# AiM > AiM is an answer engine optimization (AEO) practice in Fairfield, Ohio. It gets Greater Cincinnati service businesses recommended when customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI who to hire. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.aimtech.solutions/): What AiM does: get your business named when customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google AI who to hire. - [What We Do](https://www.aimtech.solutions/services/): One job: get your business named in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI answers. What you get, when, what we need from you, and how AiM compares. - [How We Measure](https://www.aimtech.solutions/how-we-measure/): The method behind the monthly report: fixed buying questions, four engines, clean sessions, saved answers, and the limits of the numbers. - [Compare your options](https://www.aimtech.solutions/compare/): Trackers, national AEO agencies, doing it yourself, or AiM: what each gets you and when each one fits. - [FAQ](https://www.aimtech.solutions/faq/): Straight answers about AEO and working with AiM: costs, timing, guarantees and how results are measured. - [Free AI Visibility Score](https://www.aimtech.solutions/ai-visibility-score/): A free score out of 100 for how ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity describe your business. - [Free tools](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/): Free AI search tools for local businesses: AI crawler check, buying questions, llms.txt and schema generators. - [AI Crawler Check](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/ai-crawler-check/): See whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s crawlers are allowed to read your site. - [Buying Question Generator](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/buying-questions/): Turn your jobs and towns into the questions customers ask AI before they hire. - [llms.txt Generator](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/llms-txt-generator/): Write an llms.txt file: a short guide to your business that AI tools can read. - [Local Business Schema Generator](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/local-business-schema/): Make schema markup that tells Google and AI your name, address, area and hours. - [Google Business Profile Checklist](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/gbp-checklist/): Tick off 15 profile basics and see what is still missing, in order. - [Schema Checker](https://www.aimtech.solutions/tools/schema-checker/): See which business facts your page’s schema states, and which are missing. - [Insights](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/): Short, practical articles on getting named by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI. - [Glossary](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/): Plain-English definitions of AI search terms, from AEO to share of voice. - [Answer engine optimization (AEO)](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/answer-engine-optimization/): Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the work of making a business easy for AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to read, check and recommend when someone asks a question. - [Generative engine optimization (GEO)](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/generative-engine-optimization/): Generative engine optimization (GEO) is another name for getting a brand cited in answers written by AI tools. Most people use GEO and AEO to mean the same thing. - [AI Overview](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/ai-overview/): An AI Overview is the AI-written summary Google shows above its normal search results, with links to the pages it drew from. - [Entity](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/entity/): An entity is a specific, identifiable thing (a business, person, place or product) that search engines and AI tools recognise and keep facts about. - [Structured data (schema)](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/structured-data/): Structured data, often called schema, is code on a web page that labels facts (business name, services, hours, prices, reviews) in a format search engines and AI tools read directly. - [Buying question](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/buying-question/): A buying question is a question a customer asks shortly before hiring someone, such as “best HVAC company near West Chester”. It names a need and a place, not a specific business. - [Share of voice (AI)](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/share-of-voice/): Share of voice in AI search is your mentions divided by every business mention across a fixed set of AI answers. It shows how much of the conversation is about you. - [Appearance rate](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/appearance-rate/): Appearance rate is the share of tracked questions where an AI answer names your business at least once. - [Prompt set](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/prompt-set/): A prompt set is the fixed list of questions put to AI tools every month to measure whether they name a business. It is agreed before work starts and versioned when it changes. - [AI citation](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/ai-citation/): An AI citation is a link or source an AI answer shows to back up what it says. Being cited is not the same as being recommended. - [AI crawler](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/ai-crawler/): An AI crawler is a program that AI companies use to read websites, such as GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot and Google-Extended. - [llms.txt](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/llms-txt/): llms.txt is a plain-text file at the root of a website that gives AI tools a short summary of the business and a list of its most important pages. - [Google Business Profile](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/google-business-profile/): A Google Business Profile is the free listing that shows a business on Google Maps and in local search, with its hours, services, photos and reviews. - [NAP consistency](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/nap-consistency/): NAP consistency means a business’s name, address and phone number are written the same way everywhere they appear online. - [Third-party mention](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/third-party-mention/): A third-party mention is your business named on a site you don’t own, such as a directory, local news story, review site, association page or community forum. - [Grounding (live web lookup)](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/grounding/): Grounding