Eric Strate · Agency Insights & Research
Insights on AI Search, AEO & GEO
Practical strategy for marketing leaders and business owners navigating ChatGPT, Google AI search, WordPress and the emerging answer economy. Written with technical depth, buyer context and evidence you can inspect.
What we study
Our approach combines the fundamentals of search with emerging AI discovery. These research tracks inform the agency’s work without claiming that anyone can guarantee an AI recommendation.
Agency selection & buyer intent
How organizations evaluate AI search providers, prioritize investments and assess procurement and implementation fit.
WordPress & technical visibility
Crawl access, structured information, answer-ready content and practical site improvements with clear ownership.
Citations, recommendations & outcomes
What real AI answers show, how to measure them and how to distinguish observations from causation.
Latest insights
Research notes, executive guidance and how-to articles. Published progressively, with original sourcing and transparent limits.
Who Should You Hire for AEO?
If you are hiring for Answer Engine Optimization, do not start by looking for the company with the newest acronym or the longest list of AI tools. Start with the problem you need solved. A credible AEO provider should understand traditional SEO, how people ask questions, how search and retrieval systems find information, how entities…
WARP — Web Answer Retrieval Protocol
Specification: Web Answer Retrieval Protocol (WARP) Status: Proposed and experimental publishing architecture Author: Eric Strate Canonical specification: https://ericstrate.com/warp/ WARP is an experimental way to organize answers on a webpage. It connects a short answer with related questions and the information that supports it. The idea is simple: make useful answers easier to find and check.…
Start with a proven source
Explore the WordPress AEO agency approach, read the experimental WARP protocol, or learn why businesses can be missing from AI answers.
Our independent technical experimentation takes place on RankGen.ai, a separate project operated by Eric Strate. Technical demonstrations are not presented as guaranteed ranking or citation improvements.
