Why Your Customers Ask AI Before They Even Open Google
Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews for recommendations before they click a blue link. Instead of ten results and several tabs, they get one answer naming a handful of brands, then they call one of them. If your business is not in that answer, the buying journey ends before it starts.
Ranking Well Is Not the Same as Being Cited
Ranking first in Google no longer guarantees anything. Google AI Overviews and assistants such as ChatGPT cite a small set of trusted sources, and a page that outranks every competitor can still be left out. Our free AI visibility check shows within two working days whether assistants name you.
What Our AI Search Optimisation Service Includes
Enigma Media delivers generative engine optimisation as a complete service. Here is what that includes.
An Audit Built on Real Buyer Questions AI Actually Gets
Before we change anything, we measure. We take real buyer questions, the prompts customers actually type into ChatGPT and Perplexity before spending, never vanity prompts, and run them through every major assistant in every language you trade in. Then we document who gets cited, how often, and why. If competitors take a share of AI answers that should be yours, the audit shows exactly where.
The audit covers:
- Buyer prompts: tested on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, per language
- Citation share: your rate versus competitors per assistant
- Competitor wins: which sources cited rivals lean on
- Technical blockers: anything stopping AI crawlers
From the audit we build answer-ready pages: each answers one buyer question fully, in self-contained passages AI can quote verbatim, the core of answer engine optimisation. Then the technical layer: schema markup, Organisation, FAQPage, Product, Review, helps engines read your business details accurately, and entity consistency with Wikidata strengthens E-E-A-T. We also manage crawler access through llms.txt and permissions for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, set up by hand, never by template plugin.
Consistent Mentions Across the Sources AI Trusts Most
AI assistants verify your details across dozens of sources before they ever cite you. Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cross-check your site against directories, Wikidata and press coverage, so any mismatch in your name, address or phone number lowers your chance of being named. We make your details identical everywhere, then earn real third-party mentions through white-hat digital PR on pages these engines already cite, no bought listings, no fake reviews.
We also track results. Our platform measures your share of answers separately for ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity, and for each language, with reports every two weeks throughout the contract.
Request our free AI visibility check, and we'll show you where you stand within two working days.
Our Results: Brands That AI Answers Now Cite
Each case below shows Google AI Overviews citing a client we built and optimised.
A Multilingual Tourism Site Cited Across Languages
Our favourite proof point is exploresamos.com, a multilingual tourism site we built for a Samos travel company. When people ask Google how to get around Samos, its AI Overviews cite the site again and again, in many languages, covering buses, transfers and car hire. This year the site brought in about 100 private-tour requests and hundreds of transfer bookings.
A Thessaloniki Cleaner Google's AI Recommends
AI answers are not just for big brands. skgclean.gr, a cleaning company in Thessaloniki, is a small local business, yet Google's AI Overview cites it by name when people ask about cleaning services in the city. Alongside that citation, the site ranks #1 in Google for its main local searches, and the phone rings with up to 16 requests a day.
The same pattern works for our network of airport-transfer websites: Google's AI Overview names them as providers for transfers to Halkidiki resorts. If you want to know whether AI already mentions your brand, ask us for a free AI visibility check.
GEO and AEO in Plain Words
GEO, generative engine optimisation, makes AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini discover, trust and cite your brand. AEO, answer engine optimisation, structures your pages so they answer buyer questions directly, whether in a featured snippet or Copilot. We never abandon the SEO that already works: search-based AI answers draw on pages search engines can find, so we run all three together, tuned to where your buyers actually ask.
| SEO | AEO | GEO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank pages | Answer questions directly | Get cited by AI engines |
| Main tactics | Content, links, technical SEO | Structured, self-contained answers | Citations, schema, authority |
| Results appear in | Blue links | Featured answers | AI chat citations |
How We Work With Clients Step by Step
We start with a free AI visibility check, delivered within two working days. You receive a proposal with a forecast before paying anything. Once we begin, our team in Thessaloniki reports every two weeks, in Greek, English or Russian, so you see exactly what changed. The minimum engagement is six months with one month's notice, white-hat methods only. Our starting price is €300 a month excluding VAT, with no hidden extras.
What Affects the Price of AI Search Optimisation Services
Engagements start from €300 a month excluding VAT, a fraction of the agency retainers elsewhere that often run into thousands. The price reflects scope: the number of languages and markets, how competitive your buyer prompts are, how many prompts we track, and the volume of content required. After your free check we give you an honest forecast, no invented package tiers.
Get a Free AI Visibility Check and See Where You Stand Today
Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews the exact question your next customer would ask, and see whether your brand appears in the answer.
Or skip the queue: send us your site and our team, based in Thessaloniki and Athens, will run a free AI visibility check within 2 working days. You receive a proposal with a forecast before any payment.
Send us your website today, and we will show you exactly where you stand.
