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LinkedIn →Hire AEO/GEO specialists
who help AI assistants understand and quote you.
AEO and GEO (answer engine and generative engine optimisation) help AI assistants find your brand and quote it. That includes ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. You get a dedicated specialist, or a small team. They handle schema, consistent brand facts, pages that answer first and checks that AI crawlers can reach you. We vet every specialist on real sites first. They work with your SEO or content team, and you can scale monthly. You interview the specialist who would do the work before anything is signed.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
Tell us about the role
Start Your Enquiry
Send a short brief. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your itemised proposal.
What you get
Hiring an AEO/GEO specialist through PixelCrayons gets you a vetted specialist who helps AI assistants quote you. They add and test schema and keep your brand facts consistent. They rewrite pages to answer first, check AI crawlers can reach you and build digital PR worth quoting. A named coordinator supports them. You interview them first and scale monthly.
- Vetted on live websitesEvery specialist has run live AEO/GEO work under our standards, reviewed weekly, before yours.
- A named second specialist, briefed from day oneA named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second specialist briefed on your work from day one.
- Working inside your teamYour website system, your Slack and your team meetings, alongside your SEO or content team.
Our work
See what we've built
and the results it brought.
Real projects for real clients, with results we can show.
2004
Established
500+
Agencies served
4,500+
Projects delivered
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · backlog cleared
via agency partner
Technologies we work with
- Commerce and web
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Magento
- WordPress
- Webflow
- Next.js
- Marketing
- Google Ads
- Meta Ads
- GA4
- Klaviyo
- Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- AI models
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google Gemini
- Build and deploy
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- CRM and automation
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Zapier
- n8n
Product names and marks are trademarks of their owners. Naming a technology means our teams build with it. It does not mean a partnership, certification or endorsement.
Monthly rate for this hire
From $2,000per month, 160 hoursSenior specialists from $4,000, quoted per person.
Direct prices for brands and companies buying for themselves.
What they cover
What an AEO/GEO specialist covers
and how they measure it.
This is not a generalist who added "AI search" to a slide. Their job is the part AI tools read to decide who to quote: structure, brand facts and access. They state the limits of what can be measured up front.
Work on your own pages (AEO)
- Pages that answer the question clearly first, with the detail underneath
- Structured data added and tested across page templates
- One description of what you are, used the same way everywhere
- Headings written as questions, and text that reads well aloud
- Checks that AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can reach and read your pages
Work across the wider web (GEO)
- Matching profiles and directory listings, so your brand reads the same way everywhere
- Digital PR written to be quoted, not just linked
- sameAs links that tie your site, profiles and press coverage to one clear identity
- Content set out the way AI tools really fetch and summarise it
- Research into the questions buyers really ask AI assistants
Measurement and reporting
- A starting check of what AI tools say about you today, recorded so it can be repeated
- Measures you can check, such as AI visits, kept apart from what only AI firms see
- Working alongside your current SEO or content team, not around them
- Fixes made and checked page by page, not left in a PDF
- Reports that agencies can drop straight into their own templates
In practice
What an AEO/GEO specialist
fixes each week.
Most of this work is careful repair. Knowing that makes the hire easier to judge.
A normal week, in plain terms
Most of the week goes on checks and fixes, not ideas. They run the same set of buyer questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google. They note what each one says about you and compare it with the last run. They test schema on the templates your developers changed. They chase a directory listing that still has your old company description. They rewrite the opening of a page so it answers its own question in two sentences. Expect small, specific changes logged one by one, not one big delivery all at once.
What to ask in the interview
Hand them one of your own pages and ask what an AI assistant would struggle to pull from it. A strong candidate talks about the markup and the heading structure first. They check whether your name and description match what other sites say. Content volume comes later. Ask how they would check whether GPTBot can reach the page. They should describe server logs or your robots file, not a tool screenshot. Ask which schema types they would add first on your site, and why. Then ask what they cannot measure. If they claim to track citations precisely, or promise a place in a named assistant, keep looking.
