- Why isn't my business showing up when people ask ChatGPT for a recommendation?
- In most cases the answer engines cannot read your site well enough to trust it. They look for crawlable structure, schema markup that identifies what you do, content written as direct answers, and third-party proof that you are a real and active business. When those are missing, the engine names a competitor instead. The free AI Visibility Score takes 60 seconds and shows you the top three gaps.
- How do I get AI to recommend my business?
- Give the answer engines something to read and something to verify. That means schema markup on your site, pages written as clear answers to the questions customers actually ask, and consistent mentions in the places AI checks, including Google, Bing, Yelp, Reddit, business directories and local press. Our 100-point audit scores the six signals those engines use and hands you the exact fixes, ranked by priority.
- How can I check if ChatGPT or Perplexity mentions my business?
- Ask them directly, using the words a customer would use, then note whether your name appears in the answer. The AEO Audit does this in a structured way with a 10-query citation test: we run ten real buying-intent searches for your area through the engines and record who gets named. The results come back in your written report, which is delivered within 7 days.
- Does AEO work for local service businesses like landscapers, plumbers and contractors?
- Yes, local service businesses are who this is built for. Golden Grove Landscape is one example: we built and launched their site in under 7 days, and it now ranks locally for high-intent landscaping searches across Sonoma, Napa and Marin. The same six signals apply to any business where a customer asks an assistant who to hire.
- Which AI engines does the audit check?
- The audit runs your business through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to see who they name for searches in your area. Claude, Gemini and Copilot read the same kinds of signals, so most of the same fixes help there too. Those engines all pull from sources like Google, Bing, Yelp, Reddit, directories and local press, which is why the Implementation Sprint sets your listings up across them.
- Do I need a whole new website, or can you fix the one I have?
- Start with the audit, because most sites need fixes rather than a rebuild. Schema, page structure and answer-shaped copy can usually be added to the site you already have. If the site itself is the problem, we design and build a new one that is fast, conversion-first, with clean structure and real schema, live in as little as 7 days. You own everything either way, with no lock-in contracts.
- What happens during the Implementation Sprint?
- We do the fixes for you over 30 days. That covers schema implementation, rewriting your homepage and top three pages, building three case studies, and setting up Google Business Profile, Bing Places and five directories. On day 30 we re-audit and re-score you so you can see what actually changed. It is $1,500, or four monthly payments of $375.
- How long before AI starts mentioning my business?
- Nobody can promise a date for that, and we do not. What we can put a timeline on is the work: your written audit arrives within 7 days, and the Implementation Sprint completes every fix in 30 days and re-scores you on day 30. That re-score is how you see whether visibility actually moved, instead of guessing.
