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Get ranked and cited, across every AI search surface.

Most agencies sell AI SEO as a bolt-on. We run it as one engine. Firewire briefs SEO, Google Ads and AI search off a single keyword-to-revenue map, so your brand earns the #1 organic result, the paid result, and the citation inside the AI answer buyers read first. One brand, three surfaces, one plan.

600+
#1 rankings held by client sites
100+
Australian brands ranked
$300M+
client revenue from search, organic and paid

600+ #1 rankings: non-brand keywords where client sites hold position 1 in Australian Google results, per Ahrefs, June 2026. The two largest client sites are counted at a 250-keyword cap each, so the true figure is higher.

google.com/search?q=property+management+newcastle
All Shopping Images Videos News
About 1,240,000 results (0.42 seconds)
#1 ORGANIC
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leahjay
https://leahjay.com.au
Property Management Newcastle | Leah Jay
Newcastle's trusted property managers since 1976. Local team, full leasing and management across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter.
https://scoot.com.au
RC Cars Online | Hobby Store
Shop our range of remote control cars and accessories. Australia-wide delivery.
https://kogan.com.au
Remote control cars | Kogan.com
Shop online for RC cars at Kogan. Browse our extensive range of remote-controlled toys.
Organic position
#1 in Australia
Our take

AI SEO is one engine, not a GEO bolt-on.

Most agencies now sell AI search as a separate GEO package running alongside your SEO. The moment you split it off like that, you break the thing that makes it work. AI search engines do not invent their answers. They draw on the same web traditional search indexes, weighted toward sources that are already trusted, structured and consistent.

The entity and schema foundation that makes Google read your business cleanly is the same foundation that makes your pages rank, and the same one that gets you quoted inside an AI generated answer. Build it once and three surfaces benefit. Build it three times in three silos and you pay three times for a job that reinforces itself when it is done together.

Buyers do not use different intent when they open ChatGPT instead of Google. Same question, different interface. When SEO, Google Ads and AI search are briefed off one keyword-to-revenue map, a single query gets worked across the organic result, the paid result and the AI answer at once. Our <a href="/geo-agency/">GEO service</a> runs the AI-citation half in depth; our <a href="/seo-agency/">SEO service</a> is the foundation it sits on.

The methodology, applied to AI SEO

How we engineer Earned Presence in AI search.

Every Firewire engagement runs on the same three-phase framework, whether the surface is a Google ranking or an AI citation. Earned Presence is descriptive, not a trademark.

01
Discover
"Map every surface against your P&L."

We map organic search, paid search and AI search against your P&L. Every keyword is tied to a product margin, every competitor benchmarked on both surfaces, and every priority AI engine checked for where your brand surfaces today. You walk out of week one with one view of where revenue is being left on the table.

02
Capture
"Build one foundation, not three silos."

Technical foundation, content engine, entity and schema signals, and AI citation engineering, built as one system. Every brief, redirect and schema decision ladders back to a revenue-generating query. Paid and organic are briefed against the same map, and the AI search layer is engineered into the same pages rather than bolted on afterward.

03
Prove
"Report on revenue, label the rest honestly."

Direct revenue attribution on the SEO and Google Ads work, leading indicators on the AI search work, and an honest line between the two. If a tactic is not moving the number, it is cut at the next review. No single invented AI score dressed up as revenue.

Operating across every search surface
Google organicGoogle AdsAI Overviews & AI ModeChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini
What's included

What ships in a Firewire AI SEO engagement.

01
Technical SEO

Site architecture, crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals and internal linking, engineered so both search engines and AI crawlers can read your site cleanly. Technical SEO is the floor everything else compounds on, and it is where every engagement starts.

02
On-page SEO

Titles, headings, internal links and content matched to commercial search intent, so the queries that convert land on the pages built to close them. Classic search engine optimisation done against revenue, not word count.

03
Entity & schema engineering

Structured data built so AI systems understand who you are and what you sell, plus entity disambiguation across Wikidata, your site and third-party sources. For Ampcontrol this meant product-level Schema.org across the battery storage range, a direct contributor to its ChatGPT source-#1 citation.

04
AI search & AEO

Optimising for Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and the AI answers that reach buyers before a click. We restructure key pages the way models read them: a clean answer in the first 80 words, structured comparisons, original data and entity-consistent phrasing.

