Be in the answer, not buried in the links.

GEO is generative engine optimization: making your website easy for AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews to find, understand and cite. It matters now because roughly half of Google searches show an AI Overview at the top of the page, up from around a third in late 2025, and Gartner projects another 50 percent drop in traditional search by 2028. Sites that win the AI layer are built to be cited, not just ranked for clicks. The GEO-SEO Retainer measures one GEO Score across six categories (AI Citability, Brand Authority, Content E-E-A-T, Technical GEO, Schema and Structured Data, and Platform Optimization), then moves it month over month with a documented audit, a fix pass, and a report showing the change. What you get is a score curve you can see, not a promise about blue-link rankings that nobody controls.

A normal SEO retainer chases rankings through keywords, links and on-page tuning. The GEO-SEO Retainer works on the AI layer that now sits in front of the blue links. FCT measures one GEO Score across six categories (AI Citability, Brand Authority, Content E-E-A-T, Technical GEO, Schema and Structured Data, and Platform Optimization) and moves it month over month with a documented audit, a fix pass, and a report scored against the same rubric every time, so the goalposts never move. FCT will not promise rankings. It promises a score curve you can see. The work starts with a baseline audit, ships structured data, an llms.txt and AI-crawler rules in week one, then tracks the change. The point is to get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, the answers your customers now read first, rather than fighting for a position they may scroll past.

A baseline audit and a fix pass on your domain. Day 1 is the kickoff call and the baseline audit. Day 2 is the 90-day roadmap, drafted from your specific findings. Days 3 and 4 are the fixes: structured data rewritten with the right types for your business, an llms.txt at the root of your site listing your services and key pages, robots rules that explicitly allow OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, missing meta descriptions filled in, the share image sized correctly, and language tags added. Day 5 is your review. Day 6 ships to production after your sign-off. Day 7 hands off the first weekly summary and sets the monthly cadence. From there you receive a monthly report showing your GEO Score before and after, the change in each category, and next month's priorities, all scored on the same rubric.

Structured data and llms.txt fixes typically move within days as AI engines re-crawl. Citation rate moves measurably inside eight weeks on most sites. Brand-authority work compounds over three to six months. A 2024 study from Georgia Tech, Princeton and IIT Delhi on AI-search visibility documented a 30 to 115 percent lift for sites that hit the right GEO metrics. FCT projects at the bottom of that range when doing the math with you, then tracks the actual change in your monthly report using the same six-category rubric every month. FCT runs this exact retainer on its own site as the live proof: the same rubric and the same monthly report you receive, with every fix shipped in public. The report you get is the one FCT already keeps on itself.

Yes. The retainer works on any platform. Only the way in changes. For Astro and Next.js sites in Git, FCT ships every change as a pull request you can review. For WordPress, FCT installs structured data through Rank Math or Yoast plus a Code Snippets plugin for custom JSON-LD, edits robots.txt through the SEO plugin, and adds the llms.txt through FTP or the hosting file manager. For Wix and Squarespace, FCT works through their theme-code path. What you get is the same on every platform: a baseline audit, a week-one fix pass, and a monthly report scored on the same six-category rubric. Every report, schema and rewrite stays on your site and in your hands if you ever stop.