The new frontier of search
Search is moving from blue links to AI answers. Sloane Staffing helps you hire the AEO/GEO specialists who get your brand surfaced and cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) are the practice of optimizing content so AI answer engines surface and cite your brand. As buyers move their research into ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, being the cited answer — not just a ranked link — is the new growth frontier. We help you hire the people who make that happen.
Hire an AEO/GEO specialist
The state of AI search
The shift isn't coming — it's here. This is the landscape your next AEO/GEO hire has to win in.
Google's AI Overviews now reach roughly 2 billion monthly users and appear on about half of all searches, and its AI Mode passed 1 billion users within a year of launch. The answer — not the link — is what most people see first.
Ahrefs found AI Overviews cut clicks to the #1 organic result by ~58%, and Pew Research found people click a link in just 8% of searches that show an AI summary. Most searches now end with no click at all.
ChatGPT (800M+ weekly users), Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude now sit between your brand and your buyer — and the visitors they do send tend to convert at far higher rates than traditional organic traffic.
Job postings for GEO, AEO, and AI-search roles have grown several hundred percent year over year. The field is young enough that 12–18 months of real experience already reads as senior — so the best people move fast.
What they own
Organized by outcome — not by tactic. These are the mandates we recruit specialists to deliver.
Engagements scale from a single specialist to a full AI-search function.
Why the skillset matters
Optimizing for AI answers is a different discipline from ranking blue links. The people who win it blend technical SEO, an understanding of how LLMs retrieve and cite, content strategy, and AI-visibility measurement — which is exactly who we recruit.
From our kickoff call, we learn exactly how you want to show up in AI search — which answer engines matter most (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews), your content stack, and whether you need a strategist, a technical implementer, or both.
We source from SEO, content engineering, and data backgrounds to find specialists who actually understand how LLMs retrieve and cite content — including the operators who aren't in the job market. Every candidate is interviewed and pre-qualified before you see a resume.
Our team manages the entire staffing process, facilitates communications, and accelerates offer acceptance — all while briefing the hiring manager on every round of feedback.
Specializations
Owns visibility strategy across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews — from entity strategy to prompt-level share of voice.
Implements schema, structured data, crawlability, and retrieval-friendly architecture so answer engines can parse and cite your content.
Builds citable, authoritative content designed for how LLMs synthesize answers — not just how Google ranks ten links.
Senior owners who unify traditional SEO and emerging AEO/GEO into one growth motion — and own the number.
FAQ
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) are the practice of optimizing your content so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — surface and cite your brand. GEO is usually the generative-AI subset of the wider AEO umbrella. It’s the next layer of search beyond traditional SEO, focused on being the answer rather than just ranking a link.
Yes. Google's AI Overviews reach around 2 billion monthly users and appear on roughly half of all searches, its AI Mode passed 1 billion users within a year of launch, and ChatGPT alone has 800M+ weekly users. At the same time, AI Overviews have cut clicks to the top organic result by more than half (Ahrefs) and most searches now end without a click. Buyers are researching inside AI answers — and the brands optimized to be cited are capturing that demand.
Traditional SEO optimizes for ranking in a list of ten blue links. AEO/GEO optimizes for being retrieved, synthesized, and cited inside a single AI-generated answer — which rewards structured data, clear entities, authoritative sourcing, and content written for how LLMs reason. The two are complementary: strong SEO fundamentals still feed AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Strong candidates blend technical SEO (schema, structured data, entities, site architecture) with a real understanding of how large language models retrieve and cite sources, plus content strategy. The best also monitor brand visibility across answer engines — multi-LLM tracking and prompt-level share of voice — and iterate against it.
GEO / AI search strategists, technical SEO / AEO engineers, AI content strategists, AEO/GEO managers, and senior heads of organic search who can unify SEO and AEO/GEO into one motion.
After a kickoff call to define the role, we go outbound to pre-qualified, pre-interviewed specialists — so you typically see a vetted shortlist within days, not weeks. That speed matters in a field where qualified people are scarce and move quickly.
As AI answers replace blue links, the brands that get cited win share of voice. Let's hire the specialist who gets you there.
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