If you are judging it on rankings alone you will miss where the visibility actually went.

What are some reputable AI SEO agencies in the UK?

Judge them on three things. Whether they tell you plainly what cannot be guaranteed, because nobody can buy a place in an AI answer. Whether they measure visibility inside AI platforms rather than handing you a ranking report with a new cover on it. And whether they will turn down work that does not suit them. We are one option, and if the fit is wrong we will say so on the first call.

Start with a free strategy session

We’ll look at what you rank for, where competitors are winning instead, and what is worth fixing first. No charge, and the findings are yours either way.

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