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.
| What | Typical volume |
|---|---|
| Prompts sampled across assistants | 30 to 60 |
| Pages published or rewritten for direct answers | 1 to 3 |
| Source placements in threads, listings, or third-party pages | 3 to 8 |
| Factual corrections filed about your product | As 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 type | Why models lean on it | Who has to do the work |
|---|---|---|
| Community threads and forums | Reads as independent, real users comparing tools | A participant with standing in that community |
| Comparison and alternatives pages | Directly answers a comparison question | Someone who writes and maintains them |
| Documentation and your own pages | Authoritative on what the product does | You, kept current |
| Directories and listings | Structured, easy to parse, widely mirrored | Someone who keeps them consistent |
| Reviews and third-party writeups | Independent verification | Earned, 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?
Why does this matter more than it did two years ago?
How do you measure something that changes every time you ask?
Can you just write a page and get cited?
Is any of this against the rules of the AI platforms?
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