Make answer engines your best sales channel

An AEO agency improves how often, and how accurately, AI answers mention, cite and recommend a business. AEO stands for answer engine optimisation: helping tools such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Gemini understand and trust your brand. Tilio is a UK AEO agency. We track the questions your buyers ask AI, find where you are missing and do the work that helps answer engines include you.

An AEO agency researches the questions buyers ask AI assistants, measures which brands and sources the answers name, then improves the evidence those answers draw on. At Tilio, that means four kinds of work: tracking mentions and citations, fixing technical barriers that stop AI crawlers reading your pages, creating and improving content, and outreach to the third-party sites AI answers cite.

Tilio is a specialist UK AEO agency, set up for AI search rather than added to an SEO menu. We publish Vantage, a weekly index of how often AI answer engines name UK brands, and measure your programme the same way. Our team does the work as well as the reporting. We use the same approach on our own brand: Tilio’s unbranded AI visibility rose from 3% in March 2026 to a 27% peak in September 2026.

Ask each agency which buyer questions and AI engines it will track, whether it reports mentions and citations separately, what work it will deliver rather than only report on, and how it will show progress against a starting baseline. Be wary of guaranteed recommendations, because no agency controls what answer engines say. Tilio agrees each of these points with you before work begins.

Gain AEO starts from £1,250 a month. It is Tilio’s monthly AEO programme, and anything above that entry level is quoted to your scope. AEO agency fees depend on how many buyer questions, AI engines and markets are tracked, and how much content, technical and off-site work is delivered each month. There are no packages or tiers, and the proposal sets out the fee, included work and commitment before you start.

Gain, Tilio’s monthly AEO programme, includes an initial AI search audit, a full technical audit of your agreed website scope, technical fixes within an agreed allowance, new and improved content each month, off-site outreach or prepared opportunities, and reporting with review calls. There is no separate audit to buy first. Publishing in your CMS and ongoing brand accuracy work are optional additions.

It depends on your starting position, the work agreed and how often answer engines revisit your sources. In a typical Tilio programme, month one sets your baseline, month two delivers the first changes, and from month three we compare the same buyer questions against that baseline. Tilio reports progress and remaining gaps rather than promising a date for visibility gains.

SEO improves where your pages rank in search results. AEO improves whether AI answers mention, cite and recommend your business when a buyer asks a question. The two overlap, because answer engines often draw on pages that search engines can crawl and rank, but AEO also depends on how clearly your pages state facts and what other sites say about you. Tilio’s AEO work sits alongside your existing SEO.

Every Tilio programme starts with ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Additional supported engines, including Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode, are agreed in your scope. Grok is shown above as part of the wider AI search landscape. It is not currently included in Tilio’s tracking coverage.

Yes. Tilio can deliver the agreed work directly. If you already have writers, developers or an SEO agency, we agree who owns each part and work alongside them. Agencies can also bring Tilio in for their own clients, with white-labelled or co-branded reporting where agreed.

Tilio compares repeated measurements of your tracked buyer questions with your starting position, and explains changes by topic and engine. Your dashboard and reviews show what changed, what we delivered and what comes next. Where data is available, referrals and enquiries add commercial context. Visibility alone does not establish an increase in sales.

No. Answer engines and publishers decide what they show, so no AEO agency can guarantee recommendations, coverage or sales. Tilio improves your source material, investigates gaps and reports progress across the agreed sample of buyer questions.