Generative Engine Optimization

Make your brand visible in AI.

I build AI visibility for brands in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews: cited, recommended, found. GEO and content strategy for the age of AI search.

Stefan von Gagern, AI + Content Consultant. In GEO since early 2025, after 20 years in editorial and content, 17 of them writing for brands. Based in Norderstedt near Hamburg, working remotely across Germany.

Visible across

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Gemini
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Claude
  • Google AI Overviews

At a glance

GEO in brief.

What it is
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is how you build AI visibility: it gets your company cited in the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews give.
Who it's for
B2B companies, from midsize businesses to enterprises, and the marketing and communications teams that refuse to lose share of voice in AI search.
How it works
One partner for the analysis, the strategy, the work itself, and the training. Delivered in sprints and measured throughout.
Track record
More than 20 clients since early 2025, from Adobe and Salesforce to the midsize manufacturer B+R Kältetechnik.
Getting started
A free GEO check on a short call. Book it online.
Principle
Value from day one. Nothing off the shelf.

What is GEO?

Getting found was everything. Now it's about being understood.

Short version: SEO gets you ranked. GEO gets you cited.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), also called answer engine optimization, means shaping your content so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews say the right things about your brand and answer your customers' questions the way you would answer them.

AI is now the first advisor your buyer talks to. It does the research for them and hands back a short list before anyone opens a website. GEO decides whose name is on that list: yours or your competitor's.

SEO

Ranking

A slot in a list of blue links. The customer still has to do the clicking.

GEO

Being understood

AI describes you correctly and recommends you inside the answer.

Why now

Search is changing for the first time in 20 years.

Your customers stopped working through ten blue links. They ask AI and get one answer that names a handful of providers. If the model doesn't know your brand, you're not in that answer at all.

~60%
of searches end without a click

The search engine answers right there on the results page.

Semrush, 2025

30–40%
more visibility

in AI answers once your content is optimized for generative engines.

Princeton GEO Study

+31%
higher conversion from AI search

Visitors who arrive from AI search convert better than other traffic. They have usually already made up their minds.

Adobe Analytics, 2026
"Being ignored by AI is like being on page 5 of a Google SERP in the old days."
Jakob Nielsen, web usability pioneer (GEO Guidelines, uxtigers.com)

Track record

Who I work with.

More than 20 clients since early 2025: enterprises like Salesforce, the midsize manufacturer B+R Kältetechnik, agencies, and solo consultants. Every industry has the same problem now, and I know where it usually breaks.

  • Adobe
  • Amazon
  • BMW
  • PayPal
  • Ionos
  • Sage
  • Salesforce
  • rpc
  • B+R Kältetechnik
  • Berkeley Communications
  • Digital Bash

On stage & in the media

→ All appearances
"Working with Stefan, we made real progress. His recommendations come out of real measurements: specific, genuinely useful, and something we could act on. You can tell he cares about the goals we set and about real results for a midsize business like ours."
Monika Radkowsky Managing Director, B+R Kältetechnik
"I booked a one-on-one workshop with Stefan and I recommend him without reservation. We got straight into real questions from my own work, I cleaned up my workflows, and I came away with new tools."
Sabrina Seidl-Zinke Workshop participant
"GEO and visibility in AI search with Stefan von Gagern. Packed room, sold out, and a lot of great feedback."
Marc Stahlmann Founder & CEO, Digital Bash

Testimonials translated from German.

"AI engines are quickly becoming the new front door to the customer journey, summarizing, recommending, and shaping perceptions in ways that brands can no longer ignore."
Adobe, 2025

Why work with me

A writer, not an SEO theorist.

Most GEO people come out of a technical background. My background is in editorial and copywriting. For 17 years I wrote for big brands like Adobe and for midsize and small companies. I go deep on your brand, your business, and what your customers are trying to solve. Relevance is the real lever in GEO, not the next GEO hack or quick fix.

