The DevTools AEO Agency for Teams Whose Docs Already Rank
Your documentation ranks and the assistant still returns a rival library in the import line. That gap is extractability, not authority, and it is the only thing this scope fixes.
- DevTools, API and infrastructure companies
- AEO only, your rankings stay where they are
- Every statistic carries a dated source
We run answer engine optimization on our own domain before selling it to anyone. Attrock’s own site holds 217 citations across AI platforms, spanning 97 distinct pages. Those counts are pulled fresh, not quoted from a deck.
A headline client outcome: metric, window, client or category.
What Does an DevTools AEO Agency Actually Do?
- Positions, impressions and clicks
- Crawlability and site health
- Link acquisition for authority
- A results page you already win
- Whether an assistant names you
- Which competitor it names instead
- Prompt coverage by buying role
- An answer with no results page
Why DevTools Needs Its Own AEO Layer
A Snippet Must Survive Being Lifted
Assistants quote a passage without its surrounding page. An example that depends on context three sections earlier arrives broken.
Version Drift Poisons the Answer
Engines quote whichever version of your API the web documents best. A deprecated example becomes your first impression.
Your Best Page May Be Unreadable
Docs assembled by JavaScript after load are invisible to most AI crawlers, however well they rank for humans.
AEO, GEO and AI Visibility: One Job, Three Names
AEO names the discipline after the answer. GEO names it after the engines. AI visibility is the outcome your board asks about. We use all three because buyers do.
What This Is Not
This layer assumes the floor is already built. If your baseline shows crawl or authority problems instead, we will say so and point you at the full programme rather than sell you this.
Who Usually Comes to Us
A result from this vertical: metric moved, window, client or category.
Why This Layer, and Why Now
Your Buyers Already Research This Way
94% of business buyers report using AI in their buying process. (Forrester, Buyers’ Journey Survey 2025)
B2B buyers. Sample and geography undisclosed. · C3
And the Click Is Going Anyway
In the first four months of 2026, 68.01% of Google searches ended without a click, up from 60.45% in 2024. (SparkToro / Similarweb, 2026)
US, browser-based. Excludes the Google mobile app. · C7
What a Missing AEO Layer Costs You Specifically
Your rankings report will not show any of this, which is why strong-SEO teams find out latest of all.
What DevTools Teams Ask Us First
"We Already Have an SEO Agency. Do We Fire Them?"
No, and if an agency tells you to, be careful. This scope sits on top of what they do rather than replacing it.
They keep rankings, crawl health and links. We take prompt coverage, extractability and citation measurement, and we report separately so neither of us can claim the other’s win.
We will talk to them directly if that is easier for you.
"Why Not Just Buy an AEO Tool?"
If you have someone to act on the output, a tool may well be enough, and we will say so on the call.
A dashboard tells you that you are absent from 60% of prompts. It does not rewrite the comparison page, earn the mention or decide which fix is worth the effort.
Buy the tool if you have the hands. Buy this if you do not.
"Can You Guarantee We’ll Be Cited?"
No. Model updates change outputs with no change on your side, and any agency guaranteeing a citation is misrepresenting how these systems work.
What we commit to is method. A measured baseline before we start, a frozen prompt set you sign off, and monthly reporting against three named competitors.
If everyone rises together, we tell you it was a model update.
"Can You Measure What Copilot or Cursor Actually Says?"
Partly, and we are precise about which parts rather than blurring it.
Browser assistants and Google AI surfaces carry observable citation data. Editor-embedded assistants do not, so we measure those by prompt sampling and label it as sampling.
Anyone claiming full IDE-level measurement is overselling.
Our Four-Step AEO Process
Baseline: Which Prompts Name You Now
Share of voice and prompt coverage across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI, against three competitors you name. Your rankings stay with whoever owns them today.
Prompt Universe: One Set Per Buying Role
100 to 150 frozen prompts spanning everyone who touches the decision, signed off before a single page is touched. Frozen means we cannot move the goalposts later.
Rewrite the Pages an Engine Would Quote
Question-shaped headings with the answer directly beneath. Comparison tables instead of comparison prose. Sourced, dated claims. Every priority URL scored before and after.
Re-Measure Against the Frozen Baseline
Same prompts, same engines, same competitors, same scoring version. If everyone rose together, we tell you it was a model update rather than our work.
What these steps produced: baseline figure, re-measured figure, window.
What’s Included: and What Is Not
Prompt Coverage by Buying Role
Share of voice per engine, against three named competitors, split by the role asking the question.
Page-Level Citability Scoring
Every priority URL scored across six weighted dimensions, with a ranked fix list and points per fix.
Quickstarts and Runnable Examples
Self-contained, current snippets an engine can lift whole, so a copy-paste from an assistant actually runs.
Extractable Answer Blocks
Question-shaped headings with the answer directly beneath, so an engine can lift a clean passage without interpreting you.
Rankings, Links and Deep Technical
Those stay with your current agency or team. We check rendering, then stop, and we say so in writing.
