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AI SEO services optimize your business to be found and recommended by AI search — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini — alongside traditional Google rankings. Foundgrove runs both as one program: SEO foundations plus the genuinely new AI-visibility work, with an honest line between the two. Pricing starts at $2,500/mo. Month-to-month — no lock-in.

AI SEO · Updated June 2026

AI SEO Services

Get your business recommended by ChatGPT, AI Overviews, and Perplexity — from an agency that tells you which parts of AI SEO are new and which are rebranded.

Definition

What are AI SEO services?

AI SEO services are a retained program that gets US service businesses found in AI-powered search — the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews give when buyers ask for a recommendation. The industry also calls this generative engine optimization (GEO); whichever name you searched, it is the same discipline, and we run it in one program with traditional SEO because the two share most of their foundations.

Be the brand AI recommends

When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews who to hire, the answer names a handful of businesses. AI SEO is the work that puts your business inside that answer instead of below it.

One retainer, every surface

The same program covers Google rankings, AI Overviews citations, and chat-assistant recommendations. You do not pay separately for SEO and then again for an AI add-on — it is one engine.

Honest scope, no AI markup

Much of what agencies sell as AI SEO is traditional SEO with a new label and a higher invoice. We show you exactly which deliverables are genuinely new — and never charge a premium for a rename.

The honest part

Which parts of AI SEO are genuinely new — and which are rebranded?

Most AI SEO packages on the market are ordinary SEO with a new label and a bigger invoice. Before you hire anyone — including us — you should know which line items are actually new work. Here is the honest split.

Genuinely new to AI SEO

  • AI visibility tracking — how often ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and AI Overviews actually mention you
  • AI-crawler access configuration: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot handling plus llms.txt and llms-full.txt
  • Passage-level content engineering so models can extract and quote your answers verbatim
  • Prompt-space research: mapping what buyers ask assistants, which is not the same list as what they type into Google
  • Brand-mention building aimed at the specific third-party sources AI engines cite
  • Per-engine coverage — ChatGPT search runs on Bing's index, so Bing Webmaster and IndexNow become part of the job

Rebranded traditional SEO

  • Schema markup — standard structured data, part of technical SEO for a decade
  • Content quality and E-E-A-T signals — the same fundamentals Google has always rewarded
  • Site speed and Core Web Vitals — table stakes, not an AI breakthrough
  • Entity and NAP consistency — classic local and knowledge-graph hygiene
  • “Authority signals” — usually plain link building with a new name
  • “AI keyword research” — often the same keyword sheet you would get from any SEO retainer

The overlap is good news: it means AI SEO should not cost double what SEO costs. Ours doesn't — AI search visibility is part of the base retainer, not a surcharge.

Scope

What's included in our AI SEO services?

Every retainer includes the full list below — the traditional foundations and the AI-specific work, owned by the strategist who pitched you. Larger accounts add volume, not hidden line items.

  • Full traditional SEO foundations — technical, on-page, and content — included, not sold separately
  • AI visibility benchmark and monthly tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews
  • Passage-level content engineering structured for AI extraction and citation
  • Schema deployment plus llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and AI-crawler accessibility configuration
  • Entity and brand-mention building on the sources AI engines trust and cite
  • Bing Webmaster Tools and IndexNow setup — the index behind ChatGPT and Copilot answers
  • Monthly reporting that ties AI mentions and citations back to leads and booked calls

Agency or tool?

Do you need an AI SEO agency, or just a tool?

AI visibility tools — Profound, Peec, Otterly, and similar trackers — tell you how often AI engines mention you. That is a thermometer, not a treatment: the reading is useful, but the temperature only changes when someone does the content engineering, technical fixes, and mention building the reading points to.

If you have an in-house marketing team, a tracking tool plus a one-time roadmap may genuinely be enough — we will tell you so in the audit rather than sell you a retainer you don't need. If nobody owns the work, an AI SEO company that executes and reports beats a dashboard nobody reads.

Process

How does our AI SEO process work?

Four phases — benchmark, foundations, visibility, attribution — on a month-to-month engagement with no minimum and no lock-in. You see the written AI-visibility baseline inside 14 days.

  1. Step 01

    Benchmark

    We test the prompts your buyers actually ask and record how often each AI engine mentions you versus your competitors — a written AI-visibility baseline inside 14 days.

