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The independent AEO firm for small businessThe AEO agency built for small business.
RankCurrent is an independent answer engine optimization (AEO) agency for small businesses. When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI who to hire, we make sure your business is one of the names it gives — and we prove it with a report every month. Not a big agency where you are a line item: founder-run, plain-priced, and focused on small business.
The assistants your buyers use. We track the major ones every month — same questions, same settings.
AEO gets you into the answer, not just onto the page.
Search engine optimization fights to rank you among ten links. Answer engine optimization makes you one of the two-to-five businesses an AI assistant actually names. For a small business, that shortlist is the whole game — being named is getting the call, and being left off means the buyer never knew you existed.
Make your site machine-readable
Structured data, service pages that answer the exact questions buyers ask, fast load, and clean access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended. It lives on your domain — you own it.
Make the internet agree
AI cross-checks before it names anyone. We make your listings consistent, earn citations in the places the models read, and build a steady flow of reviews so you are a safe recommendation.
Measure who gets named
We freeze the real questions your buyers ask and re-run them across the major assistants every month, scoring whether you are named, whether your site is cited, and who is named instead.
Small businesses deserve better than being a line item.
Big agencies chase enterprise retainers and hand small accounts to whoever is free. We do the opposite. RankCurrent is independent and founder-run, which means the person who audits your business is the person who does the work — and the questions we track are the ones that win small-business customers, not vanity metrics for a boardroom.
- Work directly with the founder — no account-manager telephone game
- Plain pricing, no five-figure enterprise minimums
- Everything built on your domain, so you keep it if we part ways
- A one-page monthly report: score change, before-and-after answers, what is next
- Specialized in small business — home services, practices, e-commerce, SaaS, B2B
Priced for small business. The audit is free.
Knowing where you stand is the easy part, so we give it away. Becoming the business AI recommends is the work — and that is what you pay for.
Free AI Visibility Audit
$0 · 48-hour turnaround
- The questions your buyers actually ask, run through the major AI assistants
- Who gets named instead of you, and why
- Structural score of your website
- Written report you keep either way
AI Visibility Program
$1,000 / month · 3-month minimum
- Your site rebuilt to be read and trusted by AI: structured data, answer-ready pages, crawler access
- Your reputation made consistent everywhere AI looks: listings, citations, reviews that run
- The same buyer questions re-run every month so progress is real
- A one-page report: before and after, what we did, what is next
New Website Build
From $3,500 · for sites that cannot be fixed
- Fast, mobile-first, and readable by AI from launch day
- Structured data, llms.txt, and clean crawler access built in
- Built the same way this site is — ask an assistant about RankCurrent
AEO for small business, answered.
What is an AEO agency?
An AEO (answer engine optimization) agency makes a business easy for AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — to understand, trust, and recommend by name. Where a traditional SEO agency works to rank you on a page of ten blue links, an AEO agency works to make you one of the two-to-five names an assistant gives when a buyer asks who to hire.
What does an AEO agency do for a small business specifically?
For a small business, an AEO agency does three things: makes your website machine-readable (structured data, answer-ready service pages, clean crawler access), builds the off-site trust signals AI cross-checks before it names anyone (consistent listings, citations, reviews), and measures whether you are actually being named — re-running the real questions your buyers ask across the major assistants every month.
How is AEO different from SEO for a small business?
SEO gets you onto a search results page; AEO gets you into the answer. They overlap — good SEO helps — but they are not the same. A small business can rank on page one of Google and still never be named by ChatGPT, because the assistant is choosing a handful of businesses it can read and verify, not listing every link. AEO is the work that gets you chosen.
How much does an AEO agency cost for a small business?
RankCurrent keeps it simple: a free 48-hour AI visibility audit, a monthly AI Visibility Program at $1,000/month with a three-month minimum, and a new AI-ready website build from $3,500 for sites that cannot be fixed. No long contracts and no five-figure enterprise retainers — this is priced for small businesses, not conglomerates.
Can an AEO agency guarantee my business shows up in ChatGPT?
No, and no honest firm can. AI engines are not pay-to-play and their answers change. What a real AEO agency can do is measure where you stand today, fix everything within your control, build the off-site signals the engines draw from, and show you the before-and-after every month.
Why choose an independent AEO firm over a big agency?
At a big agency your small business is a line item handled by a junior. RankCurrent is independent and founder-run — you work directly with the person doing the work, on your own domain, with plain pricing and a one-page monthly report. We specialize in small business, which means the questions we track and the fixes we make are the ones that actually win you customers.
See what AI says about your small business. 48 hours.
Fill this in and you get a written report showing exactly how the major assistants answer when your buyers ask who to hire, who they name instead of you, and what it would take to change that. Free, whether or not we work together.