GEO service · measurement-first
When someone asks an AI assistant "what's the best tool for X?", the answer names a handful of sources — roughly ten source slots per answer. GEO is the practice of getting your domain into those slots. It's the successor to ranking on page one: the AI answer is the new page one, and the citations under it are the new top ten.
A real GEO service has to do three things in order: measure where you stand today, decide whether the niche can be won, and only then move — close the specific gaps that win slots. Skip the first two and you're paying for content on a guess. The measurement is the whole job, and it's the part almost nobody does honestly.
Because buying GEO content before you've measured winnability is how budgets get burned. Three things have to be true before content is worth a cent, and only a measurement can tell you:
The audit is the honest gate. For $300 you learn whether GEO can work for you before you commit to a single month of content — and if it can't, we say so, in writing, with the domain-count evidence behind it.
| Step | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · AI Visibility Audit | Your answer-slot share on ChatGPT and Perplexity, the competing-domain map, and an honest winnable-or-not verdict — delivered in 48 hours with the raw data included. | $300 one-time, per domain |
| 2 · Monthly tracking | The share number re-measured every month with the same pooled method, so you watch it move instead of guessing. Only worth starting if step 1 says the niche is winnable. | $149/mo per domain |
| 3 · Gap content | The specific buyer-question pages and gaps the audit flagged, written to win the slots you're missing. Added only when the niche is winnable and you want it done for you. | Scoped after the audit |
You can stop after step 1. Plenty of clients take the audit, learn their niche is open, and run the roadmap themselves — that's a fine outcome. The point is that every step is earned by the measurement before it, not sold on faith.
Most GEO vendors sell you a "yes" because they're selling GEO. We ran the identical playbook on our own two products: one climbed to 9% of its niche's AI answers — the single most-cited domain in it — and the other sat at 0% and never cracked 1%. Same effort, same method; the only difference was the niche, and it was visible in the audit before either published a word. See the full case study with the real numbers.
That's why "don't spend here" is the most valuable sentence we can hand you. A GEO service that only ever says yes isn't a service — it's a sales funnel. We never guarantee a citation, either: nobody controls what an engine cites, and a guarantee is a tell that someone is selling instead of measuring.
| Typical GEO agency | DIY tracking tool | AnswerSlots | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts with | A monthly retainer | A dashboard you run yourself | A $300 measurement |
| Tells you if the niche is unwinnable | Rarely — it's against the sale | No — it just reports numbers | Yes, in writing, up front |
| Handles run-to-run noise | Varies | Usually single-snapshot | Pooled multi-run per query |
| Raw data included | Seldom | Yes, but you interpret it | Yes, plus the interpretation |
More on that trade-off: audit vs. DIY tools and what a GEO audit should cost.
It's a service that helps your brand get cited in AI answers on engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Done right, it measures your current answer-slot share first, decides whether your niche is winnable, and only then invests in the content that wins slots. AnswerSlots leads with the measurement — a $300 audit — instead of a retainer.
SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links; GEO optimizes to be one of the ~10 sources an AI answer cites. The engines pick sources differently from Google, they disagree with each other, and they're noisy run-to-run — so GEO needs its own measurement. More here: AEO vs GEO and how to get cited in ChatGPT.
$300 for the one-time audit (per domain, 48-hour delivery), then $149/mo per domain for ongoing tracking if the niche is worth pursuing. Gap content is scoped after the audit. You can stop after the audit.
Then the audit says so, with the competing-domain evidence — and that saves you a retainer that couldn't have moved. We'll point you to where your budget can actually work (often a community or listings play rather than content). Better to know for $300 than after a quarter.
No, and be wary of anyone who does. Nobody controls what an engine cites. We guarantee an honest measurement and a clear verdict — not an outcome we can't control.
ChatGPT and Perplexity, measured separately, with multiple pooled runs per buyer question to beat the run-to-run noise. You get the raw source data, not just a score. Method: how to track AI visibility.
Run the audit on your domain and see exactly where you stand — your answer-slot share, who holds the slots you're missing, and an honest call on whether the niche is winnable. $300, 48 hours, raw data included.
Buy an audit — $300