FOR WEB & MARKETING AGENCIES
Sell AI-citation to your clients.
Keep the margin.
Your clients are about to start asking "why doesn't AI recommend us?"— and the usual SEO stack has no answer, because it's a new layer. Grounded AEO is the layer: a combined SEO + AI-citation engine you can resell as your own.
You keep the margin · we run the tech · rev-share or white-label · built on the open v=AEO1 standard
→People ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI and trust the one answer — no clicks, no blue links. Your clients' hard-won rankings don't show up there.
→That answer is stitched from whatever the AI can scrape — often wrong, stale, or a competitor. There's no verified source of truth for the business.
→Every agency will get this question within a year. The ones with an answer win the "we do AI search" conversation — and the retainer.
One engine, three deliverables you can sell:
Whole-site SEO + AEO audit
Point it at a client's domain and it crawls every page — not just the homepage — scoring classic SEO and AI-citation readiness, with a ranked list of what's wrong.
The exact fixes, done for them
It hands back ready-to-paste markup — titles, meta, Organization schema, llms.txt — and AI-crawler access. Re-run it to prove the score moved. Your devs can drive the whole loop from a tool in their workflow.
A verified record engines trust
A signed v=AEO1 DNS record + structured facts that make the business citable as a source, not a scrape. Owner-attested, cryptographically verifiable — the trust layer no website tool produces.
You sell it
Fold it into what you already do — audits, builds, retainers. Your brand, your client relationship, your pricing.
You keep the margin
Recurring rev-share, or wholesale / white-label. We design the commercials with each partner — no terms pre-imposed.
We run the tech
The crawl, the fixes, issuing and re-signing records, keeping them fresh. No infrastructure for you to operate.
Devs: it's a remote MCP tool — nothing to install. See the MCP docs and the integration guide.
What exactly do we resell?
A combined SEO + AI-citation engine. Point it at a client's site and it audits every page for classic SEO and AI-answer-engine readiness, hands back the exact fixes (titles, meta, schema, llms.txt), and then issues a signed, verified record on the open v=AEO1 standard that makes the business citable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI. You deliver it as your own service.
How do we make money on it?
You keep the margin. You price it to your client however you already price work — a line item on a retainer, part of a build, a standalone audit — and pay a partner rate. We shape the commercials with each partner: recurring rev-share, or wholesale/white-label, whatever fits how you sell. We don't pre-impose terms.
How much work is it for our team?
Very little. We run all the tech — the crawl, the fixes, issuing and re-signing the records, keeping them fresh. Your devs can run an audit and get the fix material from a tool right inside their workflow (an MCP endpoint), so every site they ship comes out both SEO-clean and AI-ready without a new dashboard to learn.
Is this just monitoring, like the AI-visibility tools?
No. Monitoring tools tell you where a brand shows up in AI answers. We produce the thing that gets them shown up: owner-verified, structured facts and a signed record engines can trust — the supply side, which almost nobody occupies. It complements the monitoring your clients may already pay for.
Is the standard real, or proprietary lock-in?
Real and open. v=AEO1 is published at aeorecord.org and filed with the IETF as an Internet-Draft. Records verify independently with an open-source checker — no dependency on us. You're reselling a service on an open standard, not locking your clients into a black box.
Let's talk.
We're taking on a small first group of partner agencies and shaping the program with them. A 15-minute call, and you'll know if it fits how you sell.
Email us about partnering →Or reach out directly: garrett.miller@groundedaeo.com. Want to see the product first? groundedaeo.com.