AI SEO Services That Get You Recommended
Someone asks ChatGPT who to use for exactly what you do. It names three businesses and explains why. Our job is making sure one of them is you, across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot.
No charge, no obligation, and you keep the findings either way.
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- Where your business already appears in AI answers
- Which competitors are being recommended instead
- The clearest steps to improve your AI visibility
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Answer Summary
AI SEO Services for UK Businesses
First Place SEO provides AI SEO services that get UK businesses cited and recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. The work covers answer-ready content, entity signals, structured data and mention building, with fees published at £750, £1,500 or £3,000 a month.
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What AI SEO Is, Without the Acronyms
AI SEO in Plain English
AI SEO is the work of making your business easy for AI systems to understand, trust and recommend. When someone asks an AI tool who to use, the answer is assembled from your pages, your reviews, your structured data and what trusted third parties say about you. The work improves each of those signals.
What AI systems use
Four signals help an AI system decide what your business is and whether it should recommend you.
Your pages
Clear service information and direct answers to the questions potential customers ask.
Your reviews
Real customer evidence that supports your reputation, expertise and reliability.
Structured data
Machine-readable information that identifies your business, services, people and locations.
Trusted mentions
Independent third-party sources that confirm what your own website says about you.
What changes
The reader changes, so the emphasis changes
Useful information needs to be direct, specific and easy to extract.
Your business, services, people and locations need to connect clearly.
Trusted external sources need to support the claims on your own website.
AI systems read the same web that good SEO already builds. That is the whole discipline. Anyone making it sound more mysterious is selling the acronym, not the work.
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The Numbers, Honestly
AI search use is growing quickly. The figures matter, but only when they are read alongside the part most AI SEO pages leave out: AI tools influence decisions far more often than they send website clicks.
2.5 Billion
OpenAI reported more than 2.5 billion ChatGPT messages per day worldwide by July 2025. That is around 29,000 messages every second, showing how quickly AI tools have become part of everyday research and decision-making. Read OpenAI’s published figures .
45% of Consumers
BrightLocal found that 45% of consumers used generative AI tools to find local business recommendations in 2026, up from 6% the year before. That made AI the third most-used local discovery channel, behind only Google and Facebook. View the 2026 consumer survey .
80% Rely on AI
Bain found that 80% of consumers rely on AI-written or zero-click results for at least 40% of their searches. More people are getting enough information from the result itself to make progress without immediately visiting a website. Read Bain’s research .
AI visibility is not mainly a website traffic play
Ahrefs measured that ChatGPT handles roughly 12% of Google’s search-like volume, yet Google still sends around 190 times more traffic to websites. AI tools answer questions, but they rarely send clicks.
The win is being the business the answer names, receiving the enquiry that says “ChatGPT recommended you”, and seeing more people search for your brand after an AI tool mentions it. That is what we build for, and that is what we report on.
What Clients Got
Real Results from AI Search
Three clients with different starting points, showing how AI visibility became measurable business activity.
“They have done absolute wonders for my architecture firm and ranked me very high on ChatGPT.”
The architecture firm went from being absent from AI recommendations to ranking in ChatGPT for its core queries within six months.
“Within six months I'm getting phone calls from people saying they found me on ChatGPT.”
Previously reliant on word of mouth and Google Maps, local AI visibility work turned ChatGPT into a source of actual phone calls.
“They show me exactly how much traffic is coming in and from where. Whether that's Google, Bing or ChatGPT.”
The clinic now tracks attributed traffic from Google, Bing and ChatGPT in one clear report.
What It Costs
AI SEO Pricing
Most agencies bundle this work into packages that start around £2,000 a month and quote the rest after a call. Ours are published.
Included as Standard
Every SEO plan we sell keeps your site AI-readable as standard. The plans below add the dedicated campaign layer on top: a tracked prompt panel, entity building, mention development and AI-specific reporting.
Starter AI SEO
£750 a month
Everything in Starter SEO, plus:
- 10 tracked prompts checked monthly
- ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews tracking
- AI readability improvements on key pages
- Schema foundations
- Combined Google, Bing and AI visibility report
Growth AI SEO
£1,500 a month
Everything in Growth SEO, plus:
- 20 tracked prompts checked monthly
- ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews tracking
- Entity and schema build-out
- Answer-ready copy blocks on priority pages
- Brand mention building on relevant third-party sources
- Combined monthly visibility report
Market Leader AI SEO
£3,000 a month
Everything in Market Leader SEO, plus:
- 40 tracked prompts checked monthly
- ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and Copilot tracking
- Full entity programme
- Digital PR mention building
- Competitor AI visibility tracking
- Quarterly strategy review
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We will run the prompts and show you what comes back, before you decide anything.
AI SEO Services
The Work Itself
AI SEO combines prompt tracking, clearer content, entity signals, trusted mentions and reporting that shows where your business is being named.
Audit and measurement
AI visibility audit and tracked prompts See which businesses AI tools name before the campaign begins.
We build a panel of the questions your buyers actually ask AI tools, run them across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews and Copilot, and record who gets named. That baseline decides the plan and becomes the yardstick every month after.
Combined reporting Google and AI visibility shown in one monthly report.
