AEO Services

AEO services: the work, with receipts

Most AEO services end at a report. Sonarvue closes the loop: track the buyer prompts, diagnose the miss to the cited page, ship the fix, then rerun the same prompt on the same engine to prove the answer moved. Agent-led, approval-gated, $249/mo instead of a $2-5k retainer.

What honest AEO services include

  • Monitoring with a memory. A fixed prompt set, rerun weekly on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google, with every answer and citation stored so movement is auditable.
  • Diagnosis to a source. When you are missing from an answer, the useful output is the page the engine cited instead, classified as owned, earned, or platform.
  • On-site work. Content briefs, drafts, schema, internal links, and crawl fixes on the pages the answers lean on.
  • Off-site work. Editorial placements and earned citations on the third-party pages the engines actually lean on, which carry more citation weight than your own site.
  • Verification. A before/after capture per fix, the same prompt on the same engine, so claims survive a board meeting.

How Sonarvue delivers it

The agent runs the loop with you approving at the gates: it audits answers and citations daily for drift, proposes the work ranked by which cited page it changes, drafts the fixes, and re-probes after each ship. You read the evidence and approve, rather than waiting on a monthly deck.

Compared with the going AEO retainer, the differences are structural: execution is attached to the evidence instead of attached to a report, and the same system that measures the answer does the work, so attribution is built in. Where your team wants to run the program itself, the Starter plan covers monitoring and the evidence trail at $99/mo.

AEO services FAQ

What are AEO services?

AEO services are the work of getting a brand named and cited inside AI-generated answers: monitoring buyer prompts, diagnosing why an answer misses the brand, shipping the fixes on-site and off-site, and rerunning the same prompt to prove the movement.

What should AEO services include?

At minimum: a fixed prompt set on every engine your buyers use, stored verbatim answers with citations, on-site fixes the cited pages point to, and earned third-party citations the engines lean on. A report without evidence storage and execution is not a service.

How much do AEO services cost?

Traditional AEO retainers run $2,000 to $5,000 per month and above. Sonarvue's Growth plan is $249/mo for agent-led delivery with approval gates, and the Starter plan at $99/mo covers running the program in-house.

Can an agent replace an AEO agency?

For a large share of the work, yes: the agent drafts briefs, applies schema, fixes crawl issues, places internal links, and tracks evidence with every decision logged. You approve what ships. Where judgement matters most, like which third-party page to earn a citation on, uses the same evidence trail.

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