We help B2B companies get cited and recommended in AI-generated answers, so you're visible wherever your buyers research solutions: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google's AI Mode.
Your buyers have already changed how they search. Has your visibility kept up?
For two decades, being on page one of Google was enough. Now a growing share of research happens inside a conversation, and if the AI doesn't cite you in that answer, you're not in the running at all. This isn't a future risk. It's already reshaping how your buyers choose who to shortlist and who never gets mentioned.
72% of B2B buyers now use AI to scope out a category and define what they need, before they've spoken to a single vendor.
- SEMRush
How we support you with AEO
AI search doesn't work like traditional search, and getting cited in AI-generated answers takes more than good keywords. Our AEO approach follows a cycle designed to build and maintain your visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Mode, engineering how you get recommended rather than hoping you show up.
Strategy
We map the prompts your buyers actually ask, audit where you stand today, and build the roadmap. This is the diagnostic that everything else runs from.
Technical implementation
Structured data, schema markup, and answer-ready architecture, so AI engines can parse and cite your content in the first place.
Content
Pages and posts built to be lifted and quoted: clear answers, real proof points, and the formatting AI engines prefer to extract.
Measurement
We track which prompts surface your brand and which don't, then feed that straight back into strategy. Nothing here is set-and-forget.
From the initial audit through to ongoing optimization, here's what we build, run, and measure for you.
A full AEO audit benchmarking your current AI visibility against competitors
Prompt and persona mapping, covering the questions your buyers actually ask
A defined AEO strategy setting out content types, channels, and cadence based on what the audit tells us
Structured data and schema markup implementation across priority pages
Answer-ready content built to be lifted, quoted, and cited
Entity and third-party mention building, to strengthen how AI models understand your brand
Scrunch setup and configuration, tracking prompts, position, and citation frequency
HubSpot reporting connecting AI-sourced traffic to pipeline and revenue
Competitive benchmarking, so you know exactly where you stand against who you're actually up against
Monthly reporting connected to commercial outcomes, not just visibility metrics
Ongoing optimization as prompts, platforms, and competitor behavior shift
How we measure AEO success
Visibility tells you what's happening. Revenue tells you if it matters. So, we measure AEO on two levels.
Scrunch is our dedicated AEO platform. It tracks which prompts surface your brand, your position in AI-generated answers, citation frequency, sentiment, and how you compare against competitors, giving us the detail we need to keep optimizing at the platform level.
HubSpot handles the commercial side. We track self-reported attribution, HubSpot attribution data, and content performance across the full buyer lifecycle, from first touch as a lead through to closed customer. That's what lets us tie AEO back to pipeline and revenue, not just prompt appearances.
Proven answer engine optimization impact
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.
Read the full case studyincrease in high-intent leads from AI sources.
increase in citations where AI engines link directly to our website as the authoritative source.
increase in high-intent organic MQLs year on year
increase in branded search clicks
increase in revenue
increase in sessions
Why Blend for AEO
AEO is new territory for most agencies. Here's why we deliver results others can't replicate.
Strategy-first
We start with your buyers' actual prompts and behavior, not a generic checklist applied to every client.
Tested on ourselves first
Before we offered AEO as a service, we spent three months building and validating the framework on Blend's own visibility. We don't ask you to trust an untested approach.
Commercial focus
Every AEO program ties back to pipeline and revenue through HubSpot, not just prompt appearances and citation counts.
100% in-house team
No white-label subcontracting. The strategists, technical specialists, and content team working on your AEO are the same people working on your wider growth engine.
Some of the team you
could work with

Phil Vallender
Co-Founder & Director of Strategy

Rafael Paredes Calles
Strategist

Katie Stevens
Account Manager

Amelia Cooper
Senior Strategist

Dan Stillgoe
Marketing Director

Simran Toor
Director of Global Accounts

Rachel Osborne
Senior Account Manager