Andover, Hampshire – 9 July, 2026 – Antek Automation, a Hampshire-based AI automation and search agency, has today launched two new services aimed at a fast-growing problem for UK businesses: staying visible as customers move their searches from Google to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
The agency has added a dedicated Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) service and a separate AI SEO service, both live on antekautomation.com. The two services address different stages of the same shift. GEO focuses on getting a business cited and recommended inside AI-generated answers. AI SEO focuses on adapting a website’s structure, content and technical foundations so it performs across both traditional search and the new generation of AI-driven results.
The move responds to a clear change in buyer behaviour. A growing share of people now ask an AI assistant for recommendations rather than scrolling a page of search results. When someone types “who is the best plumber near me” or “recommend an accountant in Hampshire” into ChatGPT, the assistant returns a short list of named businesses. Companies that are not cited in those answers are, in effect, invisible to that buyer.
“Search is changing faster than most business owners realise,” said Andy Norman, founder of Antek Automation. “For twenty years the game was ranking on page one of Google. That still matters, but now there is a second race running alongside it. If an AI assistant is recommending your competitor and not you, you have lost the customer before they ever reach a search page. Most businesses have no idea whether they are being cited or ignored.”
Antek Automation is positioning the two services as complementary rather than competing. The GEO service builds on the agency’s existing GEO audit, which checks how a business appears across the major AI platforms and identifies why it is or is not being recommended. The new AI SEO service covers the on-site work that makes a business easier for both search engines and AI models to understand, quote and trust.
Norman argues that the timing gives early movers a genuine advantage. “Right now the competition for these terms is almost non-existent, because most agencies are still selling the same search services they sold five years ago. That will not last. The businesses that get their AI visibility sorted this year will be the ones being recommended when everyone else wakes up to it. This is a land-grab, and it is open for a limited window.”
The agency brings an unusual background to the work. Norman spent more than thirty years in field service and managed print before moving into AI automation, and he uses that grounding in how service businesses actually operate as a differentiator. Antek Automation is also a Certified Retell AI Partner, building AI voice agents, chatbots and workflow automation alongside its search services.
The launch is aimed squarely at UK service businesses, tradespeople and professional firms such as solicitors, accountants and dental practices, many of which rely heavily on local recommendation and are exposed if AI assistants start steering enquiries elsewhere. Antek Automation works with clients across the UK from its Hampshire base and is a member of the Federation of Small Businesses.
Both new services are available now. Businesses can request a check of their current AI visibility to see how they appear across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews before committing to any wider work.
About Antek Automation
Antek Automation is an AI automation and search agency based in Andover, Hampshire, serving businesses across the UK. Founded by Andy Norman, a Certified Retell AI Partner with more than thirty years of field service and managed print experience, the agency builds AI voice agents, chatbots and workflow automation, and works as a generative engine optimisation agency UK-wide, helping businesses stay visible through its GEO and AI SEO services. Antek Automation works with service businesses, tradespeople and professional firms that want to grow without adding headcount.
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Antek Automation, Chantry House, 38 Chantry Way, Andover, Hampshire SP10 1LZ,
Telephone: 0333 038 9960
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Web: www.antekautomation.com
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