Who Is AEO Excellence?
AEO Excellence is the premium platform for Agentic Engine Optimization — helping agencies, SaaS founders, and content teams earn citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
Quick Answer: AEO Excellence is a specialist consultancy and resource platform founded in 2025 to help websites get cited by AI agents instead of just ranked in traditional search. We deliver audits ($299–$599), full implementation ($799–$1,499), Pro membership ($49/mo), and agency training ($999/session).
Why did we build AEO Excellence?
By the end of 2024, we noticed a pattern across the agencies and SaaS companies we worked with: their best-performing pages were quietly losing organic traffic, even when Google rankings stayed steady. The cause was structural — AI summary features were intercepting clicks before users ever reached the SERP. Our most diligent SEO clients were getting their content used by AI agents without ever being credited.
That was the moment we decided to build AEO Excellence. We saw a brand-new discipline forming around how AI agents discover, parse, and cite web content — and almost no one was teaching it systematically. We started with a single audit framework, tested it across 800+ sites in the first year, and refined the methodology that powers everything we ship today.
What is the AEO Excellence methodology?
We deliver every engagement through a four-stage workflow built for speed and measurable outcomes.
1. Audit
30-point evaluation of your current AI discoverability across schema, llms.txt, AGENTS.md, headings, and crawler permissions.
2. Architect
We design your AEO architecture: which schema types, what direct answer blocks, where the FAQ schema should live.
3. Implement
Production-ready code, drop-in templates, and a deployment guide so your team can ship in hours rather than weeks.
4. Monitor
We track citation events across the major AI engines and report on lift, regression, and category opportunities monthly.
Who is on the team?
Elena Marquez
Founder & Head of AEO Strategy
Former technical SEO lead at two top-50 agencies. Has shipped AEO foundations for over 200 brands and authors most of our published research.
Devraj Iyer
Head of Implementation
Former platform engineer at a major SaaS. Owns the production-ready template library and oversees every implementation engagement end-to-end.
Sofia Okafor
Head of Agency Programs
15 years in agency growth and partnerships. Runs our Agency tier, white-label program, and live training sessions for partner teams.
What have we shipped so far?
Where has our work been featured?
Frequently Asked Questions About AEO Excellence
AEO Excellence was founded in 2025 by a team of former technical SEO leads and AI researchers who saw early that AI agents would replace blue-link search for a meaningful share of queries. We work with agencies, SaaS companies, and publishers worldwide.
We help websites get cited by AI agents like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Most sites that rank on Google are still invisible to AI agents — we close that gap with audits, implementation, and ongoing membership tools.
We focus exclusively on AEO. We do not sell link building, traditional keyword consulting, or generic SEO retainers. Every deliverable we ship is built from the ground up for AI agent discoverability.
A four-stage process: Audit, Architect, Implement, and Monitor. Each stage maps to a specific deliverable, and the whole engagement is designed to ship in days, not months.
We are a fully distributed team with members across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. We deliver async by default with scheduled video calls for kickoff and review.
Yes. Our Agency tier ($149/month) includes white-label materials, dedicated AEO advisor access, and three audits per month included. Many digital agencies resell AEO Excellence as a productized service.
The fastest path is a free homepage audit (24-hour turnaround) or signing up for the free tier to access our quick-start checklist and llms.txt template. From there, most clients move into a paid audit or Pro membership.
Yes. Pro and Agency members get access to our full case study library covering SaaS, e-commerce, agency, and publisher implementations with before-and-after citation metrics.
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