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AI SEO for small business. I show you what ChatGPT cannot read on your site.

A customer asks ChatGPT who to hire in your category. Three names come back. This is the work that puts yours on that list: a site assistants can read and quote, citations in the sources they actually pull from, and a content system your team runs after I leave. Thirty days, fixed scope, then it is yours. Dashboards charge $99 a month to show you the problem. I fix it, and the free audit comes first, so you see the problem before you pay anyone.

Proof before paymentA free audit first: your 0–100 score and every defect on the page, reviewed by me, sent by email.
It ends30 days, fixed scope. Then the system is yours. No retainer, no dependency.
Outcome guaranteedCitation score up within 60 days, or I keep working free until it is.

AI SEO, also called AEO or GEO, is the work of becoming a business AI assistants can read, name and cite. It builds on regular SEO. It does not replace it. Bad SEO means no AI visibility, and good SEO on its own does not get you named either.

You can rank on Google and still be invisible in ChatGPT's answers. New customers don't scroll ten blue links anymore. They get a shortlist of three names. The only question is whether yours is on it.

Called AI-invisible, and it's fixable.

The problem with "visibility tools"

Stop paying to stare at a dashboard.

AI-visibility trackers charge hundreds a month to show you a number, and leave all the work to you. AI visibility tools (Boring Agent, Profound, etc.) are a dashboard that tells you what to do; the sprint is the work actually done, then handed over. The sprint doesn't report the problem. It closes it: quotable pages, real citations, a content system, and a score you can watch move.

what you pay for now

some-tracker.io · $349/mo

AI visibility score12 / 100
Brand mentions in ChatGPT0
Suggested actions47 (unassigned)

the sprint · week 2 of 4

  • Service pages rewritten quotable + FAQ schema live
  • Outreach sent to the 3 listicles AI quotes your competitors from
  • Monday report: score moved 12 → 31, next: comparison page
free · instant score · human-reviewed report

Can AI search find you? Check in 30 seconds.

  • Instant 0–100 AI-visibility score: the scanner reads your live site right in your browser
  • Then the full written audit by email: who AI recommends in your category and where you're invisible
  • Every fix prioritized by severity: with exact copy-paste solutions, reviewed by me personally
Scan my site →

No account · no call · no card. Worst case: you get a free to-do list and do it yourself.

Sample result · "bookkeeping for e-commerce"
Competitor Acited 8/10
Competitor Bcited 6/10
Your businesscited 0/10
Top fixquotable service page + 3 citations
What AI SEO covers

Five pieces of work. All five are yours on day 31.

Everything AI assistants check before they recommend a business, built for you and then handed over.

The ten questions

replaces: keyword guesswork

I mine your sales calls, support tickets, reviews and pre-sale emails for the questions buyers actually ask. Those become ten queries in three buckets: your competitors, the problem, and fit. Every page after this answers one of them.

A site AI can quote

replaces: your SEO retainer

Service pages rewritten so the first two sentences answer "who, what, for whom, guarantee", liftable verbatim. Comparison and alternatives pages where buyers look. Schema markup, FAQ blocks, llms.txt, technical fixes. The AEO foundation, on top of classic SEO basics.

Citations where AI looks

replaces: a PR agency you'd never hire

AI recommends businesses it sees named in independent sources. I find the exact listicles, directories and roundups your assistants quote in your niche, and get you into them.

Podcasts and video

replaces: cold pitching yourself

These pages are permanent and they carry your name on a domain that is not yours. Perplexity and Gemini lean on YouTube more than the others do. I write the episode angles and the target list, and I build the page so an assistant can quote it. I do not promise a booking. Bookings are not mine to give.

A content system you own

replaces: the freelancer roulette

An AI-powered pipeline in your voice, from buyer question to published, quotable page. Your team learns to run it in week 4. I leave; it keeps publishing.

Measured monthly against the same 10 buyer queries, so progress is a number, not a feeling.

The method · 30 days to AI-native

Audit. Fix. Cite. Hand over.

Audit

Instant scan + human-reviewed report: your score, your gaps, who wins your queries and from which sources.

day 0 · free
Quotable site

Highest-severity fixes ship first: rewritten pages, schema, FAQ, llms.txt. Your score starts moving.

week 1–2
Citations + system

Outreach to the sources AI quotes; the content pipeline goes live in your voice.

week 2–4
Handover

Your team runs it. Playbook, training, tracking included. Optional monthly re-scan. Nothing breaks if you walk away.

day 30
The guarantee

If your citation score hasn't grown within 60 days, I keep working free until it has.

Measured by the same scanner you used before paying me, against the same 10 buyer queries. Not a feeling. A number we both can see. How citation score is measured →

Questions owners actually ask

FAQ

What is AEO and GEO in plain words?

AEO (answer engine optimization) makes your site quotable, so search and AI tools can lift a ready answer straight from your pages. GEO (generative engine optimization) makes AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini actually name and recommend your business when a customer asks who to hire. Classic SEO is still the foundation: bad SEO means no GEO.

How is a 30-day sprint different from an SEO agency retainer?

An agency bills monthly for as long as you let it. The sprint has an end: in 30 days your site is quotable, citations are moving, your team runs the content system, and I leave. You own everything. No retainer, no dependency. Full comparison: AI employee vs agency.

How fast will my business show up in ChatGPT answers?

On-site fixes ship in the first two weeks. External citations, the part that moves AI answers most, typically show effect in 4–12 weeks depending on your niche. We measure monthly against the same 10 buyer queries, so you see the movement, not guess at it. And the guarantee covers the outcome.

What does it cost and what's the guarantee?

The sprint is a fixed scope priced per project after the free audit, comparable to a month or two of a typical agency retainer, except it ends and the system stays with you. If your citation score hasn't grown within 60 days of the sprint start, I keep working free until it has.

What happens after day 30?

Your team owns the system: playbook, content pipeline, tracking against your 10 queries. Optionally I re-run the scan monthly and send a short report. Nothing breaks if you walk away. That's the point of the handover. More on the method: 30 Days to AI-Native.

Find out what AI recommends instead of you.

A free audit: your score and every defect on the page, read by me and sent by email. Worst case: a free, prioritized to-do list. Best case: you found the channel your competitors haven't noticed yet.

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