I work alongside your content team and do the work with them: specific fixes, prompts, tools, and AI assistants built around how they write.

  • Business first, hype neverGEO has to move leads, revenue, and hiring. Rankings alone don't pay the bills.
  • I ship the workStrategy, content, and the technical fixes, built and shipped, not handed over as a slide deck.
  • Your team learns it tooI leave your team with a GEO habit: prompts, workflows, and AI assistants built for how they actually work.
  • One head, five disciplinesCopywriting, content marketing, UX, PR, and a working knowledge of LLMs. GEO falls apart when you treat it as one channel.
  • Learn it, or hand it to meTake a workshop and run GEO yourself, or hand over the writing entirely. Strategy, copy, and technical work come from the same person either way.

I handle all of it

First idea to ongoing tuning, one partner the whole way. Not many people cover this much of the chain.

  1. Vision and ideas
  2. Advisor
  3. Enabler
  4. Optimizer
  5. Sounding board

Services

What I do for your AI visibility.

Also available Entities & knowledge graph: making your brand a clearly defined entity across the web, Wikipedia, directories, and structured data. Plus monitoring & reporting, so you can watch your AI visibility move month to month.

Process

How I work

  1. 01 · ANALYZE

    Your AI visibility baseline across every answer engine. Who gets cited, who doesn't, and what the gaps are worth. We build the prompt set your buyers actually type and measure your share of voice against it.

  2. 02 · OPTIMIZE

    The content, entities, and authority signals that convince a model, built so AI can read you, cite you, and recommend you. Delivered in sprints, and set up so your team can keep it running.

  3. 03 · MEASURE

    Put a number on your AI visibility. Citation tracking, clear reports, and a channel you can plan around.

The difference

GEO-optimized vs. not.

With GEO

AI finds your content first and builds its answer on it.

  • A direct line to audiences you weren't reaching
  • The credibility of being the one AI recommends
  • A head start your competitors have to close

Without GEO

AI search engines can skip you altogether.

  • Barely there in the channels that are growing
  • Leads that go somewhere else
  • A gap between you and your competitors that keeps widening
Stefan von Gagern, AI + Content Consultant. AI-generated portrait based on his own photos.

About me

Stefan von Gagern

AI + Content Consultant

I make brands visible in AI search. As an independent consultant, I bring 20 years of editorial work together with current GEO practice, and I get teams ready for the age of AI answer engines.

More than 20 clients since early 2025, from Adobe and Salesforce to midsize companies.

  • Content strategy
  • GEO
  • AI advisory
  • Speaking
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Robert Weller and I talk about content, AI, and where communication goes next.

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Curious what GEO would do for you?
Let's talk.

The free GEO check is a short call. We'll figure out what GEO is worth to your business and which levers to pull first.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about GEO.

What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?

GEO is the work of shaping your content so AI models and AI search engines can recognize it, process it, cite it, and recommend it. The goal is to be visible and relevant in a search landscape that AI now runs.

How is GEO different from traditional SEO?

SEO goes after rankings in classic search engines through keywords and ranking factors. GEO carries that into generative AI systems: how a model reads your content, summarizes it, and uses it in an answer. GEO doesn't replace SEO. It builds on top of it, and it adds structured data, citable formats, and authority signals.

Who is GEO worth it for?

B2B companies from midsize businesses to enterprises, and the marketing, content, and communications teams inside them. It works if you're just seeing the opportunity, and it works if you already have a strategy and want to sharpen it. You don't need a technical background.

Which AI systems does GEO optimize for?

All the ones that matter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. The work is built to carry across platforms rather than chase one of them.

How quickly will I see results from GEO?

GEO work is built to land fast. You'll often see the first movement in content visibility within weeks. Holding those results takes ongoing tuning and monitoring, because the AI systems keep changing under you.

How much does GEO cost?

That depends on scope and goals. After a free intro call and a look at what you need, you get a proposal built for your case, with a clear scope of work and an honest read on the return.