Show Up When Your Customers Ask ChatGPT
Millions of buying decisions now start as a question to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google's AI Overviews — 'who's the best X near me?' If AI doesn't know your business exists, you're invisible in the fastest-growing search channel there is. We fix that.
The search shift is already here.
Search is splitting in two. The old half is Google's blue links. The new half is answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google's own AI Overviews — engines that don't show ten options, they recommend one or two. When someone asks 'best med spa in Glendale' or 'who builds custom booking systems,' the AI names names. Either yours is one of them, or the customer never learns you exist.
Getting named is not luck. AI systems decide who to recommend based on signals you can engineer: how clearly your site explains what you do (in language machines can parse), structured data that defines your business as an entity, consistent citations across directories and maps, reviews, mentions on pages AI trusts, and content that directly answers the questions people ask. This discipline is called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) — and almost none of your competitors are doing it yet.
That last part is the opportunity. Classic SEO is a 15-year-old arms race. AI visibility is year one — the businesses that build their entity footprint now become the default answers, and defaults are sticky. We audit how AI currently sees you, fix what it gets wrong, and build the signals that put you in the answer.
Everything AI needs to recommend you.
- AI visibility audit — what ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini currently say (and miss) about your business
- Entity building: structured data (schema.org) that defines your business, services, and area
- AI-readable content: pages engineered to be quoted — clear answers, facts, and FAQs
- llms.txt and crawler configuration so AI systems index you cleanly
- Citation and directory consistency (the sources AI cross-references)
- Review strategy across the platforms AI engines weight
- Mentions and authority building on pages AI already trusts
- Quarterly re-testing: what each major AI answers before vs. after
- Works alongside classic SEO — one effort, both channels
From invisible to cited.
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AI audit
We ask the major AI engines the questions your customers ask — and document exactly who gets recommended today, what they say about you, and what's wrong or missing.
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Entity foundation
Structured data, business schema, consistent NAP citations, and machine-readable service definitions across your site.
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Answer content
Pages built to be quoted: direct answers to the exact questions buyers ask AI, with the facts, pricing context, and proof engines look for.
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Authority signals
Reviews, mentions, and citations on the sources AI engines cross-reference when deciding who to trust.
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Measure + iterate
We re-run the audit monthly — same questions, tracked answers — and push until you show up consistently.
The machinery behind AI visibility.
Who needs this now.
- Local and service businesses whose customers ask AI "who should I hire?"
- Companies already investing in SEO that want the AI channel covered before competitors wake up
- Brands that show up wrong (or not at all) when you ask ChatGPT about them today
- Businesses in trust-heavy niches — medical, legal, financial, home services — where AI recommendations carry weight
Early-mover pricing, honestly.
AI visibility engagements start around $1.5–3k/month bundled with SEO, or as a fixed-scope foundation build (audit + entity + content) from $4k. Honest note: this field is young — nobody can guarantee a specific AI ranking. What we guarantee is the audit trail: what AI said before, what it says after, every month.
AI search, explained straight.
How do I get my business to show up on ChatGPT?
AI engines recommend businesses they can understand and verify: clear machine-readable descriptions of what you do and where (structured data), consistent citations across the directories they cross-reference, reviews, and content that directly answers the questions people ask. We build that footprint end to end — then re-test the actual AI answers monthly to track movement.
What is AEO / GEO and how is it different from SEO?
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization, also called GEO — Generative Engine Optimization) optimizes for AI engines that give one answer, where SEO optimizes for ranked lists of links. They overlap heavily — good structure and authority help both — but AI adds new levers: entity definitions, llms.txt, quotable answer-format content, and citation consistency. We run them as one program, not two invoices.
Do people actually use ChatGPT to find businesses?
Yes, and it is accelerating: ChatGPT alone serves prompts for over a billion users weekly, and 'best X for Y' and 'who should I hire for…' are among the most common commercial questions. Google now puts AI Overviews above its own results. The channel is already large — what's rare is businesses competing for it.
Does AI search replace normal SEO?
No — it stacks on top of it. Google is still the biggest channel, and AI engines actually lean on well-ranked, well-structured pages when choosing what to cite. Strong SEO makes AI visibility easier, and vice versa. That's why we sell them as one motion.
Can you guarantee my business shows up in AI answers?
No one honestly can — the engines change weekly and don't publish rules. What we do guarantee: a documented before/after audit of what every major AI says when asked your customers' questions, the complete signal work (entity, content, citations, reviews), and monthly re-testing. Clients typically see movement in the first 60–90 days, and early movers hold the position.
What does AI search optimization cost?
As an add-on to an SEO retainer: from $1.5k/month. As a standalone foundation build (full audit, structured data, answer content, citation cleanup): fixed-quote from $4k. Given that a single AI recommendation is effectively the top result of the future, early positioning is the cheapest it will ever be.
How do you measure AI visibility?
The same way a customer experiences it: we maintain a panel of real buying-intent questions for your market and run them against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews every month — logging whether you appear, what's said, and which sources got cited. You see the transcript evidence, not a vanity dashboard.
Ready to start?
Tell us what you're trying to build. Free 30-minute call. Written proposal with fixed pricing within 48 hours.