AI Optimization Services (AEO & GEO)
Get named when customers ask AI who to hire. We work on what ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI Mode can find about your business: your Google Business Profile and reviews first, then your website and the other sites those engines read. Then we keep checking, every month.
Steady Demand is recognized as Google Business Profile Experts
We’ve been featured in numerous outlets:
Massive improvements in local SEO… Our SEO rep Ashley is INCREDIBLE. She moved the needle so much for us which in turn makes the phone ring.
AI is becoming the first place customers ask
The last time you asked ChatGPT or Google’s AI Mode for a recommendation, you probably didn’t get ten links. You got a paragraph and a handful of names. If yours isn’t one of them, that customer never sees you, page-one rankings or not.
1.2%of local businesses got recommended by ChatGPT, against 35.9% visible in Google’s local 3-pack.SOCi 2026 Local Visibility Index, ~350,000 locations
45%of consumers now use AI to find local businesses, up from 6% a year earlier.BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026
97%of AI users double-check what AI recommends against real reviews.BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026
Getting named, and holding up when the customer checks, is the job. We can help.
It happens…
AI tells someone you close at 5 when you’re open until 8. It lists a service you dropped two years ago. It names three competitors and skips you entirely, even though you outrank all three on Google.
Or even worse…
It brings up a complaint you resolved years ago as if it happened last week. Nothing newer has replaced it, so it keeps getting repeated, and to the person asking, that’s simply what AI says about you.
What we do
We find out what AI is saying about you
Before we change anything, we run the questions your customers ask through ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. More than once, and phrased a few different ways, because one lookup tells you almost nothing. Then we sort what’s said about you into positive and negative. Accurate or not doesn’t matter at this stage. The engine acts on what it picked up, not on what’s fair.
We work the negatives down
Every negative gets a target: neutral, or better. Sometimes that means replying where the complaint actually lives. Sometimes it’s a page that answers the objection head-on, or a press release that gives the engines something newer to read. And sometimes the complaint is right. If the fix is in how the business runs, we’ll say so.
We fix your Google Business Profile and entity data
For a local business this is usually the biggest lever. When we sampled local queries in Google’s AI Mode, 79.8% of its citations went to Google Maps. That makes categories, services, attributes, hours, photos and what your reviews actually say AI work now, not housekeeping. We’ve done this for over a decade, reinstatements and fake listing removal included, and we make sure your details line up on Apple Maps, Bing and the directories AI pulls from.
We get you onto the sources AI reads
There’s no universal list. The sites that feed answers for a personal injury firm aren’t the ones that feed them for an auto shop, and they shift over time. So we test your industry, map the questions you show up for and the ones you’re missing from, and work those sources. Your own site is one of them. In our research Gemini sent 59.9% of its citations to business websites, and a page a crawler can’t read doesn’t get quoted.
We keep checking, and report what actually happened
These answers don’t sit still. Ask Gemini the same question twice and in our testing it named the same top business just 7.9% of the time, against 90.2% for Google’s local pack. So we re-sample on a schedule and send a monthly report in plain English: what we did and when, what moved, and what slipped back. Give us Search Console and call tracking access and we’ll line it up against calls and form fills. A citation that never makes the phone ring isn’t a result.
We’ve got you covered
Every month we track and work on:
- What ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and AI Mode say about you
- Which competitors they name instead
- Positive and negative sentiment, issue by issue
- Google Business Profile accuracy
- Name, address, phone and hours on Apple Maps, Bing and directories
- The third-party sites AI reads in your industry
- Whether your pages can be crawled and quoted
- Calls and form fills, where tracking allows
Every engagement starts with an audit of what the engines already say about you in your market. Nothing gets changed before that.
When something slips back after an engine changes its sources, we flag it, note why, and put it back in the queue. You’ll see it in the report.
The best part
You get a Diamond Google Product Expert leading the work, and three more Product Experts on the team: Platinum, Gold and Silver. Everyone on your account is in-house.
We don’t have magic powers. Nobody can make ChatGPT recommend a business. What we can do is make you the easiest business in your market to verify, and make sure what gets verified is good.
