The founder

Stacey Smith.

Stacey Smith is the founder of Answari, a UK consultancy in Generative Engine Optimisation and Answer Engine Optimisation, based in Plymouth, Devon. Stacey has spent ten years in brand, search and performance marketing - the work of getting businesses found, and turning that visibility into measurable enquiries.


Stacey Smith, founder of Answari, with his dog on a beach

Plymouth, Devon, UK
stacey@answari.co.uk
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A career spent on one problem: being found.

For ten years I have worked in brand, search and performance marketing - PPC, SEO, conversion and attribution - for competitive UK businesses. My working habits come from performance marketing: everything is measured, everything is tied to cost-per-lead and outcome, and a claim without evidence is just noise.

Answari focuses that experience on a practical question: what do AI products say about a business, and what evidence supports those answers? The work combines direct observation, website checks and published platform guidance. Every finding is recorded with its source and its limits, so a proposed change can be tested rather than taken on trust.

Answari is a consultancy for UK professional practices. We test ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity directly, and record three things separately: whether you are named, whether your website is linked, and whether the details are right. Where you give us access, Google’s and Bing’s own reporting tools add a second view.

Why Answari exists.

Discovery is moving inside the AI answer. When a customer asks an assistant who to trust, it names a handful of businesses - and most good local practices have no idea whether they are one of them, or why not. A useful service connects those observations to specific website and evidence improvements, then checks what changes.

Answari brings the investigation and implementation together: a published methodology, clear scope and pricing, and separate reporting of whether you are named, whether you are linked, and the enquiries we can trace back to AI. You work directly with me. The work is measured against your dated starting point, with what we do not know stated plainly.

Key facts

  • Founder of Answari, an AI visibility consultancy for UK professional practices
  • Based in Plymouth, Devon, working with clients across the UK
  • Ten years in brand, search and performance marketing
  • Specialisms: AI visibility (GEO and AEO), the background code AI reads, consistent business identity, and measuring which enquiries came from where
  • Author of the Answari methodology and the guides in the Insights library
  • Every engagement is founder-delivered

Where Answari stands · 5 September 2026

Published method. Evidence you can inspect.

Answari is a new consultancy. These materials explain the work, its scope and the evidence currently available:

  • A published methodology - the full six-phase method, in the open
  • A sample audit - an illustrative report structure, not a client case study
  • Our own-site AI visibility study - dated observations, source checks, accuracy findings and the gaps still open
  • Published pricing - £1,500, from £3,500, £1,250 per month; with the scope agreed before work starts
  • Eight sector-specific service pages, live and substantial
  • Live privacy, cookie and terms pages
  • Every engagement measured with an agreed set of questions against a dated starting point
  • Founder-led from Plymouth, UK - you deal with Stacey, nobody else

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In one paragraph

What GEO and AEO actually mean.

Generative Engine Optimisation and Answer Engine Optimisation describe work on a business’s presence in AI-generated answers. Answari checks whether the business is named, whether its website is cited and whether its details are correct, then identifies improvements to its website and supporting evidence. Inclusion is controlled by each AI product and cannot be guaranteed. The full explanation lives in What is Generative Engine Optimisation? and the glossary.

Direct line

Talk to the person who does the work.

Start with the free visibility check, or write to stacey@answari.co.uk. You will always be dealing with me.

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