AI SEO Agency and Services from £500/mo

An AI SEO agency should make sure ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews describe your business accurately and name you when buyers ask. AI SEO is its own line of work alongside our SEO. Google calls optimising for AI search "still SEO", and the foundations overlap, but the work and the measurement are different. From £500 a month, excluding VAT. Nobody can guarantee an AI citation, and we won't pretend otherwise.

It suits UK businesses, local or national, that already win customers through search. Each month we measure what the tools say about you, fix what is ours to fix, and report plainly.

Trading since 2011, online since 2026. 500+ projects. A team of 12, with a dedicated specialist for each channel and an account manager. Book a call The first conversation is a free initial consultation.

Yes, on purpose. We didn't want to put a client at risk, so we wanted to see the impact on us first, including the negative impact. The industry changes fast and we have to stay at the cutting edge.

Several times, when we asked a new enquirer "how did you get our number?", they said they found us through AI. Some said ChatGPT. Others said Google's AI (Gemini) recommended us. That is what we hear on calls, not a study.

From 12 to 14 September 2026 we collected 96 live AI responses to 72 discovery prompts, where the asker names no brand. The third-party domains cited most often across topics were clutch.co, agencies.semrush.com and linkedin.com. We read that as a list of places to check, not proof.

On 22 October 2026, in a panel of 120 hire-intent answers, our site was retrieved as a source but named in only 4. The one top-three naming came from a page showing our price in its first screen. That is one instance, not a rule, but it is why this page shows its price early.

A test adding self-identifying brand sentences to cited pages was negative, so we did not ship it. We then simplified what our brand is and made the themes consistent across our profiles on Bing, Google Maps, our website and several other platforms, to salvage what AI would read about us. We tell clients this can still be saved, but not overnight. AI, and any algorithm, has to start trusting you again, and you have to prove you are credible.

Mostly ordinary SEO plus a monthly check on what AI assistants say about you: a baseline of real customer questions, crawl and index checks, clear pages, the directories and review sites AI answers draw on, fixes for wrong facts, and a monthly report. Where LinkedIn is thin, our social media team can help. If you also work with us on SEO, the two are planned together, with the same specialist and account manager.

Overlapping names for much the same work. Most of it is SEO under a newer label.

For the longer explanation, read why London businesses are losing enquiries to AI search.

Less than the label suggests. Google says optimising for generative AI search "is optimizing for the search experience, and thus still SEO". The difference is a measurement habit: checking what the assistants say about you, and which third-party sources they lean on.

Every month we re-ask a fixed set of questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. The set targets the bottom of the sales funnel in your industry, people ready to hire, and is built from your real enquiries. One AI answer is never a result, because answers vary from run to run, so we read repeat runs beside Search Console, GA4 and your enquiry sources. Search Console's Generative AI performance report covers Google only.

The first baseline, plus a check that AI crawlers are not blocked and that Google can index your pages. Google says a page must be indexed before it can appear in its AI features.

We change one thing at a time, hold it long enough to read more than once, then keep it or reverse it on the readings. It can feel slow. Incremental changes beat changing everything at once, because then you cannot tell what helped and what hurt. The price is a longer recovery period, not a quick fix, and we give no dates.

When a learning holds, we apply it across our whole client base, re-checking each new sector first.

Three dated sources shape how we work. None promises a result.

The Seer finding is an association, not proof that reviews make an assistant recommend you.

We do not sell guaranteed citations, llms.txt or "AI schema" as a fix, paid or swapped placements, or bulk pages and invented numbers. Google says indexing and serving are never guaranteed, there is no special markup for generative AI search, and inauthentic "mentions" across the web "isn't as helpful as it might seem". Ahrefs found no clear schema effect.

One prospective client asked: "Will I be a cited source for my industry?" We said we cannot guarantee that. We have to put in the work, test and try, and if that is a deal breaker, fine.

"I don't want to make you promises to say you're going to land on the moon. I want to actually get you onto that mission. Right now we're at the blueprints of the rocket, let alone talking about the moon."

They did not come on board. Our view, and only our view: they wanted false promises, not the long graft.

It suits businesses that sell through search, have a site Google can already index, and can measure enquiries. Skip it if you want a guaranteed mention, or your customers do not use AI tools to choose you. If your SEO agency already asks assistants fixed questions each month and reports honestly, stay with them. If your site has basic faults, the first job is ordinary SEO, which is where we would start anyway.

AI SEO starts from £500 a month, excluding VAT. It is a separate line of work from SEO, which is also from £500 a month. If you want both, it is from £1,000 a month, excluding VAT, so each gets its full share of the work instead of splitting one budget.

We quote your exact fee before you sign. Our SEO fees are set out on our SEO agency London page.

How much does an AI SEO agency cost?

From £500 a month, excluding VAT, with minimum terms of 3 to 12 months. AI SEO and SEO are separate lines of work, each from £500 a month. If you want both, it is from £1,000 a month, excluding VAT, so neither is squeezed into the other's budget.

How long does AI SEO take to work?

We cannot give a date. We change one thing at a time and hold each change long enough to read more than once, so progress is incremental and can feel slow. That means a longer recovery period, not a quick fix. AI answers also vary from run to run, so we report what each change showed, including nothing.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will mention my business?

No, and be wary of anyone who does. Google says indexing and serving are never guaranteed, and AI answers vary from run to run. We improve what is in your control, such as clear pages, accurate facts and honest third-party presence, then measure and report it, good or bad.

Is GEO (generative engine optimisation) different from SEO?

Mostly not. Google says optimising for generative AI search "is optimizing for the search experience, and thus still SEO". What differs is measurement: you check what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini say about you, and which third-party sources they draw on, not only where a page ranks.

Book a call and we will talk through your market, your current SEO and what a first baseline would involve. The first conversation is a free initial consultation. Book a call

Prefer to read first? See our note on ChatGPT SEO for UK small businesses.