My first guess is to use additional AEO, GEO skills as your benefit - not something that steals from you. Of course, you will need to provide additional services that improve those. Examples:
Offer bringing contextual mentions, not only backlinks. Such mentions feed LLMs with info.
Offer certain SMM functions. Weird, but SMM that was considered dead and lowest paid niche in marketing, makes now more sense for AI search.
Offer some community functions to attract reviews. Detailed reviews are good gor AI search.
Explore free trials of some AI visibility trackers - for initial understanding on how to manage and implement changes of your website content.
Suggest being a SEO ambassador of your product on niche forums, covering relevant issues and discussing your brand as a potential solution.
Good news is that those are mostly routine tasks + a bit of communication = no need to master something skill-heavy.
As for QA, I am not qualified to give my opinion here, so I will end with the tips I offered above. Good luck to you with your career challenges and opportunities!