AEO and GEO
AEO and GEO Agency.
Traffiy is an Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization agency that helps brands become the cited answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. The team audits AI-search visibility against a documented prompt suite, rewrites pages so language models can extract a direct answer, ships schema and llms.txt files that machines actually read, and reports the citation count every month by engine. Founder Ahmed Ashraf is a Google Premier Partner in the top 3 percent of agencies globally and an OpenAI partner.
AI Visibility
5 AI engines tracked
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews
Top 3%
Google Premier Partner globally
$500M+
Ad spend managed by founder
OpenAI Partner. Bilingual English and modern UAE Arabic. Regional delivery for US and GCC brands.
25%
Of Google searches trigger an AI Overview in Q1 2026, and that share is rising every quarter.
2.5B
Prompts a day handled by ChatGPT worldwide. Buyers shortlist suppliers there before opening Google.
Page 1
Is not enough. A brand ranking on page one can still be invisible to AI engines at the first stage of the buying process.
The basics
What AEO and GEO mean in plain terms.
Answer Engine Optimization is the work that makes a brand appear as the direct answer inside an AI chat reply. Generative Engine Optimization is the wider practice of shaping a brand's whole online footprint so generative engines choose to cite it. The two overlap in day-to-day delivery. Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini for supplier shortlists, vendor comparisons and product research before they open a search results page, so the winning brand is the one the model names first.
Around 25%
Of Google searches trigger an AI Overview in Q1 2026, and that share is rising every quarter.
2.5 billion
Prompts a day handled by ChatGPT worldwide. Buyers shortlist suppliers there before opening Google.
Perplexity and Claude
Are being used inside procurement and marketing teams to shortlist vendors before any sales call.
Invisible at step one
A brand not cited inside these engines misses the first stage of the buying process, even if it ranks page one in Google.
What's included
Audit, build, and monthly AI visibility report.
AI Visibility Audit (Month 1)
60 to 120 real buyer prompts run across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. A citation map, a page-by-page extraction audit, a schema and structured-data audit, and a written 20 to 30 page report with a ranked backlog.
Build Phase (Months 1 to 3)
Answer-first rewrites, FAQ blocks and FAQ schema, llms.txt and llms-full.txt files, comparison pages, full JSON-LD rebuild, author and founder markup, and citation building through targeted PR, listicle inclusion, and directory entries the AI engines actually train on.
Monthly AI Visibility Report (Ongoing)
Same prompt suite re-run, month-over-month citation delta by engine. New prompts added as the category shifts. A written note on what changed, what to ship next, and why. A quarterly re-audit against the latest AI-search standard.
Where we work
Regional delivery for US and GCC brands.
Traffiy delivers AEO and GEO for brands in the United States and across the GCC. Two regional service pages exist for buyers who want the local view. The method is the same in both regions. The prompt suite, the citation set, and the language mix differ. Brands that sell in both regions use the hub team and add the regional layer as needed.
United States
AEO agency for US brands
US-buyer prompt suites, SaaS and DTC vertical patterns, and US market case studies. Per-engine monthly reporting tuned to the US category landscape.
See AEO Agency USA →
Dubai and the GCC
AEO and GEO in Dubai and the GCC
UAE, KSA and wider GCC buyer prompts, Arabic-language citation work, and bilingual delivery in English and modern UAE Arabic.
See AEO and GEO in Dubai →
Who this is for
Five types of buyer who need this now.
Founders and heads of marketing who have noticed inbound leads saying ChatGPT told me about you or ChatGPT recommended your competitor.
B2B SaaS teams whose category is being reshuffled inside Perplexity, Claude and ChatGPT before any sales call happens.
DTC and e-commerce brands losing above-the-organic clicks to AI Overviews that appear before their page-one result.
Agencies, consultancies and service brands whose buyers now start research inside an AI chat window instead of a search bar.
Enterprise marketing teams running SEO in-house who need an AEO specialist alongside, not instead of, the existing content function.
Track record
The paid media background behind the AEO work.
nør
7x
ROAS
Traffiy drove 420,000 dollars in six weeks for nør at 7x ROAS across UAE and Saudi Arabia. The paid-media background is what makes the AEO content conversion-literate, not just citation-optimised.
Read case study →
Founder credentials
Google Premier Partner
Top 3 percent of agencies globally
OpenAI Partner
Direct working knowledge of how these engines pick and cite sources
500M+ in ad spend
Managed by founder Ahmed Ashraf across his career
Bilingual delivery
English and modern UAE Arabic on every deliverable
Why Traffiy
AEO built by people who understand how buyers convert.
Most AEO services are run by SEO teams who have never managed a paid media account. Traffiy is the opposite: the AEO work is written by people who have managed over 500 million dollars in ad spend and know exactly what a buyer needs to read before they convert.
Founder Ahmed Ashraf is on every account. Named senior, not a rotating account manager. Google Premier Partner in the top 3 percent of agencies globally. OpenAI Partner. Every deliverable ships in English and modern UAE Arabic. See the analytics and tracking service for the measurement layer under every AEO engagement.
Criteria
Traffiy
Generic SEO
Pricing
One-off AI visibility audit: fixed scope, delivered inside 14 days. Build phase: three-month sprint. Ongoing: monthly retainer with the AI visibility report and continued build. See pricing bands or book a call for a scoped quote.
FAQ
Common questions about AEO and GEO.
What is AEO and how is it different from SEO?+
Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring content so a language model can extract a direct answer and cite the source. Classical SEO targets a ranking on a search results page. AEO targets a citation inside an AI-generated answer. A page can rank on page one and still be uncited by ChatGPT, and the other way around, which is why the two disciplines now sit side by side inside a modern marketing team.
How is GEO different from AEO?+
Generative Engine Optimization is the wider category that covers all generative engines, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. AEO is the specific tactic of writing answer-shaped passages that these engines can lift. In practice, Traffiy delivers both together because the audit, the schema work and the citation building overlap.
Which AI engines does Traffiy optimize for?+
ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews as the primary five. Microsoft Copilot and Meta AI are tracked as secondary. The monthly report shows citation counts for each engine separately, because a page that is loved by Perplexity can still be ignored by ChatGPT and the fix is different for each.
How long before a brand sees citations?+
Small factual pages can start being cited inside two to six weeks. Category-defining pages typically take eight to twelve weeks for stable citation. Traffiy shows the movement inside the monthly report, not as a promise but as measured data.
Can Traffiy guarantee a citation in ChatGPT?+
No serious agency can guarantee that a specific model returns a specific answer, because the models change weekly. Traffiy guarantees the process, the audit depth, the deliverables and the measurement. Citation gains are reported honestly, month by month, with the prompts and the engines listed.
Does a brand need to rank in Google to be cited by AI?+
No. Google AI Overviews often cites pages that rank between positions 6 and 30 in classical Google. ChatGPT and Perplexity pull from a much wider source set than Google's top 10 and cite domains that Google has never surfaced above the fold. That is one reason AEO is a separate discipline: it opens up citation opportunities that traditional SEO cannot reach.
Does Traffiy work in both US and GCC markets?+
Yes. The service is delivered with a US team and a GCC delivery layer. US buyers can start on the AEO Agency USA page, GCC buyers on the AEO and GEO in Dubai page. Cross-market brands work with the hub team and add the regional layer as needed. Arabic delivery is native, not translated.
How is the work reported?+
A written monthly report lists the prompt suite, the citation count by engine, the month-over-month delta, the new prompts added and the specific work shipped that month. Reports are attached to a live dashboard the client can open at any time. Nothing is buried in a PDF the client never opens.