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AI SEO Agency for Technical B2B Companies
Get your company named when technical buyers ask AI which vendors belong on the shortlist.
BillWordy finds the buying questions that quietly exclude you, builds the evidence answer engines can retrieve, and measures whether your brand and pages begin appearing. The same work strengthens traditional search instead of creating a second, disconnected programme.
Enter the shortlist before the buyer visits a website
See where you disappear
Know which buyer questions omit your company, which competitors appear, and which sources shape the answer.
Become easier to recommend
Publish specific, sourced passages that make your product, category, evidence, and best-fit use cases clear.
Measure visibility that analytics misses
Track brand mentions, cited URLs, competitors, and answer changes across a fixed set of commercial prompts.
How the work creates the outcome
See what changes, how it is built, and where the evidence comes from—without wading through a strategy manual.
Get named when buyers ask AI for a shortlist
AI search optimization is not a new label for publishing more articles. It is the work of making an entity and its evidence easy for retrieval systems to identify, quote, compare, and trust.
- Answer engine optimization vs generative engine optimization
- Why ranking and being cited are different outcomes
See the losses your analytics cannot record
A buyer asks an AI system for a shortlist. Your company is not named.
- How technical buyers shortlist in 2026
- Why traffic can look healthy while pipeline thins
What a live citation result looks like
DataStealth is an enterprise data-security vendor whose buyers are CISOs and compliance leaders. The result came from building technically precise, interconnected assets—not from paid distribution or a burst of generic AI output.
- Where the work started
- What was built for passage-level retrieval
- What the numbers show
- The buyer prompt hidden in the top query
Build evidence AI systems can retrieve
The mechanism is deliberately inspectable because the category is full of claims that cannot be falsified. Every engagement starts with a prompt set, an evidence baseline, and a map of the sources already shaping the answer.
- Passage-level structure
- Entity disambiguation and machine-readable identity
- Comparison and alternatives content
- Citation tracking month over month
Use AI for leverage without outsourcing judgement
AI made content cheap to produce and expensive to get right. Generation was never the bottleneck.
- What AI is good at here
- What remains accountable human work
Know exactly when this engagement fits
The fit is technical B2B where buyers research before contacting sales and a shortlist can form before the company sees a session: cybersecurity, defence, aerospace, manufacturing, industrial and capital equipment, and B2B SaaS.
- A good fit
- What the six-week quarterly build delivers
- Where BillWordy is not the right fit
A live AI-search result—not a forecast
DataStealth provides direct evidence for this service. The figures below are observed in Semrush and are dated so you can distinguish the result from a projection.
DataStealth pages cited by AI engines
Semrush · 20 Aug 2026
Pages cited in Google AI Mode
Semrush · 20 Aug 2026
US organic pages ranking, up 54%
Semrush · 20 Aug 2026
Paid search spend behind the result
Semrush · 20 Aug 2026
What these figures support: DataStealth built a substantial organic footprint and appeared across multiple AI-answer surfaces without paid search spend. What they do not prove: that every citation was caused by one tactic, that an AI engine will preserve the same answer, or that visibility automatically became revenue. That boundary matters. The engagement therefore starts with a fixed prompt and citation baseline, records the sources shaping each answer, and reports qualified enquiries beside visibility. You can see whether the company is entering more commercially relevant answers without turning a volatile screenshot into a guarantee.
Choose the smallest engagement that solves the problem
Start with the fixed strategy and quarterly build when the annual direction and next quarter both need to exist. Move directly to ongoing production, fractional ownership, or a defined sprint when the scope is already known. Ongoing work has a three-month minimum.
Content strategy + quarterly build
$4,500 fixedSix weeks. Audit up to 200 URLs, set the annual plan, and receive 24 publish-ready technical articles.
Content engine
$6,000–$12,000/moOngoing production, optimization, repurposing, and measurement.
Fractional content lead
$9,000–$18,000/moSenior ownership of strategy, calendar, team, standards, and reporting.
Project sprint
$12,000–$35,000A defined pillar build, search remediation, launch, or site content rebuild.
Primary references used to check the claims
- OpenAI: ChatGPT search
- Perplexity: citations and sources
- Schema.org Organization
- Google robots meta and preview controls
- Semrush AI visibility documentation
- Google Search Essentials
- Google guidance on helpful, reliable content
- Google structured data guidelines
- Google Search documentation for AI features
- Schema.org Service
- Schema.org FAQPage
- Semrush SEO Writing Assistant documentation
Next Direct assessment
Run the category’s shortlist questions
Send the category, ideal customer, and competitors most often winning the deal. BillWordy will run the buying questions across the major answer engines and show where the company appears, where it disappears, and which sources the engines trust instead.
If the material does not support a useful diagnosis, BillWordy will say so.
Practical questions before you decide
Check the method, timing, scope, cost, and fit without booking a call first.
01What is an AI SEO agency?
An AI SEO agency makes a company easier to retrieve, understand, and cite in AI-generated answers while preserving traditional search visibility. The work combines technical SEO, passage-level writing, entity disambiguation, comparison content, primary-source citations, and measurement across Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
02What is the difference between AEO and GEO?
Answer engine optimization structures information so a system can return a direct answer. Generative engine optimization improves the probability that a brand, product, or source appears inside a synthesized response. The methods overlap: both require clear entities, retrievable passages, trustworthy citations, and technically sound pages that search engines can crawl.
03How do you get cited by ChatGPT?
ChatGPT citations are earned by publishing passages that answer a real buyer question clearly, identify the relevant entities, support claims with primary sources, and sit on a technically accessible site. No provider can guarantee a citation. The practical method is to map shortlist prompts, build the missing evidence, and track answers repeatedly over time.
04How is AI search visibility measured?
AI search visibility is measured with a fixed prompt set run across major answer engines, recording brand mentions, cited URLs, citation share, competitors named, and answer changes by date. That report sits beside organic rankings, non-brand clicks, ranking-page count, and qualified enquiries. AI referrals alone miss the shortlists that produce no click.
05Does AI search optimization replace traditional SEO?
AI search optimization does not replace traditional SEO. Crawlability, indexing, internal links, authority, and useful pages remain the technical foundation. AI search adds a second outcome: being retrieved and cited when the answer is assembled. A sound engagement builds one asset to rank in search and to survive passage-level retrieval.
06How long does it take to get cited by AI engines?
A technically healthy site can begin earning new AI citations within 60 to 120 days, but timing varies by category, authority, crawl frequency, and the quality of the evidence published. BillWordy measures a fixed prompt set from the start, so progress is visible even when an engine changes the exact URLs it cites.
07What does an AI SEO engagement cost?
BillWordy’s fixed Content Strategy + Quarterly Build costs $4,500 over six weeks and includes 24 publish-ready articles. Ongoing content and AI-search work runs $6,000 to $12,000 per month. A fractional content lead runs $9,000 to $18,000 per month. Defined project sprints run $12,000 to $35,000.
08Can you show a result rather than a projection?
Yes. DataStealth has 223 pages cited by AI engines: Google AI Mode 112, ChatGPT 75, AI Overviews 46, and Gemini 18. It also has 117 US organic pages ranking, 1,300 organic keywords, 491 referring domains, and zero paid search spend. Source: Semrush, 20 August 2026.