One monthly report covers your Google performance and AI visibility together, in plain English, with what changed and what happens next.
Content and entity clarity
Answer-shaped content Put direct answers where AI systems can lift them.
AI systems lift direct answers. We restructure your key pages so every important question gets a clear one-to-two sentence answer before the detail. That is exactly what gets extracted into AI responses, and it is what human visitors want too.
Entity signals and structured data Make the business clear enough for AI systems to state.
Schema markup, consistent naming, and pages that all tell the same story about who you are, what you do and where. This is how AI systems stop guessing about your business and start stating it.
Authority and corroboration
Mentions and citations Build trusted third-party support, with or without links.
Language models read text, not just links, so your brand being named on trusted third-party pages counts even where no link exists. We build mentions on the sources AI systems already draw from in your niche.
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How We Measure It
How We Measure AI Visibility
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SparkToro's research found that identical prompts return the same recommendation list less than 1% of the time. One favourable screenshot is therefore a moment, not reliable measurement.
Why one screenshot proves very little AI answers change from one run to the next.
Honesty first: AI answers are volatile. Research by SparkToro found that identical prompts return the same recommendation list less than 1% of the time. So a single screenshot of you ranked in ChatGPT proves very little, whoever shows it to you, including us.
How the monthly measurement works The same prompt panel is rerun and compared over time.
What actually works is measuring the rate. We run your tracked prompt panel manually every month and record how often you are named across each platform.
What backs up the manual checks Platform data and real enquiry attribution sit beside the panel.
The manual prompt panel sits alongside Bing's AI visibility reporting and Google Search Console's AI report, so machine-measured data backs the manual checks.
Platform reporting adds machine-measured visibility data beside the monthly prompt checks.
Google's AI reporting helps show how AI search features contribute to search visibility.
We record calls and forms that mention finding the business through ChatGPT or another AI tool.
The number that matters is your inclusion rate trending up, and enquiries that mention finding you through AI. That is the report you get.
Check My AI VisibilityWho Gets the Most From It
Who Gets the Most From AI SEO
AI SEO matters most where buyers ask for recommendations, compare options, look for evidence of trust or need a provider in a specific area.
Service Businesses
Trades, professional services, agencies and consultancies, where buyers ask AI tools who to trust before they shortlist anyone.
Trust-led selectionEcommerce and Product Brands
AI-assisted research and comparison now sits in front of buying decisions, and product pages need to be readable by the systems doing the comparing.
Research and comparisonHealth and Regulated Sectors
AI platforms are cautious about who they cite in these fields, which makes trust signals decisive. The businesses that get the signals right get recommended; the rest get omitted entirely.
Authority and corroborationMulti-location and Area-serving Businesses
AI tools answer best-in-town questions constantly. Clear location signals decide whether you are matched to the areas you actually serve. This builds directly on our local visibility work .
Geographic relevanceFrequently Asked Questions
AI SEO questions, answered
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What is AI SEO?
AI SEO is the work of getting your business understood, cited and recommended by AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. It covers answer-ready content, clear signals about who you are and what you do, technical health, and mentions on trusted third-party sources: the raw material AI systems build their answers from.
What is the difference between AEO, GEO and AI SEO?
Mostly branding. AEO (answer engine optimisation) and GEO (generative engine optimisation) describe slices of the same job: making your business easy for AI systems to understand and cite. We call the whole job AI SEO and skip the acronyms. If you need visibility this quarter while that builds, paid search can cover the gap.
Does AI SEO replace normal SEO?
No, it sits on top of it. Google's own documentation says there are no additional technical requirements to appear in its AI features, and that a page simply needs to be indexed and eligible to show in Search with a snippet. The other platforms lean on similar foundations: crawlable pages, clear content and genuine authority. The SEO foundations underneath it do much of the job, and AI SEO does the rest. You can read Google's guidance on AI features (opens in a new tab) yourself.
How long does AI SEO take?
Early movement can show within four to eight weeks as pages are refined and signals strengthen, though this varies a lot depending on where your site starts. Consistent presence across platforms usually builds over three to six months. AI platforms also refresh their picture of the web at different speeds, which is why we measure monthly rather than promising dates.
Can you guarantee my business appears in ChatGPT?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. AI answers vary between runs of the same question, so nobody controls a specific placement. What we work on is how clearly your business is described and how often it appears on the kinds of sources these systems draw from. We then track how often you are named across a fixed set of prompts and report what changes, up or down.
How much does AI SEO cost in the UK?
Ours costs £750, £1,500 or £3,000 a month depending on scope, published above. Across the wider UK market this work is usually folded into a broader retainer rather than priced on its own, which makes it hard to see what you are actually paying for it.
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Tell us which services, products, locations and buyer questions matter most to your business. We will check how ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot describe you, identify where competitors are being recommended instead, and come back with a clear visibility baseline and the right next steps.
Why Now
The opportunity is already taking shape
Here is the forward-looking part, with its caveat attached. AI tools are already answering “who should I use?” questions in your niche every day , and most of your competitors have done nothing about it. The businesses building clear signals now are the ones these answers are more likely to keep naming as usage grows.
Early does not mean guaranteed, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing. But the gap between acting now and acting in two years is real, and it compounds.
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