AEO agency & services
The answer engine optimization agency built for local service businesses
Your customers ask ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Siri who to hire — and the engines answer with two or three names. RankNext is the done-for-you AEO agency that makes you one of them: we run the website, profile, reviews, content, and tracking, and we prove every result with a stored receipt. You approve the work; we do it.
From $899/month · month-to-month · built only for US local service businesses
AEO services, itemized
Everything the recommendation is made of, done for you.
AI engines recommend businesses they can read, verify, and trust. That is buildable — it just takes the same disciplined work every month. Here is the whole system.
AI-readable website, built or fixed
A fast, server-rendered site (or your existing one made machine-readable): clean HTML, LocalBusiness and FAQ schema, llms.txt, and a page for every service and city you cover.
Answer-engine access, verified
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot, and Google's crawlers explicitly allowed and confirmed reaching your pages — most sites block them by accident.
Google Business Profile, operated weekly
Categories, services, photos, posts, and Q&A run for you. For local questions, it's the single asset AI answers lean on hardest.
A review engine that compounds
Real reviews requested after every job and replied to for you — the trust signal we see in nearly every AI-recommended business.
Citations and entity consistency
Your name, phone, services, and story kept identical across 60+ directories, Apple and Google ecosystems — the corroboration engines check before naming anyone.
Answer-ready content, monthly
Pages and answers written the way your customers ask — specific services, specific cities, quotable sentences — published and refreshed every month.
Per-city AI visibility tracking
We run your real buyer questions against the engines on a schedule and track where you appear, city by city, engine by engine.
Proof, not promises
Every reported win opens a stored receipt — the captured AI answer, the crawler log, the published page — labeled with an honest confidence band.
AEO vs SEO
Not a rebrand of SEO. A different target.
The honest version: good AEO includes the local-SEO fundamentals — a strong profile, reviews, fast pages. We run both as one system, so you never need a second agency for the other half. The full comparison is on our RankNext vs traditional SEO agency page.
Engine by engine
One system, every answer engine.
Each engine picks differently. We publish exactly how — and what we do about it.
Built for your trade
AEO for every trade — not just the famous ones.
Most agencies chase roofers and plumbers. We build for the whole map, with a dedicated playbook per trade. Comparing options first? Read our honest guide to the best AEO agencies for local service businesses.
Straight answers
AEO services, answered honestly.
What does an AEO agency actually do?
An answer engine optimization agency makes your business the one AI engines name when customers ask who to hire. Concretely: an AI-readable website, verified crawler access, a Google Business Profile run weekly, a steady review program, consistent citations, answer-ready content, and visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and Siri. RankNext does all of it done-for-you and proves every result with stored evidence.
How much do AEO services cost?
Across the market, managed AEO runs from around $800 to well over $5,000 per month depending on scope and who it's built for. RankNext is $899/month for a single-location business with a solid site, $1,497/month for the full engine (our most popular plan), and from $2,500/month for multi-location operators. Month-to-month after the initial build — no long contracts.
AEO agency vs SEO agency — do I need both?
The foundations overlap, and good AEO includes the local SEO fundamentals (profile, reviews, citations, fast pages). The difference is the target: an SEO agency optimizes for a ranked list; an AEO agency optimizes for being the named answer, which adds machine-readability, quotable page structure, entity corroboration, and captured-answer proof. With RankNext you get the whole stack in one system — you don't need a second agency.
How long until AI starts recommending my business?
Honestly: it varies with your starting point and market, and anyone quoting a fixed date is guessing. Structural work (crawler access, readable pages, schema) gets picked up in weeks; reputation signals (reviews, citations, content) compound over months. We capture the engines' answers to your buyer questions every month, so you see movement as evidence, not as a promise.
I already rank well on Google. Do I still need AEO?
You're ahead of most — and still exposed. AI answers draw on more than classic rankings: entity consistency, quotable content, review recency, and crawler access all decide who gets named, and a business can rank #1 in links yet be absent from the answer. Our free check shows you exactly what the engines say about your market today.
Can you promise I'll be ChatGPT's recommendation?
No — and no honest agency can. Placement inside AI answers can't be bought or promised; it's earned with the signals above. What we promise is the work, done every month, and receipts for every result: the actual captured answers, so you always know exactly where you stand.
See what AI says about your business.
Enter your business and your city. In about a minute we'll show you the real near-me answers and exactly what an AEO engagement would fix first.
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