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AI Search Visibility

Be the business AI assistants can actually recommend.

More people are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for recommendations, not just typing into Google. Whether your business shows up there — accurately — is a real, measurable thing, not a guess.

Cited isn't the same as recommended

An AI assistant mentioning your business in passing is very different from it actively suggesting you as the answer. We track these as two separate things — most agencies don't distinguish between them at all.

Accuracy matters most

If an AI assistant describes your business inaccurately — wrong hours, wrong services, wrong service area — that's often worse than not being mentioned at all. Getting the facts right everywhere is the real foundation of this work.

What's included

How we actually test and build this.

Six-surface testing

We test real queries across Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Bing/Copilot — not just one, since each surface behaves differently.

Citation & recommendation tracking

Tracked separately, for each surface: is your business mentioned at all, and is it actually being recommended? We log the difference, not just a single pass/fail.

Factual accuracy check

Every AI-generated description of your business gets checked against your real, confirmed business information — any mismatch is flagged and corrected at the source.

Content built to be extractable

Clear, answer-first structure and accurate schema markup — so your content is genuinely usable by an AI system, not just readable by a person.

AI-crawler access confirmed

If a major AI crawler is blocked without a deliberate reason, none of the above matters — we confirm this is a real, documented decision, not an accident.

What to expect

Honestly, this is early-stage territory.

We won't claim a guaranteed citation or a specific recommendation rate — no one honestly can yet, since AI-assistant behavior is still evolving. What we can do is measure your current baseline accurately, fix the real gaps (facts, corroboration, crawl access, content structure), and track real, dated results over time.

FAQ

Common questions about AI Search Visibility.

Which AI platforms do you actually test?

We test real queries across six surfaces: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Bing/Copilot — since each one behaves differently.

What's the difference between being "cited" and being "recommended" by an AI assistant?

An AI assistant mentioning your business in passing is very different from it actively suggesting you as the answer. We track these as two separate things, not a single pass/fail.

Can you guarantee my business will be recommended by ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews?

No — no one honestly can yet, since AI-assistant behavior is still evolving. What we can do is measure your current baseline accurately, fix the real gaps, and track dated results over time.

Does adding an llms.txt file get my business cited by AI?

Not by itself. Whether an llms.txt file makes sense for your site is a real, documented decision we make as part of our technical SEO work — but citation depends far more on factual accuracy, AI-crawler access, and answer-first content structure than on that one file alone.

Ready to see where your visibility actually stands?

Start with a free Growth Audit — no obligation, no pressure.