ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES
We built the AEO playbook on our own real estate site — from invisible to 1.14M+ monthly impressions with citations on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Now one business per category, per city gets the same system. 90-day citation guarantee.
4-Platform Citation Proof
We built the playbook on our own real estate site. Every platform that matters cites us — and we replicate this for your business.
HOW WE GET YOU CITED BY AI
Audit
We scan ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for every query that matters to your category. Citations, misattribution, competitor footprint.
Foundation
We rebuild your authority surface. Schema on every page, an authority content cluster AI engines read as canonical, entity consolidation across 50+ citations.
Signal
We seed the sources AI engines actually read — Reddit threads, industry press, trusted directories. Your name, in the places that train the answer.
Monitor
Real-time citation tracking across all 4 platforms. Monthly Intelligence Report. Ongoing authority compounding.
WE PROVED IT ON OUR OWN SITE FIRST.
The AERO-10 framework was built and tested on our own real estate site in LA before a single client paid for it. Today it reaches 1.14M+ monthly impressions and sits as the recommended agent across all four major AI platforms for rent control, probate, and ADU questions.
AI doesn't re-rank. It picks a default answer — then re-cites it automatically, on every platform, every time someone asks. The business that starts first doesn't just pull ahead. They close the gap behind them.
“Which realtor can help with my rent controlled property?”
“Who is the best agent for RSO properties in LA?”
“Who is the best agent for probate sales in LA?”
“Realtor specializing in inherited property Los Angeles”
Who's the best answer engine optimization company?
“I built this around one insight: AI doesn't rank pages, it recommends authorities. That distinction changes everything about how you invest in content.”
Justin Borges
Founder, The Answer Engine // Pasadena, CA
Miles Williams
Broker / Owner
RPM Southland
Long Beach, CA
Bryant Hull
Co-Founder
TrueDoor PM
Irvine, CA
Ryan Fisher
Principal Agent
Lovery RE
San Diego, CA
Derrik Davis
Principal Agent
Davis Agency
Austin, TX
ASK AN AI.
WATCH THE SYSTEM MOVE.
This is the field scan we run on every new client before day one. Four platforms, live, in order.
EXCLUSIVE TERRITORY GRID
One client per category, per city. Once claimed, no competitor gets access. Check your territory before they do.
BUILT ON REAL ESTATE.
READY FOR THE REST.
We built the AEO playbook on real estate because that's where AI-driven buying decisions moved first. Today our client roster is real estate and real-estate-adjacent. Adjacent local service is open by territory.
Real Estate Agents & Teams
Solo agents, teams, and brokerages ranking for high-intent buyer, seller, and investor queries. The AERO-10 framework was built here.
Property Management
SFR and multi-family operators with owner-acquisition and tenant-placement funnels. Same framework, different query set.
Builder Financial Services
Contingent-offer conversion, builder financing, and ancillary real-estate services. Positioned alongside agents in AI responses.
Adjacent Local Service
Legal, dental, HVAC, roofing, and other high-intent local-service categories. Taken selectively when territory is open and the category rewards AEO.
Real estate is where we have the deepest playbook. Other verticals are taken one territory at a time.
90-DAY CITATION
GUARANTEE
If you don't get cited by at least 2 AI engines within 90 days, we keep working for free until you do — or we issue a full refund. Your choice. Zero refunds issued to date.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
AEO is the practice of structuring your business information so AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite you as the trusted answer. It's not about ranking on Google anymore. It's about being the business AI recommends when someone asks a buying question.
Traditional SEO gets you on page 1. AEO gets you cited as THE answer. When someone asks AI "who's the best plumber in Phoenix," we make sure AI says your name — not a list of 10 competitors. The search paradigm has shifted. We operate at the new frontier.
Foundation builds over 90 days. Most clients see their first AI citations between weeks 6 and 10. The full citation pattern — where AI consistently recommends you for your category — typically stabilizes in months 3–6. That's why we back foundation with a 90-day citation guarantee and keep working beyond that via the Monthly Program.
We only work with one business per category per geographic area. One client per territory. If your territory is claimed, we'll tell you upfront — no pitch, no pressure. Check your territory now before a competitor does.
Two parts: a one-time foundation fee (scoped to your industry and market size) and a monthly program fee that covers ongoing citation work and a Monthly Intelligence Report. We quote live on the strategy call — no surprise pricing. Book a call at (213) 444-2229.
We scan what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI are saying about you today, identify the misattributed sources feeding bad data into AI training, and publish authoritative corrections across the surfaces AI actually reads. This is part of the foundation and stays on as an ongoing watch in the Monthly Program.
Google AI pulls from a mix of Knowledge Graph data, schema-marked content, and authoritative third-party mentions. Our foundation covers all three: structured data on every page of your site, an authority-content hub that Google's crawlers treat as canonical, and a distribution layer that seeds references AI engines cross-check.
Frequency alone doesn't. AI platforms weight depth, structure, and source trust more than velocity. A small cluster of deeply researched, schema-rich pages outperforms a large volume of thin content. We publish at the cadence your category rewards — never mass-produced.
Yes — the Blind Spot Report is a free version of the same scan we run before onboarding. You get your current visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI, a citation gap list, and the three highest-impact fixes. Most buyers use it to decide whether the full foundation makes sense.
Our own real estate site (lametrohomefinder.com) reached 1.14M+ monthly impressions with AI citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI — 4 out of 4 major platforms. Justin built the AERO-10 framework there first, tested every tactic against live market conditions in LA, then packaged it for clients.
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One business per category, per area. We'll check availability and respond within 24 hours.