Customers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode who to hire. We make your business one of the sources those answers trust and cite.
The audit benchmarks how often AI names you against your closest competitors.
Who’s the best commercial contractor in Rhode Island?
Sources
yourbusiness.com
Industry directory
Local news site
It’s the work of making your business a source AI assistants trust enough to cite. Search engines used to rank pages. Generative engines now write the answer themselves, drawing on a few sources they consider credible.
Page-one rankings still matter, but they’re no longer the finish line. What counts now is whether your name comes up when a buyer asks an AI who to call.
of Google searches now include an AI Overview
Source: link to original study
of marketers track whether AI platforms cite their brand
Source: Goodfirms, 2026
The platforms overlap, but each leans on different signals. A plan built for only one leaves gaps in the others.
Weighs what the rest of the web says about you: coverage in trusted publications, directories and reviews, plus in-depth content written from real experience.
Brand mentions
Expert depth
Reviews
Draws on Google’s own signals. A complete, active Google Business Profile, accurate schema and strong traditional SEO carry the most weight.
Business Profile
Schema
Topic clusters
Assemble answers from indexed pages in real time and favor content that’s easy to lift: question-led headings, direct answers, lists and tables.
Direct answers
Clear headings
Lists and tables
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Six workstreams, scoped to what your audit finds.
We ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Claude the questions your buyers ask, then record who gets named, who gets cited and where you’re missing.
Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, Article, FAQ and author schema that matches what’s visible on the page.
Digital PR, guest articles, podcasts, reviews and an active Google Business Profile, so credible sources describe you consistently.
Fast, crawlable pages with healthy Core Web Vitals, and a robots.txt that lets search and AI crawlers reach the content you want cited.
Topic clusters built around real customer questions, with the answer up top and the depth underneath.
Case studies, original data and first-hand examples, the kind of expertise AI systems can’t find anywhere else.
Run the prompts your buyers use across the major AI platforms and score your share of mentions against competitors.
Resolve crawl, speed and schema issues and make your business details consistent everywhere they’re listed.
Publish answer-first content clusters and earn mentions on the sources AI already trusts.
Re-run the prompt set, compare against the benchmark and track branded search as the downstream signal.
AI search optimization builds on SEO rather than replacing it. What changes is what counts as winning.
Share the questions your customers ask. We’ll run them across the major AI platforms and show where you appear, where competitors do and what to fix first.
Answers to the questions we hear most.
Yes. Google AI Mode and AI Overviews draw on the same index and ranking systems as regular search, so technical SEO and strong content are the foundation AI visibility is built on.
Google ranks pages. ChatGPT decides which brands to mention based largely on how consistently credible sources describe you, so off-site authority matters more than any single page.
No one can. Answers vary by prompt, person and platform. What we can do is measure your share of mentions every month and grow it with work you can see.
We keep a set of prompts based on real customer questions, run them monthly across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Claude, and log mentions, citations and competitor appearances.
Technical and schema fixes can register as soon as pages are recrawled. Content and authority work compounds over months, which is why we benchmark first and report monthly.
Start with a benchmark across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Claude.
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