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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is changing. Your customers are searching less and asking more. Every day people turn to ChatGPT, Google’s AI Mode, and Claude to tell them exactly who to trust in your industry. Making your website relevant to AI-powered search, often referred to as GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) or AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), is equal parts art and science. Our AI Search Audit scores your site and helps our AI Search experts develop actionable strategies that ensure when your customers are searching, your business’ name is the one AI finds.
UNDERSTANDING NEW WAYS TO BE SEEN IN SEARCH.
AI is the buzz word making its way into almost every aspect of your life (like it or not). While we’re not sure why our toasters need to be AI-ready, we do know why your business does. Running that business takes time and effort, let our AI experts help make sense of AI Search. Before we make any suggestions it’s important to understand the different aspects of AI Search and why they matter in the business of being seen.
Ten blue links became one confident answer. When someone asks AI for the best option in your category, it names a business or two, and their search is over.
Traditional Search earned you a higher spot on the results page when customers searched for terms in your industry. That ranking was based on how relevant your content was, determined by the search engine’s web-crawlers. While the authority has shifted from web-crawler to AI bot, the goal remains the same: how relevant is your content to your customers, based on the contextual prompts they feed into AI platforms?
The AI Search Audit is a scored, evidence-backed report on how AI sees your business. No vibes, no guesswork, just actionable results. Every audit includes:
Every number traces to real measurement data from dedicated AI visibility platforms. If we can’t source it, it’s not in your report.
Every engagement starts with an AI Search Audit, so you know exactly where you stand before spending a dollar on optimization. From there, our team develops a plan to keep you visible as AI Search evolves. Your audit fee credits toward your first month when you start an AI Search Maintenance plan within 30 days. Maintenance plans are six-month engagements, because AI visibility is built and defended over time, not in a weekend.
Already on a SageMG SEO plan? These stack. Ask us about combined pricing.
Knowing is half the battle, and we’ll help you find out where your company stands.
Your visibility in search is as unique to your business as your website (if not, we should talk!). You work hard to scale your business to match the needs of your customers. We right-size your AI Search Audit to match the depth of your website, your competition and your business.
Knowing what your business needs is your job. Knowing how to give it AI visibility is ours. Our tiered audits are built for your business, and your unique needs:
FOCUSED AUDIT
COMPREHENSIVE AUDIT
Most audits fall between $1,000 – $2,500 and up, depending on the size and complexity of your website, your market and your competitive landscape. We’ll recommend the right depth before we jump in. No oversized invoices. No corners cut.
Before AI search, relevance was always a moving target, and that remains true. AI engines re-decide who to recommend every day. Models update, sources shift, competitors publish, and the business AI cited in March can be invisible by June. Getting found isn’t a one-time fix.
One round of fixes gets you cited. Maintenance keeps you cited. We scope the work around your website, your competitive landscape and how aggressively you want to grow your visibility and your business
Best for businesses with a focused website and established search presence that need ongoing oversight to stay accurate, relevant and visible. You need ongoing optimization, new opportunities and a faster pace of improvement.
For businesses actively competing for more attention, expanding their geographic foot print, or trying to become relevant for more of the questions their customers are asking.
For businesses in highly competitive categories where AI visibility is becoming a meaningful part of the buying journey. Search visibility directly influences leads or revenue.
Most AI Search maintenance engagements range from $1,500 – $5,000 per month, depending on the size of your digital footprint, competitive pressure and how quickly we’re trying to move.
We’ll recommend the right level of effort based on what the data tells us, not which package we’re trying to sell.
One round of fixes gets you cited. Maintenance keeps you cited. We scope the work around your website, your competitive landscape and how aggressively you want to grow your visibility and your business
We score and optimize the next set of pages on your site: schema, structure, and content formatted the way AI extracts answers.
We track your citations and mentions across the major engine. When a model updates and your visibility moves, or when customers are using new prompts you should show up in, we’ll make sure your AI strategy moves with them.
We optimize content to ensure your business is relevant to your customer’s prompts. Enhancing content already on your site and creating new content when/where it’s needed.
AI engines favor current sources. We update aging pages so your content keeps its citations instead of losing them to whoever published last.
Larger site or aggressive timeline? Ask about our custom AI Search sprint packages.
It builds on it. SEO earns rankings on results pages; GEO earns citations inside AI answers. If we built your SEO, you have a head start, and this protects that investment where buyers are actually looking now.
Fair question, and no, not because your SEO is falling short. SEO maintenance keeps you ranking in the list of links: rankings, technical health, keywords. GEO manages a surface SEO was never built to measure: whether AI engines can extract answers from your pages, whether your facts are consistent enough to be quoted, and how often AI actually mentions you compared to your competitors. Different measurements, different fixes, different reports. The good news: solid SEO means the foundation is already poured, which makes GEO work faster and cheaper for you. One keeps you in the list. The other gets you in the answer. Buyers now check both places, so we cover both.
You can, and it will answer confidently whether or not it’s right. Our audits run on paid measurement platforms tracking your real citations across every major engine, with one rule: no number appears unless it traces to your actual data. Then a strategist with 23 years of search experience calibrates the plan to your business. Worth knowing: DIY GEO done wrong isn’t neutral. When AI picks up wrong or conflicting facts about you, it repeats them to every prospect who asks.
No one can honestly guarantee that, and you should side-eye anyone who does. We guarantee rigorous measurement, correct execution of what AI engines demonstrably reward, and a clear before-and-after in your re-score.
About a week from kickoff. We need roughly 30 minutes of your time for context and access. That’s it.
SageMG has been helping businesses be seen since 2002. Directories, blue links, maps, mobile, voice: every time search moved, we moved early.
AI is reshaping the foundation of digital marketing.
WE DON’T IGNORE THAT.
WE DON’T LEAN INTO IT.
WE LEAD INTO IT.
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