Answer Engine Optimization

Own the answer AI gives.

We put our clients at the top of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini — and show the results, live.

Ranking #1 right now
Great Wolf Lodge New Use Energy SweetLeaf

AEO & GEO

WE OWN AEO & GEO. WE MAKE YOU THE ANSWER.

We make brands the answer AI gives, on every engine that matters.

We partner with ambitious teams ready to own their category in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

We turn citations into authority, and authority into measurable growth.

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Case Studies

Proof, not promises.

We don't pitch rankings — we show them. Here's what it looks like when a brand becomes the answer AI gives.

chatgpt.com
ChatGPT ranking New Use Energy SunCase #1 for best military portable power
New Use EnergyRanked #1 on ChatGPT
#1 answer
FeaturedCase Study

New Use Energy

> "best military portable power"

Asked for the best military portable power, ChatGPT names the NUE SunCase the #1 tactical pick — ranked above every commercial system on the market.

#1
Ranked on ChatGPT
2,940
▲ +186%
Brand citations
41
▲ +18%
AEO visibility
NUE SunCase series ruggedized portable power cases
The SunCase™ series — ruggedized, quote-ready, built to be the answer downrange.
Industrial ecommerce

Grizzly

Triggered-revenue engine built to scale demand across the catalog.

Case study coming soon
CPG · Sweeteners

SweetLeaf

Category authority earned across the AI answers shoppers trust.

Case study coming soon
Wine & Spirits

Barefoot Wine

Household-name demand, carried into the answer engines.

Case study coming soon
Moving & Logistics

Bekins

Owning the local answer, market by market, move by move.

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The work

Most mid-market companies don't have a demand problem. They have a system problem.

Spend nobody can defend. Pipeline that stalls. Customers leaving through a side door. Each looks survivable alone — together they cap your growth. I connect them into one engine. Here's where I start.

01 / FIND DEMAND

The right buyers, on purpose

Full-funnel demand that's predictable instead of feast-or-famine — across content, paid, owned, and the AI/search surfaces where buyers now actually start.

  • Demand generation
  • Performance marketing
  • AEO / GEO & AI search
02 / KEEP & GROW IT

Growth you don't re-buy every quarter

Onboarding, expansion, win-back, and the pricing leverage most teams ignore — so the customers you fight to win actually stay and grow.

  • Lifecycle & retention
  • Pricing & packaging
  • Expansion revenue
03 / POINT IT AT REVENUE

Marketing aimed at the P&L

Go-to-market aligned to how you actually make money, with channel and alliance plays that open pipeline you can't buy with ad spend.

  • Revenue strategy
  • Partnerships & alliances
  • Market expansion
OWN THE NUMBER — the growth engine mid-market companies actually run, by Brian Jensen, Founder of Agency34
The playbook

The engine above isn't a theory. It's written down.

Own the Number is the system behind those three moves — how mid-market companies stop running scattered campaigns and start running one machine that finds demand, keeps it, and points it at the P&L.

Twenty years of owning the number — Barefoot, SweetLeaf, Great Wolf, Grizzly & Bekins — distilled into the playbook I run for clients.

Not a deck. Not a campaign. A machine.

Brian JensenFounder · Fractional CMO
Why a CMO-led approach is different
I've sat in your seat. I've owned the number, defended the budget, and explained a flat quarter to a board. So I don't hand you a deck and disappear.

I build the operating system a growth team can actually run — and I care about the P&L line, not just the marketing-qualified one. I lead with data and straight talk, and I put every available tool, AI included, to work growing the businesses I take on.

Smaller budget than the enterprise players? Good. You don't out-spend them, you out-focus them. I find the two or three channels where your buyers genuinely pay attention, build the engine there, and cut the noise.

How to work with me

Three ways in. Start where the return is fastest.

Whether you need a one-time diagnosis or a hands-on partner, there's a clear on-ramp — and each one earns the next.

Start here

Growth Review

$3,000 / one-time

A paid diagnosis of where revenue is actually leaking — demand, retention, pricing, or AI visibility — with a sequenced plan and honest fit / no-fit call. Credited toward a retainer if we go deeper.

Growth Review
Productized

AEO Authority Builder

$5,000 / engagement

Done-for-you answer-engine authority: the content, schema, and citations that get your brand named by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI — without a full retainer.

AEO Authority Builder
Most impact
Hands-on partner

Fractional CMO

$15,000 / month

I run the growth engine with you — diagnose, sequence, build, and prove. One dashboard, the metrics that tie to revenue, and a rhythm where we look at the truth together. Scoped to the gap, not a template.

Fractional CMO
Straight answers

What mid-market leaders actually ask me.

How fast can you actually move our numbers? +
The honest answer: pricing and conversion wins can show up in weeks; demand and pipeline build over a quarter or two; lifecycle and expansion compound after that. You get a sequenced plan with what to expect and when — no "trust me, it'll work eventually."
We already have a growth team. Where do you fit? +
I make the team you have hit harder. Sometimes that's strategy and a clear operating system; sometimes a fractional CMO seat while you hire; sometimes untangling attribution so you finally know what's working. I scope to the gap, not to a retainer.
How do you decide what to fix first? +
With your data, not a template. I find where revenue is actually leaking and start with the lever that returns the most, fastest. Often it's not "more leads" — frequently it's pricing, packaging, or retention first.