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GEO · Generative Engine Optimization

First we measure whether AI mentions you. Then we talk about money.

GEO is not keywords in a blog post. It is four layers of work: let the models read you, make passages liftable, keep your brand entity consistent, and get cited somewhere other than your own site. Which layers you are missing decides whether this is three weeks or three months — which is why this page has no price list.

Why there is no price list

The same sentence, "do GEO for us", can mean three times the work depending on what is already there. It comes down to the foundations, not the industry or the budget:

FoundationMissing it looks likeHaving it looks like
Machine-readableAI crawlers blocked, content only appears after JS, robots and noindex fighting each otherServer-rendered, crawlers allowed, schema and canonical correct
Liftable passagesLong prose, the answer buried in paragraph six, numbers with no unit or dateDefinition sentence first, spec tables, FAQ headings that are whole questions
Entity consistencyThree spellings of the brand, sameAs pointing at dead links, profiles that disagreeOrganization schema and external profiles that name each other
Third-party mentionsNothing outside your own domain mentions youComparisons, roundups and forums a model can cite

The baseline ends in a list: what each of the four layers is missing and what to fix first. That list is what we quote from, and it is yours to take elsewhere. We do not lock you in.

Step one: the baseline

Done before we talk about a retainer. You get numbers and a list, not a pitch deck.

Question set
15–20 questions your buyers actually ask ("best X for Y"), with your brand name kept out so the test cannot answer itself
Measurement
Official APIs for ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, each question repeated several times, reported as a mention rate with a 95% confidence interval
Read-back
Per question: which brands the answer named and which URLs it cited — that competitor list and those sources are the next target
Technical scan
The four foundations checked one by one: crawlers, render, schema, entity, external mentions
Change list
Ranked by payoff, marked with what we can do and what needs your engineers or your lawyers

Then: the weekly loop

What the retainer actually buys, all of it pointed at the numbers.

Rewrite passages
Start with pages that were consulted but not cited — the model read you and still left you out, which is the cheapest thing to fix
Fill gaps
Add citable passages for the questions you lose, not more word count
Earn mentions
Comparisons, roundups, forums — what a model cites is usually not your own site
Re-measure
Rerun the question set weekly and read the trend with its interval, not the week-to-week wobble
Monthly report
What changed, which questions moved, what comes first next month

What we do not promise

  • No guarantee that ChatGPT will recommend you. Nobody can guarantee that, and anyone who says it is selling you something else.
  • No date. Moving one question from unmentioned to consistently named runs in quarters, not weeks, in what we have seen.
  • A good week is not a result. Ask the same question three times in one day and the answer changes, so we report intervals, not points.
  • Engines change. A model version or an API behaviour change moves the numbers; when we change a model we log it as a change of method, not a detail.

How the measurement works

Vendor APIs only. We do not drive the consumer chat apps and we do not route through multi-model gateways, because gateways strip the citation metadata half of these metrics depend on. Model identifiers live in one configuration block, and a model change counts as a change of method. The full methodology — endpoints, pinned models, metric definitions and limits — lives on one page, and we do not restate it here:

The measurement methodology (RedClaw Labs)

FAQ

Why a baseline first? Why not start fixing?
Without a baseline there is no way to show the work did anything. GEO results are probabilistic — the same question asked repeatedly gives different answers — so with no starting number, three months later you would just have our word for it. The baseline is also what the quote is based on.
How is this different from SEO? Do I need both?
SEO ranks a page in search results; GEO gets the generated answer to name you. They share a content foundation and are measured differently: SEO tracks rank and clicks, GEO tracks mention rate and citation rate. The technical base — server rendering, schema, speed — feeds both, so whichever you start with helps the other.
Can I do this myself?
Yes. The measurement is available as a subscription you can run yourself, and the method is published. If you have the time, start there — this page is for the half of the job that is time, not knowledge.
Will you use us as a case study?
Not without written consent. The baseline and the weekly numbers are yours.
How do we start?
Message us on Telegram with the domain and the buying situation you want to be recommended in. We will say up front whether it is worth doing, including when it is not.

Start with the baseline

Send the domain and the buying situation you want to show up in. We look at the foundations first, then talk scope and price.

Message on Telegram

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