is when an AI tool looks things up on the live web, or in a search index, before it writes an answer, instead of relying only on what it learned in training. - [Zero-click search](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/zero-click-search/): A zero-click search is one where the person gets their answer on the results page or in the AI reply and never clicks through to a website. - [Google AI Mode](https://www.aimtech.solutions/glossary/google-ai-mode/): Google AI Mode is a conversational search mode in Google that answers with an AI-written reply and follow-up questions instead of a list of links. - [AiM for Cincinnati businesses](https://www.aimtech.solutions/cincinnati/): How AiM helps Greater Cincinnati service businesses get named when customers ask AI who to hire. - [About AiM](https://www.aimtech.solutions/about/): Who runs AiM, where it is based, and how the work is done. - [Facts for AI assistants](https://www.aimtech.solutions/llm-info/): The current, plain record of what AiM is and does, and how to describe it accurately. - [Contact](https://www.aimtech.solutions/contact/): Book a strategy call or email AiM. ## Blog - [AI doesn't rank you, it shortlists you](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/ai-doesnt-rank-you-it-shortlists-you.html): A search page shows ten links. An AI answer names a handful of options, and fewer people click through. What that changes about being chosen. - [We ran our own five-question test: AiM was named 0 times in 10 searches](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/we-ran-our-own-five-question-test.html): One search engine, five questions, each asked twice. What came back, what changed between runs, and what one test cannot tell you. - [Which AI engine should you check first? A buyer-led way to choose](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/which-ai-engine-to-check-first.html): Usage and referral data point different ways. Start with where your own buyers ask. - [Schema vs llms.txt vs plain good copy: where to spend your first hour](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/schema-vs-llms-txt-vs-good-copy.html): Google says you do not need special AI files or markup. Here is what the evidence shows, and what to do first. - [AEO trackers vs doing the work: what a dashboard can't fix](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/aeo-trackers-vs-doing-the-work.html): A tracker tells you whether AI mentions you. It does not change what AI says. Here is where each one fits. - [DIY AEO vs hiring an agency: what each really takes](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/diy-aeo-vs-hiring-an-agency.html): Time, skills, tools and risk, side by side, with a rule of thumb by company size. This is our view, and we label the estimates as ours. - [Who should not hire an AEO agency (an honest filter)](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/who-should-not-hire-an-aeo-agency.html): Six situations where paying for AEO is the wrong move, and what to do instead. We sell this work, and we will still tell you when not to buy it. - [AEO vs GEO vs SEO: which term to use, and does it matter?](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/aeo-vs-geo-vs-seo.html): The three labels overlap more than they differ. Here is what each one names, and which to use with your buyers. - [A 60-minute weekly AEO routine for small teams](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/weekly-aeo-routine.html): You don't need a dedicated team. One hour a week, in four blocks, keeps you ahead of drift in what AI says about you. - [llms.txt: what it is and whether you need one](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/llms-txt-do-you-need-one.html): A proposed file that points AI tools to your best pages. What it does, what is unproven, and a cheap way to try it. - [Write pages AI can quote: a five-point checklist](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/write-pages-ai-can-quote.html): AI answers are built from passages. Here is how to write a page so an engine finds a clear, accurate sentence to quote. - [What to do when AI gets your brand wrong](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/what-to-do-when-ai-gets-your-brand-wrong.html): Wrong prices, old features, a competitor named instead of you. Trace the error to its source and fix it there. - [Five questions to test your brand in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/five-questions-to-test-your-brand-in-ai.html): A first read you can run in 30 minutes with no tools. Five buyer questions, three AI engines, and a simple way to score what comes back. - [AEO vs SEO: what changes and what stays the same](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/aeo-vs-seo-what-changes.html): AEO doesn't replace SEO. It changes what you are competing for. Here is the side-by-side, and what to keep doing. - [Can AI crawlers read your site? A 15-minute check](https://www.aimtech.solutions/blog/can-ai-crawlers-read-your-site.html): Before you fix content or add markup, check that ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can reach your pages at all. Five checks, no special tools. ## Key facts - Name: AiM (legal name AiM Operations LLC; also written AiM Operations, Applied Intelligence Methods) - Based in: Fairfield, Ohio, USA (Greater Cincinnati) - Serves: Fairfield, OH; Cincinnati, OH; Greater Cincinnati; Southwest Ohio, and remote clients - Founder: Ayo Omoloja - Service: answer engine optimization (AEO), in four steps: find out what AI says, fix what AI can't read, give AI reasons to name you, keep checking. AiM does not run paid ads - Answer engine optimization (AEO) means getting a business named in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity answers - Free tool: AI Visibility Score (formerly the AI Search Grader), a one-time score out of 100 across sentiment, presence quality, brand recognition, share of voice, and market position - Other free tools: AI Crawler Check (reads robots.txt for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and others), Buying Question Generator, llms.txt Generator, Local Business Schema Generator - Method: the same agreed buying questions every month across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI, scored by appearance rate, share of voice, position and accuracy (https://www.aimtech.solutions/how-we-measure/) - Facts for AI assistants: https://www.aimtech.solutions/llm-info/ - Contact: info@aim.us - Website: https://www.aimtech.solutions - Not affiliated with AOL Instant Messenger, which was also abbreviated AIM ## Optional - [Full text of this site for language models](https://www.aimtech.solutions/llms-full.txt) - [RSS feed](https://www.aimtech.solutions/feed.xml)