I run Robbp Media, a social media marketing agency in Los Angeles, and in September 2026 I put our SEO and AEO tool on Mr James, a bespoke tailor in Playa del Rey, to see exactly what it could do. On 11 September his site was doing about 11 sessions a day and 13 search visits a week. By 19 October it was doing about 43 sessions a day, search visits had more than doubled, and he held the number one share of local voice in the Google map pack for "bespoke tailor" on a 7x7 grid. Nineteen of the 50 keywords we track sat in the top 10, and the AI assistants named him in 10 of 28 answers. That is five and a half weeks of work and the reason this page exists.
The tool costs $199 a month, flat. It is the product I offer as an SEO and AEO agency in Los Angeles, and this page covers what AEO means, how the free Market Scan works, the five things the tool promises, the Mr James numbers, and how to start.
What AEO is in plain words
SEO is search engine optimization, the work of getting your website to show up when someone types a question into Google or Yahoo. AEO is answer engine optimization, the same job for a different kind of search. More people every month ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity or the AI Overview at the top of Google instead of scrolling ten blue links. Those tools do not show a list. They give one answer and name a handful of businesses inside it. AEO is making sure your business is one of the names.
You will see the same idea called generative engine optimization, AI search optimization or ChatGPT SEO. They all describe the same thing. The AI reads the open web, decides which pages it trusts, and builds an answer from them. If your site explains clearly what you do, where you do it and why people choose you, and other sites back that up, the AI has something to quote. If your site is a home page with a slideshow and a contact form, it will name your competitor instead.
Most of the work overlaps. Fast pages, clear headings, structured data, answers written in the words people use, and real mentions from other sites help you on Google and in the AI answers at once. The difference is that AEO forces you to be specific. An AI will not name a tailor because his site says premium quality. It will name him because a page says plainly what a bespoke suit involves, how many fittings it takes and where the shop is, and because a directory or a local publication says the same thing.
The Market Scan
Before anyone pays me anything I want them to see where they stand, so the first step is a free scan. Enter your domain at robbp-scan.higgsfield.app and you get a score out of 100 across seven categories. Site health is worth 20 points and covers broken links, redirects, indexing and the technical basics. Speed is worth 10. Content is worth 15 and asks whether your pages answer the questions buyers ask. Schema is worth 15 and checks the structured data that tells Google and the AI tools what your business is, where it is and what it sells. Google visibility is worth 20 and covers rankings and map pack presence. AI answers is worth 15 and tests whether the assistants name you today. Authority is worth 5 and looks at who links to and mentions you.
The score is useful but the list underneath it is the point. Every category comes with the specific things holding it down, in plain language, and that list is what the tool starts fixing on day one if you sign up. If you would rather hand it to your developer, you can. The scan is free and I do not ask for a card.
What $199 a month gets you
I want to be exact here because the agency world is full of vague deliverables. The tool makes five promises and keeps all five every month.
First, it publishes an expert article a day. Not a filler post. An article that answers one real question your buyers ask, in your voice, on your site, with internal links to the pages that sell. Mr James has 54 articles and 42 pages live, and the articles are a large part of why his search visits doubled.
Second, it applies every fix its scan finds. Title tags, meta descriptions, missing schema, slow images, broken links, thin pages, missing alt text. Each one gets fixed on the live site the day it is found. If you would rather see each change first, there is an approve each mode where fixes queue up and you say yes or no.
Third, it builds real mentions and links every month. Listings in the directories that matter in your city, citations with your correct name, address and phone, and outreach for genuine mentions on sites the AI tools read. No bought links and no private networks.
Fourth, it tracks every week whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overview name your business when someone asks the questions that matter in your category. You see the exact prompts, the exact answers, and whether you were in them. If you have been searching for an AI visibility checker or AI visibility tracking, this is that, built into the same product.
Fifth, it tracks your rankings every week in your city, not nationally. A tailor in Playa del Rey cares what a person standing in Westchester or Marina del Rey sees, so that is what we measure, on a grid across the neighbourhoods you serve.
That is the whole list. It is $199 a month, month to month after the first ninety days.
The Mr James case study
Mr James is the clearest proof I have and every number is one I can show you on a call. He started on 11 September 2026 at about 11 sessions a day and 13 search visits a week. By 19 October the site was at about 43 sessions a day and search visits had more than doubled. On a 7x7 grid of map searches for bespoke tailor he had the number one share of local voice. Nineteen of 50 tracked keywords were in the top 10. The AI assistants named him in 10 of 28 answers. Forty two pages and 54 articles were live, every one published by the tool with my review on top.
The full breakdown is on the Mr James case study page, and I update it as the numbers move.
Who this is for
It is built for local businesses that live on being found: tailors, plastic surgeons, med spas, dentists, contractors, lawyers, anyone whose customer types a question with a neighbourhood in it or asks an AI for a recommendation. If you are searching for an SEO agency in Los Angeles because your last one sent a monthly PDF and nothing changed on the site, this is the opposite. The fixes go live daily and you can see every one.
It also sits beside the social work we are known for. Social gets you seen by people who are scrolling. Search and AI answers get you found by people already looking. Plenty of clients read our social media marketing agency page and run both, but you can start with either.
How to start
Run the scan first at robbp-scan.higgsfield.app. It takes a minute and you will know your score before we speak. Then book a call through the contact page or email me at info@robbp.com with your domain and your score. On the call I walk through the list, tell you honestly whether the tool fits, and if it does we switch it on the same week. The first article goes out the next day.
Questions people ask
What is an AEO agency?
An AEO agency does the work that gets a business named inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overview. That means clear pages that answer real questions, structured data, and genuine mentions on other sites. We do it with a $199 a month tool that applies the fixes daily and tracks the answers weekly.
Does AEO replace SEO?
No. Most of the work is the same and the two feed each other. A site that ranks well on Google with fast pages, good schema and real mentions is also the site an AI is most likely to quote. The tool covers both at once, with weekly rank tracking in your city and weekly checks of the AI answers.
How do I know if ChatGPT mentions my business?
Run the free Market Scan at robbp-scan.higgsfield.app and the AI answers category tells you today. If you sign up, the tool asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overview the questions that matter in your category every week and shows you the exact answers and whether you were named.
What does the SEO and AEO tool cost?
It is $199 a month, flat, with no setup fee. That covers an article a day, every fix the scan finds applied to the live site, monthly mentions and links, weekly AI visibility tracking and weekly rank tracking in your city. It is month to month after the first ninety days.
How fast will I see results?
Mr James went from about 11 sessions a day to about 43 in five and a half weeks, with search visits more than doubling and 19 of 50 tracked keywords in the top 10. Every site starts from a different place, which is why the scan comes first, but I ask for ninety days and the numbers move inside that.
Let's talk
If you want an SEO and AEO agency in Los Angeles that fixes things daily instead of reporting on them monthly, run the scan, then email me at info@robbp.com with your score. I will tell you plainly what the tool would do for your site and whether it is worth $199 a month.