Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) Services
We help B2B companies get cited and recommended in AI-generated answers, ensuring you're visible where buyers increasingly research solutions - ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Mode.
We help B2B companies get cited and recommended in AI-generated answers, ensuring you're visible where buyers increasingly research solutions - ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Mode.
More than ever, brands face a critical choice: adapt to the new reality of AI-powered discovery, or run the risk of becoming invisible to an increasingly AI-dependent audience.
Blend's AEO services ensure you get recommended when it matters most. We use a proven framework, tested and refined on ourselves first, to engineer your visibility across AI platforms. Through strategic optimisation, technical implementation, AI-ready content, and continuous measurement, we make sure your business appears and gets cited when buyers research solutions in your category.
Our AI SEO approach follows a cycle designed to build and maintain your visibility in AI search.
We define how you'll win in AI search. Build personas, map prompts, audit your site, and create the roadmap for visibility. This is typically a one-off diagnostic exercise.
Make your website AEO-ready through structured data, schema markup, and answer-friendly architecture that helps AI engines parse and cite your content.
Produce AI-optimised content at scale - industry pages and blogs designed for AI retrieval and citation, not just traditional search ranking.
Track results through our AEO tool, Scrunch and HubSpot, feeding insights back into the strategy for continual improvement. Monitor which prompts surface your brand and adjust accordingly.
Getting cited in AI-generated answers requires a systematic approach across strategy, technical optimisation, content creation, and measurement. Here's how each component works:
The AI SEO Strategy sets you up for success, giving you everything needed to achieve visibility in AI search.
It provides the foundations, technical insights, content plan, and measurement framework required to execute AI SEO effectively, whether with Blend or in-house.
In practice, that means building the assets and insights needed to create AI-ready content, delivering clear recommendations for technical and structural improvements, and establishing a repeatable measurement plan through Scrunch and supporting tools.
AI engines need structured, machine-readable information to understand and cite your content. We implement schema markup across your site, giving AI engines the context they need to recognise and reference your content in generated answers.
We refine on-page structure to help AI systems extract and present your content clearly, improving heading hierarchy, ensuring consistent formatting, and breaking information into concise, answer-ready sections.
The goal: a site that's machine-readable and semantically rich, so AI systems can easily parse and cite your content.
We produce content specifically designed for AI retrieval and citation. Each page is structured to be easily parsed by AI engines, with clear answers, relevant proof points, and the technical markup needed to drive citations.
Our approach combines deep understanding of your business with AI-optimised content frameworks, enabling us to create high-quality, on-brand content at scale across your core industries and services.
The result is content that consistently appears in AI-generated answers when buyers research solutions in your category.
We monitor your content performance across AI engines using Scrunch, tracking which prompts surface your brand, your position in results, and competitive presence. HubSpot dashboards capture AI referral traffic and conversion rates from AI-sourced visitors.
These insights drive continuous optimisation, updating high-performing content, expanding sections that drive citations, and creating new pages for emerging prompts.
Measuring AI visibility requires specialist tools. We've partnered with Scrunch, the leading AI visibility platform, to track and optimise your performance across every major AI engine.
Scrunch monitors how your brand appears in AI-generated answers across LLMs. It tracks which prompts surface your content, your position in results, citation frequency, sentiment, and competitive presence.
More importantly, Scrunch provides actionable insights. It shows you which pages AI engines are citing, identifies content gaps, flags technical issues preventing AI consumption, and recommends specific improvements to boost visibility.
As an official Scrunch partner, we integrate their platform into every AI SEO engagement, ensuring you have complete visibility into your AI performance from day one.
AI SEO is new territory for most agencies. Here's why Blend is built to deliver results others can't replicate.
We don't jump straight into execution. Every AI SEO engagement starts with strategy, understanding your buyers, mapping their prompts, auditing your current state, and building a clear roadmap. This diagnostic phase ensures we're optimising for the right visibility, not just creating content for content's sake. You get a structured plan that defines what to do, why it matters, and how to measure success.
We've spent months refining our AI SEO framework on ourselves before offering it as a service. We know it works because we've measured the results. This isn't experimental. It's a repeatable, predictable system that's ready to deploy for your business.
We optimise for outcomes that matter to your business, visibility that drives pipeline, not vanity metrics. Our approach focuses on high-intent prompts that buyers use when actively researching solutions, ensuring the AI visibility we build translates into qualified traffic, conversations, and revenue. Every recommendation is filtered through a commercial lens: will this help you win deals?
Everything we do is handled by our internal team. No outsourcing, no freelancers, no offshore content mills. Your AI SEO strategy is developed by our strategists, your technical implementation is handled by our developers, and your content is created by our team who understand B2B and your industry.
We don't ask clients to trust untested strategies. Before offering AI SEO as a service, we spent three months refining and validating our framework on ourselves, building a repeatable, predictable system that drives real AI visibility.
Since launching our AI SEO strategy, we've achieved:
We have worked closely with the Blend team over the past year, and we truly value them as an extension of our own team. Their extensive knowledge, expertise and eye for detail has completely reignited the way we go to market.
Katie Mansell
Head of Group Marketing at Onecom
From our very first meeting, Blend understood our challenges and knew what we needed to do to address them.
Rachel King
Marketing Director at Breathe
Transformed our digital marketing approach and websites beyond our expectations.
Paul Butler
Managing Director at Olive Communications
Blend had an efficient process and impressive ability to bring our solution to life digitally.
