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Be the brand communities trust — and the source AI actually cites.
Today's buyers research on Reddit, Quora and niche forums long before they reach Google — and AI assistants quote those threads back as answers. We earn your brand an authentic, high-intent presence in the communities that matter.
Pillar 05 · Community & AEO
What's included
Where your next customers research — and where AI gets its answers.
Buyers trust people over brands. Before they ever click a search result they're reading Reddit threads, scanning Quora answers and lurking in niche communities — and those same spaces are what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews pull from.
Every community engagement covers six areas.
The scope behind an authentic, cited presence:
Our community engagement cadence.
How a trusted presence is built, the right way:
Concrete deliverables.
What you actually receive:
What you receive
Concrete deliverables
- Reddit presence
- Quora & forum answers
- Community building & AMAs
- Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)
- Brand sentiment & reputation
- AI-citation optimisation
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Community & AEO FAQ
Link building is transactional: secure a placement, move on. Community visibility is presence-building — we contribute genuinely useful answers in the spaces your audience lives, over months, until the brand becomes a known voice that AI tools cite.
Done badly, yes — and communities and their moderators punish it instantly. We work the opposite way: genuinely helpful contributions, disclosed where required, value first. The brand mention is the by-product of being useful, not the goal of the post.
Yes. We run weekly citation checks across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews for your priority queries and report trends monthly. It's an emerging discipline, and we're at the leading edge of it.
Only the ones your buyers actually use. During mapping we identify the highest-intent subreddits, Quora topics and niche forums for your sector, then prioritise by relevance, activity and how often AI tools cite them.
Ready to compound your organic growth?
Tell us about your domain and goals — we'll come back within 24 business hours with the highest-impact moves for the next 90 days.