An AEO Consultancy

Every yes begins with an answer. Make sure it's yours.

Your customers are asking AI who to trust, what to buy, and where to go. Fernwell Media Group measures who gets named, who gets cited, and who gets left out. We show you where you stand, why competitors are taking your place in the answer, and what needs to change.

1B
people now use ChatGPT every month, the fastest app ever to get there
Sensor Tower via Reuters, 2026
68%
of US Google searches now end without a click
SparkToro/Similarweb, 2026
8%
of ChatGPT citations overlap with Google's top results
Ahrefs Brand Radar, 2026
+35%
more organic clicks for brands cited in AI Overviews
Seer Interactive, 2025

See how an AI engine sees you

Start with the first question every AI visibility strategy has to answer: can an engine actually read you? Run a free, single-page scan for legibility and citability. No account. No email.

One page, read the way an AI crawler reads it. You get an eligibility check for each engine, from that engine’s own published rules, and two scores: Legibility, how well a machine can read you, and Citability, whether the page carries what a citation needs. Namability, who gets named in the answer, is the audit.

What is Answer Engine Optimization?

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of making you understandable, citable, and nameable by the AI engines answering your customers’ questions. Where SEO competes for rankings, AEO competes for inclusion in the answer.

AI engines need to understand who you are before they can cite you. A readable website alone doesn’t put you in the answer. AEO connects the pieces through information architecture: clear entity information, structured data that machines can parse, and content built around real questions. This site puts those principles into practice, from the information you see to the markup underneath it. View the source code, and you'll see the method for sale.

How does an AEO engagement work?

Measure where you stand. Fix what’s holding you back. Monitor what happens next. You decide how far you want to go, and you keep all deliverables.

1

Measure

We ask the questions your customers actually ask across leading AI engines and measure who gets named, who gets cited, and who gets left out. Then we benchmark your namability against the competitors who are taking your place in the answer.

2

Fix

We fix what prevents engines from understanding and using you: schema markup, entity inconsistencies, underperforming information architecture, and content that obscures the answers they need.

3

Monitor

We build for the questions your market is asking, and we continue to measure the answers. You see if your share of AI answers is growing, where competitors are gaining ground, and what to do next.

Services

Start with measurement. Fix what the data reveals. Monitor as the answer environment changes. Or bring the method in-house.

Measure

AI Visibility Audit

Find out whether AI names you, who it names instead, and why. We test the questions your customers actually ask across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, benchmark your namability against competitors, and deliver a prioritized list of fixes.

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Fix

AEO Sprint

We turn the audit into the stuff engines need: structured data, entity consistency, information architecture, and answer-first rewrites of the pages most likely to shape AI answers about you.

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Monitor

AI Visibility Monitoring

We continue testing the questions that matter in your market across leading AI engines and track namability, citation share, and competitor movement over time. You see what changed, what didn't, and what to do next.

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Bring it in-house

Team Enablement

Workshops and advisory for marketing teams and agencies that want to build AEO capability in-house. We’ll teach the framework, measurement, and implementation. Your team keeps the method.

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Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between AEO and SEO?
SEO optimizes for visibility in ranked search results. AEO optimizes for inclusion in AI-generated answers. Strong SEO helps engines find you, but it does not guarantee they will understand, cite, or name you. AEO builds on this foundation with entity definition, structured data, information architecture, answer-first content, and direct measurement of AI answers.
How do I know if AI engines are naming me?
Ask the questions your customers actually ask and measure who gets named, who gets cited, and who gets left out. A single prompt tells you very little. A repeatable benchmark across engines, questions, and competitors measures your namability and shows who is taking your place in the answer. This is what the AI Visibility Audit does.
How long does AEO take to work?
There isn’t a universal timeline. Technical changes can appear as engines recrawl, while changes in namability and citation share can take longer and vary by engine. This is why we keep testing the same questions after changes are made. Monitoring shows what moved, what didn’t, and what to do next.
Do I need AEO if I already invest in SEO?
Probably. Strong SEO gives AEO a better foundation, but it does not answer the same question. SEO tells you whether people can find you in search results. AEO tells you whether an engine understands, cites, and names you when it answers that question. An audit shows whether there is actually a gap before you invest in fixing one.

About Fernwell Media Group

Fernwell Media Group is an answer engine optimization consultancy built around measurement, implementation, and transparency. We help you understand how AI engines see you, fix what prevents them from using you in answers, and measure the difference these changes make.

We don’t ask you to take our word for it. We show you what we measure, how we measure it, and what the results mean. You see where you stand, what needs to change, and the difference the work makes.

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Fernwell Media Group

Does AI name you?

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