An AI search optimization agency earns your brand the recommendation when buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Here is what the good ones do, and how to tell them from the rebrands.
Maps the questions and moments that create demand in your category, measures all four assistants with repeated runs, ships the citation-grade content, schema, and corroboration that move answers, and reports in pipeline. The unit of work is the answer, not the deliverable.
Tools measure. In-house teams can execute if they have the capacity and the playbook. Agencies make sense when you want speed and accountability without hiring. The best arrangement is often hybrid: your team approves, the agency ships, the platform measures.
Many agencies renamed their SEO retainer overnight. Tells: deliverables listed as blog posts per month rather than answers won, no prompt methodology, one-assistant screenshots as proof, and no story for attribution. Ask how they would measure their own failure; operators have an answer.
Aethon is the done-for-you option built specifically for this discipline: Moment Map, four-assistant tracking, an Action Engine that ships through your approval, and revenue attribution, from $199 per month. Book a call and we baseline you live.
It measures how AI assistants treat your brand and ships the content, schema, and corroboration that change the answers, reporting results against pipeline.
Ask for prompt methodology, four-assistant coverage, execution ownership, and attribution. Sample audits beat case-study decks.
Programs run from a few hundred dollars monthly to five-figure enterprise scopes. Aethon starts at $199 per month.