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LLMO

Large Language Model Optimisation

AEO and GEO are about specific answers. LLMO is broader: making sure everywhere a model can reach for information about your brand actually says something true, current and specific.

What it is

What LLMO means in practice

Large Language Model Optimisation is the ongoing work of making sure the content a model can access about your brand, whether through live retrieval or whatever made it into training data, is accurate, specific and consistent enough for the model to describe you correctly.

Models don't invent facts about your brand out of nowhere. When they get something wrong, it's usually because the actual information either doesn't exist anywhere accessible, exists but contradicts itself across sources, or is thin enough that the model fills the gap with a plausible-sounding guess.

LLMO is the umbrella work underneath AEO and GEO. Where AEO focuses on a single answer and GEO focuses on a blended one, LLMO is about the underlying pool of content itself: is there enough of it, is it accurate, and does it agree with itself across your site, your documentation, third-party listings and anywhere else a model might look.

This includes older or thin pages that nobody's touched in years, contradictions between your marketing copy and your support documentation, and gaps where a reasonably obvious question about your product simply has no clear answer published anywhere.

Why it matters

Where hallucinated details usually come from

We've seen models confidently describe a pricing tier that was discontinued two years ago, or attribute a feature to a product that never had it, because the only content that ever existed on the topic was a single vague blog post from years earlier and nothing since to correct it.

This isn't really the model being unreliable in some abstract sense. It's a content gap with a confident-sounding answer stapled on top. The fix is almost always the same: publish something clear, specific and current enough that there's no gap left to guess at.

Our approach

How an LLMO engagement works

01

Retrieval-source mapping

We identify the places a model is likely pulling information about you from: your own site, documentation, Wikidata, review platforms, forums and industry directories.

02

Gap and contradiction audit

We check for questions that have no clear published answer anywhere, and for places where two sources describe you differently.

03

Content correction and creation

Thin or outdated reference content gets rewritten, and genuine gaps get filled with clear, specific, current material.

04

Cross-source alignment

Where contradictions exist between your own site and third-party listings, we work on getting them to agree, since a model has no way to know which version is right.

05

Periodic hallucination checks

We prompt models directly on a recurring basis and check the factual accuracy of what comes back, then report honestly on drift over time.

What's included

What you actually get

  • A map of where models are likely retrieving information about your brand
  • A gap and contradiction report across your key sources
  • Rewritten or newly created reference content to close the gaps
  • Cross-source alignment recommendations for third-party listings
  • A recurring hallucination check with plain findings, not just a score
Related services

Works well alongside

Frequently asked

LLMO questions worth answering honestly

Does LLMO mean getting my content into a model's training data?+
Not directly, and nobody can promise that, since training data selection is controlled by the model providers. What LLMO actually does is strengthen the content available through live retrieval and public sources, which is what most current AI systems rely on far more heavily than their original training data anyway.
Can I get a model to "forget" wrong information about my brand?+
Not by asking it to. Models don't have a delete function for facts. The reliable approach is publishing clear, correct, well-distributed content so that future retrieval surfaces the right answer instead of the old one, and the wrong version gradually stops being the thing the model finds.
How is LLMO different from technical SEO?+
Technical SEO is about whether a page can be crawled, indexed and served quickly. LLMO assumes that part is working and focuses on whether the actual content, once found, is accurate, specific and consistent enough for a model to describe correctly.
Do open-source and smaller models matter for LLMO work?+
Often yes, particularly if your customers use tools built on top of them. We usually prioritise the handful of engines with the most real usage in your category first, then expand if there's a clear reason to.

Not sure what a model actually knows about you?

A free audit shows exactly how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity answer your category today, and where Large Language Model Optimisation could close the gap.

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