TL;DR
- An SEO and GEO agency ranks clients in classic search and in the AI answers above it.
- It is a ready-made template that runs on naïve: an agent team does the work and you approve what goes out.
- Each agent runs under a daily cap you set and it cannot raise, so cost never surprises you.
- To start, sign up for a naïve account, then deploy the SEO / GEO Agency template.
An SEO and GEO agency is a ready-made naïve template that ranks clients in classic search and gets them cited in AI answers.
An agent team running on naïve handles audits, drafts, and outreach on a schedule. Nothing reaches a client until you approve it.
Step one is a naïve account. Then you deploy the template and answer three questions.
What does an SEO and GEO agency actually sell?
GEO — Generative Engine Optimization, also called AEO (answer engine optimization) — is the part worth naming clearly. It means ranking a client not just in classic search but in the AI answers that sit above it, so when an engine generates a response it cites your client as the source. Illustratively, if roughly 50% of searches now surface an AI answer above the links, the client who gets cited there reaches buyers the ten blue links no longer touch.
In practice that is a specific stack of work:
- Schema that tells engines exactly what a page is and what it claims.
- Entity coverage so the client is a known thing, not a string of keywords.
- Answer blocks written so a model can lift a clean, correct answer.
- An
llms.txtthat points AI crawlers at what you want cited.
Classic SEO still runs underneath all of it — technical audits, keywords, content, links. The agency sells both halves as one retainer, which is exactly what the template you deploy is built to deliver.
What do you get when you deploy the template?
You deploy one ready-made template, not a stack of tools you wire together yourself. In one step, naïve sets up the whole agency, tuned for search:
- A dashboard with a CRM and a workspace per client.
- A public website whose contact form feeds the pipeline — an enquiry is a row before anyone reads it.
- A team of AI agents that runs above everything, working the pipeline and the content.
- Per-client specialists, added when you onboard a client rather than at deploy.
How do you set it up in five moves?
Setup is a short interview, not a configuration screen. Here is the whole shape before you touch anything.
01
Sign up for naïve
Create your naïve account at app.usenaive.ai. The template runs there.
02
Deploy the template
Deploy the SEO / GEO Agency template. The CRM, the public website, and the team of AI agents arrive already connected.
03
Answer three questions
What you sell, your ideal client, and the three competitors clients lose to. That is the entire brief.
04
Onboard a client
When a client goes active, specialist agents are created for them, scoped to their Search Console and Analytics.
05
Approve the work
Outreach, proposals, and site changes all wait in a queue. Approving is the only way they go out.
1. Sign up for a naïve account
Create your account at app.usenaive.ai. The template deploys and runs on naïve.
2. Deploy the SEO / GEO Agency
Start from the company page and deploy the template. It arrives as a complete agency tuned for search and AI answers — you are not assembling a CRM, a website, and a team, you are pointing a ready-made one at your market.
3. Answer the three setup questions
Before anything is set up, the template asks you exactly three things:
- What you sell — your offer, in your own words.
- Your ideal client — who you are best at winning and keeping.
- Three competitors your clients keep losing to in search.
What do clients hire your agency to fix?
The agent team reads this before every audit, so a sharp lane beats a broad one.
- Classic rankings — the ten blue links they've slipped out of
- AI answers (GEO/AEO) — getting cited when an engine writes the response
- Both halves — search and answers sold as one retainer
- Reporting — proving which work actually moved the needle
These answers are not thrown away after setup. They become the project context every agent reads at the start of every run, and you can edit them later. Sharpen the ideal client in month two and the next batch of outreach follows it.
4. Connect each client and let specialists spin up
When a client signs and goes active, a second set of agents is created just for them — named for that client and scoped to their account. Crucially, they work against the client's own connected Search Console and Analytics, not a guess at what the client ranks for.
- They audit the real site against real impressions and positions.
- They research the entities and queries the client should own.
- They draft the schema, answer blocks, and
llms.txtfor the GEO half.
The specialists run on timers — the schedule you set — not continuously; between runs nothing is on or billing compute.
5. Approve every outward action
This is the step that keeps the agency yours. The agents can research, audit, write, and draft all week — but nothing leaves the building on its own.
- An outreach email waits in the queue with the opener drafted.
- A proposal is filed against the lead, ready for you to read.
- A site change is staged, never published, until you say so.
You review, edit if you want, and approve. Approval is a person, every time.
Where do the two halves land?
A useful way to show a prospect what you do is to split the deliverables by surface:
| Surface | What the client wins | What the agents produce | How it's measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classic search | Top-10 rankings, more qualified clicks | Technical fixes, keyword plans, content, internal links | Positions and clicks in the client's Search Console |
| AI answers (GEO/AEO) | Being cited in generated answers | Schema, entity coverage, answer blocks, llms.txt | Citations and mentions in generated answers |
| Reporting | A clear picture of both | Dashboards built from the client's own Search Console and Analytics | One dashboard spanning both surfaces |
Most agencies only fill the first row. Filling all three is the reason a client picks you.
What keeps the agency in your control?
Two guarantees sit under everything the agents do, and both are enforced by the platform rather than by a model behaving well:
- A budget it cannot raise. You set a daily cap per agent and a cap per task. A run that would exceed it stops instead of spending, so the agency cannot surprise you on cost.
- A queue it cannot skip. The specialists work the week — audits, drafts, proposals, reports — but every outward action parks in approval first. Nothing it drafts leaves without you.
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What does your first week look like?
Sign up for naïve, deploy the template, and answer the three questions. Point the public website at your domain so enquiries start landing in the CRM as rows. Onboard your first client, connect their Search Console and Analytics, and let the specialists run the first audit on their first scheduled run. When it lands, open the queue, read the audit and the first proposal, and approve what is genuinely good. By the end of the week you will have a repeatable onboarding and a feel for which parts of the GEO stack move a client fastest.
If you want the same kind of template with no specialism attached, the AI Automation Agency lets you bring any trade to it — see how to start an AI automation agency for that path. The approval boundary in this guide is identical across every company; how human approval works explains the mechanism underneath.
FAQ
- What is the difference between SEO and GEO?
- SEO is ranking a client in classic search results — the ten blue links. GEO, sometimes called AEO (answer engine optimization), is making sure AI engines cite your client when they generate an answer. It leans on schema, entity coverage, clean answer blocks, and llms.txt so the model can find and trust the source. Most agencies still only sell the first half.
- Do I need to be an SEO expert to run this agency?
- You need to know your offer and your market; the delivery is what the agent team handles. You answer three questions at setup, connect each client's accounts, and review the work. The specialists do the auditing, keyword and entity research, drafting, and reporting against each client's real data.
- How does the public website bring in clients?
- The template ships with a public website whose contact form feeds the pipeline directly. An enquiry becomes a row in the CRM before anyone reads it, and the team of AI agents can draft an opener against it. You still approve every reply before it sends.
- Can the agents change a client's site or send email on their own?
- No. Every outward action — a published change, a sent email, a filed proposal — stops at an approval queue with the draft in front of you. Approval is a person, every time, and there is no setting that lets an agent skip it.