Your customers are asking AI engines for local recommendations. In most local markets, no agency is optimizing for that yet. We help service businesses get cited — before their competitors realize the search layer has changed.
Your customers are asking ChatGPT for "the best HVAC company near me." They're reading Google's AI Overview at the top of search results instead of clicking links below. They're getting a single recommendation from Perplexity and calling. Each one of those moments is winner-take-most. If your business isn't named, you don't exist in that search.
AI search is already happening. The advantage goes to whoever optimizes first.
Question-and-answer formats, entity-rich pages, FAQ blocks, structured comparisons — the content patterns AI engines actually pull from.
Build the connections — services, locations, people, certifications — that make AI engines confident citing you as the authority.
Monthly monitoring of ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, and Perplexity. Which engines mention you, which mention competitors, what changes.
AI engines pull from a specific set of trusted publications. We get you featured on the ones that matter for your category and location.
LocalBusiness, FAQPage, Service, Review schema — the markup language AI engines (and Google) use to understand exactly what you do.
AI engines weight review recency and volume heavily. We build the system that gets you a steady cadence of fresh, signal-rich reviews.
We test the 25-50 most likely customer queries for your business across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, and Perplexity. Who gets cited, who doesn't, and what patterns the engines use to decide.
Schema implementation, entity-rich content rebuild, knowledge graph development, FAQ and comparison content. The structural changes AI engines need to confidently cite you.
Get featured on the publications AI engines actually pull from. Build review velocity. Develop expert-author content. This is the ongoing investment that drives citation rates.
Monthly citation tracking across all major engines. Quarterly strategy adjustments based on which queries are converting, which engines are growing, where competitors are gaining ground.
Entity-rich content rebuild + FAQ pages + practice-area schema + cited-source coverage. Now consistently cited when prospects ask either engine for legal help in their specialty + region.
Schema rebuild, procedure FAQ depth, expert-author content. Now featured in Google AI Overview for 8 of 12 top procedure searches in their service area.
Service-area entity build + cited-source PR + review velocity system. Now the most-cited HVAC contractor on ChatGPT for their primary service area.
It overlaps with SEO at the foundation — both reward clean structured data, real authority, and trustworthy content. But the downstream signals are different. SEO measures rankings on Google's results page. AI Search measures whether you're cited as the answer in a generative engine. The optimizations are related but not identical.
Not directly — nobody can guarantee a specific output from a generative engine. What we can do is improve the inputs the engines pull from: clean structured data, entity-rich content, citations from sources those engines trust, and a review profile that signals authority. Done well, citation rates move measurably.
Faster than traditional SEO in some ways, slower in others. Schema and entity changes can show up in AI Overviews within weeks. ChatGPT and Perplexity citations usually take 60-90 days to start moving. Compounding shows up over 6-12 months.
Strongly recommended. The foundation overlaps about 70%. We typically run both as one engagement — same team, integrated strategy — because doing them as separate vendors leaves the most valuable signals uncoordinated. See Local SEO.
Monthly citation tracking across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, and Perplexity for the 25-50 most likely customer queries for your business. We track citation rate, citation position, sentiment, and competitor citation rates. Plus branded search lift and direct-traffic patterns.
Free, 60 seconds, no follow-up cycle. The scan includes AI citation checks across ChatGPT, Google AI, Bing Copilot, and Perplexity.