This is not a marketing agency.
It's forward-deployed engineering for AI visibility.

FAQ

Asked before
every audit.

What is AEO (answer engine optimization)?

AEO — also called GEO, generative engine optimization, or AI SEO — is the practice of optimizing how AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Copilot represent and recommend a brand. Instead of ranking on a results page, you compete to be one of the three to five names an engine puts in its synthesized answer. It covers prompt-level measurement, citation analysis, machine-readable structure, cross-source consensus, and controlled before/after measurement.

What makes Fireflyo different from other AEO or GEO agencies?

Fireflyo is run by data and AI engineers, not marketers, and every engagement is staffed by a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) rather than an account manager. Engagements start with a measured sweep of your category — every buyer question, every engine, run twice — instead of a content plan. Recommendations come from that data, execution runs at agentic speed on our proprietary platform, and results are verified against a matched control group so lift is attributable, not asserted. We publish our research with full methodology, including negative results.

How does a Fireflyo engagement work?

Four steps, run by your FDE. Sweep: your buyers’ questions through every engine, before you pay anything. Diagnose: separate “the engine doesn’t know you” from “it knows you and recommends someone else” — opposite fixes. Execute: we ship the fixes ourselves, on-domain and off-domain. Re-measure: same questions on a schedule against a control group, with a written diff every cycle.

What is a forward-deployed engineer (FDE)?

An FDE is an engineer from the team that built our measurement platform, deployed to work directly with yours — in your Slack, reading your sweeps, shipping your fixes. It is the staffing model AI-native companies use instead of account management: the person who talks to you is the person who does the work and answers for the result.

How much does Fireflyo cost?

Starter, for growth companies, is $3,000 per month for the first three months of jumpstart mode, then a $2,000 per month retainer once the system is built. Enterprise pricing is custom for multi-brand or multi-market teams — talk to sales. Both tiers include a forward-deployed engineer working with your team, and the initial audit is free either way.

Which AI engines does Fireflyo measure?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Google AI Overviews. Sweeps run per engine and per question, so you see where you stand on each rather than a single blended score.

Do you use your own software or third-party tools?

Our own. Fireflyo runs on a proprietary measurement platform that automates category sweeps, diffs between runs and control-group comparisons. That is why a full category read takes hours rather than weeks, and why re-measurement is a schedule rather than a project. Clients get the results; they never have to operate a dashboard.

How fast will AI answers mention my brand?

It depends on which failure mode you are in. Technical and structural fixes (crawler access, schema, answer-first pages) can move inclusion in weeks. Reputational gaps — missing review profiles, no third-party comparisons, weak cross-source consensus — take months, because engines want sources you don’t own. The sweep tells you which one you have before any money is spent, and we will tell you honestly if the slow path is the one that matters.