Eight things we do, every month, to make ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite your business
When someone asks an AI assistant for a recommendation, only a handful of businesses get named. Here's how we make sure yours is one of them.
Making your site readable to AI
Before AI assistants can cite your business, they have to be able to read your site. We make sure ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI crawlers can actually access, parse, and understand every page.
That means clean code under the hood, the right permissions for AI bots, baseline structured data, and an llms.txt file telling AI what's important. Without this, the rest doesn't matter.
Writing for the questions people actually ask
People don't search AI assistants in keywords. They ask full questions: "what's the best web designer in Brooklyn for a restaurant", "how much does SEO cost in 2026". We write content around those real questions.
Every article gets a question as its headline, then answers it directly. That's the format AI looks for when it's deciding who to quote.
The boxed answer AI lifts verbatim
At the top of every article, we put a Quick Answer: a tight two to three sentence summary that directly answers the question. This is the chunk AI pulls when it cites you.
Think of it as the soundbite. Write it well, and ChatGPT will read it back to its users word-for-word, with your business named as the source.
Real humans, real credentials
AI assistants weigh who said something almost as much as what was said. We make every article look like (and actually be) the work of a real human expert with real experience.
Named bylines, photos, bios, contributor pages, and links to credentials. Google calls this E-E-A-T. AI assistants quietly do the same thing.
Invisible labels AI reads first
Schema is structured data that tells AI exactly what each piece of content is. We add FAQ schema for question pages, HowTo for instructions, Speakable for voice, Article for posts.
AI assistants look for these labels first. They make it effortless for ChatGPT and Perplexity to find and cite your content without guessing.
Publishing the numbers AI loves to quote
AI assistants are biased toward content that cites sources and includes hard numbers. We add proper citations to every claim, and we help you publish original data: surveys, before-and-after results, your own industry stats.
Original numbers from your business become quotable assets. Every time AI uses one, it names you as the source.
The "vs" format AI loves to recommend
When someone asks ChatGPT "should I use X or Y", it almost always cites an "X vs Y" article. We create those side-by-side comparisons for your space.
Done right, your business becomes the recommended answer in dozens of comparison searches: "best web designer for restaurants in NYC", "Beacon Studio vs other agency", and so on.
Getting talked about where AI reads
AI assistants pull from Reddit, Quora, forums, podcasts, news, and review sites just as much as they pull from Google. We work to get your business mentioned in those places, with or without a link back to you.
An unlinked mention on a Reddit thread can be worth more than a backlink, because it shows AI that real humans recommend you.
Tracking who AI is mentioning, every week
We test prompts in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude every week to see whether your business comes up, what AI says about you, and which competitors are being recommended instead.
When the answer changes (AI starts mentioning a competitor instead of you, or stops mentioning anyone), we know that same week and adjust.
How it all fits together, every month
AEO and GEO are habits, not one-time projects. AI changes its mind constantly. Here's the cadence we run for every client.
- Prompt tests across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude
- Monitor brand mentions on the open web
- Watch for new questions people are asking
- Answer one fresh question on the blog
- Publish 2 to 4 Quick Answer articles
- Add or update schema on key pages
- Build 5 plus brand mentions (Reddit, Quora, podcasts)
- Refresh one comparison page
- Full visibility report to you
- Full AI visibility audit
- Content gap analysis: queries where you don't show up yet
- Original data drop (survey, study, stats)
- Knowledge graph and authority review
Want to see if AI is mentioning you?
We'll run free prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude using your business and your competitors, then show you exactly where you appear and where you don't.
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