B2B answer engine optimization: see what AI tells your buyers about you.
Knownstone is an answer engine optimization (AEO) agency for B2B companies. Some call it GEO or AI search optimization. We measure how often ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews name you, and we deliver the fixes as ready-to-publish files.
- Published prices, audits from $750
- Invoiced after a short scoping call
- No guaranteed-ranking promises
For a 10-person sales team, my recommendation is Sample brand, unless you also need sophisticated marketing automation…
- 1Sample brandBest overallcites own site
- 2Competitor ABest all-in-onecites own site
- 3Competitor BBest budget optioncites own site
- 4Competitor CBest for complex salescites own site
named the brand
brand’s own site
Standard coverage in every audit and monitor
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Google AI Mode
- Google AI Overviews
Why B2B buyers’ AI shortlists matter
AI answers are a new shortlist, and you can’t see it without measuring it.
Buyers ask, AI decides who’s named
“What’s the best tool for a 10-person team?” gets one answer with three to six vendors. If you’re not one of them, you never hear about the lost deal. Here’s how to get recommended by ChatGPT.
Dashboards don’t tell you what to do
Tracking tools show percentages. Most small teams need someone to explain what’s driving the answer and hand them the fix, done.
Lots of hype, little evidence
We separate what research supports from guesswork, and we tell you which is which in every recommendation.
What an audit actually shows you.
We’re new, so instead of logos and quotes we publish a real, anonymized AI visibility audit example of a well-known sales CRM (not a client). These are its numbers.
- Competitor A's own sitecited in 12 of 26
- Video platform (YouTube)cited in 9 of 26
- Sample brand's own sitecited in 8 of 26
- Discussion forum (Reddit)cited in 8 of 26
- Competitor B's own sitecited in 7 of 26
Third-party sources are where most fixes happen. See a real AI visibility audit example.
Real capture, November 2026. Names anonymized. Results vary from run to run.
Every price is on the site. No “contact us for a quote”.
AI does the capture at scale; a human checks before delivery.
Reports, CSVs, schema and drafts are yours to keep.
No analytics, ad pixels or cookies on this site.
How our AEO process works: measure, diagnose, fix
Every step is delivered as files you own.
Measure
We draft 30 buyer questions with you, then capture real answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, twice each, alongside up to 4 competitors. That’s the AI visibility audit.
Diagnose
You get your mention rate, position, which of your pages get cited, which third-party sites the engines trust, and a site-readiness check.
Fix and track
We write the schema code, answer-first page drafts and outreach list. Your team or developer publishes them. Monthly monitoring shows what moved.
What actually moves AI visibility (and what’s unproven)
Every recommendation carries a label for how much evidence supports it.
Being mentioned on sites AI already trusts
An Ahrefs study of 75,000 brands found branded web mentions were the factor most closely linked to appearing in Google’s AI Overviews (a correlation, not proof of cause). We map the review sites, lists and threads engines cite in your category.
Pages that answer the question directly
In a 2023 GEO research paper, adding clear statistics, quotations and cited sources made content up to about 40% more visible in generated answers in the researchers’ tests. We draft pages built that way.
Crawlability and structured data
Engines can’t cite what they can’t fetch. Schema markup keeps your facts consistent, but tests suggest it moves citations little on its own, so we don’t oversell it.
llms.txt
No major AI engine has confirmed using it. We include one because it costs little, and we label it as optional.
Answer engine optimization pricing at a glance
AI Visibility Audit, $750 one-time · Implementation Pack, $1,500 ($1,950 with the audit) · Monthly Monitor, $290 or $590/month. Prices are published; scope is fixed. Book a call, agree scope, get an invoice payable by bank wire or ACH.
Compare everything included in our answer engine optimization pricing →
Start with the question you’re asking
Questions B2B teams ask
Is AEO different from SEO?
It builds on SEO. Crawlable, well-structured pages still matter, but AEO also tracks what AI answers say and targets the third-party sources those answers cite.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend us?
No. Nobody can. We measure, fix what’s fixable and track the trend.
How long does an audit take?
5 business days after intake (your site, competitors and an approved question list).
Which engines?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews as standard. Others on request, reported only when we can capture them reliably.
See where you stand in AI answers.
Fixed-price audit, delivered in 5 business days after intake. Start with a short call to scope it.