Get recommended when customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI who to hire. Also called AI SEO, generative engine optimization (GEO), or answer engine optimization (AEO). We make your business easy for AI systems to find, trust, and recommend.
ChatGPT leans on Foursquare, Yelp, and Bing. Gemini and AI Overviews lean on Google Business Profile. Only about 45% of map-pack winners appear in AI recommendations.
Independent sources outweigh your own site. A local news mention or a credible "best of" list moves AI answers more than fifty directory listings.
AI picks skew toward strong ratings and substantial review counts. Businesses with thin review profiles rarely make the list.
There's no fixed AI ranking. We run your customers' prompts across the engines every month and report who's named.
When someone asks ChatGPT for a plumber in Jupiter, it doesn't consult a ranking. It breaks the question into several searches, pulls live results from Bing's index and from partner data sources like Foursquare and Yelp, reads the pages it finds, and writes an answer naming the two or three businesses it could verify. Google's AI Overviews and Gemini do the same thing using Google's index and Google Business Profile data. Perplexity and Claude use their own search partners. The common thread: a business only gets named if the engine can find consistent, corroborated information about it in the sources it trusts.
That's why AI visibility is mostly an off-page problem. Your website matters, but the listings, the reviews, and the independent mentions matter more, because the engine is looking for confirmation from sources that aren't you.
We baseline: twenty to forty prompts your customers would ask, run across every major engine, recorded. Then we fix the data: Bing Places, Foursquare, Yelp, Apple Business Connect, and Google, all claimed and identical. Then the site: robots.txt opened to AI crawlers, llms.txt added, key pages rewritten to open with a direct answer, FAQ and LocalBusiness schema on every page. Then the first mentions: chamber, industry directories, and one or two local press placements. By day 60 the prompts are re-run and the change is on the report.
AI recommendations do not come from a ranking. Each engine runs its own searches, reads what it finds, and names the businesses it can verify. These are the factors that decide whether that is you.
Bing Places, Foursquare, Yelp, Apple, and Google Business Profile all saying the same name, address, phone, hours, and categories. Inconsistency is the most common reason a business is skipped entirely.
Independent sources outweigh your own website. Three of the top five AI visibility factors are citation factors: mentions are the new links. A local news piece or a credible 'best of' list moves answers more than fifty directory listings.
Analyses of AI local picks show they cluster around businesses with strong ratings and substantial review volume. Thin review profiles rarely get named regardless of everything else.
Pages that open with a direct, quotable answer get lifted into responses. Buried answers do not. Heading structure and short factual paragraphs matter more than word count.
Server-rendered HTML, LocalBusiness and FAQ schema, an llms.txt file, and a robots.txt that allows GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended.
Gemini and AI Overviews build local answers on top of GBP data. A weak profile caps your visibility in the two engines with the most reach.
Server-rendered content, direct answers at the top of every page, FAQ and LocalBusiness schema, an llms.txt file, and no blocked AI crawlers.
Bing Places, Foursquare, Yelp, Apple, and Google Business Profile, all consistent. ChatGPT's local answers lean heavily on Foursquare and Bing.
Curated lists, directories, local press, and industry sites. AI engines weigh independent sources more than your own website.
AI picks skew toward businesses with strong ratings and real review volume. We build both.
Pages and FAQs written the way people ask AI questions, so your content is the passage that gets pulled into the answer.
Monthly checks of what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews say about your category in your cities.
Run this yourself before you talk to anyone, including us. If you find nothing wrong, you probably do not need us yet.
Use the exact phrasing a customer would. Note every business it names. Run it three times; the answers vary.
Different engines pull from different sources, so the lists usually differ. Record all of them.
If Bing does not know you, ChatGPT's live lookups probably will not either. Bing Places is free and takes ten minutes.
These supply a large share of ChatGPT's local business results. Most owners have never claimed either.
If it blocks GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, or Google-Extended, you have opted out of AI visibility. Many templates block them by default.
If you cannot find it in the raw HTML, your content is being rendered by JavaScript and AI crawlers may not see it at all.
