Free ConsultPeople are asking assistants the questions they used to type into Google, and getting one answer with a handful of businesses in it. We find out whether yours is one of them, who is named instead, and what the assistants get wrong about you — every month.
This corner of the industry is full of things that sound technical and do nothing. Here is what we checked, and what the platforms actually say.
Their own AI optimisation guide is blunt: you do not need new machine-readable files, AI text files, special markup or a special writing style to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode. Their words are that normal SEO best practice "continue[s] to be relevant", because the AI features run on core Search ranking.
It is the most-sold item on the AEO checklist. Independent crawl studies found OpenAI fetched it 7 times against 3,990 robots.txt fetches over twelve weeks, and Perplexity never. We are not going to charge you to add a file the assistants do not read.
There is no Search Console equivalent — no URL submission, no inclusion request, no way to ask to be indexed. The only lever a site owner genuinely has is robots.txt, which every AI crawler does respect. Anyone implying otherwise is selling you something that does not exist.
So what is worth doing
You cannot buy a position in an AI answer, and anyone promising one is making the same promise as a guaranteed Google ranking — which our own terms refuse. What you can do is find out what is being said, correct what is wrong, and make sure the places assistants draw from are consistent about who you are. That is measurement and housekeeping, and it is worth real money precisely because it is unglamorous.
What's in the report
Not "who is the best agency" — the actual phrasing someone uses when they need what you sell, in your suburb. The same set every month, so the change over time is the point rather than a single snapshot.
Which competitors the assistants name, how often, and in what order. This is the part clients find hardest to look away from.
Assistants repeat what they found. An old phone number, a service you dropped two years ago, an address you moved from — these turn up more often than you would expect, and they are fixable.
Most of what moves this is entity consistency, Google Business Profile, reviews and content — work already inside the $490 plan. We will say so rather than invent a new line item.
What it costs
Priced on its own, separate from the website plans and from ChatGPT Ads management.
Quoted per project. The listed price is the lowest — one business, one location, a standard question set. More locations, more services or a longer question set are quoted above it.
It is a floor, not a fixed fee — and you see the number before anything starts.
FAQs
Where nearly every fix this report produces actually gets done — content, entity consistency and the technical work underneath.
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