AI Search Visibility

Be the answer, not the tenth blue link.

People now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Mode instead of scrolling. We make your business one of the few sources those answers are built from.

Who's the best commercial fridge supplier in London?

Sources

1your-business.co.ukcited
2a-competitor.co.uk
3a-directory.com

Clients

Businesses and agencies across law, healthcare, trades and ecommerce.

The shift

People stopped scrolling. They started asking.

More searches now end inside an AI answer. Someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Mode a question and gets one reply, built from three or four sources. If your business is not one of them, you are invisible, even when you still rank on page one.

Being the fourth blue link used to earn a click. Now it often earns nothing. The job has changed from ranking on the page to being quoted in the answer.

3 to 4sources cited in a typical AI answer
68%of pages cited in Google AI Mode rank outside the organic top 10
13 wkshalf of all content cited by AI is younger than this

How AI search works

Four engines, four different ways to get cited.

They look similar from the outside and behave very differently underneath. Here is how each one finds its sources, and what it actually takes to be one of them.

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ChatGPT

Bing index + OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT search pulls from Bing's index and OpenAI's own crawler, re-ranks what it finds, then answers with a handful of inline links. Most people never leave the chat, so being one of those links is the whole game.

What gets you cited

  • Show up in Bing, not just Google. ChatGPT leans on Bing's index plus its own crawler.
  • Put the direct answer in the first third of the page, where most citations are pulled from.
  • Keep pages fresh and let OAI-SearchBot crawl you. Recently updated content gets quoted far more often.
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Claude

Live web search via Brave

Claude runs a live web search through Brave when it needs current information, then cites the exact sources it used at the end of its answer. It rewards pages that read like a credible expert wrote them.

What gets you cited

  • Be present in Brave Search, the index Claude runs its live searches through.
  • Write like an expert answering a question, not a brochure. Clear, sourced, authoritative pages win.
  • Allow ClaudeBot and show your dates. Explicit freshness signals make a real difference.
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Perplexity

Answer engine, live index + reranking

Perplexity is built as an answer engine. It searches a huge live index, reranks the results in several passes, and footnotes its reply with the three or four sources it trusts most.

What gets you cited

  • Earn mentions in trusted publications. Perplexity leans heavily on journalism and earned media.
  • Add FAQ and structured data so a single passage can answer the question on its own.
  • Stay recent. It cites only three to four sources per answer and clearly favours fresh ones.
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Google AI Mode

Gemini, grounded in Google's index

Google's AI Mode uses Gemini to break a single question into eight to sixteen sub-queries (query fan-out), gather passages from across the web, and stitch them into one answer. It is grounded in Google's index but rewards specific passages, not just whole-page rankings.

What gets you cited

  • Win at the passage level. Most cited pages are not in the top 10, because Gemini pulls sections, not rankings.
  • Structure for extraction: short answer-first sections with FAQ and Article schema.
  • Make your brand a clear entity with strong E-E-A-T so Google trusts you across every sub-query.

What we do

The work that turns pages into cited answers.

The same handful of things make you quotable across every engine: clear structure, clean markup, real authority and a steady supply of fresh, accurate content. We handle all of it.

AI visibility audit

We map where you show up across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Mode today, and where your competitors get cited instead of you.

Entity and structured data

Schema and a clear entity graph so the engines understand exactly who you are, what you do and why you can be trusted to answer.

Answer-first content

We restructure your key pages so the answer sits near the top in a clean, quotable passage the models can lift without hunting for it.

Crawler access and tech

Robots, rendering and indexing sorted for OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google, including the Bing presence ChatGPT depends on.

Citations and earned media

Third-party mentions, reviews on the sites these engines trust, and digital PR, because AI answers lean on who else references you.

AI citation tracking

We track the prompts your buyers actually ask, then report which engines mention you, which mention rivals, and how that shifts month on month.

Who it's for

For brands that cannot afford to be left out of the answer.

Brands watching organic traffic slip as AI answers the question before anyone clicks

Businesses that never show up when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a recommendation

Companies whose competitors keep getting cited in AI answers instead of them

B2B and SaaS teams whose buyers research with AI long before they visit a site

How we work

No random tasks. Start with the leak.

01

Audit the current system

Website, search, ads, tracking, content and authority.

02

Find the growth bottleneck

The issue may be traffic, trust, conversion, tracking or authority.

03

Build the action plan

Clear priorities, owners, timelines and expected impact.

04

Execute and report

Work shipped with plain-English reporting and proof.

Reviews

Straight from the people we work with.

Ali ElmGoogle review
They rebuilt our site, sorted the SEO and run our Google Ads, all in one place. We went from barely getting found to a steady run of proper jobs coming in.

Ali Elm · Be Cool Refrigeration

SEO · Google Ads · Web Design

Jeff RaberGoogle review
They handled the website, the SEO and the whole funnel and CRM behind it. Everything finally connects, and we can see exactly where every lead comes from.

Jeff Raber · Entour Brand

Web Design · SEO · Funnel & CRM

TinaGoogle review
They migrated our site without losing a single ranking, then grew the SEO and built a funnel that keeps enquiries coming in. Smooth from start to finish.

Tina · One Planet Migration

Website Migration · SEO · Marketing Funnel

Simon BowlerGoogle review
New site, SEO and a proper funnel behind it. The enquiries come in warmer now and we actually know which ones are worth chasing.

Simon Bowler

Web Design · SEO · Marketing Funnel

Robin Da SilvaGoogle review
The SEO and backlinks did exactly what they promised. Rankings climbed after the first few months and the traffic has kept growing since.

Robin Da Silva · Nest Content

SEO · Link Building

Andrew DegryseGoogle review
Traffic doubled in under four months after we started link building with them. Every placement was relevant to our niche, no filler.

Andrew Degryse · Growth Science Capital

Link Building

FAQ

AI search questions, honest answers.

No. Classic SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. AI search visibility gets you cited inside the answer an AI gives. The foundations overlap, but the way these engines pick and quote sources is different, so the work is different.

No one can promise a specific citation, the engines decide that. What we can do is fix the things that demonstrably make a citation more likely: how your pages are structured, how fresh they are, how clearly you read as a trusted entity, and who else references you. Then we measure it.

The ones your customers actually use: ChatGPT, Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews, Perplexity and Claude. We check where you stand in each, then go after the realistic wins first.

We build the list of prompts your buyers would type, then monitor which engines mention you, which mention competitors, and how the picture changes over time. You see movement, not guesswork.

Usually not. Most of the work is restructuring a handful of key pages, adding the right markup and earning references. We start with the audit so you only change what actually moves things.

These engines refresh fast and reward fresh content, so structural changes can surface in weeks rather than the months traditional SEO often takes. Authority and earned media take longer to compound.

Want to know if AI search can even find you?

Start with an AI visibility audit. We will show which engines mention you, which ones mention your competitors, and the fastest way to change that.

Book an AI visibility audit