AEO

AEO: get cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google.

AEO (AI Search Optimization) for independent restaurants. We make sure the new AI assistants recommend yours when a diner asks for what's good nearby — so the story you built in real life carries through to the new search engines.

What is AEO?

AEO stands for AI Search Optimization — the work of getting your restaurant cited by the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews produce when asked about places to eat nearby. Classic SEO helped you rank in the link list; AEO gets you named inside the assistant's written recommendation.

The mechanics are different from SEO. We tune the schema and entity graph that the new search engines read, run placement tests against the real prompts your future diners will type, and grow the citation-network pointing back at your restaurant — press, directories, gastronomy blogs, and the local knowledge graph.

You keep running the pass. We make sure the next diner who asks an AI assistant for what's good nearby gets your name back.

What you get

Two ways to engage, drawn from the same shared AEO playbook the rest of BoothBuzz uses. Pick one or stack them.

One-time add-on
AI Search Optimization — paid add-on
Bolt AEO onto Food Truck, Starter, Growth, or Scale — or commission it on its own once your story is ready.

$499 · one-time

What's included

  • One-time citation & schema audit across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
  • Schema markup work + entity-graph repair for your restaurant
  • Monthly AEO placement report with the queries that moved
  • Citation-network expansion (press, directories, gastronomy blogs, local guides)
Monthly retainer
AI Search Optimization
Ongoing schema work, placement testing, and citation-network expansion — every month, while the AI search landscape keeps moving.

$399 setup + $149/mo

What's in the monthly retainer

  • Monthly schema & entity audit
  • ChatGPT / Perplexity / Google AI Overview placement testing
  • Citation-network expansion across the local knowledge graph

Heads-up: this retainer assumes you already have a visible site (or will bring your own). It does notinclude a hosted site on BoothBuzz's side. If you want a one-pager baked from your intake, see the AEO Site bundle.

AI Search Optimization — $399 setup + $149/mo.

AI Search Optimization — paid add-on — $499 one-time.

Pricing lock for the founding customers is held at today's rates until public launch.

Ready to be cited?

Tell us about your restaurant — the cuisine, the neighbourhood, what you've already built online — and we'll come back with which AEO engagement fits.

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Or reach us directly at support@boothbuzz.cafe