Before-and-After, Same Version
Citability score per URL, live assistant fetches from your logs, and Search Console AI impressions on the same scoring version.
This Layer vs Your SEO Agency vs a Tool vs In-House
| Attrock AEO layer | Your current SEO agency | An AEO tool subscription | In-house team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measures prompt coverage by buying role | Yes, frozen and signed off | Rarely in scope | Yes, if configured | Yes, if they measure |
| Rewrites the pages after measuring | Yes, that is the scope | Yes, at rankings priority | No, reporting only | Yes, at roadmap speed |
| Separates a model update from a real gain | Yes, on the same frozen version | Rarely | Depends on the vendor | Yes, with discipline |
| Owns rankings and link building | No, deliberately out of scope | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost shape | Layer retainer, cancellable | Existing retainer | Licence, plus your time | Salary, tooling and ramp |
| Where it breaks | Wrong fit if your real gap is authority | Breaks at the citation layer | Breaks with nobody to act on it | Breaks when the person leaves |
We don’t name rival agencies here. That tells you about our marketing, not your decision.
What We’ve Actually Moved
WhenAvailable’s AI citations grew from 32 to 305 between February and August 2026.
For WhenAvailable we published one blog post a month and earned nine brand mentions a month, every month, for 17 months.
WhenAvailable’s organic traffic grew from 3,020 to 9,127 monthly visits over 17 months, a 202% increase.
WhenAvailable went from 117 to 648 page-one keywords, a 453% increase, over 17 months.
One DevTools Engagement Still in Measurement
Prompt coverage and share of voice, quarter over quarter, against three named competitors.
Empty on purpose. Better an empty slot than a number we cannot source.
You’re Not Hiring a Freelancer. You’re Hiring a Team.
One person stays accountable end to end: Gaurav Sharma, who founded Attrock.
How Much Does an DevTools AEO Agency Cost?
One Layer, Scoped to Your Baseline
Three workstreams, every retainer. Rankings and link building are deliberately absent, which is what keeps this affordable next to an existing retainer.
Measure
- Baseline across four AI engines
- Frozen prompt set, split by buying role
- Share of voice against three named competitors
- Page-level citability scoring
- Monthly re-measure on the same version
Rewrite
- Comparison pages rebuilt as real tables
- Question headings with front-loaded answers
- Sourced, dated claims on every statistic
- Extractable summary blocks per section
- Structured data hygiene
Prove
- Before-and-after citability score per URL
- Server-log fetch monitoring
- Search Console AI impression tracking
- GA4 channel and segment build-out
- Attribution on your enquiry form
- Docs pages needing structural rewrites
- Number of SDKs and languages
- How crowded your prompt space is
- How much version drift exists today
- API surface size
- Whether your docs render server-side
A clean, well-linked site with unextractable pages sits at the light end. A large estate with a crowded prompt space sits at the heavy end. The free score tells us which you are.
Time from start to first measurable citation gain, and the scope behind it.
Where This AEO Layer Sits in What We Do
DevTools AEO Agency: FAQs
What Does a DevTools AEO Agency Do That Our SEO Agency Does Not?
It measures and fixes one thing they do not report on: whether an answer engine can lift a working passage from your docs.
Your SEO agency optimises for a position on a results page. This scope optimises for being quoted where no results page appears.
The two are complementary, and we report separately so neither of us can claim the other’s win.
Do You Rewrite Our Whole Documentation?
No. Usually fifty pages or so, chosen by the frozen prompt set rather than by traffic, plus the templates behind them.
Reference material generally stays as it is, because that is not what assistants quote.
The pages that change are quickstarts, task guides and anything answering a question a developer would actually type.
Will This Work if Our Rankings Are Weak?
Less well, and we will tell you on the first call rather than after three months. A page an engine cannot find will never be quoted.
If your baseline shows crawl or authority problems, this narrow scope is the wrong buy for you.
We point you at the full programme instead, which is a bigger number and a slower start.
Will Our Engineers Have to Do the Writing?
No. We write the rewrites and your engineers review them, which is the reverse of how most docs work usually runs.
Technical review stays with you because correctness is not something we should be trusted with alone.
The structural decisions, versioning audit and extractability scoring are ours.
How Do You Prove This Worked?
Same prompt set, same engines, same competitors, same scoring version, month over month. Plus a citability score per URL, before and after.
If everyone in your category rose together, we report that as a model update rather than as our result.
That distinction is the whole reason the baseline is frozen and signed before any work starts.
What Is Explicitly Not Included?
Rankings work, link building for authority, and deep technical SEO beyond the render and robots check.
Those stay with whoever owns them today, and we put that in writing in the scope document.
Naming the exclusions is what keeps this layer affordable, and it is also how you can tell whether an AEO quote is honest.
Find Out If This Scope Fits You
The free score shows which prompts in your category already name you, which name a competitor instead, and which name nobody at all. It also tells you whether this narrow layer is the right buy.
