Elevated Impact launches Modern Intelligence to get brands into AI answers
The Raleigh agency announced the service on Feb. 23, 2026. It pairs search engine optimization with work meant to get a brand to show up in answers from AI tools such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. The announcement gave no price.
"Your customers are finding answers, and finding your competitors, through AI engines right now," Elevated Impact wrote in February 2026. The Raleigh web design and marketing agency's answer is a service called Modern Intelligence.
Elevated Impact announced Modern Intelligence on Feb. 23, 2026. The agency says the service pairs search engine optimization with two newer practices it calls answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization. Search engine optimization is the long-standing work of getting a business's pages to rank in Google results.
Both terms refer to AI tools that answer a question directly instead of returning a list of links. The agency's announcement named ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews and Bing Copilot. The pitch, in its LinkedIn post: "Modern Intelligence combines traditional SEO expertise with Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), so your brand shows up everywhere your customers are searching."
The announcement did not describe the specific work involved, a price or any clients using the service.
Elevated Impact, led by president and founder Matt Potts, also builds websites and runs paid ads, design, social media and drone photo and video work for clients. It has offices in Raleigh and El Salvador.
The agency has done work of this kind before. A case study on its website, dated June 25, 2025, describes work for RV Engineering & Construction, a builder in El Salvador. The work included blog posts and a frequently-asked-questions page "specifically structured to be indexed and favored by Google and AI language models like Gemini and OpenAI."
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Key facts
- Elevated Impact
- Raleigh, NC
- Launches
- Desk reported
- Sotwire Desk
- Modern Intelligence
- Search engine optimization (SEO), answer engine optimization (AEO), generative engine optimization (GEO)
- ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews, Bing Copilot
- Not stated
- None
- Did not list Modern Intelligence among its services
- RV Engineering & Construction, El Salvador: blog posts and an FAQ page (case study dated June 25, 2025)
- Matt Potts, president and founder
- Website development, paid ads, design, social media, drone photo and video
- Raleigh, NC, and El Salvador
Key events
- Elevated Impact dated a case study on AI-ready content for RV Engineering & Construction
- Elevated Impact announced Modern Intelligence on LinkedIn
Sources
- Google is no longer the only search engine that matters. · Elevated Impact on LinkedIn · accessed 2026-10-17
- How a Strategic Web Presence Drove $4 Million in Real Estate Sales · Elevated Impact · accessed 2026-10-17
- Our Work: Marketing & Web Design Case Studies · Elevated Impact · accessed 2026-10-17
- About Us | Our Raleigh, NC Marketing Agency · Elevated Impact · accessed 2026-10-17
- Elevated Impact - Raleigh Marketing & Web Development · Elevated Impact · accessed 2026-10-17
- Elevated Impact · Elevated Impact · accessed 2026-10-17