01Every week
Buyer-question research
A ranked topic list from Search Console, Reddit, G2, sales calls and live AI answers.
AEO services for B2B SaaS
Everything it takes to get named by AI, run as one program.
Research, writing, technical setup, tracking and refreshes for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews and Copilot. You approve topics weekly. Your pod does the rest.
Services in one program. Nothing to add on, nothing to manage.
01What's included
At Salient, ten services run as one program for every client. Nothing to add on.
A ranked topic list from Search Console, Reddit, G2, sales calls and live AI answers.
20 to 40 pages a month in your voice, each one approved by you.
Fact checks, sourced claims and an editor's sign-off on every draft.
Schema, llms.txt, internal links and canonicals on every page.
A subfolder or subdomain we host. No CMS access needed.
Which AI crawlers read each page, and when.
Citations per engine and per page, never one blended score.
Pages rewritten as soon as their citations start to slip.
Demos and pipeline traced to each page in HubSpot.
A weekly report, a weekly call and same-day answers in Slack.
Also sold as AI SEO or GEO. Same job. The week-by-week process is on how it works.
02How AEO is priced
From $95 a month for software your team runs, to $3,000 to $8,000 a month for AEO inside an SEO retainer. Compare on who does the work, not only the fee.
Audit and retainer ranges from RankWorks' 2026 roundup. Software prices from Peec AI and Profound, checked 6 October 2026. Side by side: Salient vs Peec AI, Salient vs Profound.
03How it runs
You see one ranked list a week. See the full process.
Point a subfolder at Salient and connect read-only tools.
Tick the ones you want. Skipped topics are never written.
Writing, publishing, tracking, refreshes and reporting.
04Proof
On our own site, AI citations grew 16x in six months and we now see 60+ new sales opportunities a month. For our client Propelius, AI-crawler visits went from zero to 5,630 in ten weeks.
Citations: Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance data for Microsoft Copilot, the one AI engine that shares citation numbers. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini aren't counted here. Opportunities and pipeline: HubSpot. Read the full case study.
05Questions
AEO (answer engine optimization) services are the work of getting your company named and cited in answers from AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot. They usually cover research into the questions buyers ask, pages written to answer those questions, technical setup such as schema, and tracking how often each AI tool cites you.
Ten services run as one program: buyer-question research, answer-first pages, editing and E-E-A-T review, the technical layer (schema, llms.txt, internal links and canonicals), publishing on your domain, AI crawler logging, citation tracking per engine, refreshes before citations drop, CRM attribution, and weekly reporting with same-day support.
It depends on who does the work. A 2026 roundup by RankWorks puts a one-off AEO audit at about $1,200, monitoring retainers at about $1,500 to $2,500 a month, and AEO bundled into SEO retainers at about $3,000 to $8,000 a month. AI visibility software such as Peec AI starts at $95 a month, but your team does the work. Salient is quoted on a 30-minute call, and the first audit is free.
They overlap. SEO services aim to rank pages in Google's list of links. AEO services aim to get your brand named inside the AI answer, which needs answer-first pages, schema, citation tracking per engine and regular refreshes. AI tools often pull from pages that already rank well, so we build every page to do both.
On a typical account, the first AI citations start within 30 days of pages going live. Citations and traffic climb across engines by 60 to 90 days, and high-intent visits with first conversions arrive around 90 to 120 days.
No. Pages are published to a section of your domain that we host and run, so we never touch your CMS. A subdomain needs one DNS record and a subfolder needs one routing rule, once.
Yes, and it's free. In 30 minutes we show you the questions where AI sends buyers to your competitors, your answer share by engine against your top three competitors, and five questions you could win first. You keep the plan either way.
B2B and B2B SaaS companies only. We don't take on ecommerce, local or consumer brands.
In 30 minutes we show you which buyers AI sends to your competitors, and five questions you could win first. See what the audit covers.
No credit card, no sales script. Thirty minutes with the pod that would run it.
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