Your customers trust what AI recommends. Make sure it recommends you.
More and more, people ask AI who to hire and what to trust, then act on the answer without scrolling further. Search still matters, but the momentum is moving to AI: Google's AI Overviews, questions asked by voice, and agents that search on their own. Forecite gets your business positioned to be the one AI recommends, before your competitors take it seriously.
How customers find you now
Your customers are handing the decision to AI, and trusting what it hands back. The prize is no longer ranking on a page of links; it's being the business AI names in its answer.
of U.S. adults used AI to find a local business in the past month. It's already mainstream, across every category.
Yext, 2026Fewer than 4 in 10 of the businesses AI cites rank in Google's top 10. You don't have to outrank the big players to get named.
Ahrefs, 2026People now use ChatGPT every week. Your customers are already there; the only question is whether you show up.
OpenAI via TechCrunch, 2026Get ahead of the shift to AI search before it becomes consensus, and you build a foothold in those answers your competitors will struggle to take back.
Who this is for
If your customers research carefully before they buy, and trust drives the decision, this is for you. The more someone weighs their options, the more being the business AI vouches for nudges them toward you, and it converts far better than being one more link.
Your customers research before they buy and trust drives the decision. Think B2B software, law firms, financial advisors, premium home services, and clinics, the kind of choice people vet carefully before committing.
Your customers buy fast on price or looks alone, like everyday products or impulse purchases. This can still help, but it won't be your highest-return investment.
What we do
The work that gets you recommended. Every engagement starts with the free Blueprint; from there, it's scoped to what you actually need.
The behind-the-scenes work that lets AI find your pages, understand exactly what you do, confirm you're legitimate, and recommend you with confidence.
Every Blueprint turns up a different mix. A few examples:
- Clean, complete structured data so AI can read the facts about your business
- Consistent business information everywhere it appears online
- Reviews, credentials, and profiles connected into one clear trail of proof
- Fixing pages AI currently can't read or crawl
It's the foundation everything else sits on.
AI is hungry for good answers, and you're the expert. We turn that expertise into content that genuinely helps your customers and outclasses your competitors, so AI quotes you and names you when someone asks.
This takes many forms. A few examples:
- Articles and FAQ pages that answer the exact questions your customers ask, written so AI can quote them cleanly
- A content plan built around the questions you should own in your market
- A real presence on the platforms AI pulls from most, like YouTube and Reddit
You get the strategy no matter what. When you're too busy running your business to produce it all yourself, I write and build it for you.
I track the real questions your customers ask AI and show how often you're named versus your competitors, from your day-one baseline onward. My own tracking system runs 500+ prompts every month, so you get an ongoing read on your visibility, and a clear read on whether the work is paying off.
How it works
What working together looks like.
Free Blueprint.
Send your URL, that's all I need to start. You'll get a clear read on how AI sees your business today and the highest-impact moves to make. Free, and no commitment.
Consultation.
We go through what the Blueprint found and agree on a plan that fits your goals and budget. If there isn't a strong case to keep going, I'll tell you.
Implementation.
I handle the work we scoped, in your own site and accounts, so you don't have to learn any of it yourself. You keep ownership of everything.
Tracking.
I keep measuring whether AI names you, so you see whether the work is paying off instead of taking it on faith.
Pricing
AI visibility compounds, and it's a moving target. The platforms shift every month and your competitors are starting to invest, so keep at it and you build a lead that's genuinely hard to take back.
- Authority and credibility that compound month over month
- Time to measure real movement in how often AI names you, and see whether it's working
- A real checkpoint at month three: we look at the data together and decide whether to keep going
Narrow, well-scoped problem? I'm glad to do a sharp one-time fix instead.
What makes us different
You built your site to speak to your customers, and my process respects that. I make everything genuinely useful to real people first, then do the technical work so AI can find it, read it, and trust it. The result is a business that's actually worth recommending, and built to outclass what's already in your market.
