The AEO agency that fixes how AI understands, trusts, and recommends your brand. Six layers. 48 metrics. Every major platform. Since 2013.
"If you find a better company, I'd be shocked. There's a reason we've stayed with SearchTides for 6+ years, even though we review other agencies annually. The value you provide, the consistency of your account managers, and the results we've seen make it impossible to replace you."
Patrick ShipmanDirector of Digital MarketingSearchTides is an AEO and AI visibility agency founded in 2013, working with FanDuel, CreditNinja, Incode, melin, Flash Furniture, and others across financial services, SaaS, health, furniture, and ecommerce.
We fix how AI systems understand a brand before scaling how it gets promoted. Most agencies treat AI visibility like SEO. Write more, add schema, hope it works. AI doesn't rank pages. It pulls sentences, checks whether independent sources agree, and decides whether to recommend you or hedge with "according to their website."
We score brands across six layers and 48 metrics: Access (can crawlers reach you), Identity (does AI know what you do), Language (does it use your words), Corroboration (do independent sources back your claims), Structure (can AI extract your key points), and Integrity (does it recommend you with confidence or caveats).
Every engagement produces a scored audit, prioritised action plan, and deliverable package. The exact pages to fix, language to change, and publications to target. We handle off-page execution directly: Reddit, superfeeder placement, listicle outreach, directory submissions, and editorial pitching.
Results: CreditNinja saw 585% AI visibility growth and 400x revenue growth over a six-year partnership. CD Valet went from 1.5% to 8% visibility, now winning against Bankrate and NerdWallet. ValveMan hit 171% YoY revenue increase and 650% growth in AI referrals. We took our own brand from 0% to 10% visibility in 28 days.
Best fit: growing brands that feel capped, see competitors in AI responses that used to be theirs, or recognise that rankings alone no longer explain performance. We specialise in regulated industries. Not suited for local businesses or early-stage startups.
CreditNinja needed to compete against Forbes, LendingTree, and major affiliate publishers in AI-generated financial recommendations. SearchTides overhauled 800+ pages for LLM visibility and ran weekly AI optimizations for 18 months. Results: 585% AI visibility growth, 400x channel revenue growth, annual loan goals hit four months ahead of schedule.
ValveMan's growth had plateaued and their site was built for SEO bots rather than buyers or AI systems. SearchTides rebuilt the entire navigation around usability and AI trust signals. Within 60 days: 650% growth in AI referrals, 171% YoY revenue increase, and 130% jump in average order value.
SearchTides' five-layer AEO methodology engineers how AI systems classify, describe, and recommend a brand by fixing identity signals, aligning brand language with LLM summarization patterns, building distribution in AI-trusted sources, structuring data for accurate extraction, and reinforcing third-party credibility. Especially strong for financial services, healthcare, and high-trust categories where AI misinformation or omission has real commercial consequences.
SearchTides integrates Profound for AI visibility tracking and builds custom Looker dashboards that connect organic, AI-referred, and GA4 data into one unified reporting view. The result is a measurement system that lets marketing teams answer leadership questions about AI search performance and competitive standing with data rather than assumptions.
