What is the difference between AEO services and SEO services?

SEO services aim for a ranking position in Google search results. AEO services aim for your business to be the answer an AI assistant gives. The two overlap in technical health and content quality, but AEO adds question-led structure, answer-first writing, schema markup and off-site mentions that AI models weigh heavily.

What are AI visibility services?

AI visibility services measure and improve how often AI tools mention your business when people ask questions in your category. Pemba tracks citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews and applies the fixes that raise that rate.

How much do answer engine optimization services cost?

Agencies typically charge US$1,500 to US$5,000 a month. Pemba runs answer engine optimization as a subscription: US$97/mo for audits, tracking and a monthly action list, US$347/mo with the work implemented on your site, and US$697/mo for up to five sites.

Can I see whether AEO is working?

Yes. Your monthly report shows the citation rate for each tracked question, which competitors were named instead, and the AI visibility score for every page, month over month.

Does Pemba work with my website platform?

Automatic publishing currently supports WordPress and Shopify. On other platforms Pemba delivers the finished content and schema for your developer to paste in, or you can start on the Reports plan.

AEO services

Answer engine optimization services, done for you every month.

Pemba's answer engine optimization service finds the questions your customers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI, measures whether you are the answer, and rewrites, structures and publishes your content until you are. Flat monthly price, no agency retainer, no briefs to write.

Last updated 3 September 2026 · By the Pemba team

What is an answer engine optimization service?

An answer engine optimization service is ongoing work that makes your business the answer AI assistants give. Where SEO targets a position in Google's blue links, AEO targets the single answer ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode return when someone asks a question your business can solve.

In practice that means four recurring jobs: finding the exact questions buyers ask, checking whether AI currently names you when it answers them, rewriting pages so each answer is short, direct and easy for a model to lift, and adding the structured data (FAQPage, Service, Organization schema) that tells AI what your business is and does.

What does Pemba do each month?

1.Monthly AI visibility audit. Every page is scored on the signals AI models use to pick sources: question-led headings, answer-first paragraphs, schema coverage, entity clarity, freshness and third-party credibility.
2.Citation tracking. Pemba samples the questions that matter to your business against ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI and records whether you are mentioned, who is mentioned instead, and how that changes month to month.
3.Content written for extraction. On Full Implementation and Growth, Pemba writes a blog post and FAQ content each month, structured so the first paragraph under each heading stands alone as a citation, and publishes it to your WordPress or Shopify site.
4.Schema and on-page fixes applied. FAQPage, Organization and Service schema, title and meta updates, internal links and llms.txt are implemented on your site rather than listed in a report you have to action.
5.Off-site mention drafts. A YouTube script, a Reddit answer and an outreach pitch each month, because AI models cite YouTube and Reddit more than any other source in most categories.

Who are AEO services for?

Pemba is built for owner-led businesses: consultants, clinics, trades, agencies, local services and small software companies where the owner is also the marketing department. If a prospect asks ChatGPT "who is the best osteopath in Richmond" or "which bookkeeper works with tradies" and the answer never names you, that is the gap this service closes.

It is not built for enterprise brands that need a team of analysts and a US$400/mo monitoring dashboard. Those tools exist. Pemba's job is the doing.

What is an AEO agency, and how is Pemba different?

An AEO agency sells the same outcome through people: a strategist, a writer, a developer and a monthly retainer that typically starts at US$1,500 to US$5,000. The work is good when the team is good, and slow when they are busy.

Pemba runs the same loop as software with a human check on the output. The audit, the tracking, the writing and the implementation happen on a fixed schedule whether or not anyone remembers to chase them. The price is fixed too: US$97 for reports and tracking, US$347 with the work implemented, US$697 for up to five sites.

✓Agency: monthly strategy call, content calendar, invoices. Pemba: it runs.
✓Agency: reports you read and then assign. Pemba: fixes already applied by the time the report lands.
✓Agency: retainer from US$1,500/mo. Pemba: from US$97/mo, cancel any time.

How long does answer engine optimization take to work?

On-page changes show up in Google AI Overviews within four to eight weeks, because Overviews draw on Google's live index. ChatGPT and Perplexity take longer, usually two to three months, as they lean on their own crawls and on third-party mentions. Pemba's monthly report shows the citation rate moving so you can see the trend before it becomes leads.

Which plan includes AEO?

✓Reports, US$97/mo. Monthly AI visibility audit, weekly SEO audit, citation tracking on 5 questions, prioritised action list. You or your developer do the work.
✓Full Implementation, US$347/mo. Everything in Reports, plus Pemba writes, structures and publishes the content, applies the schema and on-page fixes, and drafts the off-site mentions.
✓Growth, US$697/mo. Full Implementation doubled: two posts a month, citation tracking on 15 questions, up to five websites, and a monthly deep audit per site.