Best accountants for UK startups in 2026
- Northcrest R&D tax, fundraising
- Lumen Ledger SaaS specialists
- Barrow Tax Seed-stage packages
- Your firm not listed
GEO & AEO consultancy
We help AI search find, verify and recommend your business through better content, credible brand mentions and consistent entity information. Get a prioritised plan for what to change, where to build authority and who will deliver it.
Visibility across
“Which accountants do UK tech startups recommend for R&D tax credits?”
Startups often mention Northcrest and Lumen Ledger for R&D tax claims and fundraising support. Look for a specialist who explains eligibility clearly, and check that their listings are current.
Best accountants for UK startups in 2026
Services
Your firm: listing
| Finding | Action | Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Missing from a cited list | Editorial pitch with a case study | High |
| No answer page for the question | Content brief, then publish | High |
| Directory profile outdated | Correct profile, align schema | Medium |
Owners agreed with your team. Next check: ask the same questions again in six weeks.
Sources the answer reads
1 Comparison article
Best accountants for UK startups
2 Your website
yourfirm.example
No page answers “R&D tax credits for startups” New page: R&D tax credits for startups
3 Directory profile
Your firm: listing
Specialism: General accounting Specialism: Startup & R&D tax
The answer only repeats its sources. Your firm isn’t in them, so it isn’t in the answer. Fix the sources, and the next answer names you.
AI search optimization
AI answers are assembled from what the web already says about you. Mentions. Sources. Connections. We map where the answers in your category come from, then build your presence in those places.
A place in the best-of lists and comparison pages that answer engines already cite for your category.
Relevant coverage that gives AI engines independent sources to reference when they describe you.
Editorial mentions and links from relevant, high-authority sites in your space.
Accurate, consistent profiles on the platforms answer engines check before they recommend anyone.
Pages on your own site that answer the questions buyers ask, with evidence AI can extract and cite.
Pages that are easy to discover and archive, including by sampled web archives such as Common Crawl.
Start with the evidence. The free AEO audit checks your homepage foundations, and the entity coverage check shows which profiles and knowledge bases recognise you. When you want the gaps closed, an AEO/GEO consultancy diagnostic turns them into a 90-day plan.
Why it matters now
Your buyers can meet your brand inside an answer before they reach your website. Make what they find accurate, credible and worth citing.
AI visibility services
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) connect your content, technical SEO and authority across the web. We find the gaps and turn them into a practical plan for your team.
Identify the publications and lists AI already cites in your category, with a credible approach to getting included.
What you get
Priority publications, cited lists and an editorial outreach plan
Turn the questions buyers ask into clear, citable pages, using Answer Engine Optimization your team knows how to write.
What you get
Answer Engine Optimization priorities and content briefs
Find conflicting records across the knowledge graph, profiles and directories, and build one consistent, verifiable identity.
What you get
Trusted-source coverage, missing entity records and a prioritised action plan
Entity visibility
Your website, public profiles, people and service pages should describe the same business consistently, and you should be recognised across the trusted sources in your market. We compare those records, find the gaps and conflicts, and prioritise what to fix and build next.
Identity check
Is it the same business everywhere?
Where your name, description, people, services or locations conflict across the web, and what to fix first.
Organization and Person schema recommendations, with sameAs references only to profiles that genuinely identify you.
The review platforms, directories and knowledge bases worth maintaining, including Wikidata or Wikipedia only where you are eligible.
Clear, separate pages and markup for your experts and services, connected by the right relationships.
See where you stand. Our free entity check shows where your business is recognised across knowledge bases and linked profiles, and where coverage is missing. Then save approved brand facts so later checks and drafts describe you the same way.
The method
We run the prompts your buyers ask across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, and record which brands get mentioned and which sources get cited. Then we choose the work that closes the gap.
Content brief
R&D tax credits for startups: what qualifies?
Who is mentioned, who is cited, and which pages those answers draw on, for the questions that matter to your pipeline.
Content-gap briefs for the topics competitors win on, plus a shortlist of the publishers, lists and posts that keep surfacing.
Build the better page on your own site, and request inclusion in the articles and lists AI already cites through genuine editorial outreach.
A prioritised backlog: re-test prompts, refresh evidence and choose the next useful action.
How engagements work. MAXAEO is a consultancy. We diagnose, prioritise and brief, and work alongside your team. Start with a fixed-scope diagnostic and 90-day plan, add a fractional AEO/GEO lead for ongoing direction, or train your team to deliver it. Writing, outreach, digital PR and technical delivery are scoped separately, so you always know who implements what.
Measurement
We track the prompts your buyers ask across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude: who gets mentioned, who gets cited, and which sources the answers draw on. That data is the source of every recommendation, and it shows you what has moved.
