An agency built for the way people actually find local businesses now.
AEO Listings is a small, focused Answer Engine Optimization agency working with home service pros and local professionals. We help your business get recommended by the AI chatbots your next customer is already asking.
The way local recommendations happen just changed.
For the last twenty years, when someone needed a plumber, they typed it into Google and scrolled. That habit is breaking. A growing share of prospects now open ChatGPT — or ask Google's AI Overview, or Perplexity, or Claude — and get back a single recommendation.
Most local businesses are structurally invisible to these systems. Their Google Business Profile is thin. Their citations don't match across directories. Their website doesn't answer questions in a form AI can cleanly quote. When the chatbot picks a name to recommend, it picks someone else.
The businesses getting recommended by AI today aren't necessarily the best ones. They're the ones that made it easy for the model to recommend them.
We exist to fix that gap for local service businesses. Most SEO shops don't understand how AI models retrieve and cite sources; most AI tools don't understand local service businesses. We sit in the middle.
We work on retainer with a small roster of clients. No annual contracts. We're not shy about how the work gets done — the services page and the FAQ describe the whole practice. The value isn't in the playbook. It's in running it for you — correctly, and every month the models change.
One desk.
Senior hands only.
Every engagement is run by the founder. No account managers, no junior handoffs — the person you email is the person doing the work.
Jake Beach is the founder of AEO Listings LLC, a Mesa-based agency that helps contractors and local service businesses get recommended in AI search, Google, and other answer engines when prospects ask who to hire. He combines real-world marketing and small-business experience with a focus on helping owners grow on their own terms — building simple systems that turn online visibility into the right kind of calls, leads, and booked work.
Four rules.
We don't break them.
These shape every engagement, every deliverable, and every invoice.
Answers first. Jargon never.
Every page we write — and every page we touch for a client — answers the actual question in the first paragraph. AI models reward clarity. Buyers reward clarity. We haven't found a single case where being clever beats being clear.
Measure what AI sees.
We don't track rankings. We track citations: how often AI chatbots name your business, in what sentiment, and against which competitors. If we don't move that number, we haven't done our job.
Retainer, no lock-in.
Cancel by email. No annual contracts, no termination fees, no surprise invoices. The work has to earn its keep every month — otherwise it shouldn't exist.
We have to pass our own test.
If this website doesn't get recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity when someone asks for an AEO agency, we have no business selling the same outcome to you.
Thirty minutes. No pitch. Bring a question.
If you'd like to talk through how AI chatbots are treating your business today, or how your competitors are showing up without you, we'll give you an honest answer on a call.