Search used to send you visitors. Now it often answers for you.
For twenty years the deal was simple: reach page one and the clicks would follow. That deal is changing. Google now answers many questions itself with AI Overviews, and a growing number of buyers skip the results page altogether and ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for a shortlist. If your business is missing from those answers, you can be the best option in your market and never make the list.
The good news is that all three engines reward the same things: a fast, well-built website, clear answers to real questions and proof that other people trust you. At vi-tech, engineers, writers and strategists work on all three together. We fix technical problems in the code instead of filing tickets, write with your experts instead of templates, and measure how often AI assistants mention you, not just where you rank.
68%
40%
900m
1bn
of US Google searches ended without a click to any website in early 2026, up from 60% two years earlier.
fewer clicks to websites, roughly, when Google showed an AI Overview, in the first randomised field experiment of its kind.
people use ChatGPT every week, and many now ask it for product and supplier recommendations before they ever search.
monthly users adopted Google’s conversational AI Mode within a year of its launch.
Found on Google. Featured in answers. Named by AI.
Six capabilities run as one programme, because the signals that earn a ranking are the same ones AI uses to decide who to trust.
Six signals inside every page we optimise.
Search engines rank pages. AI engines quote them. Both look for the same six signals. Tap a marker to see each one.
Most SEO agencies can only recommend fixes. We ship them.
A typical audit ends in a long spreadsheet that waits months for a developer. Because vi-tech designs and builds websites and apps every day, our own engineers fix speed, rendering, schema and site structure themselves. At the same time our writers and strategists build the content and reputation that earn citations, so the technical and the creative work move forward together.
Same sprint
3 engines
1 team
engineers, writers and strategists working from a single roadmap, with one person accountable to you
is when most technical fixes go live, built by the engineers who found them instead of a queue of tickets
Google search, answer boxes and AI assistants, tracked side by side in one monthly report
Fixed at the source
Speed, rendering and schema fixed in your code, whether the site runs on WordPress, Shopify, Wix or a custom build.
Written for people, structured for machines
Content your buyers want to read, organised so search and AI engines can understand it and quote it.
Measured where buyers ask
Rankings and AI mentions tracked together, so you can see what is working and what to do next.
Six stages from first audit to steady growth.
Visibility compounds. Every stage ends with something you can review, and the cycle repeats each quarter as search keeps changing.
Every site starts from a different place.
A new website, a site that is losing traffic, a business AI never mentions and a company moving into new markets each need a different mix of work. Here is where we would usually start.
Search data
Google Search Console · Bing Webmaster Tools · GA4 · Looker Studio
SEO platforms
Semrush · Ahrefs · Screaming Frog · Sitebulb
AI visibility
Semrush AI Toolkit · Ahrefs Brand Radar · Profound · Peec AI
Performance
PageSpeed Insights · Lighthouse · Chrome UX Report · WebPageTest
Structured data
Schema.org · Rich Results Test · Schema Markup Validator
Platforms
WordPress · Shopify · Webflow · Wix · Next.js
In maritime, the right buyer asks a very precise question.
A superintendent looking for a dry dock in Fujairah. A P&I club searching for salvage support in the middle of the night. A charterer comparing fleet software. Our maritime work taught us how specialist these searches are, and how few people make them. We help marine and offshore businesses answer them in the language the industry actually uses, so they are found by the people who matter, on Google and in AI answers.
Also building for SaaS, fintech, healthcare, logistics, education, retail and professional services.
Three ways in. One team measured the results.
Visibility audit
Launch-ready SEO
Visibility partner
A fixed-price review of your technical health, content and AI presence, with a prioritised plan you can act on with us or without us.
Search built into a new website or app from day one: structure, schema, a content plan and launch checks, delivered with the build.
A monthly programme across technical SEO, content, digital PR and AI visibility, reported every month and planned every quarter.
Best for
teams that want a clear picture first
Best for
new sites, redesigns and migrations
Best for
businesses that want steady, compounding growth
