We Help UK Businesses Get Found by AI
The way people discover businesses is changing fundamentally. Millions of potential customers are now asking AI engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok — to recommend products, services, and local businesses. The businesses that appear in those answers win the customer.
SME AI Consultancy was founded with a single mission: to ensure that UK small and medium businesses are not left behind in this shift. We are the UK's specialist agency for Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO).
The AI Search Revolution
Traditional SEO optimised for Google's 10 blue links. But AI engines don't show 10 results — they give one answer. If your business isn't in that answer, you're invisible.
Most UK businesses have no idea their websites are invisible to AI engines. No llms.txt. No FAQ schema. AI crawlers blocked by default robots.txt rules. Thin content that AI engines can't extract meaningful answers from.
AI search engines begin replacing traditional search for millions of queries
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity collectively process 10B+ queries per month
SME AI Consultancy founded — the UK's first AEO/GEO specialist agency
AI search accounts for 30%+ of all discovery queries for UK businesses
AI Engines We Optimise For
We ensure your business is discoverable across all major AI platforms
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Gemini
Claude
Anthropic
Grok
xAI
Perplexity
Perplexity AI
Meta AI
Meta
What We Stand For
AI-First Thinking
We don't retrofit traditional SEO for AI. We build AI visibility strategies from the ground up, understanding how LLMs discover, process, and cite content.
Results-Driven
Every recommendation we make is backed by data. We measure AI citation frequency, not just rankings, because that's what drives real business outcomes.
SME Specialists
We exist specifically to help small and medium businesses compete with larger enterprises in the AI search landscape. Enterprise tools, SME prices.
Continuous Innovation
AI search evolves rapidly. We monitor every algorithm update, new AI engine launch, and emerging best practice — so you don't have to.
Our Approach
We don't guess. We use a data-driven, systematic approach to AI visibility that is grounded in the latest research on how AI engines discover, process, and cite content.
Audit First
Every engagement starts with a comprehensive audit. We establish your baseline across 30+ factors before recommending a single change.
Implement Systematically
We prioritise changes by impact. Technical fixes first (crawlers, schema), then content improvements, then authority building.
Measure & Adapt
We track AI citation frequency and adjust our strategy as AI engines evolve. What works today may change tomorrow.