05
AI-native content

Editorially-led content briefed against revenue queries, produced with AI-powered assistance and gated by a human expert and a fact-check step before anything ships. AI tools draft fast, but nothing publishes without a specialist verifying every claim.

06
AI visibility tracking

Our own in-house tooling tracks AI visibility across five engines, so the AI search work is measured rather than guessed. This is where the no-attribution-theatre promise gets teeth.

07
Local SEO

Google Business Profile, map-pack rankings and citation consistency, so brands with physical demand show up where nearby buyers search, on Google and increasingly inside local AI answers. See our <a href="/local-seo/">local SEO service</a>.

08
Reporting

Live dashboards through Marko, our client reporting layer, covering organic revenue, paid performance, SERP positions and AI citation trends in one place. Marko shows you the numbers. It does not write your copy.

Boundaries

What we don't do.

To be useful, the work has to be focused. Here is what we explicitly do not do, so you can judge fit before the first call.

No attribution theatre

We will not hand you a single invented AI score and call it revenue. SEO and Ads are attributed to revenue directly; AI search is reported in leading indicators, honestly labelled.

No AI slop

No unedited AI content ships. Every page is written with AI tools, then verified and edited by a human specialist against Google's quality guidelines before it goes live.

No rank-and-pray

We do not chase rankings or citations that sit on queries with no commercial value. If a query does not pay, it gets deprioritised.

No long lock-ins

Engagements run on a short minimum, then month to month with quarterly reviews against the P&L. If we are not the right partner anymore, we say so first.

The first 90 days

From booking the call to compounding rankings.

A real timeline for an Australian AI SEO engagement, built from what actually happens for the average Firewire client.

01 Week 1
Strategy call + dual-surface diagnostic

A senior strategist scopes the engagement and delivers a first-pass diagnostic: your current organic share, your paid position, and a baseline of where your brand surfaces across five AI engines. You leave with a prioritised map of where revenue is being left on the table on both surfaces.

  • Strategy call
  • Organic + paid baseline
  • AI visibility across 5 engines
02 Month 1
Foundation built across both surfaces

Technical foundation fixed in priority order. The keyword-to-revenue map built. Entity and schema work shipped so AI systems can read your business. First content briefed and live. Reporting dashboards switched on.

  • Keyword-to-revenue map
  • Entity + schema shipped
  • Reporting live
03 Month 2+
Compounding rankings, tracked citations

Weekly walkthroughs against revenue. The content engine producing briefed, human-gated pages every month. AI citation tracking live across engines. By the end of month three, both your organic revenue trajectory and your AI visibility trend are visible against the pre-engagement baseline.

  • Weekly walkthroughs
  • AI citations tracked
  • Revenue trajectory live
Anchor case

A rankings-obsessed account, rebuilt around revenue.

Hobbies Direct was ranking for generic hobby terms, but the traffic rarely turned into sales. Ads spend was climbing while margin wasn't.

We mapped every keyword to a product margin, rebuilt the account architecture around the highest-LTV categories, and synced SEO briefs with Shopping feeds so paid and organic reinforced each other on every buying query.

+96%
Paid revenue growth, YoY
+46%
Organic revenue growth, YoY
Spend scaled at constant ROAS

Firewire built the attribution framework before any content was created, so we always had clean data on what each channel contributed. The SEO wasn't cannibalising paid. It was bringing in customers we weren't reaching before. We would recommend them without hesitation.

HM
Hamish McRitchie
Co-Founder & Director, Hobbies Direct
Revenue, monthly
Sep 2023 – Feb 2025
+77% YoY
$100k $200k $0 SEP '23JAN '24MAY '24SEP '24FEB '25 Firewire started · Feb '24
Channels
SEOGoogle AdsGEO
AI SEO results

Ranked, and cited by AI.

Proof on both surfaces: the organic and paid results, and the AI citations. Every figure verified before it shipped.

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+46%
Organic revenue YoY
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Who runs your AI SEO

The specialists you'd work with.

You work directly with the senior specialists doing the work, not an account manager relaying to an offshore team.

8
Specialists
8yrs
Avg specialist experience
$300M+
Client revenue from search
Your team
What clients say

Quotes from the buyers we ship for.

Every quote here is from a real Firewire client. Numbers tied to verified analytics data.

We engaged Firewire to overhaul our SEO. They have incredible knowledge and understanding of SEO and have increased our organic traffic by 680%. Their work is high quality and produces results.
SK
Sheena Kearsey
Office Manager, Burke Mead Lawyers
1,817%
Organic traffic growth
145%
Qualified lead growth
2,078%
Top-3 ranking growth
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FAQ

Common AI SEO questions, answered.

