Why Your Brand Is Invisible in AI Search
AI is changing discovery
Buyers are using AI assistants to research vendors before they ever run a Google search. If you're not visible in AI responses, you don't exist in their consideration set.
Traditional SEO isn't enough
AI models pull from different signals than Google's ranking algorithm. High Google rankings don't guarantee AI visibility.
No one is optimizing for this yet
Most brands are ignoring AI search. The window to establish authority in LLM training data and citations is open now — it won't be for long.
How We Build AI Search Visibility
AI visibility audit
We test how your brand appears (or doesn't) in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews for your target keywords.
Citation building
AI models cite trusted, authoritative sources. We build the content and third-party presence that earns citations in AI responses.
Structured data and E-E-A-T
Schema markup, author expertise signals, and content structure optimized for how LLMs parse and extract information from web pages.
What's Included
AI Search Optimization Results
Client Results
The Challenge
A cybersecurity SaaS company had strong Google rankings for their core terms but discovered through a sales call that an increasing number of prospects were shortlisting competitors they'd found through ChatGPT and Perplexity. A baseline audit showed the brand appeared in fewer than 10% of relevant AI queries, while two competitors were cited consistently. Their content was written for Google — not structured for how LLMs extract and attribute information.
The Result
We restructured their top 20 pages with LLM-optimized content formats, built third-party citations in 14 trusted industry publications, and implemented comprehensive structured data. Over 6 months, AI citations grew 3X across monitored platforms. 89% of the resulting AI-referred traffic was new audiences with no prior brand exposure. The company now appears by name in the majority of monitored competitor comparison queries.
“Our sales team started hearing our name more in discovery calls within a few months.”
CMO, B2B SaaS
Frequently Asked Questions
What exactly is AI search optimization?
AI search optimization is the practice of getting your brand cited, mentioned, or recommended by AI-powered search tools: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and others. These tools don't rank pages the way Google does — they synthesize answers and pull from sources they consider authoritative. If your brand isn't in those sources, you don't appear in the answer. We build the content, citation profile, and structured signals that make AI models treat your brand as a credible reference.
How is AI search optimization different from traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO gets you ranked in Google's blue links. AI search optimization gets you cited in the AI-generated answer above those links — and increasingly, instead of those links. The signals are different too. Google ranks based on backlinks and on-page factors. AI models weight structured data, factual consistency across the web, E-E-A-T signals, and whether trusted publications cite your brand. You can have strong Google rankings and zero AI visibility — we've seen it. The reverse is rarer but possible.
Can you actually influence what ChatGPT says about us?
Directly, no — you can't submit a correction to a language model. Indirectly, yes — LLMs update their training data and pull from live sources like Bing and Perplexity's web index. We build citations in the publications these models trust, structure your content so it's extracted correctly, and create clear factual signals about your brand's positioning. For ChatGPT specifically, much of the influence runs through your presence in Bing search results and high-authority third-party mentions. We've helped clients go from zero AI mentions to 3X more citations in 6 months through this approach.
Is it too early to invest in AI search?
The brands investing now are building authority in a space that's still wide open. Perplexity crossed 100 million monthly active users. ChatGPT search is being used for vendor research right now. Six months from now, more of your competitors will have figured this out. The cost of waiting isn't obvious today — it shows up when buyers start shortlisting vendors they found through AI search, and your brand isn't in the list. 89% of the visitors we've seen come from AI search are net-new audiences who never found the brand through Google.
How do you measure AI search visibility?
We track AI visibility across 12+ platforms using a combination of manual query testing and monitoring tools that log brand mentions and citations in AI responses. Specifically: how often your brand appears when relevant buying intent queries are run in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews; what context it appears in; and how it's described versus competitors. We report this monthly alongside changes in citation count, sentiment, and share of voice compared to your 2 to 3 main competitors.
Get Found in AI Search
The brands that win AI search now will be the default answers for the next decade.