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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.\n\nBoth 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.\"\n\nThe announcement did not describe the specific work involved, a price or any clients using the service.\n\nElevated 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.\n\nThe 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.\"\n\nDisclosure: Elevated Impact has a business relationship with Sotwire.","category":"launch","categoryLabel":"Launches","location":"Raleigh, NC","company":{"name":"Elevated Impact","domain":"elevatedimpact.co"},"sample":false,"sampleDisclaimer":null,"publishedAt":"2026-02-23T18:57:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T04:12:44.170Z","badge":"Desk reported","trust":{"level":"desk_reported","doctrine":"Sotwire verifies who at the company stood behind the submission. 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