AEO Agency
The AEO agency that does the work
Most agencies pitch AEO, write a strategy document, and hand it to a junior team. We are the team. Operator-led Answer Engine Optimization with no account manager between you and the work.
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The agency model problem
The standard AEO agency model goes like this: a senior strategist pitches your account, an account manager runs the weekly calls, a project manager coordinates the deliverables, and a junior team does the actual work. By the time your budget reaches someone who can actually build AI citations, 40% is already spent on overhead.
The billing reflects this. Agency AEO retainers run £4,000 to £15,000 per month, not because the work costs that much, but because the model requires it. Every layer of management adds a layer of margin.
The output reflects it too. Strategy documents. Roadmaps. Slide decks explaining what AEO is and why your business needs it. Citation numbers that are technically improving but not moving your qualified inquiry count.
The fractional operator model is different. The founder runs the engagement. There is no account manager because the person building your AEO presence is also on the call. The budget goes into the content that builds citations, not the overhead that manages the process of creating content.
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How we work
Week 1-2: Audit and architecture
We audit your current AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. We identify every query where competitors are cited and you are not. We check your site architecture for AI-parsability and identify schema gaps. The output is a specific list of changes ranked by citation impact.
Week 2-4: Technical implementation
Structured data deployed across every relevant page. FAQPage, Service, LocalBusiness, and Organization schema. Site architecture fixes. Meta structures updated. All changes are committed to your repo or deployed to your CMS. Nothing lives in a Google Doc.
Month 2 onward: Platform seeding
Consistent content production across Medium, LinkedIn, Reddit, and YouTube. Every piece is written to be useful to human readers and structured for AI extraction. We do not ghost-write content that gets posted without context. Each piece has specific placement and tracking logic behind it.
Monthly: Citation monitoring and gap filling
We run citation queries across all five major AI engines, report on share of voice versus competitors, and identify the next round of content priorities. You see exactly what is working, what is not, and what we are doing about it.
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Transparent pricing
Foundation
£2k
per month
- —Full site audit and gap analysis
- —Schema implementation across all key pages
- —Initial content seeds across core platforms
- —Monthly citation tracking report
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Growth
£3.5k
per month
- —Everything in Foundation
- —Weekly content publishing on LinkedIn, Medium, Reddit
- —Multi-platform seeding strategy
- —Competitive citation analysis
Dominance
£5k
per month
- —Everything in Growth
- —Daily content production and publishing
- —Full citation monitoring across all engines
- —Proactive gap filling and quarterly roadmap
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Frequently asked questions
What makes a good AEO agency?
A good AEO agency publishes on the platforms AI engines actually cite: Medium, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube. They track citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews with real monitoring tools. They do gap analysis, finding the queries where competitors are cited and you are not, and fill those gaps with targeted content. The difference from a bad AEO agency is measurability: can they show you before-and-after citation data?
How is twohundred.ai different from a traditional AEO agency?
Most AEO agencies are SEO agencies with AEO added to their menu. They have account managers who attend calls, project managers who send status updates, and senior strategists who review the work before billing you for all of it. At twohundred.ai, the founder runs every engagement. There is no account manager because the person doing the work is also on the call. That removes 40% of the typical agency overhead, which means more budget goes into the work that actually builds AI citations.
What does an AEO agency typically charge?
Agency-model AEO pricing typically runs from £4,000 to £15,000 per month, because agency overhead (sales commissions, account managers, operations) sits between you and the actual work. Our pricing runs from £2,000 to £5,000 per month. The lower price reflects the fractional model: no overhead layer, no retainer padding, fixed scope per tier.
How long does it take an AEO agency to show results?
Technical implementation (schema markup, structured data, site architecture) shows up within days. Platform content seeding takes 4 to 8 weeks to register as citation signals. Sustained citation share improvement for competitive queries takes 3 to 6 months. Any AEO agency promising faster results is either targeting very low-competition queries or overstating what they can control.
Do I need a big budget to work with an AEO agency?
A meaningful AEO engagement requires consistent content production and platform publishing over time. That work has a real cost. The Foundation tier at £2,000 per month is the minimum viable engagement for most SMEs. Below that threshold, the content volume is too low to build meaningful citation authority at a competitive pace. The Growth tier at £3,500 is where most clients see the best momentum-to-cost ratio.
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