Mentioned in answers
18%leader 33%
Cited as a source
9%▲ 4 pts
Share of voice
14%▲ from 5%leader 31%
Avg. position when named
3.2▲ from 4.6
Share of voice by week
Work starts
Mention rate by engine
Sources AI cites most in your category
This becomes your work plan
| Source | Type | Citations | You | Next action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| startup-finance-guide.example | List | 34 | Not listed | Pitch for inclusion → |
| reviews-directory.example | Reviews | 21 | No profile | Claim profile → |
| regional-business-news.example | News | 12 | Not mentioned | PR comment → |
| founders-weekly.example | Blog | 9 | Competitor linked | Offer a guide → |
| yourfirm.example | Your site | 4 | Cited | Add 2 answers → |
Want to see the answers yourself? AI answer tracking is in the Pro beta: sampled answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity, with question-level guidance and your work marked on the trend charts. Samples are samples: each page says what has been tested.
Technical foundations
Technical SEO still matters. Fast, crawlable, well-structured pages are the foundation every other signal builds on. We review indexability, Core Web Vitals and structured data alongside your off-site evidence, then keep it maintained as the answers change.
Technical check
Can crawlers read the answer?
Check yours free. The AEO audit runs about 40 checks on your homepage, AI crawler logs show which bots reach your pages and which get errors, and the file generators and validators help you fix robots.txt, llms.txt and schema.
Tools & platform
Run the checks yourself, keep the evidence, and move the work through review. Free tools need an account; the rest of the platform is a Pro beta you can join today.
Find access, structure and identity gaps.
Inspect the answers collected for your buying questions.
Use evidence and approved facts to prepare the work.
Bring checks, activity and connections together.
Free means free. The free tools need an account so your reports and approved facts are saved. Pro is a beta waitlist: no payment is taken, and each feature page says exactly what has and hasn’t been tested.
Why MAXAEO
We connect content, technical SEO, brand mentions and entity coverage across trusted sources in one evidence-led plan. Every recommendation points to a source, a priority and an owner, and delivery is agreed around your team.
| Work | Visibility trackers | Content agencies | MAXAEO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Track prompts, mentions and citations | Core | Partly | Core |
| Find the sources answers draw on | Partly | Partly | Core |
| Content built for AI answers | Not usually | Core | Core |
| Entity and knowledge graph | Not usually | Not usually | Core |
| Profiles, directories and sameAs | Not usually | Not usually | Core |
| Lists, mentions and digital PR | Not usually | Partly | Core |
Consultancy & training
A fixed-scope diagnostic when you need a plan, senior direction when you need an owner, and practical training when your team will do the work.
Consultancy · fixed-scope project
A scoped diagnostic and practical action plan for your business.
£1,250–£2,500 indicative fixed project fee
Fractional leadership · agreed monthly scope
Defined monthly capacity to direct and review your AI search programme.
£1,500–£3,000/month indicative fee for roughly 2–4 days of agreed capacity
Team training · tailored workshop
A tailored working session with practical outputs for your team.
£900–£1,500 indicative fee for a remote half-day workshop with agreed preparation
Fees are indicative. Scope and the final fee are agreed before any work starts; writing, development, outreach and placement costs are quoted separately. You don’t need a MAXAEO account to ask us about your priorities.
Let's talk
Tell us your website and what you'd like to improve. We'll read it properly and reply by email with honest next steps, including whether we're the right fit.
GEO & AEO FAQs
Key things to know about GEO, AEO and how MAXAEO works.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) improves how your brand and content can be found, understood and cited in AI-generated answers. It brings together useful content, technical SEO, structured data and credible mentions across the web.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) structures content and data so AI answer engines can extract, cite and recommend it. Classic SEO aims for ranked links; AEO aims to be used inside the answer. Both rely on the same technical SEO and authority.
A baseline of the prompts your buyers ask and the sources AI answers draw on, your entity and profile coverage, content gaps and technical access. You get a prioritised plan with an owner for each action. See the AEO/GEO consultancy diagnostic for scope and indicative fees. Writing, outreach, digital PR and technical delivery are scoped separately.
We re-run a defined set of buyer prompts across the major AI engines and record mentions, citations and the sources the answers draw on, alongside enquiries from AI referrals. You see what moved and what to do next.
Yes. The AEO audit, entity coverage check, fix pack and file generators are free with an account. AI answer tracking and the other Pro features are a beta waitlist, and no payment is taken.
Every strategy is built around your business, your competitors and your buyers' prompts. If we see a conflict of interest, we'll raise it before we start.
It depends on your current authority footprint and how quickly changes are implemented. We set expectations in the scope and re-test the same prompts so you can see what has moved. Results are never guaranteed, but the work compounds.
Yes. Our methodology covers all English-speaking markets and can be configured for multilingual GEO campaigns.
Insights
Ongoing research on AI search, GEO and how brands earn trust as the answer.
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