Get named by the machines that answer
When someone asks an AI who does this in Tampa, you’re either cited by name or left out of the answer. Cited. is the goal.
Tampa, Florida
Generative engine optimization services
Established 2023
What GEO means
Generative engine optimization is the practice of structuring a business’s information so AI systems can find it, trust it, and repeat it by name. It replaces guessing at ten blue links with making sure the one answer an AI gives out loud contains your business, not a competitor’s.
Diagnose
- Query the systems your buyers actually use
- Map every place your business is missing
- Flag outdated or wrong facts already citing you
- Benchmark against whoever is getting cited instead
Findability
- Schema markup on every service and location page
- Clean entity signals across the whole site
- A crawlable architecture, nothing JS-gated
- Facts that agree with themselves everywhere they appear
Off domain
- Presence on the sources AI systems actually pull from
- Reviews, directories, and citations kept consistent
- Authoritative mentions outside your own domain
- A knowledge graph that doesn’t contradict itself
Choosing
- Content written to be the answer, not to rank for it
- Direct, quotable statements a model can lift whole
- Depth that earns a citation, not just a click
- Updated on a cadence machines can trust
02 Does GEO replace SEO
Does GEO replace SEO
No. It runs on top of it, and firms that treat the two as separate end up sending AI systems conflicting signals about who they are.
Traditional SEO still decides whether your site can be crawled, indexed, and trusted in the first place. GEO doesn’t skip that step, it builds on it.
What changes is the destination. SEO optimizes for a list of ten links a person scans. GEO optimizes for the single answer an AI assembles from everything it can find about you, often without a click at all.
We run both from the same technical foundation, so the site that ranks is also the site that gets cited.
03 The evidence
Why this matters now
Finding
Detail
Source
GEO improves citation rate
The study that coined the term found specific on-page changes (adding citations, statistics, quotes) improved a source’s visibility inside AI-generated answers by up to 40% in benchmark testing.
Aggarwal et al., “GEO: Generative Engine Optimization,” Princeton/Georgetown/Allen Institute for AI, Nov 2023
Search volume shifting to AI
Traditional search engine volume is projected to drop 25% by 2026 as consumers adopt AI chatbots and virtual agents for queries they used to type into Google.
Gartner, “The Future of Search” press release, Feb 2024
Most searches already end with no click
Close to 60% of Google searches end without the searcher clicking any result, a share that has grown as answer-style results (AI Overviews included) keep the user on the results page.
Rand Fishkin / SparkToro & Datos, “Zero-Click Search Study,” 2024 update
AI Overviews are now mainstream, not experimental
Google rolled AI Overviews out to US search results at I/O in May 2024 and has since expanded them to over 100 countries, with Alphabet leadership stating 2.5 billion monthly users see them.
Google I/O 2024 keynote; Alphabet earnings call statements, 2024–2025
Chat assistants reach hundreds of millions weekly
OpenAI has publicly stated ChatGPT’s weekly active user base is in the hundreds of millions, making it a mainstream first stop for the kind of research and recommendation queries that used to start on Google.
OpenAI public statements, 2025
Being unstructured is the most common reason a business is skipped
The GEO paper’s own error analysis found sources with vague, unstructured claims were the ones most often left out of generated answers, versus sources with explicit facts, numbers, and quotes.
Aggarwal et al., “GEO: Generative Engine Optimization,” Nov 2023
Up to 40% visibility lift from GEO-specific content changes, per the original GEO study
Four Google AI Overviews cite a client we optimized
Of Google searches already end with no click (SparkToro/Datos)
2.5 billion monthly users now see AI Overviews
Once an AI system decides how to answer a category of question, it tends to keep answering it the same way until something changes what it can find. Getting into that answer early is worth more than getting into it eventually.
04 Proof
A real citation, not a promise
05 The Method
How it actually gets built
01
Diagnose
We query the AI systems your buyers actually use with the questions they’d actually ask, and record exactly what comes back today.
That becomes the map of every gap: missing facts, outdated, and whoever is currently getting cited.
02
Structure
Schema, entity data, and site architecture get rebuilt so the facts an AI needs are explicit, consistent, and served without JavaScript.
Nothing here depends on rankings moving first. This is the technical layer every citation is built on top of.
03
Earn the citation
Content gets written to be lifted whole into an answer, and we get the same facts placed on the outside sources AI systems already trust.
Then we re-run the original queries on a fixed cadence and show you exactly what changed.
06 What we won’t do
No shortcuts here
No
Keyword-stuffed pages built to rank instead of answer
No
Fake review networks or bought citations
No
Guaranteed rankings — there is no ranking to guarantee
No
Fake review networks or bought citations
No
Set-and-forget. Queries get re-run, not assumed
07 Fit and cost
Who is this for
Good fit
Businesses with a real service or product to be specific about, in a market where an AI answer already gets asked the question.
Not a fit
Businesses that need a first website or basic local SEO before this is the right next investment.
Good fit
Teams willing to fix facts about the business that are currently wrong or inconsistent online.
Not a fit
Anyone looking for a guaranteed #1 ranking. That’s not what this buys.
Your turn to make a move
Engagements start at $1,500/month. That's a floor, not a range that opens lower — the diagnose-and-structure work underneath it doesn't compress below what it actually takes.
See if you're a fit08 FAQ
Common questions
Does GEO replace SEO?
No. Traditional SEO still decides whether your site can be crawled, indexed, and trusted. GEO builds on that foundation to also earn citations inside AI-generated answers.
What counts as being cited by an AI system?
Your business named directly inside an AI-generated answer, such as a Google AI Overview, a ChatGPT response, or a Perplexity summary, without the person having to click through to find you.
Do you guarantee a citation?
We don’t guarantee a specific citation on a specific query, because no one controls what a model generates. What we commit to is documented in the guarantee above.
How long before we see results?
The diagnostic and structural work starts immediately. How fast an AI system updates what it says about you varies by platform and how often it re-crawls, which we track and report on.
What does the $1,500 floor cover?
The diagnostic audit, schema and entity work, off-domain citation building, and a fixed re-query cadence so you can see what actually changed.
Is this only for Tampa businesses?
Enginecy is based in Tampa, Florida, but this work applies to any business that wants to be findable by AI systems, regardless of location.
