AEO/GEO SEO specialist, AI search optimization

About us SIS International Research is a 40+ year global market research and strategy consulting firm headquartered in New York, operating in 135+ countries. We sell six and seven figure custom research and consulting engagements to enterprise B2B buyers, including corporate strategy, insights, innovation, and M&A teams at Fortune 500s and growth stage companies. Where we are right now We already show up in AI search. A snapshot from our AI tracking tool, taken before a recent site restore, shows 98 ChatGPT citations across 56 pages, 50 on Perplexity, 59 on Grok, 31 AI Overview placements, more than 1,600 ranking keywords, and a Domain Rating of 50. Expect these numbers to move as the engines read the site again. One thing you should know up front. Earlier this year a technical change caused part of the site to drop out of Google's index. We have just restored the site to a clean version from before that problem, and it is being indexed again now. A separate contractor handles the classic search recovery, so your focus is AI search. Because the content set is still settling, your first phase is an audit and a roadmap rather than a large build, so we work from what actually survives and gets indexed again. What success looks like in 90 days - A measurable lift in how often SIS is cited across AI answers for an agreed set of 25 high intent buyer queries, for example "best market research firm for [industry or method]", "[competitor] alternatives", or "global consumer insights agency". You propose the query set and the sampling method in week one. We baseline it in week one and sample it weekly with the same prompts, logged out, from a US location, so the number means something. - Attribution stood up for AI sourced traffic, using referrer parsing, campaign tags, and a how did you find us field on our forms, with a simple weekly report of AI attributed sessions and form starts. We judge real pipeline impact at six months rather than at 90 days, because the volumes are small and enterprise sales cycles are long, and we want an honest read rather than a vanity one. - A documented entity, schema, and content architecture that gives the models clear reasons to cite SIS over named competitors. - A clear and prioritized roadmap of what to keep doing, what to fix, and what to retire. Scope of work - Audit sisinternational.com across technical SEO, AEO, and GEO, and surface what is blocking citation pickup and conversion, ranked by revenue impact rather than traffic volume. - Benchmark our presence in AI answers against the firms we lose deals to, which we will name, work out why they get cited and we do not, and produce a plan to close that gap. - Specify the content structure, entity disambiguation, schema (Organization, Service, FAQPage, Article, with sameAs and authorship signals), and the asset formats that the models tend to surface. - Recommend 10 to 15 priority pages or topics to build or rebuild for AI extractability, each tied to a buyer query and an expected pipeline impact. We phase this after we confirm which pages survived the restore and came back into the index. - Coordinate cleanly with our existing search recovery contractor. Your remit is AI search and we do not want duplicated work. Plan on a short weekly sync so the two tracks stay aligned. Requirements - Documented case studies showing brands you have gotten cited in AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini, with before and after evidence rather than single screenshots. - B2B or professional services experience strongly preferred. Consumer or ecommerce only portfolios are unlikely to translate. - A working command of schema, entity SEO, and how the models select and weight sources. Be ready to explain your approach and your measurement method in plain language on a call. - Comfortable being measured on inquiry impact over time, not just rankings or impressions. To apply, please include 1. Two or three specific examples of brands you have surfaced in AI answers, with the query, the platform, and what you did to earn the citation. 2. One paragraph on what you would look at first on sisinternational.com, based on a quick scan rather than a full audit. 3. Your rate structure and your expected timeline for the initial audit and roadmap. We move fast on strong applications. Generic AI written proposals will be skipped.