Rank on Google. Get cited by AI.
AI SEO Agency
Cognautic is an AI SEO agency in both senses: we use AI systems to do SEO — content, technical fixes, schema, and internal links at software speed, every piece human-edited — and we optimize your business for AI search, earning citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews. Built on your own accounts, one build fee plus a flat monthly, and a dashboard you own.
Search changed
The way customers search changed. Most sites didn’t.
AI Overviews answer before the links
Google now answers many searches at the top of the page, in its own words, citing a handful of sources. For those queries, the AI Overview gets read first — and the links below it split what's left.
Buyers ask chatbots who to hire
A growing share of buying research now starts in ChatGPT or Perplexity: best option, who to hire, what it should cost. If those models can't find structured, trustworthy information about your business, you're simply not in the answer.
Ranking #1 isn't the finish line anymore
You can hold the top organic spot and still lose the customer who never scrolled past the AI answer. The new goal is both: rank in the links and be the source the answer engines cite.
What we do
SEO done at software speed — for Google and for AI.
Technical SEO and site speed
Crawl errors, broken links, slow pages, missing metadata — found and fixed by automated audits that run continuously, not once a quarter. Fast, clean sites are the floor for both rankings and citations.
A content engine, not a content mill
AI drafts pages and posts around the questions your buyers actually search; a human edits every piece for accuracy, specifics, and your voice before it publishes. Entity-rich and useful — because that's what ranks.
Answer engine optimization (AEO)
Citable answer blocks, FAQ schema, llms.txt, and consistent entity signals — so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews can find you, parse you, and cite you when buyers ask.
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Your profile, categories, reviews, and photos kept complete and current, plus consistent name-address-phone across directories — the signals that decide who shows up in the map pack and in near-me AI answers.
Schema and structured data
Organization, Service, FAQ, and review markup that tells machines exactly what you do, where, and for whom. Invisible to visitors; decisive for the engines that summarize you.
Reporting tied to leads, not traffic
One dashboard: rankings, AI citations, traffic, and — the part that matters — the calls, forms, and booked work that search produced. If leads don't move, we change the plan.
Search is one system inside a larger engine: the same content and data feed our AI marketing agency work, and it’s one of the AI automation services we build and run. The free consult includes a fixed price for your site.
How AEO works
How we get answer engines to cite you.
We practice what we build: our plain-language AI answers hub — starting with what AI automation is — is written exactly this way. Four things make a page citable, and we build all four.
Every key page leads with a direct, quotable answer — the format AI Overviews and chatbots lift verbatim.
Schema markup on every page tells the engines what you do, where you serve, and what things cost.
Consistent business information on your site, directories, and profiles — so models are confident you're real.
Updated dates, real numbers, and first-hand specifics. Engines cite sources that look maintained and true.
AI SEO agency FAQs
An AI SEO agency uses AI systems to do search engine optimization — drafting content, fixing technical issues, building schema and internal links at software speed — and optimizes clients for AI search engines like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews. Cognautic does both: AI drafts, humans edit, and results are measured in leads, not traffic. One build fee, then a flat monthly.
Answer engine optimization is the practice of making your content citable by AI systems that answer questions directly — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews. It means writing definition-first answers those engines can quote, adding structured data machines can parse, and building entity signals across the web. Traditional SEO earns rankings; AEO earns citations — and a growing share of buyers never click a link.
Yes — when it's edited and useful. Google's guidance is explicit: it rewards helpful content regardless of how it's produced and penalizes unedited mass-generated pages. Cognautic uses AI to research and draft at speed, then a human edits every page for accuracy, first-hand specifics, and your voice before it publishes. The AI provides the speed; the editing is what makes it rank.
AI assistants recommend businesses they can find, parse, and trust. That means consistent entity information across your site, directories, and reviews; pages that answer buying questions in quotable, definition-first form; structured data; and mentions on sources the models already trust. There's no paid placement — you earn citations the way you earn rankings. Cognautic builds this into every AI SEO engagement.
Cognautic charges a fixed one-time build fee for the initial technical, schema, and content work, then a flat monthly starting at $495 to run the engine — publishing, optimization, and reporting. Traditional SEO agencies typically charge $1,500–$5,000 per month for a slower, manual version of the same work. The free consult includes the exact price for your site.
Expect three to six months for meaningful Google rankings on a new site — anyone promising page one in weeks is guessing or spamming. AI citations can move faster, because answer engines pull from fresh, well-structured pages, not just aged authority. Technical fixes and local SEO often show results in weeks. We report progress monthly, measured in leads and booked work.
Free consult
Find out where you show up — and where you don’t.
Tell us about your business and book a free consult. We’ll check where you rank today, whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews mention you, what the answer engines say about your competitors, and hand you a written plan with a fixed price — no obligation.