Understand AI search before your competitors do.
Plain-English, evidence-first guides to how AI engines choose businesses — no hype, no jargon walls, and every claim sourced. Start with the cornerstone below; the library grows monthly.
Illustrative preview — the goal of every engagement, not a promise of placement.
What is AI Engine Optimization? →
The canonical definition — what AEO is, why it exists, how engines choose businesses, and how success is measured.
The AI search glossary →
Every term in this field — AEO, GEO, Answer Share, entities, schema — defined in one sentence each, no fog.
See where you stand →
Theory is nice; your Answer Share is nicer. The free audit turns all of this into your numbers.
Publishing monthly — engine deep-dives, industry playbooks, and the SMB AI Visibility Index.
An entire channel moved.
Most businesses never got the memo.
of consumers now use AI to find local businesses — up from 6% a year ago.
BrightLocal, 2026of businesses ever get recommended by ChatGPT across 350K+ locations.
SOCi, 2026overlap between Google’s local winners and the businesses AI actually names.
SOCi, 2026of local businesses have no AI strategy at all. That’s the window.
Industry surveys, 2026The Recommendation Stack™.
Five signal layers decide who AI engines name. Every engagement builds them in order — tap a layer to see the work behind it.
Layer 1 is the foundation — nothing above it works if the base disagrees with itself.
The 5 Stages of AI Visibility.
Every business sits on exactly one rung right now. Which one decides what to fix first — and roughly 99% are stuck below Stage 4.
Invisible
Engines can’t confirm you exist. Data missing, wrong, or contradicting itself.
Indexed
You exist to the machines, but you’re never chosen. In the data, absent from the answer.
Mentioned
You surface occasionally — usually in lists, rarely as the recommendation.
Recommended
Engines actively name you in your market. This is where the phone changes.
Default Answer
First name, consistently, across engines. The position competitors can’t buy overnight.
Six promises — all checkable
before you pay us a dollar.
Published pricing
Every price on the page. No quote calls, no setup-fee ambush.
Month-to-month
No contracts. We re-earn the business every single month.
You own everything
Site, domain, content, data, CRM — in writing, from day one.
Free audit, no strings
A real human review, yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
Honest timelines
Visibility compounds over 8–12+ weeks. We say so before you buy.
We name what didn’t work
Every report lists the misses. Trust is built in the down months.
Find out where you stand before you spend a dollar.
The free audit shows your Answer Share, your visibility stage, and your first three fixes — yours to keep either way.
Questions owners actually ask.
Entirely, forever, no email wall. A field this foggy is where bad actors thrive — an informed owner is our best customer and our best defense.
Monthly — engine deep-dives, industry playbooks, and the quarterly SMB AI Visibility Index with methodology included, findings published even when inconvenient.
No. Everything here is written so you can do it yourself. Hire us if you’d rather have one accountable team run all of it — that’s the honest pitch.