Stage 04 · Get Found
AI Search Visibility
What to do now that people ask AI for recommendations.
“My website is live but nobody can find it.”
More people now ask an assistant rather than scroll a results page: 'who's a good electrician near Strathpine?', 'which CMS suits a small clinic?', 'compare these two suppliers'. The answer might name businesses, compile sources or summarise a comparison. You can't control what a model writes. You can control whether the facts it could draw on are accurate, findable and worth citing.
Google's published guidance for its AI features says the fundamentals still apply: helpful, original content; crawlable, fast pages; structured data that matches what's on the page; and accurate business information. It also says no special markup is required. We work on those fundamentals and on the things AI systems uniquely reward: clarity, factual specificity and first-party information that can't be found elsewhere.
Signs this is what you need
- AI assistants describe your business wrongly, or don't mention it
- You want to know whether customers are finding you through AI tools
- Your business information is inconsistent across the web
- You have expertise and first-party information but it isn't published clearly
When you probably don't need it
- Basic SEO and site health are broken: those foundations come first
- Anyone offering guaranteed placement in AI answers: nobody can deliver that
Telling you this is part of the job.
What helps, what doesn't
Honest guidance without rank promises
- Clear, factual descriptions of who you are, what you do, where you operate and who you serve
- First-party information: real prices or pricing approach, processes, service details, policies
- Question-led content that answers what customers actually ask
- Consistent entity information across your site, profiles and directories
- Crawlable, fast pages with structured data matching visible content
- Third-party mentions and reviews from real customers and publications
- Not helpful: keyword-stuffed 'AI-optimised' pages, invented expertise, or hidden text written for machines
AI search visibility is where the layers meet your customers.
Checking where you stand
How to find out what AI says about your business
Ask the assistants customers use the questions customers ask, in a fresh session, and record the answers: are you mentioned, is it accurate, which sources are cited? Repeat monthly. Answers vary between runs and users, so treat it as a trend rather than a score.
AI search readiness checklist
Ten checks for how clearly your business can be understood by people and by AI systems. No checklist can promise an AI mention. This shows how solid your foundations are.
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Clarity of facts
First-party content
Technical foundations
Checking reality
How It Works
How we deliver AI Search Visibility
Baseline
Ask real customer questions across assistants and record what they say.
Fix facts and gaps
Correct inaccurate information, publish the missing first-party content.
Track trends
Repeat checks, watch referral data and report what's changing.
What's Included
Every engagement includes
Visibility baseline
A recorded check of how AI assistants and AI search describe your business today.
Entity and fact clean-up
Accurate, consistent business facts on your site, profiles and directories.
Citation-worthy content
Specific, first-party content that answers real customer questions.
Trend reporting
Repeated checks reported honestly as trends, with the limits of the data stated.
The Deliverable
An AI visibility baseline, a prioritised fix list, and trend reporting with the limitations explained.
Common Questions
Before you get in touch
Can you get my business recommended by ChatGPT or Google's AI?
No one can guarantee that. We can make sure your facts are accurate and easy to find, and that your site has the content worth citing. Whether a system uses it is outside anyone's control.
Do I need an llms.txt file?
Google has said it isn't needed for its AI features. We publish one on our own site as a plain-language summary for any system that reads it, but we don't treat it as a ranking lever.
Is this different from SEO?
It builds on it. The foundations overlap heavily. The extra work is clarity, first-party facts and checking how AI systems actually describe you.
Read before you decide
Guides behind this service
- When Nobody Finds YouPeople Are Asking AI for Recommendations. Here's What Local Businesses Should Do Now.Practical, non-hype steps for being accurately represented when people ask AI assistants for local providers, products and comparisons, and how to check where you stand.
- When Nobody Finds YouWhat Are AEO and GEO? A Plain-English Guide for Local BusinessesWhat SEO, AEO and GEO each mean, how they differ, and why Brisbane and Moreton Bay businesses should care about all three.
- When Nobody Finds YouAEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes When AI Answers the QuestionRanking on Google and getting cited by ChatGPT are not the same problem. Here's what's actually different about optimising for each.
Related Services
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