Some agencies work the other way around: feed the algorithm with whatever's fast and cheap to mass-produce. It can move numbers this month. But AI gets more powerful every month, and better at spotting that stuff and ignoring it. Push it too far and Google and other platforms will penalize you outright. The shortcut decays, or worse. Real authority compounds.
Low-effort slop bothers me more than it should, so I wouldn't inflict it on your site. A few of the big ones I steer clear of:
- No slop listicles or AI filler churned out to hit a number.
- No flood of thin blog posts or near-identical location pages.
- No paid mentions dressed up as honest recommendations.
Build something genuinely worth recommending, and you stop chasing the algorithm. It starts recommending you.
I'm Andrew, former history teacher and longtime expat, perpetually one year away from being fluent in Chinese. I happened to start grad school right as ChatGPT was released to the world, so my struggle to finish economics assignments led me to spend an unreasonable amount of time with this technology from day one.
But I was hooked, and after the assignments stopped, I continued tinkering and pulling these tools apart to see how they actually work under the hood. The deeper I went, the more I focused on something most people using AI still don't consider: when it recommends one business and ignores another, that isn't random chance. That part is being ignored by too many businesses today. The few even thinking about it still treat it as an add-on to a broader digital marketing campaign, rather than the shift that increasingly decides who gets found at all.
I saw an opening, and put in the unglamorous work of figuring out what actually drives those decisions, and how to move them in your favor. So I built Forecite to put that to work for a short list of clients at a time. Fewer clients means yours gets the real version: someone who measures what's working, tells you what matters for growing your business, and handles the fixes. Let's talk and see if I can help. Your first Blueprint is free.
FAQ
Common questions
Is the AI Visibility Blueprint really free? +
Yes, and there's no catch. I've built proprietary tooling that runs an internet-wide sweep of how AI sees your business, so the Blueprint itself takes me about an hour to produce, not days. What the tooling can't do on its own is the judgment part: reading the results and working out the highest-impact moves for you. That's the real work, and it's why the Blueprint is a genuine head start, not a generic report. If it makes a strong case to keep going, we talk. If it doesn't, the findings are yours to keep.
What kinds of businesses is this for? +
Businesses customers research carefully before choosing, where trust drives the decision. Such as, but not limited to:
- B2B software
- Law firms
- Financial advisors
- Premium home services
- Medical, dental, and other clinics
If people buy from you fast on price or looks alone, this can still help, but it won't be your highest-return investment.
GEO, AEO, AI SEO: what's the difference? +
Not much, in practice. The field is new enough that the industry hasn't settled on one name, so you'll see GEO (generative engine optimization), AEO (answer engine optimization), AI SEO, and a few others used almost interchangeably. They all point at the same goal: getting your business trusted and recommended by AI so more of the right customers find you. If the labels are confusing, that's not you, it's a young field still naming itself.
Why should I care about this now? +
Your customers are starting to ask AI who to trust instead of scrolling a page of links, and they act on the answer. The businesses AI can understand and verify get named first. Most of your competitors haven't done anything about this yet, so there's a window to claim that ground before it gets crowded.
Can you guarantee AI will recommend my business? +
No, and anyone who promises that is bluffing. Nobody controls what ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity, or the others will say. What I can do is fix what's in your control, strengthen the signals these systems read, and measure honestly whether you're getting named.
Will this step on my current SEO or marketing provider? +
No. Today the two still overlap a lot, and strong SEO is a great head start on AI visibility. But the signals are drifting apart, and Google is no longer the only player. I help you show up on the newer platforms your customers are moving to, and get you ready for what's coming: more and more searching done by autonomous agents acting on your customers' behalf. If you have an SEO provider, I complement their work rather than replace it.
What does it cost? +
Engagements start at $1,500/mo on a 3-month term, or a $2,000 one-time fix if you'd rather not commit to ongoing work. Where you land depends on the scope and complexity of your site and business.