David Taylor
Sales and Marketing Director at Supply Pilot
A BIG thank you to the whole team at Blend! Their professionalism, creativity, and commitment throughout our global rebrand project were truly exceptional. From the very beginning, they demonstrated a deep understanding of our business and its unique needs, translating them into a remarkable visual identity that perfectly captured our brand essence.
Ross Wilks
Global Head of Marketing at acre security
The team demonstrated high professionalism and responsiveness, consistently delivering quality outcomes throughout the project. The project was completed on schedule and within budget, reflecting commendable project management. Blend's expertise and meticulous attention to detail ensured the website was visually appealing and functionally robust, aligning seamlessly with our goals.
Dan Spring
Growth Manager at Viedoc
AI SEO (also called AEO, Answer Engine Optimisation) is the practice of optimising your content and website to appear in AI-generated answers from platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI Mode.
Unlike traditional SEO, which focuses on ranking in search engine results pages, AI SEO ensures your content is structured, authoritative, and citation-worthy enough for AI engines to reference when users ask conversational questions.
It combines technical optimisation (schema markup, structured data), content strategy (answer-ready formats, persona-driven prompts), and continuous measurement (tracking AI citations and referral traffic).
Traditional SEO optimises for search engine rankings using keywords, backlinks, and on-page factors. You're competing for position #1-10 in search results.
AI SEO optimises for citation and recommendation in AI-generated answers. You're earning trust and authority so AI engines confidently reference your content when users ask questions.
The key differences are query type (keywords vs. conversational prompts), goal (rankings vs. citations), format (traditional blog structure vs. answer-ready, structured content), technical requirements (basic on-page SEO vs. comprehensive schema markup), and measurement (Google Search Console vs. Scrunch + AI referral tracking).
That said, AI SEO and traditional SEO complement each other. Well-structured, authoritative content optimised for AI also performs better in Google's evolving AI Overviews.
Yes. We offer two options.
AEO Services is our dedicated AI SEO offering where we handle your complete AEO programme - strategy development, technical implementation, ongoing content creation, and continuous measurement and optimisation.
Demand Generation Retainers integrate AI SEO into a full-funnel programme with comprehensive content production, multi-channel optimisation, and strategic growth partnership across your entire demand generation engine.
You can choose the option that fits your growth goals and marketing priorities.
AI SEO is valuable for any B2B company whose buyers use AI engines to research solutions. This is especially important for B2B SaaS and technology companies, professional services firms (agencies, consultancies), manufacturing and industrial sectors, fintech and financial services, and cybersecurity and compliance businesses.
Ideal candidates include Marketing Directors and CMOs at growth-stage B2B companies, businesses with 90+ day sales cycles where early visibility matters, companies competing in crowded markets where AI can provide differentiation, and organisations already investing in content marketing and SEO.
If your buyers are asking AI engines "What's the best [solution] for [industry]?" and you're not in the answer, you need AI SEO.
We track three categories of metrics.
For AI visibility, we use Scrunch to monitor presence in AI-generated answers, position in AI responses, citation frequency and format, sentiment and context of mentions, competitive presence, and prompt coverage across your target topics.
For traffic and engagement, we use HubSpot to track AI referral traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode, self-reported attribution mentioning AI tools, conversion rates from AI-sourced visitors, time on site and pages per session, and form submissions and MQL generation.
For longer-term pipeline impact, we track SQLs from AI-sourced traffic, opportunity creation and pipeline value, win rates for AI-attributed deals, and revenue attribution.
We provide monthly reporting on all metrics and use insights to continuously refine your strategy. Early wins typically show in visibility and traffic within weeks, whilst pipeline impact follows your typical sales cycle (90+ days for most B2B companies).
AI visibility can improve quickly. We've seen clients appear in AI-generated answers within days of publishing optimised content. However, building consistent, authoritative presence takes time.
Expect to see measurable improvements in AI citations and prompt coverage within 4-8 weeks, increased AI referral traffic within 2-3 months, and pipeline impact within 90-120 days depending on your sales cycle.
AI SEO is a long-term strategy that compounds over time as you build more optimised content and strengthen your authority signals.
Yes, but it requires specific expertise. AI SEO combines technical website optimisation, content strategy, persona research, and continuous measurement. These are skills that most in-house teams don't have in one place.
Most clients choose to work with us because AI SEO requires ongoing content production, technical refinement, and measurement that's difficult to maintain alongside other priorities. We become an extension of your team, handling the specialised work whilst you focus on your core business.
Most SEO agencies are using AI to create content faster, not optimising for AI visibility. There's a fundamental difference: AI-generated content (using AI as a writing tool) versus AI-optimised content (structured specifically for AI engines to cite).
We focus on the latter: content architecture, schema markup, answer-ready formats, and measurement that ensures AI engines reference your content when buyers ask questions.
It's not about speed of production. It's about engineering visibility in AI-generated answers.
It already is. With 65% of organisations regularly using generative AI and AI overviews appearing in 47% of Google searches, the shift is happening now.
Even if standalone AI engines like ChatGPT don't fully replace Google, Google itself is becoming an AI-powered search engine. Our AI SEO approach optimises for both pure AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity) and AI-enhanced search (Google AI Mode, AI Overviews).
The structured, authoritative content we create performs well regardless of where buyers research. You're not betting on one platform. You're building visibility across the entire AI-driven discovery landscape.