AI SEARCH VISIBILITY
Show up when customers ask AI for a recommendation.
Millions of buying decisions now start with a question to ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overviews. Getting your business into those answers is called answer engine optimization. That's what this service does.
What is answer engine optimization?
Answer engine optimization means making your business easy for assistants like ChatGPT to find, understand, and recommend. In practice: we watch the questions your customers ask, study which sources the answers cite, and close the gaps with clearer pages, structured data, and consistent information everywhere your business appears.
Example prompts monitored
- “Best CRM for a small service business”
- “Which agency should I hire for SEO?”
- “Top affiliate tracking software”
How do assistants choose who to recommend?
They lean on sources they can verify: websites that explain a service plainly, business profiles, review platforms, and articles that get cited. We research which sources get pulled from in your market, then make sure what they find about you is accurate, complete, and easy to quote.
What does the work look like month to month?
We track a set of real customer prompts and watch how the answers change over time: which businesses get mentioned and which sources get cited. When customers ask a question your website never answers, we close that gap with clear pages, genuine FAQs, and structured data where it actually helps. You see the movement in your monthly report.
Does this actually work?
Yes. The businesses that show up in AI answers are the ones whose information is easy to find, understand, and verify. That's structure, not luck, and it's exactly the work we do. Answers evolve constantly, so we keep monitoring and keep adjusting; your monthly report shows the mentions and citations as they build.
How big is this shift, really?
Big enough that it changes where a buying decision starts. OpenAI reported 900 million people using ChatGPT every week as of February 2026. Google said its AI Overviews reach more than 2.5 billion people a month as of its May 2026 keynote. And BrightLocal's 2026 survey found 45% of US consumers used AI to find a local business in the past year, up from just 6% the year before. If your business isn't part of what those tools recommend, that volume of buying decisions is happening without you.
What do you actually check in an AI visibility audit?
Whether you show up in Google search at all, and whether you're mentioned in AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity for the questions your customers actually ask. Whether your structured data gives search engines and AI tools something to read. Whether an llms.txt file exists so AI crawlers understand your site. And whether your business information is consistent everywhere it appears, since that consistency is one of the main things assistants use to decide who to trust.
How do you get a business recommended by AI tools like ChatGPT?
AI tools recommend businesses they can understand and verify: clear service descriptions, structured data, consistent information across the web, and content that directly answers real questions. It's structure, not luck. We monitor the prompts that matter in your market, close the gaps, and keep closing them as the answers evolve.
What counts as being invisible where people ask?
Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity a question about your industry right now. If your business isn't part of the answer, that recommendation just went to a competitor instead, and nothing about your website tells you that happened. Closing that gap comes down to the same authority signals search engines check: backlinks pointing to your site, internal links connecting your own pages, consistent business details everywhere you appear, and mentions or profiles that let an AI tool confirm you're a real, verifiable business rather than take your word for it.
Does a mention actually turn into a customer?
Only if the page someone lands on after that mention makes it easy to take the next step. That's the other half of the work: quote and booking forms that are easy to find and use, clear calls to action on the pages that matter, and tracking so you know which pages actually convert an AI mention into an inquiry. Visibility without that path is just a compliment nobody acted on, which is why we track the full path from the chat answer to the inquiry, not just the mention itself.
Curious what AI says about your business right now?
Book a free 20-minute call. Before we talk, we'll check how your business shows up on Google and in AI answers. That way the conversation starts with facts, not a pitch deck.
Free call. No pitch deck, no pressure, no obligation.