ACE continuously audits, improves and verifies how search engines and AI agents understand your business, then monitors the site for regressions and shows you exactly what changed.
Agent Commerce Exchange (ACE) is a managed service for service businesses. ACE audits how search engines and AI assistants read your public website, fixes the gaps you approve, verifies each fix independently, keeps monitoring for regressions, and records all of it in a Value Ledger you can read.
Technical search hygiene so search engines can find and trust your pages: crawlability, indexability, canonicals, sitemaps, metadata, structured data and page quality.
Making your business facts, services and next actions explicit enough that search engines and AI assistants can interpret them without guessing. ACE measures this as Verified Answerability.
Improving and observing how generative AI systems can understand and use your public evidence. ACE adds GEO observation as real external evidence becomes available. External engines keep control of retrieval, citation and recommendation.
Service businesses whose website is where customers, search engines and AI assistants decide whether to call. Examples include:
Each check answers one question, produces evidence you can inspect, and is re-run after every accepted change and on a monitoring schedule.
Can search engines and AI crawlers reach, index and trust your pages?
You get: technical SEO monitoring of crawl, index, canonical, robots, sitemap, metadata and structured-data health, with the exact issue and fix for each finding.
Can an independent machine reconstruct your approved business facts from published evidence without guessing?
You get: a score, the exact facts it could and could not recover, and the evidence behind each answer.
Can an agent find the legitimate next step, such as a call, contact, quote, booking or consultation, without dead ends or unsupported assumptions?
You get: a score plus every ambiguous, conflicting or broken path ACE found.
Do covered public and authorized surfaces show common web and AI-agent risk patterns?
You get: findings, verified fixes and regression monitoring, included with every managed engagement. Not a penetration test or security guarantee.
What changed, what passed, what remains unknown and what is being monitored?
You get: a receipt after every accepted change and a monthly proof of value that keeps directly measured outcomes separate from modeled ones.
Eight steps, in order. Step four is a human gate: nothing is applied to your site until you, or a policy you wrote, approve the exact change.
ACE inspects public evidence, and authorized sources when you grant them.
Scores and findings are recorded with timestamps and evidence hashes.
Changes are prepared in an isolated sandbox with an exact diff and a rollback plan.
You approve the exact change, or a policy you wrote does. A pending approval is never treated as approved.
ACE applies through a least-privilege connector you authorized, or hands a package to your webmaster.
Fresh public evidence must confirm the result. A successful deployment on its own does not count.
Covered checks run on a schedule and flag regressions.
You receive what changed, what passed, what is unknown and what ACE watches next.
A score is easy to print. ACE is built so the number has to react to the evidence, and so that missing evidence is never mistaken for a pass.
ACE removes or alters a critical fact inside a disposable sandbox copy of your site and verifies the score falls. It then restores or fixes the fact and verifies recovery. A metric that does not react to the evidence is not trusted.
Missing evidence is not a pass. Checks ACE cannot run, for example when measurement access has not been granted, are reported as UNKNOWN and earn zero until the evidence exists.
A passing child test is not trusted on its own. Evidence artifacts are hashed and tamper-evident. Scenario completion and generator health are checked. Adversarial mutations must reach the system under test. Canaries deliberately corrupt disposable evidence, and the verifier must turn red.
| Stage | Typical SEO report | ACE receipt |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A list of work that was done | A timestamped baseline with scores, findings and evidence hashes |
| Findings | General recommendations | The exact finding, the evidence behind it and why it matters to a machine reader |
| Changes | Described in a summary | An exact diff you approved, with a rollback plan |
| Result | Screenshots of rankings or traffic | Independent verification against fresh public evidence after the change |
| Ongoing | A monthly activity PDF | A recurring receipt: what passed, what is unknown, what regressed and what is monitored |
Every managed ACE engagement includes a Website & AI Safety Baseline. ACE checks covered public and authorized site surfaces for common web and AI-agent risk patterns, verifies accepted fixes in a sandbox or authorized workflow, and monitors covered regressions.
Start with the free audit, fix what matters, then keep it monitored. Prices are in USD per website. Exact scope and any setup fee are frozen in your written agreement before paid work begins.
$0
Your baseline from public evidence, with the top findings.
Public evidence only. No credentials, no obligation.
$950
The free audit plus any sources you authorize and a prioritized plan.
GEO observations are included only where real external evidence exists.
$399 per month
Continuous scoring and alerts without remediation. Your team or agency makes the changes.
No production access. Remediation available per change set.
From $1,500 per month
Continuous monitoring, governed fixes and independent verification.
A subscription never changes ACE scores, evidence or verification.
From $2,000 per month
Core service plus deeper crawl, index, canonical, robots, sitemap, metadata and structured-data remediation.
No ranking or traffic guarantee.
From $2,000 per month
Core service plus service-area, entity and citation consistency for businesses whose geography matters.
No Maps placement, call, lead or revenue guarantee.
From $500
Governed implementation of an audit plan for customers who are not on a Managed plan.
Quoted from the audit plan. Applied through the access mode you choose.
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Technical and on-page search work for customers who explicitly want SEO without the managed AEO service.
Scope is kept narrow and agreed in writing.
ACE never needs unrestricted website credentials, and models never receive your secrets. Read the Security & Trust page for the full boundaries.
ACE improves and monitors the inputs you control and proves what it did. External engines control their own indexes, rankings, citations and recommendations, and being a customer never changes ACE's scoring or evidence.
The same plain answers a person, a search engine or an AI assistant should be able to verify from this page.
