Signs you need help
- AI agents get 403 or an empty shell when they fetch your key pages.
- Competitors are named in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers for your category and you are not.
- Your site is a JavaScript app and no one has checked the raw HTML.
- Leadership wants AEO numbers and you have no baseline.
Eight questions to ask
- Can you show what ChatGPT-User receives from my homepage today?
- Which user agents do you test, and from where?
- Do you separate mentions from citations?
- Which buyer questions will you track, and do they include my brand name?
- How do you verify a fix worked?
- Which findings are measured and which are estimated?
- What will my engineers need to ship?
- What happens to the data if we stop?
Where to find AEO consultants
Look for teams that publish their method and dated evidence. Bull AI Labs publishes its methodology and offers a free diagnosis so you can judge the work before a call.