AI SEO Agency
The AI SEO Agency That Shows Its Receipts
Ramp Up Digital is an AI SEO agency that gets businesses cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. You work directly with the founder, who builds AI search products as an SEO product manager by day and brings 10+ years of in-house SEO from Intuit, Adobe, and Shutterfly. Plans start at $497/month with no setup fees and no contracts. And because we actually track AI referrals, we can show you what this traffic looks like before you spend a dollar.
Founder-led. Measured in sessions, calls, and revenue, not vibes.
Get an AI Visibility Audit →AI assistant referral sessions one of our e-commerce clients measured in 90 days
of those sessions came from ChatGPT alone
our published starting price in a market where most agencies will not print a number
The Work, Explained
What an AI SEO Agency Actually Does
An AI SEO agency gets your business cited and recommended inside AI-generated answers: Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. The work also goes by generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO). Different labels, same job. When someone asks an AI who to buy from, your name should come back.
Here is what the work actually is, minus the mystique. AI systems decide who to mention based on signals they can verify: a clearly defined brand entity, content structured so a model can lift an answer cleanly, and corroboration from third-party sources like reviews, comparisons, and communities. Google's documentation on AI features describes how AI Overviews and AI Mode use a query fan-out technique, issuing multiple related searches to assemble one answer, which is why deep, specific pages earn citations that thin pages never see. We wrote up how AI reshaped SEO from keywords to entities if you want the long version.
That same documentation says something most agencies will not repeat: there is no special schema, no secret AI file, and no additional requirement to appear in AI features. So when a pitch boils down to "we add AI markup," you are looking at a renamed service page. The real work is entity clarity, answer-shaped content, and third-party authority on top of a sound technical foundation. That is what we build, and every piece of it is checkable.
AI SEO Services
Four Disciplines, One Goal: Get You Cited
Real Numbers
What AI Search Referrals Actually Look Like
In 90 days, one of our e-commerce clients measured 1,075 sessions arriving from AI assistants: 830 from ChatGPT, 124 from Gemini, 51 from Perplexity, 49 from Claude, and 21 from Copilot. That is real analytics data from a real client, not a growth percentage with no denominator under it.
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Two things in that breakdown should shape your strategy. First, ChatGPT drove roughly three of every four AI referrals, so if your brand is invisible there, you are invisible where it counts most. Second, AI referrals are still smaller than what Google organic sends, and any agency implying otherwise is selling a story. The pitch-deck growth chart usually starts at zero, so everything looks like a hockey stick. What makes these sessions worth competing for is intent: this visitor asked for a recommendation and clicked the name the AI gave them.
Say you sell a specialty product online. A shopper types "best [your category] for small apartments" into ChatGPT, gets three brands back, and never sees brands four through forty. That shortlist is the new page one, and it is winner-take-most. Our job is to get you on it and keep you on it.
The Vetting Test
How to Vet Any AI SEO Agency, Including This One
The fastest way to vet an AI SEO agency is to reproduce its claims yourself. AI citations are checkable in about twenty minutes, which makes this the rare corner of marketing where you never have to take anyone's word, including ours. That matters double if you have been burned before by a retainer that reported rankings while your phone stayed quiet.
- Write down ten questions your buyers would actually ask an AI, and run them in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Use fresh sessions and run them more than once; answers vary run to run, and consistency is the signal.
- Ask the agency for a citation receipt: a named client, the prompt, and the platform where that client shows up today. Then run that prompt yourself.
- Ask how they measure AI referrals. The honest answer involves your analytics property and platform-level traffic sources, not a screenshot.
- Ask what happens when citations decay. They do decay; models refresh their sources, and a brand that stops earning mentions slides out of answers. A one-time "GEO package" tells you the seller has not watched results long enough to know that.
Say you own a moving company and an agency's deck shows a ChatGPT screenshot recommending their client. Run that same prompt five times in fresh sessions tomorrow. If the client shows up in four of five runs, the receipt is real. If it appears once, you were shown the cherry-picked snapshot.
Run that test on this market and you will notice something uncomfortable. Much of page one for "ai seo agency" is agencies publishing best-of lists with themselves ranked first, and the top result is a forum thread the community itself suspects was seeded. We do not rank ourselves in listicles, here or anywhere. And Google's own guidance on hiring an SEO is blunt: no one can guarantee a #1 ranking, and no honest practitioner will guarantee an AI citation either. What we commit to is the process, the measurement, and receipts you can re-run whenever you like.
