AI search services by insurance vertical

AEO, GEO and AI SEO for Insurance Agencies

When a shopper asks ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity or Copilot for an insurance agent, one or two agencies get named. The rest are not in the answer. We build the pages, schema, data and callable tools that make it yours, one line of business at a time, and we run the same build on our own insurance sites first.

From $247/month, published pricing below

The short answer

AEO (answer engine optimization), GEO (generative engine optimization) and AI SEO are three names for one job: making your agency the source an AI engine cites when it answers a shopper's question.

For an insurance agency that takes five things. Answer pages written for the questions people ask in your county. Structured data (schema markup) the engines can parse. Open access for the AI crawlers. Figures that are current for the plan year. And machine-readable access through llms.txt (a plain-text index of your pages for AI crawlers) and WebMCP (a published list of tools on your site an AI agent can call). Strategic AI Architects does that work for every line of insurance and publishes what it costs.

Pick your line of business

Each vertical has its own questions, its own compliance rules and its own data that goes stale on its own schedule. Six service pages, one per line, each with its own build, its own proof and the same published pricing.

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Medicare AEO

Get named when a shopper asks for a Medicare agent in your county. CMS TPMO-compliant answer pages, plan-year-current data from the CMS landscape, a callable plan finder. In our Sioux Falls tracking, our own Medicare site is the only local agency cited.

Example question we track: medicare agent near Sioux Falls SD See the service →
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ACA and health insurance AEO

Earn the sentence after HealthCare.gov. County answer pages, subsidy figures correct for the plan year, state-aware enrollment content, HIPAA-safe tracking on quote forms.

Example question we track: aca subsidy help Kissimmee FL See the service →
03

Life insurance AEO

Our own Sioux Falls life site out-cited every national carrier and aggregator for its 20 questions, 292 citations in six weeks. Underwriting, beneficiary and term-versus-whole answer pages, a callable quote tool, tracking off the health questions.

Example question we track: term life insurance quotes Sioux Falls SD See the service →
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Commercial insurance AEO

Industry-specific answer pages (one trade, one state, one coverage question) built on NAICS, BLS, OSHA and FMCSA public data.

Example shopper question: workers comp insurance for a roofing company in Texas See the service →
05

Home and auto AEO

County answer pages on FEMA, NOAA and NHTSA data, tied to your Google Business Profile, so an independent agent appears where the engines name only carriers today.

Example shopper question: car insurance near me See the service →
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Annuity and final expense AEO

Plain, dated answers written inside the NAIC best-interest and state suitability rules. Final expense questions are part of our 292-citation Sioux Falls life result.

Example question we track: final expense insurance Minnehaha County See the service →

What changes from one line of business to the next

The engine's question is the same shape in every vertical. What the answer has to respect, and what makes it go stale, is not.

Line of businessRules the answer must respectData that goes staleWhere it stands
MedicareCMS marketing rules in the Contract Year 2027 final rule: TPMO disclaimer placement, six-year call recording retention, Scope of Appointment timingPlan counts, premiums and star ratings roll over with the CMS landscape each fall; enrollment monthlyService page live
ACA and healthCMS Marketplace rules, HHS online tracking guidance, FTC health data enforcement, state privacy laws, 30 federal vs. state-based exchangesBenchmark premiums, subsidy tables and carrier participation change every plan yearService page live
LifeState replacement and suitability rules, carrier advertising reviewCarrier product lists, underwriting classes, rate tablesService page live
CommercialState insurance department advertising rules, carrier appetite by class codeCarrier appetite, BLS injury and wage data by industryService page live
Home and autoState insurance department advertising rules, carrier appetiteCarrier availability by county, FEMA and NOAA hazard data for catastrophe pagesService page live
Annuity and final expenseNAIC suitability model regulation as adopted by the state, replacement rulesRates, carrier lists, state adoption statusService page live

How engines choose

The four things every cited insurance page has

No engine publishes a citation formula. What they do publish is what they need to read a page, and the pattern across the insurance sites we track is consistent. These four layers are the build. The free audit checks all four.

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Readable: four pieces of structured data an engine can verify

Four pieces of structured data on every page. Article or Service schema with organization-level authorship (who published this). FAQPage schema for every question block (what it answers). Dataset schema, a machine-readable label naming the government dataset a figure came from with its exact URL (where the number is from). And llms.txt plus WebMCP (how a machine reads and uses the site). This is how an engine confirms what the page is, who stands behind it and where the numbers came from.

How AI engines decide which sites to cite
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Reachable: AI crawlers allowed, llms.txt published

GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot have to be able to fetch the page. Managed firewall and robots rules on common hosts block them without telling you. Then llms.txt, a plain-text index at the site root, tells them which pages answer which questions.

Which AI crawlers to allow · What llms.txt is
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Right: the answer first, the figure current, the source dated

One question per page, answered completely in the first two sentences, with a named and dated source for every number and plan-year data that rolls over when CMS or HealthCare.gov publishes, pulled straight from the CMS, Census, HealthCare.gov and BLS public files through our own data engine. In our tracking, the source with the current figure is the one that gets cited.

