AI is recommending businesses. Will it recommend yours?
A focused 60-day process to get your business mentioned where it matters – in the AI-generated answers your clients are already reading.
What ‘AI Visibility’ Actually Means
You’ve probably noticed it already. Search for almost anything on Google and the first thing you see isn’t a list of websites – it’s an AI-generated answer pulled from a handful of sources. The actual search results sit underneath it.
For local service businesses, this changes everything.
When someone searches for a chiropractor, a plumber, or a financial advisor in their area, Google’s AI answers that question before the person ever scrolls to the organic results. It names businesses it considers clear, credible, and trustworthy. If your site isn’t structured in a way that AI can confidently interpret, it won’t be one of those businesses – regardless of where you rank underneath.
Most discovery now happens without a website visit at all. Only about 360 out of every 1,000 Google searches in the U.S. result in a click to the open web – the rest are answered directly by AI, with no visit required! (Source: GoFish Digital)
And that window is narrowing even further: ChatGPT recently began citing around 20% fewer websites per response. The sites that do get cited now take up a larger share of every answer.
It’s not just Google and ChatGPT. Perplexity, Claude and other AI platforms are all being used to find and recommend local service providers. Most websites weren’t built with any of this in mind.
That’s what this service addresses. We look at three core questions:
- Can AI understand what you do and who you serve?
- Does it trust your expertise and authority?
- Would it confidently recommend you over a competitor?
If the answer to any of those is no, this is where we start.
SEO vs. AI Visibility: What’s Changing
Many businesses are told they need SEO, but what they really need is to be clearly understood – by both search engines and AI tools.
Traditional SEO focuses on ranking pages for keywords and earning clicks from search results. But as AI-generated overviews and recommendations become more common, fewer users are clicking through to websites in the first place.
AI visibility focuses on something different: being included in the answers people get from tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI results.
- SEO requires ongoing content additions and time to build rankings.
- AI visibility prioritizes clear, structured expertise that can be understood and surfaced more directly.
For many smaller businesses, this is especially important. Without the time or budget (or inclination) to become a content engine, a small number of well-structured, high-quality pages can often do more than trying to compete on volume.
Most businesses don’t need to choose one or the other – but they do need a site structured correctly so both can work. In many cases, it’s not about producing more content – it’s about making the right content easier to understand and surface.
That’s exactly what the AI Visibility Accelerator is designed to do.
Who This is For (and Not For)
This is a good fit if:
This is not a good fit if:
The Process: Clear, Structured, and Finite
How This Works
This isn’t endless SEO or open-ended optimization. It’s a structured process to identify issues, fix what matters, and then optionally continue improving over time.
AI Visibility Audit
Before fixing anything, we identify what’s actually preventing your business from showing up in AI results. Security and firewall settings meant to block unwanted harmful bots can sometimes also limit how AI and modern search tools access or understand your website. Part of the audit is identifying and correcting those issues.
This is not a generic SEO audit. It’s a targeted analysis using real-world AI queries to see how your business actually appears in AI-generated results.
What we look at:
- Identifying where visibility may be reduced by off-website configuration issues
- How clearly AI understands your services
- Gaps in trust and authority signals
- Technical and structural issues affecting visibility
- Content clarity and alignment with real-world AI queries
What you get – the deliverables:
- AI visibility score + summary (and the complete report)
- Key issues impacting discoverability
- Prioritized recommendations
- Clear next steps
AI Visibility Audit Pricing:
$299
Most clients start here. The audit identifies exactly what’s holding your site back and whether the 60-day Accelerator makes sense.
The audit is a standalone service, but it’s also the first step for most clients who move on into implementation.
AI Visibility Accelerator (60 Days)
This is where we fix the issues that actually impact visibility.
This is a focused 60-day project where we fix the most important issues identified in the audit. In many cases, we’re not adding more content – we’re making what you already have work better.
This is:
- A defined project
- A 60-day engagement
- Structured and prioritized work
This is NOT:
- Ongoing SEO
- A retainer
- Open-ended optimization
- Content marketing
Phase 1: Foundational Fixes
Purpose: Fix the underlying issues that prevent AI from properly understanding and trusting the site.
Work includes:
- Technical cleanup (indexing, crawlability, metadata issues)
- Structured data improvements (where relevant)*
- Core page optimization (homepage + key service pages)
We fix the what’s blocking visibility before trying to improve it.
Phase 2: Visibility Optimization
Purpose: Improve how AI interprets, connects, and recommends the business.
Work includes:
- Content refinement for clarity and AI understanding
- Internal linking improvements
- Strategic updates based on early results
This is where we strengthen how your site is understood and recommended – not just how it looks.
* AI systems crawl sites with complete local business schema at an 82% rate, compared to 55% for sites with incomplete or missing schema. We audit and improve your structured data so AI can correctly identify, verify, and return to your site. (Duda, February 2026)
AI Visibility Accelerator Pricing:
$1,800 total
$900/month for 2 months
This is a 60-day engagement billed monthly – not an ongoing monthly service. (This is a fixed 60-day project. Early termination does not reduce the total project fee.)
Quarterly AI Visibility Check-In (Optional)
Maintain and Improve Over Time
After the initial work is complete, visibility can be maintained and improved through periodic check-ins and targeted adjustments.
What it includes:
- Periodic performance reviews
- Monitoring AI visibility trends
- Small adjustments and refinements
- Light optimization based on changes
What it does NOT include:
- Large-scale content creation
- Major site changes
- Full SEO campaigns
Quarterly AI Visibility Check-In Pricing:
$400 per Quarter
I don’t offer monthly monitoring because meaningful changes in AI visibility take time. Quarterly reviews allow us to focus on real improvements instead of incremental busywork.
How Most Clients Work With Me
Most clients follow a simple path:
- Start with the AI Visibility Audit
- Move into the 60-day Accelerator to fix key issues
- Optionally continue with quarterly monitoring
No retainers. No vague “ongoing SEO.” Just focused, meaningful work with a clear start and finish.
Frequently-asked Questions
Ready to improve your AI visibility?
Not sure if this is a good fit?
That’s exactly what the discovery call is for. We’ll talk through where you are, what AI visibility looks like for your type of business, and whether the audit makes sense as a next step.
No pressure. No obligation.