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These are all names for one shift: people ask AI for answers instead of scrolling ten blue links. The AI gives one synthesized answer and recommends specific businesses. Either you're in it or you're invisible.
Structuring content so engines can extract direct answers.
Getting cited inside AI-generated responses like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
How AI models understand and talk about your brand as an entity.
The catch-all umbrella term most non-technical owners search for.
Whatever you call it, the question is the same: when someone asks AI a question you should be the answer to, are you? Most owners have never checked. Read our guide to AI SEO.
Comprehensive solutions designed to drive your business forward with cutting-edge technology and proven strategies.
A proven methodology that ensures successful project delivery and exceptional results.
Fill out the short form below with your website and market. We reply within one business day to confirm scope and pricing. No discovery-call gauntlet.
Once you're in, we gather the details we need: your real buyer queries, target competitors, and the markets that matter. Payment starts the 10-day clock.
We query ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews across 25 to 40 buyer questions, then audit your technical foundation, content gaps, and off-site footprint.
A branded report plus a 15 to 20 minute recorded video walkthrough where we explain every finding in plain English. One optional follow-up call included.
Positioned as the antidote to the $2,500/month acronym retainer, not another one.
Delivered in 10 business days
✓ AI citation baseline across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and AI Overviews
✓ Competitor citation analysis with the exact sources they're pulling from
✓ Technical, content-gap, and off-site footprint review
✓ A prioritized 90-day roadmap (P0/P1/P2) you own outright
✓ Branded report plus a recorded video walkthrough
✓ One optional follow-up call
The audit effectively becomes free.
Engage us for implementation or ongoing work within 30 days and the $1,950 comes off your first invoice.
In May 2026, Google published official documentation stating that GEO and AEO are not separate disciplines from SEO, and called out tactics agencies package into expensive retainers as ineffective hacks. If you've been pitched lately, here are the red flags.
Urgency plus a brand-new acronym.
Google's own search team has said publicly that this combination is the signature of a scam.
A GEO retainer sold separately from, and on top of, SEO.
The signals overlap almost completely. Anyone charging you twice for one discipline is telling you something.
Proprietary secret methods.
There is no secret. There is structured content, real authority, technical cleanliness, and presence in the sources AI engines read. All of it is verifiable.
Guaranteed placement in ChatGPT.
Nobody can guarantee what a language model says. Anyone who promises this is lying to you.
No baseline measurement.
If they cannot show you where you stand today, they cannot show you progress later. Convenient for them.
The honest version is less exciting: winning AI search is mostly winning Google done properly, plus a few genuinely AI-specific layers most agencies skip. We build AI systems for clients, so we know how these engines select sources, not just the marketing around it.
Honest answers about AEO, GEO, AI search visibility, and what this audit actually measures.
Up North Media isn't a marketing agency that bolted AI onto its services last quarter. We build custom AI integrations, LLM-powered applications, and retrieval systems for clients. We understand how these engines find, evaluate, and cite sources because we work with the technology directly. That's the difference between optimizing based on how AI search actually works and optimizing based on a LinkedIn post about it.
Cody Yurk, Founder, Up North Media
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@scottpartnersltd
Our website loads much faster now and we're getting more quality leads. Great team to work with.

@celestene
Moved from page 3 to page 1 on Google. We've seen a real increase in customer calls.

@vargoscapes
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@jasp3rne
Mobile experience is so much better. Our customers love how easy it is to use.

@scottpartnersltd
Our website loads much faster now and we're getting more quality leads. Great team to work with.

@celestene
Moved from page 3 to page 1 on Google. We've seen a real increase in customer calls.

@vargoscapes
The AI tools save our team hours every week. We can focus on growing the business now.

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@kevinh89
Local SEO really works. We're getting more Omaha customers than ever before.

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The chatbot handles most customer questions automatically. Big time saver for our team.

@chicagoaurora
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@zaraprints
They explained everything clearly. We finally have a digital strategy that works.

@kevinh89
Local SEO really works. We're getting more Omaha customers than ever before.

@jamesh89
The chatbot handles most customer questions automatically. Big time saver for our team.

@chicagoaurora
Sales have increased significantly since the new website. Worth every penny.

@zaraprints
They explained everything clearly. We finally have a digital strategy that works.