How it works
What happens after I request the Blueprint? +
I build your Blueprint and get back to you with the findings, either written up or walked through on a call. From there the next step is usually clear:
- Fix what's blocking you
- Measure deeper
- Or sit tight for now
To start, all I need is your website plus a little context: your business name, your market, and any competitors or AI answers you already care about.
What does the implementation work actually include? +
It depends on what your Blueprint turns up, but it usually means making your business easier for AI to find, read, and trust:
- Clean structured data
- Consistent business information everywhere it appears
- Answer-focused pages and FAQs
- Connected reviews and credentials
- Fixing anything AI currently can't read
A major opportunity is often content. AI recommends the businesses that publish the clearest, most genuinely useful answers to what customers ask, and you're the expert. You get the strategy either way. When you'd rather have it produced for you, properly researched and written to actually compete, I do that too, including a real presence on the platforms AI pulls from most, like YouTube and Reddit.
How is your content different from what other agencies churn out? +
Some agencies can publish ten articles in twenty minutes. I won't, because that's exactly the filler AI is getting better at spotting and ignoring, and it drags down the credibility signals we're working to build. I use AI to help research and draft, but every piece still gets real human work, and hours of it, before it touches your site. The payoff is content that holds up and actually gets you cited, produced in hours instead of the days it would take by hand.
Do you need access to my website? +
It's usually easiest if you give me editor access so I can make the changes directly. If that's not practical, I hand your developer exact instructions. Either way your site, domain, Google profile, and accounts stay entirely yours.
Do I have to learn any of this myself? +
No. That's the point of hiring someone. I do the work in your own site and accounts so you can keep running your business, and you own everything I build.
Proof and measurement
How will I know the work is paying off? +
I measure the thing that matters: whether AI names your business when your customers ask, whether it names a competitor instead, and how that changes after the work. Bookings and revenue move for many reasons and lag behind. Getting named in the answer is something I can check directly and show you.
How is the tracking different from the free Blueprint? +
The free Blueprint shows what's holding you back. The tracking measures where you actually stand, and it's a much heavier piece of work: my system runs 500+ searches that mirror the real questions your customers ask across the major AI platforms, every month, which takes far more time and compute than the Blueprint. Because of that, it's reserved for clients and I run it once we've agreed to work together, starting with a day-one baseline so every later run shows your progress.
What does "named, absent, or losing to competitors" mean? +
Those questions aren't random. I design them to mirror what your highest-intent customers are actually asking AI, the questions you should be in the answer to. For each one:
- Named: the answer recommends you.
- Absent: you're not in the answer at all.
- Losing: the answer recommends a specific competitor in your place.
Absent is a gap. Losing is the costly one, because a rival is actively getting the customer you should have won.
The technical side
What technical signals matter most? +
It varies by business, which is why I start with the Blueprint instead of a fixed checklist. Common ones:
- Clean crawlability, so AI can read your pages
- Structured data that labels the facts about your business
- Clear service pages
- Links to your official profiles
- Consistent local business information
- Credible mentions elsewhere
- Review signals
What is structured data? +
It's machine-readable labeling that spells out the facts about your business for AI: name, location, services, people, reviews, profiles. It doesn't change what your visitors see. I can also add pages and files built specifically for AI agents, invisible to your customers, that hand those systems a clean summary of who you are and what you do. The easier you make a business to understand, the more likely an AI is to know enough about you to recommend you.
Which AI platforms do you cover? +
The ones your customers actually use: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Bing Copilot. The list keeps changing, and I can add any others you care about. Each platform reads different signals, so no one can fully optimize for all of them at once. Where there's clear evidence your customers lean on a particular one, that's where I focus on getting you cited.
Get there before your market does.
The move to AI search is still early, and that's the opportunity. Position your business now and you earn a place in those answers that's hard for a competitor to take back later. Start with the free Blueprint: send your URL and get a clear read on how AI sees you today.
Prefer email? Reach me directly at andrew@forecite.agency