A composite engagement, written to show the sequence rather than to claim a specific result.
A professional-services firm ranks well on Google and is invisible to AI. We baseline first: thirty prompts a client would plausibly ask, run across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, recorded with every business named. The firm appears in two of the thirty. Week one, we claim Bing Places, Foursquare, Yelp, and Apple Business Connect and align them with Google, which turns out to be most of the problem: three sources had a former address. Week two, we open robots.txt to the AI crawlers, which the previous developer had blocked, add llms.txt, and rewrite the six most important pages so each opens with a direct answer to the question its title asks, with FAQ schema attached. Week three onward, mentions: the industry association directory, two credible regional lists, and a bylined piece in a trade publication. Reviews get a request system with responses to all of them. When we re-run the same thirty prompts at day 60, the firm appears in eleven, and by day 120 in nineteen, most consistently on the engines that lean on Bing and Foursquare data.
AI visibility from $697 per month, usually paired with local SEO. Fixed scope, quoted after a 30-minute call. No long-term contracts.
We ask the AI engines the questions your customers ask and record who gets named. Usually it isn't you.
Make your business one consistent, verifiable thing across every data source AI reads.
Rewrite key pages into answer-shaped content and earn mentions where AI engines look.
Re-run the prompts monthly, report the change, and expand to new questions and cities.
Every audit starts here. If they have it and you don't, that's the list.
AI answers change between sessions. We make you the most verifiable option in your category and show you the trend, not a fake guarantee.
Google's scaled-content policy and the AI engines' own source filters catch it. Thin AI-written pages get you ignored or penalized.
AI visibility sits on top of a strong Google presence. If your profile and site are weak, we fix those first.
Each of these pages is written for that market: its neighborhoods, its industries, and the competitors currently ranking there.
Read our client reviews on Google. No long-term contracts, ever.
Plain definitions for the language this industry hides behind.
Claim and align Bing Places and Foursquare first, because ChatGPT's live lookups lean on them. Then make your name, address, and phone identical everywhere, allow AI crawlers in robots.txt, structure your pages as direct answers with schema, build review depth, and earn mentions on sites that are not your own.
Being named when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, or Google's AI Overview for a recommendation. It is also called AI SEO, generative engine optimization (GEO), or answer engine optimization (AEO). The names differ and the work is the same.
Generative engine optimization: making a business or page likely to be cited in AI-generated answers. It overlaps with SEO but weighs data consistency, third-party mentions, and reviews more heavily than links and keywords.
Usually one of six reasons: Bing does not know you, Foursquare or Yelp have you wrong, your listings disagree with each other, your review profile is too thin, your robots.txt blocks AI crawlers, or nothing outside your own website corroborates that you exist.
Yes, and more than ever for Google's own AI. AI Overviews and Gemini build local answers on Google Business Profile data, so a weak Google presence caps your AI visibility. The two are complements, not replacements.
SEO gets your website into a list of links. AI visibility gets your business named inside an answer. AI engines read different sources, weigh reviews and independent mentions more heavily, and favor content written as direct answers.
Programs generally run from several hundred to a few thousand dollars a month, usually alongside local SEO because the foundations overlap. Bujify's AI visibility starts at $697 per month.
No, and treat that promise as a warning sign. AI answers vary between sessions. What we can do is make you the most verifiable, best-reviewed, most-mentioned option in your category and show you the trend monthly.
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode for the best business in your category and city, using the exact words a customer would. Run each three times, because answers vary. Write down every business named.
They read what robots.txt allows. Many templates and security plugins block GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended by default, which silently removes a business from AI answers entirely. Check yoursite.com/robots.txt.
It is early enough that almost nobody in Palm Beach or Martin County has done it deliberately, which is exactly why it is worth doing now. The businesses that build verifiable entities this year become the defaults the engines name next year.
No. AI recommendations come from organic sources, listings, and reviews. Ads buy placement on search results pages and have no effect on what an assistant names.
Free 30-minute strategy call. We'll look at your site and your competitors live and tell you what it would take.