AI search optimization
AI search optimization prepares a website to be read, understood and quoted by artificial intelligence systems: next-generation search engines, AI assistants and the answer panels that increasingly sit above classic results. The aim is simple. When a model answers a question in your category, your business should be one of the sources it draws on.
What AI search optimization involves
Work runs across structure, content, semantics, speed and technical implementation. We make your entities explicit and consistent, mark up the facts a model needs to cite you correctly, tighten heading structure so passages can be extracted cleanly, and remove the contradictions between pages that cause a model to skip a source altogether.
The comprehensive package
We start by measuring your current AI compatibility, then optimise content so algorithms can process it, implement the technical upgrades that follow, and re-measure. Google’s guidance on structured data defines much of the machine-readable layer this depends on.
Why it is not just SEO with a new name
Classic SEO optimises for a ranked list of links. AI search optimization optimises for being quoted inside a generated answer, which rewards different things: specific claims, corroboration from sources other than your own domain, clean extractable structure, and consistency of naming across the web. The two overlap, and neither replaces the other.
How to sequence the work
Most clients begin with an AI website audit to establish the baseline, implement through this service, and then track movement with LLM visibility monitoring. Ecommerce catalogues add an agentic commerce readiness audit, and the classic channel continues under SEO management.