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Be the answer when AI gets asked about your market.

Overview

Your future clients ask ChatGPT and Perplexity before they ever open Google. GEO makes sure those engines know, trust and cite your company.

Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring your website and content so AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews — understand, trust and cite your company in their answers. It complements classic SEO: instead of only ranking links, your company becomes part of the answer itself.

Target

For Swiss SMEs and B2B companies whose clients research providers through AI assistants: professional services, agencies, clinics, manufacturers, local commerce. If prospects ask an AI "who does X in Geneva?", GEO decides whether your name comes up.

Details

When a prospect asks ChatGPT or Perplexity who to work with, the engines compose an answer from what they know and trust. Companies that are easy for machines to understand get named; the rest are invisible — however good their classic ranking is.

We audit how AI engines see you, fix the technical and content gaps, and measure your presence in AI answers over time. It is the same GEO-first system we run on our own site, applied to yours.

Why AI answers are becoming the new first page

A growing share of buying research never reaches a results page. People ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews for a recommendation and act on the answer. If the engines don't know your company — or describe it wrong — you are absent from decisions you never see happening.

Classic SEO still matters: AI engines lean heavily on well-ranked, well-structured sources. But ranking is no longer the finish line. The finish line is being quoted, by name, in the answer.

What GEO actually involves

GEO is not a magic tag. It is a set of concrete, verifiable changes to how your site exposes information to machines and how your content answers real questions.

  • Technical layer: schema.org structured data, clean HTML served without JavaScript dependence, llms.txt, AI crawler access
  • Entity layer: consistent name, address, services and facts everywhere the engines look
  • Content layer: direct answers, FAQs and comparisons formatted so an engine can lift them accurately
  • Authority layer: sources and mentions that make engines trust what your site claims
  • Measurement: periodic checks of what each assistant answers about your market, tracked over time

We apply what we run ourselves

Our own site is built GEO-first: server-rendered structured data, llms.txt, answer boxes on every service page, entity-coherent metadata in two languages. We implement the same system for you — this is engineering work on your site and content, not a subscription to a dashboard.

The work usually starts with an audit: we query the major assistants about your market, record how you appear (or don't), and map the gaps to fixes with a priority order. Then we implement, with your team or ours.

GEO and SEO: complements, not rivals

Everything GEO requires — fast pages, clear structure, real answers, consistent facts — also strengthens classic search rankings. We treat them as one discipline: the same audit covers both, and no fix for one degrades the other. If you already invest in SEO, GEO is the natural next layer, not a replacement.

What it includes
  • GEO audit: how AI engines see and describe your company today
  • Structured data (schema.org) and entity coherence across the site
  • llms.txt and AI crawler access configuration
  • Answer-ready content: direct answers, FAQs, comparisons
  • Local visibility: being cited for Geneva and French-speaking Switzerland queries
  • Measurement: tracked AI citations and assistant visibility over time
Deliverables
  • A GEO audit: how ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews see you today, with prioritized gaps
  • Structured data and entity fixes implemented across your site
  • llms.txt and AI crawler configuration in place
  • Key pages rewritten into answer-ready format (direct answers, FAQs)
  • A measurement baseline so progress in AI visibility is provable
Takeaways
  • Buyers increasingly get one answer from an AI, not ten blue links.

  • GEO makes engines understand, trust and cite your company by name.

  • It is concrete engineering and content work — auditable, not magic.

  • Everything GEO improves also strengthens classic SEO.

  • We run our own site GEO-first and implement the same system for you.

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Frequent questions

What is GEO exactly?

Generative engine optimization: structuring your site and content so AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews understand your company and cite it in their answers. It covers technical markup (structured data, llms.txt), content formatted for extraction, and consistency of facts about your business.

How is GEO different from SEO?

SEO optimizes for a ranked list of links; GEO optimizes for being quoted inside a generated answer. The foundations overlap heavily — structure, speed, clear content — so good GEO work improves SEO too. The difference is the target: an accurate citation instead of a click.

Can you measure GEO results?

Yes, pragmatically: we snapshot what each major assistant answers for the queries that matter to you — your name, your services, "best X in Geneva" — and re-test on a schedule. Citations, accuracy of the description and presence against competitors are tracked over time.

Does GEO work for a local Swiss business?

Local is where GEO pays fastest. Assistants love unambiguous entities: a company with consistent name, address, services and reviews is easy to recommend for "near me" and city-level questions. We optimize specifically for Geneva and French-speaking Switzerland queries, in French and English.

How long before we see results?

Technical and entity fixes are picked up within weeks as engines re-crawl. Content and authority effects build over one to three months. GEO is younger and less saturated than SEO, so early movers in a niche often see their citations appear noticeably faster than a comparable SEO effort would rank.

How much does a GEO project cost?

The audit is a fixed, announced price. Implementation depends on the size of your site and how much content needs restructuring — from a focused one-off project for a small site to an ongoing content and measurement rhythm. The audit gives you the exact scope before any commitment.
Next steps

Ask the AI engines about your market. If you're not the answer, let's fix it.