Your store ranks fine. You’re still losing revenue to AI search.

An AEO consultant optimizes your brand to be cited by AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews) when buyers ask what to buy. The work is technical: schema markup, entity definitions, and citation-ready content structure. Corey Fox is a senior SEO and AEO consultant for Shopify and DTC ecommerce brands doing $1M-10M, with retainers from $2,000/month.

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The report looks fine. The revenue doesn’t.

Your rankings held. Your content calendar is full. And your organic traffic is still sliding.

That is not a ranking problem. AI Overviews, Google’s AI-generated answers shown above the traditional results, now sit at the top of the page, and shoppers get their answer without ever clicking through.

If your store is not the source the AI cites, you are invisible at the exact moment your buyer is deciding.

What does an AEO consultant do?

Three things, in this order:

Quantify. Pull your data and put a dollar figure on the organic traffic value lost in the last 12 months, which competitors displaced you, and where you are missing from AI-generated answers.

Build. Technical foundation, clean Product and review schema (the conflicts Shopify themes and review apps create by default), entity optimization, and citation-ready content that gets your brand quoted in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.

Dominate. You become the default cited source in your category, a moat competitors cannot quickly copy.

AEO consultant vs SEO agency

	AEO consultant (this)	Typical SEO agency
Optimizes for	Google rankings AND AI citations	Google rankings
Reports	Dollar figure of lost revenue	Rankings and vanity metrics
Who does the work	The senior person you hired	A team of juniors
Retainer	From $2,000/month	$5,000-10,000/month
Timeline honesty	30-90 days, stated per workstream	“6-9 months”

What is AEO, and why haven’t your competitors caught up?

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the work of making your brand the source AI engines cite when your buyers ask questions. It is the on-page counterpart to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), which earns brand mentions through off-page reputation.

When someone asks ChatGPT which product to buy, the engine answers from the sources it considers authoritative. If that is not you, your buyer gets a recommendation and never sees your store.

The mechanics are technical, not promotional: schema markup that machines can parse, entity definitions that leave no ambiguity about who you are, and content structured so an AI can lift your answer and attribute it to you.

Persuasion copy does not get cited. Clear, verifiable, well-structured information does.

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How much does an AEO consultant cost?

Shopify SEO and AI Visibility Audit: $1,500, fixed price. A full technical, schema, and AI-citation audit with a ranked fix list your developer can run. Delivered in 10 business days. If you move to a retainer within 30 days, the audit fee is credited to your first month.

Retainers start at $2,000/month. AI infrastructure handles the repetitive layer (crawls, competitive analysis, audit production), so there is no team of juniors to fund. What you pay for is senior strategy and implementation, delivered directly.

How fast do results show?

Technical and schema fixes: 30-60 days
Content strategy: compounds over 90 days
AEO citations: 60-90 days from implementation

FAQs

AI infrastructure handles the repetitive layer: crawls, competitive analysis, and audit production. There is no team of juniors to fund and no overhead built into the retainer. Retainers start at $2,000/month because the work is senior-level. The price is below an agency team because there is no team.

I work with Shopify and DTC ecommerce brands doing roughly $1M-10M in revenue. Most of my recent results come from premium product brands: cookware, fragrance, food, and apparel.

I also take on a limited number of law firms. If you run a firm or you’re outside ecommerce, book a call and I’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a fit.

Most consultants optimize for Google rankings. I optimize for Google and for the AI engines answering your buyers’ questions. Every engagement starts with a dollar figure, not a deliverables list, and I report on revenue from GA4, not third-party estimates. The audit infrastructure I’ve built produces in 8 minutes what agencies quote weeks for, which is why the free revenue audit exists at all.

Technical and schema fixes usually show in 30-60 days. Content compounds over 90 days. AI citations typically appear 60-90 days after implementation. Timelines are stated per workstream up front.

On Shopify stores, “SEO that didn’t work” usually comes down to structure: conflicting Product schema from the theme and review app, cannibalized collection pages, thin duplicate collections, or content that targets volume instead of buyers. The free audit shows which of these is costing you money.

Minimal. A 60-minute strategy call, access to Shopify, Search Console, and GA4, and a 15-minute weekly check-in.

See What’s Costing You Revenue

Free 8-minute revenue audit, run before we ever get on a call.

What you get:

Your monthly traffic value loss, in dollars
The named competitors who took it, and on which keywords
Your AI visibility gap across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
The three highest-impact fixes, prioritized by recoverable revenue

What it costs: Nothing. No pitch, no obligation. A 20-minute call and a written summary you keep either way.

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