- Ben FisherCo-founder · Diamond PE
Crystal HLSA · Platinum PE
Christine TSocial · Gold PE
Jerry WSocial · Silver PE
Have a Look at Our Plans
Depending on your needs, there are three ways to work with us.
Local businesses
Under $1,000/mo
One location or a few, $1M+ in annual revenue, already investing in SEO.
- AI answer review across engines
- Sentiment work on every negative
- Google Business Profile and entity accuracy
- Work on the sources AI reads
- Plain-English monthly report
Multi-location brands
Custom quote
For brands where one location’s reviews can drag down the answer for all of them.
- Location-level sentiment tracking
- Profile and data consistency at scale
- Fake and duplicate listing cleanup
Agencies (white label)
Custom quote
We run AI Optimization under your brand, with our research and method behind it.
- Reputation and sentiment programs
- GBP at scale, reinstatements included
- Reports you can hand straight to a client
Not a fit: pre-revenue businesses, anyone who wants a guaranteed spot in an AI answer, or anyone who wants a reputation problem hidden instead of fixed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is AI Optimization just SEO with a new name?
No, though they overlap. SEO earns a position in a list of links. AI Optimization changes what an engine believes about your business so it names you in the answer. Good SEO helps, since your website is one of the sources AI reads, but it won’t fix a bad reputation or a messy profile.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?
No, and be careful with anyone who says they can. These answers move too much to promise a position. On August 20, 2026, ChatGPT’s citations to Reddit for local queries went from 41.7% to zero overnight, while citations to business websites jumped from 15.9% to 42.8%. We commit to the work, a steady cadence, and reporting that shows what moved and what didn’t.
How long does it take?
Depends on what’s wrong. Profile fixes can move quickly. In one Google Business Profile services test we saw movement within 72 hours, and it held for more than 21 months. Sentiment repair is slower, because new signal has to build up and push the old out. The changes that move fastest are usually ones only you can approve.
Why do we show up in one AI engine but not another?
They read different sources. In our research Gemini and ChatGPT shared only 8.3% of the domains they cited, and named the same top business on 4.2% of queries. That’s normal, not a sign something is broken.
Do we need schema markup or an llms.txt file?
Schema, done properly, is worth having, and we implement it. For a local business it isn’t what wins the AI Mode answer, though. Your profile is. You can skip llms.txt: Ahrefs looked at 137,000 sites and found 97% of llms.txt files got no bot traffic at all. If either one is the main deliverable on a proposal, ask what else is on there.
Do you know what people type into ChatGPT?
No, and nobody does. There’s no keyword volume data for private conversations with a model. We build question sets from your services and industry, use People Also Ask data, and test directly in the engines. It’s a good process, and we label the result as what it is: an informed estimate.
What if what AI says about us is wrong?
We work on it either way. An engine repeats what it picked up, fair or not, and an old complaint keeps surfacing until something newer replaces it. If the complaint turns out to be accurate and keeps coming back, we’ll tell you the real fix is in the business.
Are there any hidden fees?
No. Programs start under $1,000 a month, and the scope and price are agreed before any work starts.
Figures on this page come from Steady Demand’s own research or the study named next to them. Methodology and sample sizes are in our AI & GBP research index.
- Steady Demand research, Aug 2026: Grounding Drift; Gemini vs ChatGPT; AI Overviews vs AI Mode; ChatGPT local citation tracking; GBP Custom Services test.
- SOCi, 2026 Local Visibility Index (~350,000 locations).
- BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026.
- Ahrefs, 2026 analysis of llms.txt files across 137,000 sites.
Let’s Get Started
Book a free 30-minute AI visibility review. We’ll run your customers’ questions live, see who AI names instead of you, and point out what’s worth fixing first.
Best fit: $1M+ in annual revenue and already investing in SEO. Prefer to talk first? Call 888-778-0401 or email ben@steadydemand.com.
Steady Demand did an amazing job with helping us recover our 131 Google Reviews that had disappeared earlier this year. We were devastated by the impact to the business.