For architects & engineering firms
Your next commission starts with a search for a firm that does exactly what you do.
AEC buyers — developers, owners, institutional clients — research firms deeply before RFPs. They look for project-type expertise, typology specialization, and published thinking on their project's specific problems. We help your firm publish at the depth that earns RFP invitations and AI citations.
Why this is different for architects & engineering firms
The honest read of where you stand.
01
Your portfolio wins the meeting but doesn't win the meeting invitation
Once a prospect is on your site, your portfolio closes. But they have to find you first. Portfolio pages don't rank; typology + project-type + process pages do.
02
Thought leadership on typologies and regulations compounds
A piece on 'sustainable K-12 design' or 'adaptive reuse tax credit navigation' positions your firm as the expert when someone searches that typology. Most AEC firms don't publish this content at all — which is exactly why the firms that do win.
What actually happens in AI search
A real query, a real answer.
Query
"architecture firm for adaptive reuse of industrial buildings"
LLMs name 1–3 firms. The named ones have ProfessionalService + Organization schema, typology-specific content (with named projects), partner-bylined thought leadership on the typology, and often some AIA or industry publication footprint.
Deliverables
What you actually get.
Every engagement ships these into production inside your site. Not a strategy deck — the actual code, content, and schema that moves rankings and citations.
Organization + ProfessionalService schema
Plus architect/engineer licensure and AIA/NSPE membership signaling.
Typology + sector pages
One per typology or sector (K-12, higher ed, healthcare, multifamily, adaptive reuse, civic, office) — with deep expertise signal.
Partner-bylined POV content
Written thought leadership from named principals on typology trends, regulatory changes, design ethics. LLM-citable, RFP-inviting.
Technical SEO audit + fixes
Core Web Vitals, crawlability, indexability, sitemap, canonicalization, internal linking — tuned for AEC firms.
Schema.org structured data
The schema types that matter for AEC firms, implemented site-wide — Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, HowTo, and industry-specific types.
llms.txt + AI-friendly formatting
A machine-readable index of your highest-signal pages plus writing patterns that answer engines quote: clear definitions, tight summaries, explicit anchor phrases.
AI citation tracking
Monthly report on where you're being cited when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews about AEC firms. Competitor benchmarks included.
Rank tracking + GSC
Google Search Console wired into your dashboard with weekly movement on the keywords that matter.
Monthly narrative report
Pages published, keywords moved, citations gained, traffic shifts — in plain English, not a screenshot dump.
What to expect
Outcomes we've seen across architects & engineering firms engagements.
Questions
Before you even have to ask.
Our best work is under NDA or not yet built. Can we still compete on portfolio?+
Partially. The portfolio gap hurts, but content on process, methodology, and typology expertise can substitute well. Firms with lighter published portfolios have compensated with deeper written content and won RFPs against firms with 10× the built work.
We do architecture + interiors + planning. Do we need separate sites?+
One site, clear service architecture. Multi-discipline practices win when integrated; they lose when fragmented across sub-brand sites.
How long until we see results?+
AI citations can start showing up inside 30 days for low-competition queries. Traditional Google rankings for competitive keywords are a 90-to-180-day game. We report weekly on leading indicators (pages indexed, keywords tracked, citation mentions) so you can see motion long before the revenue number moves.
Do you write the content or guide it?+
Either way. If you have a content team, we build the brief, the keyword map, and the review criteria and let them write. If you don't, we write. Most clients start with us writing the pillar pages and their team writing the supporting posts.
What about compliance and the things our legal team cares about?+
Every deliverable runs through your internal review before it ships. For regulated industries (medical, financial, legal), we build the review loop into the workflow and keep a documented trail. We've done this under HIPAA, SOC 2, and FINRA environments.
More than search
See how our full stack applies to architects & engineering firms.
SEO/AEO/GEO is one of five services. The same team ships AI workflow automation, client experience AI, vendor intelligence, and AI strategy — all tuned for architects & engineering firms. The hub page shows what each service looks like in your vertical.
SEO · AEO · GEO for other industries
Same service. Tuned per vertical.
Your next move
Run the audit. See exactly where architects & engineering firms is getting cited — and where you'd fit.
A 2-page report in your inbox within 48 hours. No sales call required. If the opportunity is real, we'll book a scoping call. If it isn't, you'll know that too.