The generative engine optimization platform built for every business.
Faneros is a marketing technology company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The company builds an industry-agnostic generative engine optimization (GEO) platform that monitors how AI search platforms — including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok — recommend businesses. Each scan generates 13 ready-to-deploy deliverables and a 9-point technical audit to improve a brand's AI visibility. Faneros serves law firms, dental practices, addiction treatment centers, insurance agencies, financial advisors, real estate agents, home service contractors, SaaS companies, and more.
Traditional SEO gets your brand ranked on Google. GEO gets your brand recommended by AI. Faneros monitors how AI platforms talk about your business at the individual search query level, shows you exactly where you're invisible, and generates copy-paste deliverables to fix it — regardless of your industry.
How Faneros Works
When someone asks ChatGPT "who's the best dentist near me" or asks Perplexity "which personal injury lawyer should I call in Tampa," the AI recommends 1–3 brands. If your brand isn't one of them, you're losing clients to competitors you've never heard of.
Faneros is the first platform that monitors this at scale across every industry. It runs your industry-specific queries across all 5 major AI platforms, scores your brand's AI readiness with a proprietary 9-point technical audit, identifies exactly who AI recommends instead of you and why, and generates 13 ready-to-deploy deliverables — from robots.txt and llms.txt files to JSON-LD schema, FAQ markup, content strategy, and ready-to-publish articles. See all plans and deliverables →
Industries We Serve
Faneros is industry-agnostic. When you run a scan, the platform automatically detects your business category and generates queries that match how your potential customers actually search on AI platforms. Every deliverable is personalized to your business — not generic templates.
Each industry has unique AI search patterns. A personal injury lawyer in Chicago gets different queries than a dentist in Tampa or a water damage company in Dallas. Faneros tailors everything — prompts, competitors, deliverables, and content recommendations — to your specific market.
GEO vs. SEO vs. AEO — What's the Difference?
SEO (search engine optimization) optimizes your website for traditional search engines like Google. It focuses on keywords, backlinks, and page authority to rank in the 10 blue links.
AEO (answer engine optimization) focuses on getting your content into featured snippets, knowledge panels, and voice search results. It's a bridge between traditional search and AI — structured data, FAQ markup, and concise answers help search engines surface your content directly.
GEO (generative engine optimization) is the newest discipline. It optimizes your website to be recommended by name when someone asks an AI platform for help. GEO requires different signals than SEO: citation-ready content, AI-specific crawler access, llms.txt files, and structured data that large language models can parse. Faneros specializes in GEO — and the technical audit and deliverables also strengthen your SEO and AEO foundations. Read the full FAQ →
Founding Team
Faneros was built by a founding team with 25+ years in enterprise technology, including 13 years of enterprise software consulting at one of the world's largest software companies — helping transform some of the largest brands in the world to an AI-first framework.
Since late 2025, the team has architected and shipped 30+ AI-powered applications — engineering over 100,000 lines of production code using AI as a development partner. The portfolio includes Faneros (a full enterprise SaaS platform with scan engine, deliverable pipeline, AI traffic analytics, and attribution modeling), an AI voice receptionist platform, a multi-model AI deliberation app, an enterprise sales intelligence dashboard, and dozens of specialized tools and integrations. The team works across Cloudflare Workers, KV, R2, Netlify, Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI APIs — building full-stack production systems from architecture through deployment. This isn't prompt engineering. It's a new model of software development: domain experts with decades of enterprise technology experience using AI to build at the speed and scale of a full engineering team.
The team holds graduate-level credentials from Harvard, Stanford (Computer Science — Machine Learning & AI), MIT (Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation; Tackling the Challenges of Big Data), and the University of Michigan (Python and Machine Learning), with additional certifications from Yale, Wharton, and Cornell.
Faneros is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. For inquiries, call (630) 509-8141 or email [email protected].
Why GEO Matters Now
Gartner predicts a 50%+ decrease in organic search traffic by 2028 as consumers shift to AI search. Bain & Company found that 80% of consumers already rely on AI-generated results for at least 40% of their searches. When AI answers a question, it recommends 1–3 brands — not 10 blue links.
Most businesses haven't started optimizing for this shift. The median AI Visibility Score across 1,000+ business websites Faneros has analyzed is 58 out of 100 — an F grade. 35.7% of business websites accidentally block AI crawlers entirely. Over 97% lack an llms.txt file.
This is a first-mover opportunity. The businesses that optimize for AI visibility now — while their competitors are still focused exclusively on Google — will own their market when the full shift happens.
What Sets Faneros Apart
Most GEO tools stop at monitoring. They'll show you a score and a dashboard. Faneros goes further — it generates 13 implementation-ready deliverables that no other platform provides at any price. Optimized robots.txt and llms.txt files, JSON-LD schema markup, FAQ schema, content strategies, ready-to-publish articles — everything you need to hand to your developer and deploy immediately.
Faneros also monitors more AI platforms than any other GEO platform at any price point, includes referral and agentic traffic analytics to measure the real-world impact of AI search, and supports location-aware "near me" scanning across 50+ U.S. markets. Talk to our team →
Frequently Asked Questions
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing a website so that AI search platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok recommend it in their responses. GEO is to AI search what SEO is to Google — it determines whether your business gets cited when someone asks an AI for a recommendation.
Faneros runs your industry-specific search queries across 5 major AI platforms and scores your brand's visibility on each one. It performs a 9-point technical audit of your website's AI readiness — checking robots.txt, llms.txt, JSON-LD schema, citation readability, and more — and generates 13 ready-to-deploy deliverables to fix every gap it finds.
Faneros is industry-agnostic and automatically detects your business category when you run a scan. Supported industries include law firms, dental practices, addiction treatment centers, insurance agencies, financial advisors, real estate agents, water damage restoration, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, SaaS companies, IT services, and more. The platform generates industry-specific queries and deliverables tailored to how your potential customers actually search.
Faneros monitors 5 AI search platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok. Each platform is queried independently with your industry keywords, and results are scored individually so you can see exactly where your brand appears and where it doesn't.
SEO optimizes for traditional search engines like Google. AEO (answer engine optimization) focuses on featured snippets, knowledge panels, and voice search. GEO (generative engine optimization) optimizes your site to be recommended by AI-powered search platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Faneros specializes in GEO while also strengthening your SEO and AEO foundations.
Each scan generates 13 deliverables including an optimized robots.txt, llms.txt, JSON-LD schema, FAQ schema markup, a technical site audit, competitor benchmarks, an AI visibility scorecard, citation-ready content, industry briefs, ready-to-publish articles, security headers, XML sitemap, and more. All deliverables are copy-paste ready for immediate deployment.
When someone asks an AI for a service provider, the AI recommends 1–3 brands — not 10 blue links. If your brand isn't one of them, you're invisible to a growing share of potential clients. Gartner predicts a 50%+ decrease in organic search traffic by 2028. Businesses that optimize for AI visibility now gain a significant first-mover advantage.
Faneros offers two plans: Optimization at $399/month (100 prompts, 5 AI platforms, 13 deliverables, daily scans) and Custom (for companies with multiple sites, subdomains, or brands — contact us for scoped pricing). All plans include AI visibility scoring across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok. See full pricing →
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