Have these ready before day one
Give them edit access to your website templates, not just the page editor, because most schema lives in the template. Add read access to server logs or your CDN dashboard, so crawler access is checked, not assumed. Write down, once, the one sentence that describes what your business does. Get it agreed inside the company. This work stalls when marketing, sales and the founder each describe the company differently. Finally, list the profiles you own on review sites, directories and social platforms, with logins. Then nobody loses the first two weeks to password resets.
When this is the wrong hire
Fix the basics first if the site can't be crawled, loads slowly or has thin content on most pages. This work sits on top of basic search health. It does not replace it, and a technical SEO specialist is the better first hire. The same goes for a brand nobody writes about yet. Without coverage elsewhere, there is little on the wider web to tidy up. And if you need traffic this quarter to hit a target, paid search will move faster. This role pays off over months, on a base that already works.
How it works
How hiring works,
from brief to first day.
Start
Brief and a call
We sign an NDA and you describe your site, your tools and the gap in AI search.
Once the brief is complete
Proposal and interview
We confirm when your proposal will arrive and propose the specialist whose past work fits. You interview them on schema and crawler checks before anything is signed.
Your decision
You sign off
You confirm the scope, the payment and the access we need. Nothing starts before this.
Typically 2 to 3 business days later
The specialist starts
We set up website access and record a starting point: what AI assistants say about you today. The specialist also checks your schema and brand facts.
Every month
Scale up or down each month
Add a second specialist when a content push or a rebrand needs one. Step down once the basics hold. The size of the work can change each month.
You make requests, give approvals and see the weekly review in your Prism workspace. Each decision is written down with the result it was meant to bring. See how Prism runs the work →
Get a Proposal
Meet the people who will do the work before you sign
Why through us
Why hire through us:
the specialist and honest measurement behind them.
Hire a specialist on your own and you get their skills. Hire through us and those skills come from a company that does this work every day. That support keeps working when life happens, and it says plainly what it can't yet measure.
Vetted on live websites
Every specialist in our team has run live AEO/GEO work before yours. That work ran under our own standards and was reviewed weekly. It was held to the same measurement standard you will see. Past work tells you more than an interview. A citation result that held up on a live site is worth more than a claim made in an interview.
A named second specialist, briefed from day one
Every AEO/GEO hire comes with a named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second specialist you know by name. The second specialist is briefed on your work from day one. They read the first specialist's schema notes and brand fact map as they are written. If the first specialist takes leave or moves on, the second picks up the schema work without a slow start. A lone freelancer can't offer that. An in-house hire needs a whole team behind them to get it. You get the specialist and the cover that keeps the work moving.
Working inside your team
They use your website system, your Slack and your team meetings. They work alongside the SEO or content team you already have. Dedicated means working inside how you already publish. You don't hand a ticket queue to a stranger.
No promise of AI citations, and no pretending
AI assistants choose their sources inside systems nobody outside the AI companies controls. We say so plainly rather than sell a dashboard of guesses. What we commit to in the contract is the work. That means schema tested, brand facts consistent, pages rewritten and crawler access checked. Every report separates what is measured from what can't be measured yet.
Side by side
Hiring on your own,
compared with hiring through us.
Your current SEO work may already cover schema, brand facts and answer-first content. If so, a separate AEO/GEO hire would repeat that work. We'll say so rather than sell you a second specialist for one job.
| Hiring it yourself | Through PixelCrayons | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a working specialist | A full hiring cycle: finding people, interviews, notice periods, then learning schema and citations | Eligible work can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed |
| Vetting | A CV and an interview full of buzzwords. Work this new is easy to talk about and hard to check | A track record on real sites under our own standards, reviewed weekly |
| Management work | All yours: hiring, then coaching them through their first citation report | A named project manager and escalation path included. You direct the citation plan, not the admin around it |
| Scaling | A new hiring cycle each way: months to grow, severance to shrink | Change size monthly: add a specialist before a rebrand or content push, step down after |
| Risk when it doesn't work | A wrong hire spends their time chasing citations nobody can prove or measure | If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else. Leaving takes a handover call with the brand fact map written down |
Who is accountable
The people responsible
for your work.
