Hire Citate’s GEO engineers
We were the first GEO-only agency, starting in 2023, so we have been optimizing for LLMs the whole time they have been changing. Our clients range from one of the largest private realty firms in the world to regional healthcare organizations to major law firms, and we run reputation work for leading executives. Even though we are an AI company, we put experienced humans at every stage. That is what makes generative engine optimization hold.
Why us
We had a head start. So can you.
Citate’s platform gives our forward-deployed GEO engineers an unfair advantage: day-by-day brand visibility by prompt and by industry, so we respond to a change the week it happens, not the quarter. And because we collect tens of thousands of targeted AI answers a month for every client, our team works from hundreds of the URLs and topics that actually drive those answers, not guesses.
Agency or engineers?
Three questions buyers ask us, straight answers
When do you bring in forward-deployed GEO engineers?
When you already have SEO, comms and content people and the missing layer is the AI answer itself. We do not replace your team. Our GEO engineers run the measure, fix, confirm loop inside it, in the tools you already use, so the work compounds instead of arriving as a deck once a month.
What do you get that an agency does not give you?
GEO engineers, not account managers. The people who built Citate’s method by hand before they built the tools sit inside your workflow, ship on your cadence, and re-measure every change against the prompts your buyers use. An agency reports on the answer. Our GEO engineers move it.
What should you require from any GEO vendor?
A baseline sampled thousands of times across every major model, with the sources behind each answer. A written roadmap that says which gaps to close first and what each fix should move. Human review before anything publishes. And a re-measured before and after, so you know what actually worked.
Growth without the penalty
Grow in AI search without the Google penalty
Unlike other agencies, we will not draw a Google penalty by scaling content. We work inside your team to find the information gain only your company can offer, and we publish that, because it is what stands out in an AI answer. For Wikipedia, whose influence on LLMs is outsized, we work exclusively with our sister agency WhiteHatWiki.com, the leading Wikipedia consultancy for companies.
What the team does
Six workstreams, one loop
Strategy and research
Assess AI search adoption and map opportunities across platforms. Set goals for brand, link and informational prominence, and for reputation or bias. Benchmark AI visibility, sentiment and misinformation before anything is written.
Smart content at scale
Create content that earns authority using Citate Ranked Topics and Links. Build strategies from real customer language and LLM insights, and audit existing pages into AI-friendly formats like FAQs, Q&A and lists.
Scoring and prioritization
Our scoring model turns insight into action: diagnose pages for blockers, prioritize high-impact changes by potential lift and effort, then validate progress by rescoring and updating the roadmap after each release.
External authority building
Promote content to attract high-value backlinks and industry coverage. Using Citate Ranked Links, we advise your comms team on the highest-priority trusted third-party sources to pursue for citations and mentions. Wikipedia opportunities go through our sister company, WhiteHatWiki.
Ongoing monitoring and measurement
Track AI visibility scores and rankings across LLMs. Ongoing tracking and scoring of reputational issues in Citate. Monitor AI referral traffic, sentiment and competitor performance, and refine the content and technical approach to hold top placement.
Technical optimization
Fast pages and current sitemaps for faster discovery. Make sure AI bots can access and index your site. Clean semantic HTML, JSON-LD schema and structured data, checked against the rules Google actually enforces.
The engagement
How an engagement runs
01
Baseline read
We sample the prompts your buyers actually use across every major model, thousands of times, and show you where you stand with the sources behind every answer.
02
Plan and priorities
A written roadmap: which gaps to close first, which pages to refresh, which third-party sources to pursue, and what we expect each to move.
03
Embed and execute
Our engineers work inside your team and your tools. Content, technical fixes and outreach ship on a cadence you set, with human review before anything publishes.
04
Report and confirm
Every change is re-measured. You get the before and after with receipts, not a monthly PDF, and the plan is updated from what actually moved.
Also from the team
Reputation management for people and companies
When the problem is what AI says about a name rather than a category, the same team runs a confidential reputation practice.
Ready to put GEO engineers on your account?
Tell us about your brand and we will show you what AI search says about you, and what we would do about it.