Who should I hire to get my site cited by ChatGPT?
For most sites in 2026, you don't need to hire anyone — you need a tool that tells you which pages to publish and a few hours a month to write them. If you must hire, look for a fractional AEO/GEO specialist (usually $75–$150/hr) or a small AI-visibility agency, not a legacy SEO firm that added 'AI' to their homepage.
- Tool-first stack: WebApp Rocket ($99/yr) + 2–4 hours/month of your own writing.
- Fractional specialist rate range: $75–$150/hr (2026 market).
- Small AI-visibility agency retainer range: $1,500–$5,000/mo.
- Avoid: legacy SEO agencies with generic 'AI SEO' service pages and no case studies.
Getting cited by ChatGPT is genuinely simpler than ranking on Google. The core loop is: identify a buyer-intent question, publish a page that answers it clearly with named specifics (prices, dates, comparisons), earn a few external mentions, wait for the next LLM training or crawl cycle, re-check.
That loop doesn't need a full-time SEO. It needs a tracking tool to point at the right questions and a person (you or a freelance writer) to publish the answers. Most founders can run the entire loop themselves in 2–4 hours a month.
If you have zero writing capacity, hire a fractional AEO specialist for the writing — but keep the tracking in-house so you always know what to brief them on. And beware anyone charging $10k+/mo for 'AI SEO services' who can't show you a specific citation they earned for a specific prompt on a specific date.
- → Can I do AI citation work myself without hiring anyone?
- → How much does an AEO specialist charge per hour?
- → What questions should I ask an AI SEO agency before hiring?
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