SEO · AEO · GEO · 2026
Pineapple is an AI-native search studio. We make brands rank in Google, own the answer box, and get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
The studio behind the answer/pineapples.dev
The shift
Buyers still Google. But they also ask the answer box, and increasingly they ask an AI first. Optimize only for classic SEO and you are competing for a shrinking slice of where decisions actually get made. The brands that win show up in all three.
The new alphabet of search
Rank in the classic results. Technical health, Core Web Vitals + INP, crawlability, schema, entity authority, and topical content that earns the position.
Own the answer box. Featured snippets, People Also Ask, and voice. Structured data and direct-answer blocks built for zero-click, intent-first search.
Get cited by the model. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. llms.txt, entity seeding, and citation-worthy content the LLMs quote.
Optimize for the agent doing the research, not just the human. Machine-readable facts, clean data, and a footprint AI can resolve, trust, and recommend.
Why now
The answer is generated, so there is one shortlist. Either your brand is in it or it is not. GEO is the new page one.
How we work
Core Web Vitals + INP, crawl + index health, canonicals, sitemaps, schema. The plumbing every engine, human or AI, reads first.
Knowledge-graph presence, E-E-A-T signals, digital PR and links. Become an entity the models recognize, not a string they ignore.
Direct-answer blocks, structured Q&A, and llms.txt. Engineered to win snippets today and citations in AI answers tomorrow.
Agentic content pipelines on Claude Code. Topical authority built at a cadence humans alone cannot sustain, on brief, on brand.
Before we optimize, we make the numbers trustworthy: attribution from ad click to CRM, the offline-conversion loop back to Google, and clean analytics. You cannot rank against polluted data.
Search Console, real PageSpeed probing, and monthly GEO citation audits across the answer engines. Clicks and citations, not vanity impressions.
Proof, in public
Everything in this deck, we shipped on pineapples.dev this quarter, in the open.
Mobile PageSpeed 76 to 95, desktop 100. Core Web Vitals and INP fixed the way Google measures them.
Found and killed a canonical bug hiding 100+ pages from Google. Sitemap re-earned, coverage recovering.
/llms.txt and sitewide FAQ schema shipped for the answer engines. Monthly GEO citation audits across ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
Search-Console-driven strategy and an agentic authoring pipeline, aligned to what actually converts.
Results
Rankings, leads, and revenue move together. A sample of the lift.
Conversion and performance lift across the client roster
Selected work
Travel, consumer, medical, and B2B SaaS. Different search markets, one job: show up where the buyer looks, whether that is a link, an answer, or an AI.
Travel & Activities · Local Pack + AI Trip-Planners · 2025
The buyer is ready to book, and more and more they plan the trip by asking an AI first. We work the local pack and activity SERPs with review and event schema, chase the seasonal head terms, and answer the itinerary questions travelers put to ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews, so the tour is the ranked result and the recommended one.
DiscoverHawaiiTours.com/Pineapple · Local + technical SEO, content, GEO
Local + review schema · activity pages · seasonal intent · AI-answer citations
Consumer Mobility · Brand, App Store + Launch Cities
Consumer mobility scales one market at a time. We built the brand entity and a programmatic launch-city footprint, plus app-store optimization, so a new city ranks the day it opens, and the rider searching for rideshare rewards finds Freebird before the incumbents.
Freebird Rides/Pineapple · Entity SEO, programmatic + ASO
Entity SEO · programmatic city pages · app-store optimization · category content
Medical Aesthetics · Traffic Quality & Signal Integrity
For a men's hair-restoration practice, we ran a forensic eight-checkpoint review of the whole demand engine: audience quality, mobile Core Web Vitals, form and attribution integrity, the Google feedback loop, and organic. Every silent break became a written fix, a named owner, and a monitor, so no failure hides for years again and every dollar optimizes against real data.
RestoreHair.com/Pineapple · Technical SEO, CWV, analytics + attribution integrity, GEO
Mobile Core Web Vitals · GA4 + Ads signal integrity · offline-conversion loop · E-E-A-T
Healthcare · Patient Funnel + Signal Integrity
A membership-medicine group was losing inbound patients between the phone, the inbox and the EHR. We rebuilt the funnel as product: Elation and Hint EHR integrations, a Dialpad comms hub, and deterministic patient-to-conversation linkage, so every inbound is acknowledged in under a minute, booked inside the conversation, and the numbers you optimize against are finally true.
HIPnation/Pineapple · Patient funnel + platform engineering
Elation + Hint EHR · Dialpad comms hub · AWS/SST · Convex · HIPAA
Consumer Brand · Ecommerce Performance
A state-of-the-art Shopify storefront for a national consumer brand, ideation through UX, UI, development, and QA. We rebuilt it for speed, because Core Web Vitals move rankings and revenue at the same time.
Sun Bum/Pineapple · Ecommerce build + performance
Shopify Liquid · HTML5 · CSS3 / SASS · JavaScript · Core Web Vitals
Ecommerce · Headless Rebuild, and the Migration Back · 2022–23
PlayBetter's Shopify store loaded fine. It was still losing sales. We rebuilt it headless on Shogun Frontend, React and Next.js SSR. Then Shogun discontinued the product, and we migrated the storefront back to Liquid ahead of the shutdown, carrying the performance and SEO work across. Picking a vendor is a bet. Getting off one cleanly is the job.
PlayBetter/Pineapple · Headless build, then the migration off it
Shogun Frontend · React · Next.js SSR · Shopify Liquid · SEO/SEM + UX audit
B2B SaaS · Category, Comparison + AI Shortlist · 2023
B2B software is bought through category, comparison, and 'alternatives' search, and now through the AI shortlist. We build the comparison and use-case pages that rank, strengthen the review-site footprint the models read, and make VidCruiter the name the AI names.
VidCruiter/Pineapple · B2B SEO, AEO, GEO
Programmatic comparison pages · review-site SEO · schema · GEO citations
Get in the answer
A fixed-fee SEO + GEO audit tells you exactly where you stand across search, answers, and AI, and what it takes to win. Then we build and compound it with you.
Anthony Wentzel/anthony@pineapples.dev/pineapples.dev