When your buyers ask AI, your name should come up.
People used to Google you. Now they ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini who to hire before they ever reach your site. Siteway's senior team structures your proof, claims, entity data, and FAQs so those engines can read you, trust you, and name you, then tracks how they surface your business across 4 to 5 engines and 25 to 150 prompts inside the client dashboard you get. This is the team doing the work for you, with the dashboard included so you can watch the same numbers we do.
Your buyers already asked an AI. You weren't the answer.
A growing share of buying decisions now start inside an AI. Someone types your category into ChatGPT, asks Perplexity for the best provider, or has Gemini compare their options, and the engine returns a short list of named businesses. A Google page shows ten options. An AI answer names one to three. We work to make one of them you. If you aren't on that list, you never enter the conversation. You don't lose a competitive deal. You lose the chance to compete at all, and you never see the ones that slipped past.
Traditional SEO was built to win a page of blue links. AI search works differently. The engines read your content, extract your claims, weigh your credibility against alternatives, and synthesize one recommendation. Getting named is not about keywords or backlinks. It is about whether an engine can confidently understand who you are, what you do, who you serve, and why you are the right answer, then repeat that to a buyer with confidence.
Most businesses are invisible here for a fixable reason. Their proof is scattered, their claims are vague, their entity data is incomplete, and their FAQs do not answer the questions buyers actually ask an AI. The information an engine needs to cite you already exists. It is just not structured in a way the engine can read and trust.
What managed AI search actually means
We do all of it. You do not configure a tool, write FAQ schema, or interpret a citation report. A senior team takes ownership of how the AI engines see your business, across 4 to 5 engines and 25 to 150 prompts depending on tier, and improves it month after month, then shows you the results in plain language inside your client dashboard.
AI search is one stage of the funnel Siteway runs for you. As the single stage on Assist ($3,500/mo) we run it end to end on its own with up to 25 prompts tracked. On Accelerate ($6,500/mo, 4 engines and 75 prompts) and Ascend ($11,500/mo, 5 engines and 150 prompts) it runs in full alongside your conversion-first build, Google foundation, and lead capture, so the businesses an AI recommends also load fast, rank on Google, and turn the resulting attention into qualified pipeline.
- ✓Entity and proof structuring: we map your business as a clear, consistent entity (what you do, who you serve, where, and what makes you credible) so engines stop guessing and start naming you.
- ✓Claims and authority signals: we sharpen vague positioning into specific, defensible claims an engine can attribute to you and repeat with confidence.
- ✓AI-ready FAQs: we research the exact questions buyers ask an engine in your category, then answer them in a quotable, structured format engines pull from directly.
- ✓Structured data and schema: organization, product, service, and FAQ schema so machines parse your pages correctly, not approximately.
- ✓Competitor benchmarking, tracking, and reporting: your dashboard tracks how and where ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini surface you over time against named rivals, reported against sourced pipeline, not vanity scores.
How we do it: Diagnose, Build, Optimize
Every engagement follows the same three-step process, and AI search is woven through each one. You are typically live in about three weeks from kickoff.
- ✓Diagnose: we audit how the AI engines describe you today, where they name competitors, and which questions you are absent from. You get a ranked list of the gaps that cost you the most, highest impact first, in days.
- ✓Build: we structure your entity data, rewrite claims into defensible proof, engineer AI-ready FAQs, and ship the schema, all alongside the conversion and Google work, so it launches as one connected funnel.
- ✓Optimize: AI engines change constantly. Every month we run experiments against how they surface you, expand the questions you win, and report citation growth against qualified pipeline, so progress is measured, not assumed.
Measured against pipeline, never vanity metrics
AI search is only worth doing if it produces revenue, so we report it that way. We track which engines name you, for which questions, and how that attention turns into named, qualified conversations, surfaced in your own client dashboard rather than a slide we control.
Across engagements, AI answers typically grow into a meaningful share of sourced pipeline, representatively around 38%. That number is a direction of travel, not a promise. It compounds as the engines learn to trust your business and as we expand the questions you are the answer to. When AI search runs alongside conversion, lead capture, and Google on Accelerate or Ascend, the buyers an engine sends you land on pages built to turn them into pipeline, not pages that leak them away.
Who this is for
Managed AI search is built for companies that sell something considered, where buyers research before they commit and increasingly start that research inside an AI. If your prospects ask an engine for a recommendation and you are not in the answer, the cost is invisible but real.
We run on a deliberately small client list so one senior team can go deep on each account rather than spread thin. Run AI search as the single stage on Assist ($3,500/mo, up to 25 prompts), or get it in full as part of the funnel on Accelerate ($6,500/mo, 4 engines and 75 prompts) and Ascend ($11,500/mo, 5 engines and 150 prompts). Enterprise is available for teams that need it scaled across brands or locations. Every engagement starts with a complimentary audit of your current site, covering Google, AI search, and conversion, that delivers a ranked findings report, your dashboard, and a prioritized 90-day plan you keep, whether or not we work together.
Frequently asked questions
AI search is the practice of structuring your business so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini can read, trust, and name you when buyers ask them for a recommendation. It is sometimes called answer-engine optimization (AEO). Where SEO competes for a ranking on a page of links, AI search competes to be the named answer an engine synthesizes and repeats. It works by organizing your proof, claims, entity data, and FAQs into a form machines can parse and attribute to you with confidence.
We optimize for the engines your buyers actually use: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, with Google AI Overviews added on Ascend, across 25 to 150 prompts depending on tier. We structure your proof, claims, entity data, and FAQs so each engine can understand and name your business, then track how and where they surface you over time in your client dashboard. Because the underlying signals (clear entity data, defensible claims, quotable answers, clean schema) are what every engine relies on, the work compounds as new engines emerge.
We track which engines name you, for which questions, and how that attention converts into named, qualified conversations, all reported in your client dashboard against sourced pipeline rather than a vanity score. Across engagements, AI answers typically grow into a meaningful share of sourced pipeline, representatively around 38%. That is a direction of travel that compounds over time, not a guaranteed figure, and you can watch it move in real numbers, not slogans.
Managed engagements are typically live in about three weeks from kickoff, and the complimentary audit surfaces fixable AI-search gaps within days. AI-search visibility then compounds over the following months as engines re-crawl your structured content and learn to trust your business as a credible entity. When AI search runs alongside conversion and lead capture on Accelerate or Ascend, you often see qualified pipeline gains from the traffic you already have while citations build. We work to make you one of the one to three names an AI returns, never a guaranteed placement.
On Accelerate and Ascend, AI search ships as part of a conversion-first build, so your pages are engineered from the ground up to be both citable and high-converting. We can also apply the entity structuring, claims work, FAQ engineering, and schema to an existing site, which is exactly what Assist does when AI search is your single stage. Either way the goal is the same: an engine that can confidently understand and recommend you, sending buyers to pages built to convert them.
Far less than you would expect. A senior team handles the research, entity structuring, claims, FAQs, schema, and monthly optimization end to end. Your job is to know your business, join a few short calls, and approve the work. Most clients spend a few hours up front, then read a monthly report in their dashboard showing how the engines surface them and what it sourced in pipeline.
Be the answer, not the runner-up.
Every day, buyers ask an AI who to hire in your category, and right now the answer may be a competitor. Start an audit of your current site. You keep the ranked findings report, your client dashboard, and a prioritized 90-day plan either way. We will show you exactly how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini see you today and the first moves to get named. We run on a small client list, so when capacity is full new clients join a short waitlist.
A complimentary audit of your current site. Yours to keep.