ACE is a managed AEO, SEO and GEO service for service businesses. ACE audits how search engines and AI assistants understand your public website, prepares fixes you approve, verifies each accepted fix independently against fresh public evidence, monitors covered checks for regressions and records the work in a Value Ledger you can read.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is technical search hygiene: crawlability, indexability, canonicals, sitemaps, metadata, structured data and page quality. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) makes your business facts, services and next actions explicit enough that search engines and AI assistants can interpret them without guessing. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) improves and observes how generative AI systems can understand and use your public evidence. External engines keep control of retrieval, citation and recommendation.
No. ACE improves and monitors the inputs a business controls and proves what changed. Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and other external systems independently control crawling, indexing, ranking, citation and recommendation. Being an ACE customer never changes ACE scores, evidence or verification.
Verified Answerability is a score out of 100 that measures whether an independent machine can reconstruct your approved business facts from your published evidence without guessing. ACE reports the exact facts it could and could not recover, the evidence behind each, and re-tests the score after every accepted change.
Agent Actionability is a score out of 100 that measures whether an AI agent can find the legitimate next step on your site, such as a call, contact form, quote request, booking or consultation, without dead ends, conflicting paths or unsupported assumptions.
No. The Website & AI Safety Baseline is a bounded hygiene check included with every managed engagement. ACE checks covered public and authorized site surfaces for common web and AI-agent risk patterns, verifies accepted fixes and monitors covered regressions. It is not a penetration test, SOC, MDR, incident response or a guarantee against compromise.
No. The free Readiness Audit uses public evidence only. If you become a customer, you choose how much access ACE has: monitor and recommend, a handoff package for your webmaster, a pull request against your repository, or a least-privilege connector you authorize. ACE never needs unrestricted website credentials, and models never receive your secrets.
Only after you authorize a supported least-privilege connector and ACE has accepted the write policy for that platform. Every change is prepared in an isolated sandbox with an exact diff and rollback plan, waits for approval, and is independently verified after it is applied.
The Readiness Audit is free and uses public evidence only. A Full Readiness Audit is $950 one-time and is credited toward your first Managed month. Monitor is $399 per month for continuous scoring, alerts and recommendations without remediation. Managed AEO / SEO / GEO Core starts at $1,500 per month, and the Technical SEO and Local Search Growth tiers start at $2,000 per month. Remediation for non-Managed customers starts at $500 per approved change set. Prices are in USD per website; exact scope and any setup fee are frozen in your written agreement before paid work begins.
ACE replaces activity reports with receipts. Every engagement produces a timestamped baseline, exact findings with evidence, exact changes you approved, independent verification against fresh public evidence, and recurring monitoring. Missing evidence is reported as unknown rather than counted as a pass.
Tell ACE where your website is and what you offer. ACE audits public evidence only, so no passwords or credentials are needed. You receive your Findability, Verified Answerability and Agent Actionability baseline with the top findings by email.
ACE publishes the same plain-language answers people, search systems and AI agents should be able to verify from the site. These answers describe the service; they do not promise third-party rankings or recommendations.
ACE service catalog reviewed 2026-09-09. Material service or policy changes trigger a fresh review and monitoring baseline.
Answer Engine Optimization improves how clearly a business exposes its identity, services, facts, evidence and direct answers so search engines and AI systems can interpret them. AEO cannot force any external platform to index, cite or recommend a business.
SEO improves crawlability, indexability, page quality, search intent coverage and measured search performance. AEO adds explicit entity, service, evidence and answerability work for machine-generated answers. ACE manages both as one evidence-backed system.
ACE captures a baseline, monitors the public site and authorized measurement sources, detects regressions and opportunities, prepares bounded fixes, verifies accepted changes and records the work in a Value Ledger. The exact scope depends on the customer plan and authorized connector.
ACE records what was observed before work, what changed, what was verified afterward and which search or business outcomes were actually measured. Operational improvements, assisted outcomes, modeled opportunities and directly attributed revenue remain separate.
No. ACE improves and monitors the inputs a business controls. Google, Bing, AI assistants and other external systems independently control crawling, indexing, ranking, citations and recommendations.
Only after the customer authorizes a supported, least-privilege connector and ACE has accepted the relevant write policy. Otherwise ACE operates in Monitor & Recommend or Webmaster Handoff mode and independently verifies the published result.
ACE treats GEO as a separate evidence plane alongside Managed AEO + SEO. We improve sourceability, entity/fact consistency, query coverage, freshness, crawler eligibility and agent-ready actions. External generative engines still control retrieval, citations, rankings and recommendations.
GEO improves how clearly public business evidence can be retrieved, grounded and used by generative search and AI-answer systems. ACE scores the inputs it can verify and keeps externally observed generative visibility separate.
SEO covers crawlability, indexability, technical quality and measured search performance. AEO focuses on explicit entities, facts and direct answerability. GEO adds grounding/sourceability, fact consistency, query fan-out support, freshness and generative visibility measurement. ACE manages them together without combining them into one misleading score.
No. ACE can improve and verify public evidence, crawler eligibility and machine usability. ChatGPT, Google, Bing, Copilot, Gemini and other independent systems decide whether to retrieve, cite, rank, recommend or select any source.
Where authorized evidence exists, ACE records Google generative-search observations, Bing AI citations/cited pages/grounding queries and ChatGPT referral analytics separately from traditional search performance. Missing measurement stays UNKNOWN and earns zero in the GEO measurement plane.
ACE can audit and improve SEO readiness, answerability, grounding/sourceability, entity and fact consistency, crawl eligibility, freshness, agent actionability and the covered Website & AI Safety Baseline.
Qualified inquiries, calls, forms, pipeline, closed sales and revenue are business outcomes. ACE records customer-confirmed or directly attributed evidence separately instead of converting visibility changes into invented ROI.