Saundaraya Gupta
Technical Manager
Brings technical work, client updates and project management together, so work moves smoothly from brief to launch.
LinkedIn →Every engagement
A named coordinator and escalation contact
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
Time-zone overlap
At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast.
Managed specialists only; not a staffing promise for project teams.
Full termsClear IP & Ownership Terms
Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.
All engagements.
Full termsClear Delivery & Escalation Ownership
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Full termsWhy not just hire a freelancer?
A freelancer can be the right choice for a single, well-defined task. We are set up for work that needs an accountable team: a named coordinator, delivery reviewed by QA and a senior lead before release, and continuity arrangements written into the engagement. Confidentiality, ownership and escalation terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
How does time-zone overlap work?
Your engineers work at least four hours a day inside your core working hours. We set the window with you before the engagement starts and hold it for as long as the engagement runs. For the US West Coast the live overlap is two hours each morning, with a written handover at the end of every Indian day. We do not run night shifts: engineers who work nights leave quickly, and keeping the same people on your team matters more to us than a longer overlap.
Can we try you before we commit?
For eligible managed specialists, yes: up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. Stop within it and eligible trial hours are free; continue and they're billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work stays ours. Project work and other roles get a paid pilot with scope, acceptance criteria, duration and fee agreed first.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.
How we vet
How we vet an AEO/GEO specialist
and what to ask them.
This work is easy to talk about and hard to check from outside. Below are the checks behind our shortlist and the ones worth running in your interview. You can also see what the first two weeks should show.
- 01Shortlist on schema work that went liveWe propose the specialist whose work on real sites fits your site, tools and gap. Their work is held to our own standards and reviewed weekly. No generic CVs. You can ask to see real schema work they have put live, under NDA.
- 02Interview on one of your own pagesHand them a page and ask what an AI assistant would struggle to pull from it. Strong candidates look at markup, headings and whether your description matches other sites. Ask how they would confirm GPTBot can reach it. The answer is server logs or your robots file, not a tool screenshot.
- 03Ask what they cannot measureAI assistants publish no logs of views or citations, and answers vary between users. Some candidates claim to track citations precisely, or promise a place in a named assistant. They are not the hire, and we put forward someone else.
- 04First two weeks: the starting pointOnce started, the first two weeks go on recording a starting point and checking your brand facts. That shows what AI assistants say about you today, with schema and naming checked. Small, specific fixes follow, logged one by one.
Questions
Frequently
asked.
Eligible work can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. Before that, once we have a complete brief, we confirm when your proposal will arrive. You interview the specialist before anything is signed. Expect the first two weeks to go on a starting point check and a review of your brand facts.
No, and we'd encourage you to walk away from anyone who says yes. AI assistants choose their sources inside systems nobody outside OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity or Google controls. What we commit to is the work that makes citation possible. That means schema tested, brand facts consistent, answer-first pages live and crawler access checked. All of it is reported weekly.
It depends on what they already do. Your SEO work may already cover structured data, brand facts and answer-first content. If so, a separate hire repeats that work, and we'll say so in the first check. This role fits when AI search is the specific gap. They work alongside whoever already handles search.
We keep what can be measured and what can't in separate columns. We track visits from AI tools and AI Overview appearances on the searches we follow. We also run regular spot checks in assistants and log every piece of work. Assistants publish no logs of views or citations, and answers vary between users. So every report says which claims rest on data and which don't.
Most sites need only one. A single AEO/GEO specialist covers schema, brand facts and rewriting pages. A digital PR specialist joins for the wider web work once scope justifies it. The monthly resize works both ways. Your proposal names the backup specialist and says whether their cover is inside the monthly rate.
On this page, one hire covers both. The AEO side is your own pages: answer-first writing, structured data and checked crawler access. The GEO side is the wider web: matching profiles, sameAs links and digital PR worth quoting. Most sites need one specialist for both. A digital PR specialist can join once scope justifies it.
Interview your AEO/GEO specialist
before you sign anything.
Tell us about your site and the gap, then meet the actual specialist before anything is signed. If your current SEO work already covers this, we'll say so on the first call.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
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