Cannot find what you are looking for? Send us a note and a senior strategist will reply within 4 business hours.

What is an AI SEO agency?
An AI SEO agency engineers your brand to win across every search surface an AI now touches: classic Google rankings, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and the AI generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini. A genuine AI SEO company runs traditional SEO and generative engine optimisation as one programme and can prove results on both surfaces, rather than selling AI search as a separate add-on.
What is the difference between AI SEO and traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO targets rankings and organic traffic on search engines. AI SEO adds the AI search layer on top: getting your brand cited inside AI answers and AI Overviews, not just ranked. Traditional SEO is measured in rankings and revenue; the AI search half is measured in AI search visibility and share of voice. They share the same entity and schema foundation, which is why we run them together as one AI SEO strategy.
Is AI SEO different from GEO and AEO?
They are related layers. Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is about being cited across AI platforms. AEO targets direct-answer surfaces like AI Overviews and featured snippets. AI SEO is the umbrella that runs traditional SEO, GEO and AEO off one keyword-to-revenue map. The terms overlap and the industry is still settling the vocabulary. Our GEO service runs the citation half in depth.
Will AI search replace Google search?
Not in the near term. Traditional search engines still handle the majority of buying queries, and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode sit inside Google Search rather than replacing it. The shift is that more answers are read on the results surface without a click, so being present in AI search results matters more, not less. The brands building both surfaces now will compound the way brands that ranked #1 a decade ago compounded.
Do you optimise for Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews?
Yes. Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews are now part of Google Search, so we treat them as core AI SEO services, not extras. We structure pages the way Google's AI reads them, then track whether your brand appears in AI Overviews and AI Mode answers alongside the classic results. The same work tends to lift visibility across the other AI platforms buyers use, from ChatGPT to Perplexity.
Do AI tools do the SEO, or do people?
Both, with a clear line. AI-powered tools handle the scale work: analysing data, diagnosing technical issues, and drafting content. Human specialists verify every claim, edit for voice, and decide what moves revenue. We do not ship unedited AI content, and we do not pretend an AI tool replaces an SEO strategy.
How do you measure AI search results when there are no rankings?
We run a fixed set of high-intent prompts against five AI engines, weighted by real Google search volume, and track AI search visibility, share of voice, citation accuracy, and branded-search lift. SEO and Google Ads keep direct revenue attribution; the AI search work is reported in leading indicators, clearly labelled. No single invented score.
Can you prove a client was actually cited by AI?
Yes. Ampcontrol is named as source #1 by ChatGPT in answers about Australian battery energy storage, verified as at June 2026, and its first AI-attributed conversions landed in March 2026. Citations move, so we monitor them and report what is verifiable rather than promising a fixed result.
What does an AI SEO engagement include?
Technical SEO, on-page SEO, entity and schema engineering, AI search and AEO, AI-native content, AI visibility tracking, local SEO and reporting, all briefed off one keyword-to-revenue map. Keyword research is the foundation the whole programme is built on.
How is this different from a normal SEO company?
Most SEO companies stop at rankings, and most that offer AI SEO services sell them as a bolt-on. We run SEO, Google Ads and AI search as one engine, report against revenue rather than a rankings scoreboard, and can show proof on both the organic and AI surfaces. We also do our own AI visibility tracking rather than reselling a third-party radar.
Does link building still matter for AI SEO?
Yes. Earned links and brand citations still tell both search engines and AI models you are a trusted source. We build authority editorially through digital PR, never through bought or exchanged links, because the same trust signals that lift rankings also lift the odds of being cited in AI generated answers.
Where we work

Firewire works with brands across Australia.

A remote-first team rooted in Newcastle, NSW. Working with brands in every Australian capital, on Google Search and, increasingly, local AI answers.

Open for Q3 2026 engagements

Ready to be ranked and cited?

Thirty minutes with a senior Firewire strategist. You walk away knowing which of the five AI engines name your brand today, which name a competitor instead, and the category queries where closing that gap actually pays. We map the SEO, Google Ads and AI search moves behind each one.

  • Which AI engines cite you now versus your closest competitor, engine by engine
  • The revenue-weighted queries where you are absent from the AI answer and a rival is not
  • A revenue-mapped view of your organic, paid and AI search opportunity
  • No deck, no pitch, no commitment
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