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Agent Reach Optimisation

Be present everywhere agents look. Agent Reach Optimisation (ARO).

AAIO makes your own site agent-ready. Agent Reach Optimisation makes sure agents find you in the first place - across every feed, catalogue, marketplace and data source they pull from before they ever reach a website.

The shift

An agent only chooses from what it can reach

Before it compares merchants, an agent assembles a shortlist from feeds, catalogues, retrieval sources and the third parties it trusts. If you're not in those sources, you're not in the consideration set - and no amount of on-site optimisation can save a brand the agent never retrieves. Agent Reach Optimisation expands that surface area.

shortlist

Agents shortlist before they shop

The consideration set is built from retrievable sources. Miss the sources, miss the shortlist entirely.

surfaces

Reach is a surface count

Feeds, catalogues, marketplaces, endpoints, trusted third parties - every surface is another way to be retrieved.

distribution

Off-site is the new frontier

On-site readiness matters, but distribution across the agent ecosystem is where reach is won or lost.

Services

What Agent Reach Optimisation covers

audit

Agent source audit

We map where agents actually source candidates in your category - the feeds, catalogues, retrieval sources and third parties that feed the shortlist - and where you're missing.

feeds

Feed & catalogue engineering

Clean, complete, agent-consumable product and data feeds, syndicated to the places that matter.

endpoints

Endpoints & MCP exposure

Machine-accessible endpoints and MCP surfaces so agents can retrieve you directly, not just crawl you.

presence

Third-party & marketplace presence

Consistent presence across the aggregators, marketplaces and trusted sources agents lean on.

How we work

How we expand your reach

01

Map sources

We identify the retrievable sources agents draw on to build shortlists in your category.

02

Find the gaps

Where competitors are retrievable and you aren't - by surface, feed and source.

03

Engineer reach

Feeds, catalogues, endpoints and third-party presence built for machine retrieval.

04

Syndicate

We push clean, consistent data to the surfaces that expand your reach.

05

Measure reach

Ongoing tracking of how many agent-accessible surfaces you appear on, and where to grow next.

Where it fits

Reach, then readiness, then citation

Think of it as a ladder. Generative Engine Optimisation gets you mentioned in answers. Agentic AI Optimisation makes your site agent-ready to transact. Agent Reach Optimisation sits underneath both - making sure agents can retrieve and consider you across the wider ecosystem in the first place. Reach feeds readiness feeds citation.

ARO

Get retrieved and shortlisted across the agent ecosystem.

AAIO

Get chosen and checked out on your own site.

GEO / AEO

Get cited in the generated answer.

Deliverables

What you get

  • Agent source and shortlist audit for your category
  • Feed and catalogue engineering built for machine retrieval
  • Machine-accessible endpoints and MCP exposure
  • Third-party, marketplace and aggregator presence plan
  • Data-consistency fixes across every surface
  • Syndication to the sources agents actually pull from
  • Agent-reach coverage reporting
  • A benchmark of your reach against direct competitors
FAQ

Agent Reach Optimisation questions

What is Agent Reach Optimisation (ARO)?
ARO is the practice of making your brand and products retrievable across the wider agent ecosystem - the feeds, catalogues, marketplaces, endpoints and third-party sources that AI agents use to build a shortlist before they ever choose a merchant.
How is Agent Reach Optimisation different from AAIO?
AAIO makes your own website agent-ready to transact. ARO makes sure agents can find and shortlist you in the first place, across sources you don't own. You need reach before on-site readiness can matter.
Why does off-site reach matter for AI agents?
Agents assemble candidates from retrievable sources. If you're absent from the feeds and third parties an agent trusts, you never enter the consideration set, regardless of how good your own site is.
What is MCP exposure?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) and similar standards let agents retrieve data and use tools directly. Exposing machine-accessible endpoints means agents can pull your information cleanly rather than relying on crawling.
How do you measure agent reach?
We track how many agent-accessible surfaces and sources you appear on across your category, benchmark against competitors, and report growth over time.
Can ARO run alongside GEO and AAIO?
Yes - they're designed to work together. Reach, readiness and citation form a single programme for winning across the agentic web.

See where agents can't reach you

We'll map the sources agents pull from in your category, show where competitors are retrievable and you aren't, and engineer the reach to close it.