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AI-First Web Design & AEO Agency

Web Design Engineered for the AI Search Era.

When someone asks Google — or ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude — to recommend a business like yours, we make sure yours is the one it names. We build fast, search-ready websites, or upgrade the Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or WordPress site you already have.

Optimized to be cited by

Google AI Overviews ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude

“Cited” means named as the source when one of these writes an answer — the modern version of ranking first.

What We Build

Our Core Architecture

Four systems that compound. Design that converts, implementation on the site you already have, optimization that gets you cited, and automation that turns every lead into a tracked opportunity.

AI-Driven Web Design

A website built from scratch for your business — not a template with your logo dropped on it. Fast, and designed to turn visitors into phone calls.

  • Built from scratch on a custom design system
  • Loads in under a second — Google counts speed
  • Works on any phone, usable by everyone
  • Every page built around one job: the call

Platform SEO & AEO Implementation

Keep the Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or WordPress site you already have. I fix what's underneath it, so Google and AI assistants can finally tell what you do.

  • Schema markup added inside your builder
  • Speed fixes that pass Google's health check
  • Page titles, headings & links rebuilt properly
  • No rebuild, no moving, no downtime

Generative & Answer Engine Optimization

Classic SEO gets you into Google's list of links. AEO gets you named inside the answer an AI writes. You need both — so I do both.

  • Complete SEO and AEO programs
  • Schema markup — machine-readable business facts
  • Getting named when people ask AI for a referral
  • Showing up in Google AI Overviews and Gemini

Custom AI Automations & Workflows

The plumbing behind a growing business: every enquiry captured, sorted, and followed up automatically. No spreadsheets, nothing slipping through the cracks.

  • Every lead lands in one organized place
  • New clients onboarded automatically
  • Enquiries ranked so you call the hot ones first
  • Built around how your team actually works
Pricing

We find the gaps. You choose how they are fixed.

Diagnose first. Then decide whether your own team implements the roadmap or we do. You are never required to hire us to act on what we find.

01 Diagnose

Find the gap

What is actually happening across search, AI answers, your structured data and your competitors — before anyone recommends a rebuild or sells you a retainer. The roadmap is yours to keep either way.

From $950

02 Decide

Choose who does the work

Two ways to close what the diagnostic found. You pick.

  • Your team does it To our specifications, with our review and QA from $1,500
  • We do it CiteWave implements it directly from $3,500
03 Defend

Stay visible

Competitors move, AI platforms change and content ages. Monitoring and optimization without an open-ended retainer, on a six-month minimum.

From $1,500/mo

Every figure is a floor, set by the work the diagnostic finds. A five-page business and a forty-page firm with twenty attorneys are not the same job, and are not priced as though they were. If the diagnostic finds the site itself is the obstacle rather than its markup, a new build starts at $4,500. Multi-location and complex organizations are scoped individually.

See what sets the price
Questions

What people ask first.

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring your website and its data so AI systems — Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude — can retrieve your expertise, trust it, and cite you by name in their answers. Where traditional SEO competes for a position in a list of links, AEO competes to be the source the answer is built from.

How is AEO different from regular SEO?

SEO gets you ranked. AEO gets you quoted. They sit on the same foundation — a fast site, clean code, pages Google can actually find — but AEO adds three things on top: schema (hidden labels describing your business to machines), clear connections between you and the things you're known for, and content written the way people actually phrase their questions. You need both. Roughly half of searchers still click links; the other half read the AI answer and never scroll.

How long before I see results?

Most clients see real movement within 30 to 90 days. The technical fixes — page speed, schema, making sure Google can reach every page — land almost immediately. Reputation takes longer: getting named consistently by AI tools is something you earn over months, not weeks. That's why the Growth Engine runs on a six-month minimum. It's the honest floor for results that stick, not a sales tactic.

What does it cost to work with CiteWave Systems?

There are six engagements. The AI Visibility & SEO/AEO Diagnostic starts at $950. Guided Implementation — where your own team does the work to our specifications — starts at $1,500. Done-for-You Implementation, where we do it, starts at $3,500. The AI-First Web Launch build starts at $4,500. The Growth Engine retainer is $1,500 per month on a six-month minimum. Multi-location and complex organizations are scoped individually. The full $950 diagnostic fee is credited toward any engagement signed within 14 days.

