Fill your pipeline from AI search.

AEO is the practice of getting your firm cited when AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews answer a buyer's question. Unlike SEO, which targets a ranking in a list of ten links, AEO targets inclusion in a generated answer that recommends two to seven sources. For professional services firms, the queries are vendor-selection queries — a buyer asking ChatGPT for an employment lawyer or a CPA — and the click-through rate is high because the buyer is already deciding.

Profound, Peec, Semrush, and Ahrefs are platforms. They give a marketing engineer or in-house team the data and tools to run AEO. Voltaire is a department: we operate AEO for you under a flat retainer. If you have a marketing engineer on staff, the platforms are excellent. If you have a managing partner and a busy practice, Voltaire is the closer fit. See our explicit comparisons at /vs/profound, /vs/peec, /vs/semrush, /vs/ahrefs, and /vs/agencies.

Most agencies do SEO, social, ads. Few have rebuilt their delivery around AI search. Voltaire is AEO-native: every piece of content is structured for AI extraction, every citation is tracked weekly, every query rebalanced monthly. Agencies typically charge $8K–$15K per month for a generalist team and run on a four-week feedback cycle. Voltaire is $2,490 or $4,990 per month, AEO-only, and the system rebalances weekly.

Yes if you are a professional services firm of 10 to 30 people in law, CPA and accounting, consulting, financial advisory, or architecture. The math works because one new client per quarter typically pays the entire retainer. Voltaire is not a fit for solo practitioners (retainer is too high) or for firms with in-house marketing teams of three or more (the platforms are more economical).

Day 1: onboarding done, AEO audit in hand. Day 2: first content live. Week 3 to 5: first measurable citations on long-tail buyer queries. Week 8 to 12: citation share growing on competitive head queries. Month 3: the weekly rebalancing has produced enough data that the month-3 plan noticeably outperforms the month-1 plan. That is when compounding becomes visible.

Every piece is calibrated to your voice over the first 12 days. Your edits, approvals, and rejections train the voice model. After two weeks, content reads like you. Voltaire does not produce volume for volume's sake — every piece is structured for AI extraction (clear FAQs, structured data, authoritative citations) and reviewed before publication. Used by law firms, CPAs, and consulting firms where precision and authority are non-negotiable.

Voltaire takes the operational layer. Your in-house person sets priorities, signs off on voice, and owns brand decisions. Voltaire executes — research, production, distribution, measurement — and reports back weekly. Most in-house marketers become more effective with Voltaire underneath them because the throughput and tracking are larger than one person could match.

Flat monthly retainer. Three-month minimum on Foundation and Growth (we need three months of compounding data to deliver on the strategy). After month three, cancel any time with 30 days notice. No setup fees. No platform seats. No prompt credits. No hidden costs.

Your data never leaves your tools. Voltaire operates through authorized integrations only. No PII is stored on our infrastructure. Each firm runs on dedicated infrastructure with full audit trails. SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, HIPAA compliant for healthcare-adjacent firms.

Two options. (1) Instant free AEO report at /intel-report: enter your firm URL and we run 3 buyer-intent queries live through Claude with web search, showing you the citations in ~30 seconds. No card. (2) $99 deep audit at /audit: 20 queries across 5 AI engines, full competitive landscape, a 30-day content plan, and one fully written sample piece you can publish. Yours to keep regardless of whether you subscribe.