Search has expanded to AI. The brands it recommends win the customer.
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About us

The agency for AI search

Oars exists because the way people discover businesses is changing.

In 2024, I started asking a simple question: if AI becomes a better way to find information than search, what happens to the businesses trying to be found?

The more I used AI, the more obvious the answer became. People won't search. They'll ask. What to buy, who to hire, where to go, which brands to trust.

Most companies are still optimizing for rankings. We think that's yesterday's game. What matters now is whether AI understands your business well enough to recommend it, because when a customer asks, only the recommended get chosen.

We're not a software company, and we're not an SEO agency with an AI label. AEO is the only thing we do.

That's why we built Oars.
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Founder, CEO

Our values

What you can hold us to

Built for AI Search

We started as an AEO agency, not an SEO shop that added it later. Every engagement is focused on how AI models find, describe, and recommend your brand.

Visibility Over Rankings

Rankings still matter, but recommendations decide the sale. We optimize for the moment AI answers: whether it understands your brand, trusts it, and names it.

Results Over Reports

You're not hiring us for dashboards. Every engagement is measured on visibility gained, answers won, and customers that arrive citing AI.

How we got here

2022
ChatGPT Launches
2023
AI Search Accelerates
June 2024
Oars Is Founded
2025
AI Recommendations Go Mainstream
Today
The Answers Are Being Decided
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