Answer Engine Optimization
Engineered to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for the queries your buyers actually run.
- ›llms.txt + Article schema
- ›Source-grounded content
- ›FAQPage / HowTo density
- ›Comparison tables LLMs parse
AEO + SEO retainers for Long Island contractors. Get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI in 90 days — or your next month is free.
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Silvo Systems is an AEO + SEO agency in Long Island, NY for home-service contractors. We help roofers, kitchen remodelers, HVAC, and decking pros earn citations from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Our scope per retainer: Citation Stack deployment (schema, llms.txt, 30 to 75 vertical citation submissions, source-grounded content) plus weekly query-level tracking. Founded 2026 by Logan Hoffman. Retainers $1,500 to $5,000/mo with a 90-day citation guarantee.
Updated · By Logan Hoffman, founder
Proof in flight
Every retainer starts the same way. A public Day 0 baseline, a structural Foundation deploy in week one, then weekly measurement against the same query set until citations land. No ten-page proposals, no quarterly slide decks — open dashboard from day one.

Day 0 baseline · Free for any URL · Real Core Web Vitals + live LLM citation snapshot
Self-deployed Citation Stack on silvo.systems
We ran the same Foundation we sell on our own homepage — schema graph, llms.txt, robots allowlist, FAQ rewrite, content depth pass. Tracking 18 queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, weekly. Day 30 re-run is scheduled for 2026-05-27 with full methodology published alongside.
The 90-day methodology
Day 0
Free 6-pillar audit
Public baseline at silvo.systems/audit. Real Core Web Vitals from PageSpeed plus a live citation snapshot from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Day 7
Foundation deploys
Schema graph, llms.txt, robots allowlist, Google Business Profile, and the first 30 vertical citations submitted.
Day 30
First citations land
Source-grounded content shipped. Weekly query-level citation snapshot now updates in your dashboard, not a quarterly slide deck.
Day 90
Citation guarantee floor
Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity by day 90, or your next month is free. Measured weekly. Public methodology, not a black box.
What we ship
Every retainer answers one question: when a Long Island buyer asks ChatGPT for a contractor in your trade, are you in the answer? If not, we fix that.
Engineered to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for the queries your buyers actually run.
GBP optimization, NAP, vertical citations, and Core Web Vitals tuned for the Long Island geo cluster.
Open dashboard. Query-level citation tracking against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity. Weekly snapshots.
The framework
Five layers. Skip one, lose citations. We deploy them in order — Position first, Tracking last.
The full framework with deploy order, examples, and the per-layer citation counts lives at /citation-stack.
Lock the trade, the zone, and the queries we own. Every layer below depends on this one being right.
Schema, llms.txt, robots, Core Web Vitals, GBP. The plumbing models retrieve before they cite.
Source-grounded content and local press density. The reason a model picks you over the next contractor.
Vertical and geographic citations LLMs actually parse. Not just BBB and Yelp — the directories AI reads.
Open dashboard. See what shipped, what got cited, by which model, on which day. Closes the loop.
Pricing
Foundation
$1,500/mo
$2,500 setup · 6mo founding rate
Schema, llms.txt, GBP, core citations, tracking baseline.
Growth
$3,000/mo
$5,000 setup · 6mo founding rate
Foundation plus content, press, full tracker, monthly tuning.
Dominate
$5,000/mo
$10,000 setup · 6mo founding rate
Full Citation Stack, weekly reporting, all add-ons unlocked.
The 90-day citation guarantee
Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity within 90 days of Foundation launch — or your next month is free. We measure citation rate weekly. The dashboard is yours.
Terms: clock starts on Foundation deploy. Citation = your business named in an answer for one of the agreed buyer-intent queries on the tracker. One guarantee credit per client. Audit results published with the case study at day 90.
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Common questions
Authored by Logan Hoffman, founder of Silvo Systems. Last reviewed .
ChatGPT cites pages it can crawl, parse, and trust as sources. Princeton's 2024 GEO study tested 100,000+ queries and found citation-worthy sources rank by content relevance, statistical density, citations to authorities, and direct quotes — not by SERP rank alone. We deploy that stack: Article and FAQPage schema, an llms.txt file, source-grounded content with numbers and inline links, and an explicit AI-bot allowlist for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot. Then we measure with weekly query-level snapshots from the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs.
Source: Aggarwal et al., GEO study (2024)Updated
SEO ranks pages in Google's blue-link results. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) gets your business cited inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Mike King at iPullRank calls this relevance engineering — optimizing for the chunk-level retrieval LLMs use, not the page-level ranking Google still uses. The technical work overlaps (schema, content, performance) but the targets differ: AEO requires passage-level answer-first writing, llms.txt, and citation density. Most agencies still optimize only for blue links.
Source: Mike King, iPullRankUpdated
Long Island is our home market. Nassau and Suffolk counties hold roughly 2.9 million residents and 100,000+ home-service businesses competing on local intent — Hicksville, Massapequa, Huntington, Garden City, Suffolk County. Local AEO compounds: when you dominate one geo plus trade combination, ChatGPT picks you for the next adjacent query because it has already cited you. We work the towns and trades we know, then rotate the pattern across verticals. Tight focus produces tighter citation rates and better case studies than a national agency operating outside its zone.