Rankings vs Mentions
AI SEO vs Traditional SEO
Traditional SEO earns you a ranking. AI SEO earns you a mention. They are not rivals: AI systems lean on many of the same signals Google's index does, so a sound technical and content foundation is the base that AI visibility gets built on, not something it replaces.
What genuinely changes is the unit of competition. Rankings are page level; citations are passage level, which rewards pages a model can quote cleanly. Entity consistency starts to matter everywhere your business appears, because models cross-check. And third-party corroboration (reviews, comparisons, community mentions) carries more weight in AI answers than most classic SEO playbooks assume. Our AI search optimization guide for 2026 walks through the full playbook.
Picture a kitchen remodeler in Walnut Creek whose rankings held steady this year while calls quietly dropped. Nothing broke. Google started answering remodel questions above the blue links, and assistants began naming the two competitors who show up in local roundups. Ranking first was no longer the whole game. It is the same pattern we now plan for across our Bay Area SEO work.
Find Your Fork
What AI SEO Looks Like for Your Business
The right AI SEO plan depends on where your customers ask their questions, and that forks by business type. Local "near me" intent flows through Google AI Overviews and Maps data. Product intent flows through ChatGPT and Perplexity shortlists. B2B intent flows through review-fed comparisons. Find your fork below.
If You Run a Local Service Business
AI answers about local providers lean heavily on your Google Business Profile, review volume, and local entity signals. Start with Google Business Profile optimization; it is the highest-leverage surface you own, and it feeds both the map pack and the AI answer.
If You Sell Online
Shortlist prompts decide winners. You need presence in the comparisons, reviews, and communities that models pull from, plus product pages an AI can quote. This is the segment our 1,075-session dataset comes from, and it is where our LLM visibility work concentrates.
If You Are B2B or Professional Services
Models assemble shortlists from category pages and third-party corroboration. Entity clarity plus a handful of genuinely deep pages beats fifty thin ones. That is the core of our AI search optimization service, and it is where founder-level expertise in your content pays off fastest.
Why Ramp Up
Your AI SEO Consultant Works on AI Search for a Living
Most agencies added an AI page to their navigation in 2025. Here, AI search is the day job twice over. Jessie, the founder, works on AI search products as an SEO product manager, brings 10+ years of in-house SEO from Intuit, Adobe, and Shutterfly, and personally runs every Ramp Up account. No handoffs, no juniors, no account manager relaying notes.
The AI work sits on an SEO track record you can verify by phone: a San Carlos oil change shop in the Google local 3-pack in 8 weeks, a Palo Alto moving company on page 1 in 4 months with 3x the calls, and a Hillsborough plumber whose rebuilt site scores 100 on PageSpeed and books 5x the leads.
The price is public too: $497/month covers your website, hosting, and SEO with AI search optimization included, and $797/month adds Google Ads management. No setup fees, no contracts. For context, Ahrefs' SEO pricing survey found 79.1% of U.S. and Canadian SEO providers charge at least $1,001 a month, and AI SEO retainers start where regular SEO retainers already sit, and climb. We publish our prices because you should not need a discovery call to find out what something costs.
How It Works
How We Run AI SEO, From Baseline to Citations
Baseline the Truth
We run your buyers' prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, and set up AI referral tracking in your analytics. You see exactly where you stand before we touch anything.
Fix the Foundation
Entity cleanup, structured data that matches your visible text, and the technical SEO that AI systems and Google both require.
Earn the Mentions
Answer-shaped pages built for query fan-out, plus the reviews and third-party presence that models treat as corroboration.
Re-run and Report
Monthly prompt re-runs, citation and referral trends, and decay watch, reported in sessions and leads instead of vanity screenshots.
AI SEO Agency Questions, Answered
AI SEO is the work of getting your business cited and recommended inside AI-generated answers on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. It is also called generative engine optimization (GEO) or answer engine optimization (AEO), and it builds on traditional SEO rather than replacing it.
Get Your AI Visibility Audit From Ramp Up Digital
One audit shows you where AI assistants mention you today, where competitors own the shortlists, and what it would take to change that. You get the baseline either way: no setup fees, no contracts, no pressure. The sooner we baseline, the sooner your name starts coming back in the answers.
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