FORKOFF AI SEO is a full-stack retrieval service that engineers schema, content, technical, and AI-tailored layers for AI and Web3 founders across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. Weekly per-surface receipts on the audit ledger.
Five patterns we see when a brand tries to compound AI SEO across the 6 retrieval surfaces and the work stalls inside the first quarter. Each row is the FORKOFF fix. Read it before you book the audit call.
The team ships content only, or schema only, or authority only. AI SEO needs all four layers in motion every quarter. A single-layer push lifts one query then plateaus while competitors compound the missing surfaces.
Audit, build, authority, and measurement layers shipped together. Schema graph live in week two, parasite ladder seeded by week four, original-data drop on the 60-day mark, weekly receipt from week three onward.
The owned site has no structured Q&A, no listicles, no parasite presence, and zero directory listings. Models, AI panels, and answer engines have nothing to retrieve and quietly default to whichever competitor seeded the category first.
Schema graph + 4 directory listings + 4 listicle pages + 2 parasite seeds shipped in the first 30 days. Each surface earns a separate retrieval slot across all 6 engines on the bench.
The team cannot say which queries surface the brand on which engine this week. With no 6-surface bench, model updates wipe patterns silently and the work never compounds across the buyer journey.
20 to 40 commercial queries × 6 retrieval surfaces × Monday scan. Citation count, position, and context logged on the audit ledger with week-over-week delta and source-mix breakdown per surface.
Bing Copilot, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity weight freshness heavily. Pages over 6 months old without a fresh canonical answer or original-data drop get downgraded out of the retrieval set even when they still rank on Google.
Quarterly canonical Q&A refresh on the owned domain, original-data drops every 60 days, and a parasite ladder (Medium, dev.to, HackerNoon, Substack) so the freshest answer for each buyer query carries the brand byline.
The retainer ships work but the founder never sees a citation receipt. Every quarter looks like the last. Renewal calls happen on vibes instead of math, and the work never gets credit when it does compound.
Weekly per-surface citation count, position, context, and source mix logged on the audit ledger. Receipt lands in the founder inbox by Tuesday with delta math vs prior week. Quarter-end scale call is data-driven, not vibes.
The FORKOFF AI SEO retainer runs on a single 90-day operating system. 6-surface baseline captured in the first two weeks. Schema, canonical Q&A, and listicles shipped by week six. Authority surface (directories, parasite, podcasts, original data) live by week ten. Weekly per-surface audit-ledger receipt in the founder inbox every Tuesday from week four.
Traditional SEO competes for a Google rank that buyers increasingly skip. Most AI agencies sell content only. FORKOFF AI SEO engineers the schema, corpus, authority surface, and per-surface receipt that decide which brand ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews reach for. Canonical AEO hub sits at Answer Engine Optimization; multi-engine umbrella sits at AI Search Optimization and the broader pillar lives at GEO.
6-surface citation baseline captured on the audit ledger.
Schema, llms.txt, canonical Q&A, and listicles live.
Directory + parasite + podcast + original-data surface live.
Weekly per-surface receipt with delta math, signed by operator.
A stack is only counted when four signals hold every quarter. Schema graph valid, canonical Q&A on commercial pages, authority surface live across directories and parasite and podcasts, and a per-surface receipt logged every Monday. Single-layer pushes (content-only or schema-only) never land on the ledger.
01 SCHEMA GRAPH
FAQ + Article + HowTo + Service + Org schema valid on every page.
Validated on Google Rich Results and Bing every deploy. Markdown content negotiation per route resolves agent crawler traffic to clean per-page MD instead of the rendered shell.
rule · FAQ + Article + HowTo + Service + Org schema valid on every page.
1 to 2 sentences. Liftable as a snippet with no edit. Bury-the-lede openings get rewritten before the page ships. Engines repeat the canonical sentence the brand controls instead of paraphrasing a competitor.
rule · Answer-first opener under every commercial H2.
G2, Capterra, Clutch, GoodFirms listings shipped. Medium, dev.to, HackerNoon, Substack seeds with canonical back where supported. Founder podcast tour and original-data drop on the 60-day mark.
rule · Directories, parasite hosts, podcasts, and original data live.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews counted separately. Source mix, retrieval bias, and week-over-week delta land in the founder inbox by Tuesday. Scale call at quarter end.
rule · Per-surface citation count logged every Monday with delta math.
Three engagements across AI infra, B2B SaaS, and a Web3 protocol. AI SEO retainers that rewired the schema graph, shipped the authority surface, and reported a per-surface receipt the founder could read in two minutes. Pair the retainer with Answer Engine Optimization for the canonical citation hub or AI Search Optimization for the multi-engine umbrella.
Surface coverage on a 60-day AI SEO sprint with an AI infra brand. Stage 1 to Stage 4 across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Bing Copilot, and Google AIO.
Days from kickoff to first multi-surface citation lift on Stage 1 to Stage 2 brands. Bing Copilot recovery after a model retrieval shift.
Monthly retainer floor. 90-day minimum, capped at 5 engagements per quarter.
You keep the schema graph, llms.txt, parasite content, directory listings, podcast transcripts, and the citation ledger.
Three options for shipping AI SEO. Match the engagement to the surface coverage you actually need, the schema discipline you can sustain, and the per-surface receipt cadence you want shipped weekly.
| Feature | FORKOFF AI SEO4-layer stack · 6-surface bench · weekly receipt · audit ledger | Generic SEO agencyBlue-link rankings · monthly vanity dashboard | AI content agencyContent generation only · no schema, no authority, no measurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stack coverage | Audit + Build + Authority + Measurement (4 layers) | Content + backlinks (2 layers, blue-link focus) | Content generation only (1 layer) |
| Surface coverage | ChatGPT + Claude + Perplexity + Gemini + Bing Copilot + Google AIO | Google blue links only | Whichever LLM the founder noticed last week |
| Schema discipline | FAQ + Article + HowTo + Service + Org graph, validated every deploy | FAQ schema on a few pages, sometimes | Whatever the CMS shipped by default |
| Authority work | Directories + parasite + podcasts + original data + founder cadence | Backlink outreach campaigns | Not part of the engagement |
| Measurement | 20-40 query bench × 6 surfaces × weekly Monday scan with delta math | Vanity SEO dashboard. Pixel-tracked impressions only | Word count and posts shipped |
| Pricing model | $2-4k sandbox audit · $5-10k/mo retainer · outcome-priced milestones | Hourly retainer regardless of result | Per-post or per-word billing |
20 to 40 commercial queries, 6 retrieval surfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, Google AI Overviews), one full-stack AI SEO map. You get the gap diagnosis, schema audit, corpus and authority plan, and 90-day shipping order in 5 business days. If FORKOFF cannot find actionable AI SEO gaps, the fee gets refunded. Retainer kicks in at $5,000 to $10,000 per month after the audit lands.
AI SEO is the full-stack program that engineers brand visibility across LLMs, AI search engines, and answer engines (the retrieval surfaces buyers now use to find vendors). It is the AI-augmented version of classical SEO, with schema, canonical Q&A, authority work, and weekly receipts stitched on top of traditional rankings. FORKOFF runs all four layers (audit, build, authority, measurement) with an audit-ledger receipt per shipped phase.
6-surface bench, schema graph, canonical Q&A, authority ladder, and an original-data drop shipped in the first 60 days. Weekly Monday per-surface citation receipt. Outcome-priced. Scaleable up or down at quarter end. Pair the retainer with AEO, AI Search Optimization, or LLM SEO depending on the retrieval surface that wins your buyer.
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