Can you do SEO and AEO on a Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or WordPress site?

Yes — that's Done-for-You Implementation, from $3,500. Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, and WordPress each expose a different amount of the underlying markup, so the work happens within each platform's constraints: JSON-LD schema injected through the platform's code or header tools, Core Web Vitals remediation through image, font, and app-script cleanup, an on-page and internal linking rebuild, Google Business Profile and citation alignment, and content reformatted into the question-and-answer structure that Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude actually quote. Your site stays on the platform your team already knows — no migration, no downtime.

Which AI answer engines do you optimize for?

Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude. Gemini gets first-class treatment because it draws on Google's index and Google Business Profile data — meaning the same structured data and local entity work that earns you Gemini citations also reinforces your classic Google rankings and local pack position. One body of work, two payoffs.

Do I have to rebuild my whole website?

No. Plenty of engagements are schema, speed, and authority work layered onto a site that already exists — across WordPress, Wix, Shopify, or Squarespace, with zero operational downtime. That's exactly what Done-for-You Implementation, from $3,500, is for — or from $1,500 if your own team does the work. The $950 diagnostic exists precisely to tell you whether a rebuild is warranted before you spend anything on one.

Do you work with my competitors?

Never. CiteWave Systems operates one firm per market. If we work together, I'm building your advantage — not renting the same playbook to the firm across town next quarter.

Still deciding? Book a free 15-minute call — no pitch deck.

Plain English

What these words actually mean.

Our industry hides behind vocabulary. Here's the whole dictionary, in language you'd actually use out loud. If anyone ever makes you feel stupid for asking, walk away.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
The work that gets your business to show up when someone types a question into Google. The classic version: you're competing for a spot in the list of blue links.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)
The work that gets your business named inside the answer an AI writes. Someone asks ChatGPT "best roofer near me" — AEO is why you're one of the three it lists.
Schema (structured data)
Hidden labels on your website that spell out, in a format machines read, exactly what your business is: name, address, hours, services, prices. Your visitors see no difference. Search engines stop having to guess.
Citation (two meanings)
Confusingly, the word does double duty. In local SEO, a citation is a listing of your name, address, and phone on another site — Yelp, directories, chambers of commerce. In AI search, being cited means being named as the source of an answer. We do both.
Core Web Vitals
Google's health check on your pages. It measures three things: how fast the page shows up, how quickly it responds when tapped, and whether things jump around while loading. Fail it and you rank lower.
Local pack (map pack)
The box of three businesses with a little map that sits at the top of local Google searches, above everything else. For most local businesses, this is the single most valuable piece of real estate on the internet.
Google Business Profile
The free listing that controls how you appear in Google Maps and the local pack. It used to be called Google My Business. It is almost always the cheapest, fastest win available to a local business.
AI Overview
The AI-written summary Google now puts above the blue links. Many people read it and never scroll. If you're not in it, you may as well not be on the page.
Crawling & indexing
How search engines find your pages (crawling) and file them away to show people later (indexing). If a page was never crawled, it cannot rank — it doesn't exist as far as Google is concerned.

Still confusing? That's on us, not you. Ask me directly — I'll explain it without the vocabulary.

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What can AI actually read from your site?

Nine checks, about five seconds, results on screen before we ask you for anything.

Reads one public page. It will not tell you whether your listings agree with each other — here is exactly what it does and does not cover.

Piper Moretti, founder of CiteWave Systems
Who you'll work with

You'll be working with me.

I'm Piper Moretti. I started CiteWave after watching good businesses write large checks to agencies and get back slide decks full of impressions — numbers that look like progress and change nothing.

My background is systems execution, not creative advertising. The person who runs your audit is the person who implements the fixes. There is no account manager in between, and there is no version of this where you never meet the person doing the work.

MS, Global Business
Data architecture, not ad copy
PMP certified
Projects that actually close out
Redondo Beach, CA
One firm per market
More about how I got here

Ready to dominate search in 2026?

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