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Skills Beyond AI
Founding cohort · 15 seats

AI Search Strategy (AEO/GEO)

Your buyers are getting answers before they reach your site, and shortlisting from the brands named in them. This is the training that shows you where you stand and what to do about it.

Dates
11 to 27 August 2026
Schedule
Tue & Thu, 11 AM ET
Format
6 live sessions, 12 hours
Room size
Capped at 15 delegates

Founding rate ends Tuesday 4 August. Enrollment closes Sunday 9 August.

Why this cohort exists

Rankings can hold steady while your visibility falls

A growing share of buying research now ends inside a generated answer rather than on a results page. The buyer reads the answer and shortlists from the handful of brands named in it. Everyone else is absent at the moment consideration happens.

The difficult part is that this happens quietly. Rankings hold. Traffic softens slowly enough to be explained away. Meanwhile the brands being cited compound an advantage that no rank tracker will show you.

Fixing it is not a tactic you can copy from a blog post. It takes a measured baseline, content built so it can be retrieved and cited, authority earned in the places engines really look, and the judgement to know which of those to do first. That is what these six sessions build.

What you will do

Six working sessions, on your own brand

You bring a real brand, yours or a client's. Every session ends with work completed rather than notes taken.

SESSION 01

How AI engines choose sources

What changed with answer-first discovery, how retrieval and query fan-out work mechanically, and which existing SEO tactics still carry over.

Live: a guided teardown of real answers across three engines.
SESSION 02

Building entity authority and trust

How engines decide which sources to trust, entity optimization, E-E-A-T signals in an AI-search context, and the off-site footprint that feeds them.

Live: an entity and authority audit of your own brand.
SESSION 03

Content architecture for machines

Atomic-answer engineering, semantic hierarchy, synthesis-friendly formats, structured data, schema, and the role of llms.txt.

Live: restructure a real page from your own site, with feedback.
SESSION 04

Measuring AI visibility

Building a practical baseline, tracking presence and citation patterns, monitoring share of voice, and reporting progress to stakeholders without overclaiming.

Live: build your own visibility tracker and run a baseline.
SESSION 05

Your strategy and workflow

Turning audit findings into a prioritized action plan, designing an ongoing content and authority workflow, and using AI tools without outsourcing the judgement.

Live: draft your prioritized playbook from a guided template.
SESSION 06

Competitive positioning and capstone

Advanced positioning across answer engines, cross-industry insight, blind-spot surfacing, and open troubleshooting.

Live: present your strategy and have it pressure-tested by the room.
What you keep

Tools expire. Frameworks and judgement compound.

The AEO/GEO strategy playbook

The guided template you build your own strategy inside during the course.

AI visibility monitoring tracker

A ready-to-use sheet for tracking presence, citations, and share of voice across three engines.

Content architecture checklist

Atomic answers, schema, semantic structure, and an llms.txt starter template.

Entity and E-E-A-T audit worksheet

For diagnosing and closing the trust gaps that keep brands out of answers.

The AI visibility prompt set

Tested prompts for auditing brand presence across answer engines.

Verifiable certificate and badge

A certificate carrying a unique ID that any client or employer can check on our site in seconds.

Irma Karsten
Your trainer

Irma Karsten

An international digital strategist, AI adoption specialist, and learning experience designer with more than twenty-five years spent helping organizations build practical capability that produces measurable results.

As search shifts toward answer engines, Irma helps teams understand how that change reshapes content strategy, brand visibility, and online authority. She draws on a deep background in SEO, content, and AI implementation to help organizations adapt for the next generation of search.

Her teaching is practical and highly interactive. Participants leave with frameworks, live demonstrations, and exercises they can apply inside their own organization immediately, rather than theory to write up later. She has trained and advised businesses across Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, from small firms to multinationals, spanning technology, financial services, engineering, manufacturing, and professional services.

25+ years in digital and search Four continents SEO, content, and analytics AI adoption and prompt engineering
Before you book

What we will not promise you

Nobody can guarantee a brand a place in a generated answer. The engines change frequently and their source selection is not fully documented. Anyone offering certainty is selling a confidence they do not have.

What we will not claim

  • Guaranteed citations in AI answers
  • First place in ChatGPT or Perplexity
  • A promised return multiple
  • A tactic that works forever

What you will build

  • A measured baseline for your brand
  • Content structured so it can be cited
  • The authority engines look for
  • Judgement that outlasts the tools
Who this is for

Built for the people who own organic discovery

Marketing leaders, agency owners, and business owners protecting their brand's organic discovery
SEO specialists and managers adapting their craft to AI-led search
Content strategists who need their work to be visible to answer engines
Growth and digital managers responsible for organic performance
Founders and solo operators who own their brand's search presence
Teams sending one delegate to bring the capability back in-house
Not ready to book?

Run the check yourself first

The AI Visibility Check is the opening exercise of the course, written up as an eight-page guide. It takes about fifteen minutes and tells you whether answer engines mention your brand at all.

We will use your address to send the guide and to answer any questions about this cohort. You can ask us to stop at any time.

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Practical details

Everything you need to plan around

Dates
Tuesday 11 August to Thursday 27 August 2026. Sessions on 11, 13, 18, 20, 25 and 27 August.
Time
11 AM ET, two hours per session. That is 4 PM in the UK and 8 AM on the US west coast.
Format
Live and instructor-led over Zoom. No pre-recorded video. Roughly two thirds of each session is hands-on.
Room size
Capped at fifteen delegates so every audit gets reviewed individually.
You will need
A laptop or desktop, a brand or client site to work on, free accounts on ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and Zoom installed.
Prerequisites
None. No coding and no prior AEO or GEO knowledge required. Familiarity with basic SEO concepts helps but is not needed.
If you miss one
Every session is recorded and delegates keep permanent access to the recordings.
Booking
Founding rate applies until Tuesday 4 August. Enrollment closes Sunday 9 August so every delegate is onboarded before the first session.
Founding cohort

Fifteen seats. First run. Starts 11 August.

You will always be the people who were in the first room, and you will leave it with a strategy for your own brand rather than a certificate for your wall.

Founding rate ends Tuesday 4 August · Enrollment closes Sunday 9 August