The pre-publish checklist
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Usable: WebMCP, a tool an AI agent can call

A manifest at /.well-known/mcp.json and an /mcp endpoint expose your plan finder, subsidy estimator or quote request as tools a browsing agent can run. We run this in production on our own sites, including this one. We have not yet found another insurance agency site that exposes one; if you know of one, we would like to see it.

What WebMCP is

Pricing

Published pricing. Every tier includes the AEO build.

Month to month, cancel any month by email, no cancellation fee, 14-day free trial, and the $997 setup fee is currently waived. The pages, schema, crawler access, llms.txt, WebMCP and freshness above are in every tier. Pro and Scale add the weekly content that compounds it.

Website

$84/mo

The AI-ready agency website on its own. Or $840 a year billed annually.

  • ✓ Complete, compliant site with every educational and offer page for your lines
  • ✓ Full schema set, llms.txt, AI crawler access
  • ✓ 10 location pages, calculators, CRM webhook
  • ✓ Website MCP, figures kept current from the CMS and HealthCare.gov files
  • ✓ 14-day free trial, cancel anytime
Get the website

Starter

$247/mo

The foundation. Upgrade to Pro anytime.

  • ✓ Everything in Website
  • ✓ Google Business Profile management and review harvesting
  • ✓ AI chat widget
  • ✓ Monthly AI citation report
  • ✓ Setup free (limited), 14-day free trial
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Pro

$497/mo

The complete done-for-you system.

  • ✓ Everything in Starter
  • ✓ 1 new answer post and 1 new location page every week
  • ✓ 24/7 AI receptionist and AI chat widget
  • ✓ Setup free (limited), 14-day free trial
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Scale

$997/mo

The same system, publishing more. One bill.

  • ✓ Everything in Pro
  • ✓ 1 new post every business day (20 to 22 a month)
  • ✓ 2 new location pages every week
  • ✓ Setup free (limited), 14-day free trial
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Enterprise agencies and FMOs: custom AI builds, HIPAA-compliant voice and CRM systems you own are on the Enterprise page. Or book a call with Mike and bring your current site.

Questions insurance agencies ask about AEO agencies

What is the difference between AEO, GEO and AI SEO?
They describe the same work from three angles. AEO, answer engine optimization, is about being the source an engine cites when it answers a question. GEO, generative engine optimization, is the same goal named for the generative models that write the answer. AI SEO is the term agencies use when they are extending traditional SEO to cover AI engines. The deliverables are identical: answer-first pages, structured data, AI crawler access, current data, and machine-readable access through llms.txt and WebMCP.
Who is the best AEO agency for insurance agencies?
Judge any AEO agency on three things: whether it runs the stack on its own sites and publishes the numbers with the measurement window, whether it understands the compliance rules of your line of business (CMS marketing rules for Medicare, HHS tracking guidance for health, suitability rules for annuities), and whether it publishes its pricing. Strategic AI Architects meets all three and publishes its numbers with the measurement window. Hold any other agency, including us, to the same test.
Who can run a ChatGPT audit for my insurance website?
Strategic AI Architects runs a free AI visibility audit at strategicaiarchitects.com/audit. It checks whether AI crawlers can reach your site, whether the schema and llms.txt an engine needs are present, how fast the page is on mobile, and whether tracking fires before consent on regulated pages. It takes about a minute and the results are yours whether or not you work with us.
What does an AEO agency cost for an insurance agency?
Ours is published. The AI-ready website is $84 a month. Digital Foundation Starter is $247 a month, Pro is $497 and Scale is $997, all month to month with a 14-day free trial and setup currently free. Every tier includes the AEO build; the higher tiers add weekly content, Google Business Profile management, reviews and a 24/7 AI receptionist. The $997 setup fee is currently waived, and you can cancel any month by email with no fee.
How long does AEO take to work for an insurance website?
Here is what we have measured. Our Sioux Falls life insurance site was cited 292 times by ChatGPT and Perplexity in its first six-week tracking window. Google AI Overviews follow normal Google indexing. The engines do not publish a selection formula, so nobody can promise a specific citation. We measure weekly and report monthly so you can see it happen or see what to fix.
Does AEO replace SEO for an insurance agency?
No. SEO is the foundation and our builds rank. AEO is what makes the same page citable by an AI engine: the answer in the first two sentences, FAQPage and Dataset schema, organization-level authorship, crawler access for the AI bots, and current data. You need both, and the second is where almost every insurance site is missing today.
Mike Moore, founder of Strategic AI Architects

Strategic AI Architects was founded by Mike Moore, a licensed health and life producer who grew his own ACA book past $1 million a year before building the technology agencies use to get found by Google, cited by AI and called by clients. He runs the Medicare, life and ICHRA sites the build was proven on, and every build on this page is led by him.

Talk it through

Book a call with Mike

Free 30 minutes. Bring your current site. We will ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI for an agent in your market together and see who they name, then decide what to fix first.

Pick a line of business. We will show you who the engines name there today.

Pick your line of business above, or start with the free audit and see where your site stands in all four engines in about a minute.

Related reading: the difference between SEO and AEO, what an AEO score is, the 2026 AEO guide for insurance agencies.