Source: US Census Bureau, Nassau County NYUpdated
AEO citations begin showing 30 to 60 days after Foundation deploys (schema, llms.txt, the first 30 vertical citations). SEO ranking moves 60 to 90 days for most local terms — the industry baseline for new local pages is roughly 75 days to first-page rank, per Search Engine Land's recurring local-SEO surveys. We publish a Day-0 baseline at silvo.systems/audit so the lift is measurable from week one, then update the citation rate weekly inside your dashboard. The 90-day floor is the guarantee: cited by ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity by day 90, or your next month is free.
Source: Search Engine Land, Local SEOUpdated
Same Citation Stack — different keywords, citations, and press targets. Whether you sell roofs, kitchens, HVAC, decks, or pools, the five layers (Position, Foundation, Authority, Citations, Tracking) stay identical. The 30 to 75 vertical citations rotate per trade: Houzz and NKBA for kitchens, GAF and Roofing Contractor for roofers, Angi and BBB for cross-trade, plus local Long Island press for both. Mike King's GEO work shows trade-specific authority signals lift citation rate roughly 2 to 3x more than generic backlinks, because LLMs weight topical authority heavier than raw domain rank.
Source: iPullRank GEO researchUpdated
We guarantee the work. No agency can dictate an LLM's exact output, but we control every measurable input: schema deployment, llms.txt, content cadence, vertical citations, press pitches, and tracking. Princeton's 2024 GEO study measured a 40% visibility lift across 100k queries from citation, statistic, and quote optimization — our Foundation tier mirrors that protocol. The 90-day floor is the contract: cited by ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity within 90 days of Foundation launch, or your next month is free. We measure citation rate weekly inside your dashboard, not in a quarterly slide deck.
Source: Aggarwal et al., GEO study (2024)Updated
Review generation is built into every retainer. A post-job SMS routes happy clients (4 to 5 stars) to your Google Business Profile and unhappy ones to a private inbox so you can resolve before they post publicly. BrightLocal's 2024 Local Consumer Review Survey found 87% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses, and a 0.5-star rating jump correlates with roughly 25% more leads in service categories. Most clients move from a 4.2 baseline toward 4.7+ in the first quarter. The system is the same one we built for the Haven Medical Aesthetics demo.
Source: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2024Updated
Yes. Every tier is month-to-month. No long-term contract, no setup lock-in, no auto-renewing annual commitment. You can pause or cancel any month with 14 days written notice. The only exception: founding-rate spots (3 total, 50% off for the first 6 months) require completing the 6-month case-study window — cancel earlier and the rate reverts to standard. After month 6, founding clients drop to month-to-month at the standard tier rate. Setup deliverables stay yours regardless: schema markup, llms.txt, citation submissions, and your tracker access.
Source: Stripe Billing — subscription managementUpdated
Homepage retainers are AEO plus SEO only — the Citation Stack across all three tiers. Paid ads (Google Local Service Ads, Meta retargeting), interactive configurators, and custom AI workflows are expansion modules added after the retainer is live and producing organic citations. Aleyda Solis's 2024 framework recommends earned visibility before paid: paid amplifies what is already cited but cannot replace structural authority. We follow that order. Add-ons start at $500/mo on top of the retainer once Foundation is shipped and the first wave of citations has landed.
Source: Aleyda Solis, International SEOUpdated
Three founding spots are open across the three tiers. Each gets 50% off setup and retainer for the first six months in exchange for one published case study (with metrics) and one peer intro. Same scope as the standard tier — half the price. Foundation: $1,250 setup plus $750/mo. Growth: $2,500 setup plus $1,500/mo. Dominate: $5,000 setup plus $2,500/mo. After month 6, the rate reverts to standard. Founding spots track in real time at silvo.systems/contractors, and only 3 will exist for this cohort.
Source: Productize Yourself — founding-customer pricing (Indie Hackers)Updated
Traditional agencies sell hours and hide reporting behind monthly slide decks. We sell a fixed scope, a fixed price, and an open citation tracker. Each week you see what got shipped (commits, citations submitted, posts published), what got cited (per query, per LLM, per day), and what is next. Brett Williams (Designjoy) productized this model for design — flat monthly fee, public scope, no scope creep. We applied the same operating logic to AEO. The dashboard is yours and updates daily from the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs.
Source: Designjoy productized modelUpdated
A live website, admin access to your Google Business Profile, and 30 minutes for the kickoff call. We handle schema deployment, llms.txt creation, content production, citation submissions, and tracking from there. If you are on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or Webflow, our Foundation deploys without a developer. Custom-built sites need roughly 2 hours of dev access for schema and meta-tag injection. Google estimates Business Profile setup at about 15 minutes if you have your business license and address handy.
Source: Google Business Profile setup guideUpdated
Founding cohort · 3 spots
Walk through your current AEO baseline, the queries you want to own, and whether a founding-rate spot makes sense for your shop. No deck, no script. If it’s not a fit, you keep the audit.