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What we run

AI search (GEO) growth, run for you.

Generative engine optimization means getting your product named when someone asks an AI what to use. It is not a ranking you can buy. It comes from what the model can find written about you across sources it trusts, which means the work is source placement plus structured, quotable pages.

Last reviewed 27 August 2026

The failure mode

What breaks when AI does this alone.

There is no submission form and no bid. An AI answer is assembled from what the model already absorbed and what it retrieves at question time, which means the only inputs you control are the sources. Those sources are Reddit threads, forum posts, comparison pages, review sites, documentation, and your own pages, and every one of them is either a human posting in a community with standing or a page someone has to write and maintain. Worse, the output is unstable. The same question asked twice can name different products, so measurement has to be sampled rather than checked.

What our operators do here

  • Run a monthly visibility sample across the assistants your buyers actually use
  • Log which competitors get named instead of you, and what source the answer leans on
  • Write and maintain comparison, alternatives, and pricing pages that answer directly
  • Place accurate answers in the community threads models retrieve from, as a participant
  • Keep listings, directories, and third-party profiles current and consistent
  • Fix the crawlable and structured layer so pages can be parsed and quoted
  • Correct factual errors about your product where they appear at the source

Volume

What ships in a typical week.

Typical weekly output on the AI search (GEO) channel
WhatTypical volume
Prompts sampled across assistants30 to 60
Pages published or rewritten for direct answers1 to 3
Source placements in threads, listings, or third-party pages3 to 8
Factual corrections filed about your productAs found, logged either way

Volumes are typical rather than contractual. They move with what the channel is actually returning.

What good looks like

The metric that matters

Share of sampled prompts where your product is named, tracked monthly

Realistic timeline

First movement 6 to 10 weeks, because it depends on sources that take time to place.

The question that decides the channel

Open an assistant and ask it what to use for the problem your product solves. Whatever it names, that is your current position in this channel. There is no dashboard behind it and no place to submit a listing.

That single test is why founders take GEO seriously faster than they take SEO seriously. It is immediate, it is specific, and the competitor named instead of you is usually one you have already lost a deal to.

Why it matters now

Two figures are worth citing, both from named sources, because most of what circulates about AI search volume is vendor-generated.

Pew Research Center found that users clicked through to a result in 8 percent of visits where a Google AI summary was present, compared with 15 percent of visits without one. SparkToro's zero-click analysis put the share of searches ending without a click at 68.01 percent.

Neither number tells you that search is dead. What they tell you is that the answer increasingly gets delivered in the interface, and that being the thing named inside it is a different asset from being the tenth blue link.

Where the answer actually comes from

An AI answer draws on two things: what the model absorbed during training, and what it retrieves at question time. You cannot edit the first. You can influence what exists to be retrieved, and what the next training pass sees.

Source typeWhy models lean on itWho has to do the work
Community threads and forumsReads as independent, real users comparing toolsA participant with standing in that community
Comparison and alternatives pagesDirectly answers a comparison questionSomeone who writes and maintains them
Documentation and your own pagesAuthoritative on what the product doesYou, kept current
Directories and listingsStructured, easy to parse, widely mirroredSomeone who keeps them consistent
Reviews and third-party writeupsIndependent verificationEarned, not written

Look at the right-hand column. Almost none of it is a publishing task. Most of it needs a person who is an accepted participant somewhere, or who is willing to file a correction with a third party and follow up.

How we run it

The AI layer builds the prompt set from how your buyers actually describe their problem, runs it across the assistants your market uses, and records what gets named and what the answer appears to be leaning on. It also drafts the pages and the corrections.

An operator does the placement. They participate in the communities that get retrieved, as themselves, disclosing the relationship, which is the same discipline we apply on Reddit and for the same reason. They publish and maintain the comparison and alternatives pages. They keep third-party listings consistent, because inconsistent descriptions of what you do produce vague answers. And when an assistant states something wrong about your product, they trace it to the source and get the source corrected, which is usually a person to email rather than a form to fill in.

Measurement, honestly

This channel has a genuine measurement problem and we would rather name it than paper over it.

The same prompt asked twice can give different answers. Assistants personalise, retrieve differently, and change models without notice. So a screenshot proves nothing, and any vendor showing you a single flattering answer is showing you noise.

We sample instead. A fixed prompt set, run on a schedule, reported as share of runs where you are named, alongside which competitors appear and how often. That number moves slowly, and it moves for reasons you can trace back to a specific source we placed.

Expect six to ten weeks before it moves at all, because the placements that feed it are community and third-party work that cannot be rushed without becoming the thing we refuse to do.

What we will not do

We will not create fake discussion, fake reviews, or sock-puppet threads to feed a model. It is dishonest, it is detectable by the communities involved, and losing those accounts costs you the channel permanently.

We will not claim to influence a model's training data directly. Nobody can. We influence what exists in public about you, which is the only real input.

AI search (GEO) questions

What is generative engine optimization, in plain terms?
It is the work of getting your product named and described correctly when someone asks an AI assistant what to use for a problem you solve. There is no ranking to buy and no index to submit to. The answer is assembled from sources the model absorbed in training and sources it retrieves at question time, so the work is making sure those sources exist, are accurate, and are easy to quote.
Why does this matter more than it did two years ago?
Because a growing share of questions get answered without a click. Pew Research Center found that users clicked a result in 8 percent of visits where an AI summary was present, against 15 percent of visits without one. SparkToro separately put zero-click behaviour at 68.01 percent of searches. If the answer is delivered in the interface, being the source cited in it is the visibility.
How do you measure something that changes every time you ask?
By sampling rather than checking. We run a fixed set of buyer-style prompts across the assistants your market uses, repeat them on a schedule, and track the share of runs where you are named, which competitors appear instead, and what the answer appears to be drawing on. A single result proves nothing. A trend across sixty prompts over three months does.
Can you just write a page and get cited?
Rarely on its own. Your own pages matter for accuracy and for being quotable once a model reaches them, but assistants lean heavily on third-party sources, particularly community discussion and comparison content, because those read as independent. That is why this channel overlaps so much with Reddit and community work, and why it cannot be run purely as a publishing exercise.
Is any of this against the rules of the AI platforms?
Placing accurate information in public sources is not. What would be a problem is manufacturing fake discussion to feed the models, which is both dishonest and the same behaviour that gets accounts removed from the communities involved. We place answers as identified participants and we correct errors rather than inventing praise.

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