  2. Step 02

    Foundations

    Crawler access, schema, llms.txt, and extraction-ready page structure — the technical layer that determines whether AI engines can read and quote you at all.

  3. Step 03

    Visibility

    Passage-level answers to the mapped prompts, plus brand mentions on the directories, review sites, and publications each engine cites for your market.

  4. Step 04

    Attribution

    Monthly tracking of mentions, citations, and share of voice per engine — reported next to the number that matters: leads and booked calls from AI-driven discovery.

Pricing

How much do AI SEO services cost?

AI SEO starts at $2,500/mo — the same entry point as our SEO retainer, because it is the same retainer. AI search visibility is included from day one, not sold back to you as a premium add-on.

  • Growth tier — visibility benchmark, strategy, execution, and per-engine reporting from day one.
  • Month-to-month — cancel anytime. No minimum, no lock-in. No setup fee.
  • Red flag when shopping: an "AI SEO package" priced at a large premium over the same agency's SEO retainer — ask them which line items are actually new.

FAQs

Common questions about AI SEO services.

What are AI SEO services?

AI SEO services optimize your business to be found and recommended by AI-powered search — Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot — alongside traditional Google rankings. In practice that means classic SEO foundations plus genuinely new work: AI-crawler configuration, passage-level content engineering, brand-mention building on AI-cited sources, and visibility tracking across each engine.

What does an AI SEO agency actually do?

A legitimate AI SEO agency or company benchmarks how often AI engines mention you, fixes the technical layer that lets models read your site (crawler access, schema, llms.txt), restructures content so models can extract and cite it, and builds your presence on the third-party sources AI engines trust. Then it proves the work with per-engine visibility reporting — not screenshots of one lucky ChatGPT answer.

How much do AI SEO services cost?

Foundgrove's AI SEO services start at $2,500/month, and AI search visibility is included in our standard retainer rather than sold as a separate add-on. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, no minimum, no lock-in, no setup fee. Be skeptical of agencies charging a large premium for an “AI package” — most of its line items are traditional SEO under a new label.

Is AI SEO different from GEO?

They are two names for the same discipline. GEO (generative engine optimization) is the industry term; AI SEO is what most buyers actually search. Both mean earning citations and recommendations inside AI-generated answers. At Foundgrove they are one program — see our generative engine optimization service for the same work described in industry terms.

Can you guarantee my business shows up in ChatGPT?

No — and no honest provider can. AI engines decide their own answers, and anyone guaranteeing placement in ChatGPT or AI Overviews is selling something they do not control. What we guarantee is the work and the measurement: a documented visibility baseline, the technical and content changes that make citations possible, and monthly per-engine reporting so you can see the trend line yourself.

Do AI SEO tools replace an agency?

Tools like Profound, Peec, and Otterly track how often AI engines mention you — useful, and we use tracking like this in every engagement. But tracking is a thermometer, not a treatment: the tools tell you where you stand and leave the content engineering, technical fixes, and mention building to you. If you have a marketing team to do that work, a tool plus our free audit may be all you need.

Is AI SEO legitimate or just a marketing gimmick?

The buying behavior is real: a growing share of service-business customers ask AI assistants for recommendations before they ever see a Google results page. The gimmick is in the packaging — agencies relabeling ordinary SEO as AI SEO at double the price. Judge any provider by whether they can show you which deliverables are genuinely AI-specific and how they measure per-engine visibility.

How do you measure AI SEO results?

We track how often each engine — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews — mentions or recommends your business for the prompts that matter, plus whether those answers cite your site as a source. That visibility data is reported monthly next to leads and booked calls, because a mention that never produces a customer is a vanity metric.

Does AI-generated content hurt AI SEO?

Unreviewed, mass-produced AI content hurts both traditional rankings and AI citations — engines filter thin, unattributed content on both surfaces. AI-assisted drafting is fine when a qualified human reviews, fact-checks, and publishes under real accountability. Our rule is simple: nothing ships that we cannot defend line by line, whatever tool produced the first draft.

Find out what AI engines say about your business today.

Free audit with a personal video teardown within 2 business days — including what ChatGPT and AI Overviews currently show for your market.

Written by Hyder Shah, Founder & CEO · Updated June 2026

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