A growing share of buying questions never reach a results page. They get answered by an assistant that names two or three businesses and stops. This service is about being one of the names.
No obligation. We will tell you what an assistant says about you today.
AI answer visibility
What an assistant says when a buyer asks.
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Sample answer, illustrative only. Fictional business, generic assistant chrome.
What is included
An assistant cannot recommend a business it cannot resolve, verify, or quote. Each of these removes one reason it skips you.
Models decide first whether two mentions are the same business. Conflicting names and numbers across the web are the reason that fails.
Assistants quote passages, not pages. Content written as a direct answer gets lifted. Content written to hit a word count does not.
A claim on your own site is weak evidence. The same claim on three independent sources is what a model treats as settled.
Your Google Business Profile is the single most machine-readable thing you own, and most owners fill in a third of it.
Several assistants fetch pages live at answer time. If your page needs three seconds and a script to render text, it gets skipped.
Nobody can report AI visibility perfectly yet. We report what can actually be measured and say plainly what cannot.
The process
You should know the plan before you sign anything. This is it.
We run 30 real buying prompts across the major assistants and record who gets named, who gets cited, and what they get wrong about you.
Every conflicting name, number, category, and hour gets reconciled to one version. Schema goes in. This is where most of the gain comes from.
The questions buyers actually ask an assistant become pages and sections that answer them outright, with the specifics a model can lift.
The same 30 prompts, same wording, same month over month. You see the before and after side by side rather than a claim about it.
Proof
The work behind an AI citation is the same work behind a clean entity footprint. Here is that work at size.
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Every page, profile, and directory entry carries the same name, the same number, and the same coverage.
That single-source discipline is exactly what an assistant needs to resolve a business, and it does not survive being done by hand.
Anonymized client, multi-year engagement. Past results are not a promise of future results.
A specialty medical group with clinics in several Florida cities came in with each location described differently on every platform it appeared on.
Once the entity data agreed with itself, the location pages started holding first-page positions across those cities. Same underlying fix, different surface.
Anonymized client. Figures reflect that engagement and that market.
Questions
By being easy to resolve and easy to quote.
A model has to be confident that the business on your site, the one on your profile, and the one in a trade directory are the same business, and then it has to find a sentence it can lift that answers the question.
Most of the work is reconciling facts you already have rather than writing anything new.
Local SEO is about ranking in a results page. AI search optimization is about being the source an assistant quotes when there is no results page at all.
The underlying work overlaps heavily, which is why our Local SEO retainers include it rather than pricing it as an add on. This page exists for buyers who want to understand that half specifically.
Partly. Assistants do not publish rankings and their answers vary between sessions, so nobody can hand you a clean position number.
What is real: a fixed prompt set run the same way every month, AI Overview appearances in Search Console, and referral traffic from assistant domains.
We report those three and we do not dress them up as more precise than they are.
Usually you need less of it than you think, and ranking well already does most of the job. If your entity data is clean and your pages answer questions directly, you are largely there.
We will tell you that during the audit instead of selling you a separate retainer for work your Local SEO plan already covers.
A small human team directing an AI workforce. The agents handle the prompt runs, the entity audits, and the monthly comparison at a volume a three person agency could not otherwise cover.
The human operators direct the work and stay accountable for it. See the team on our About page.
Free 30 minute audit. We run the buying prompts for your category in front of you, show you who gets named, and tell you what we would fix first. No pitch unless you ask for one.
