When someone asks ChatGPT for a business like yours, are you the answer?
Customers stopped scrolling ten blue links. They ask an AI assistant and get two or three recommendations back. If your business isn't one of them, you're invisible at the exact moment someone was ready to buy.
We built the scoreboard. Then we ran it on ourselves.
Before we sold this to anyone, we pointed our own tracker at Elliott's AI. It asks the AI engines the questions a prospect would actually type, on a weekly cadence, and records exactly who gets recommended and which websites the engines trust enough to cite. We run the same scoreboard for you.
In our first scan, we logged 30 AI answers across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and more. The engines cited YouTube, Reddit, and business directories as their sources, and when they named a business by name, it was one of our competitors, not us. That's the same blind spot most small businesses have, and most don't know it, because nobody watches AI answers the way they watch Google Analytics.
Measure. Fix. Report.
Measure
We run a baseline scan asking the AI engines the questions your customers actually type. You get a per-engine scoreboard in your dashboard: who's mentioned, who's cited, who's invisible.
Fix
We build direct-answer pages on your site, add an llms.txt file and schema markup the engines can parse, and get you listed on the exact sites those engines already cite for your niche, plus your Google Business Profile.
Report
Automated re-checks track movement on the cadence your plan sets, and once a month you get a plain-English report: “ChatGPT now recommends you for 3 of your 8 questions, up from 0.”
You are paying for the fix, not for the dashboard.
No long-term contract. The setup fee is the work: the answer pages, the schema, the directory listings, the Google Business Profile. The monthly keeps the re-checks running and the report landing. Plenty of tools will sell you a dashboard for less than this. None of them write the pages.
- Answer pages on your site, written in the format the engines actually quote
- Schema and llms.txt, so they can parse what you do and where you do it
- Weekly re-checks, and a plain-English report once a month
- Baseline scan across 5 AI engines, so you can see the before
- Answer pages built and coordinated with your webmaster
- Listings on the sites the engines already cite for your niche, plus your Google Business Profile
- Schema and llms.txt on your domain
- Weekly re-checks, and a plain-English report once a month
- Baseline scan across 5 AI engines, so you can see the before
Questions worth asking before you hire anyone for this.
How long until we see results?
Search engines index new pages in 1 to 2 weeks. AI engines are slower and less predictable: most changes get picked up somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks, and specific, local queries move fastest because there's less competition for the AI to choose from. There are no guarantees. Anyone promising you a #1 AI ranking is lying, because these engines don't publish a ranking algorithm and their answers can change from query to query.
What's the difference between AEO/GEO and SEO?
SEO gets your page to rank in a list of ten blue links. AEO and GEO (Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization) get your business named directly inside an AI-generated answer, where there's no list, just two or three names. The mechanics overlap (schema, clear content, credible sources), but the target is different: a search engine ranks pages, an AI engine picks winners.
Do I need a new website?
No, the standalone plan works with the site you have. But here's the honest edge: AI engines read our sites better than most, because every page we build is structured for machines from day one, direct answers, schema, llms.txt, clean markup. As more of your customers ask an AI instead of scrolling Google, that foundation stops being optional. Start standalone today; when you're ready, an Elliott's AI rebuild makes the whole site speak AI natively, and your setup fee credits toward it.
How do I know it's actually working?
Your dashboard shows the same scoreboard we use internally: which AI engines mention you, for which questions, and which sites they're citing instead of you. Every month you get a plain-English report, and you can read the actual AI answers we tested, not just a score.
Which AI engines do you check?
Perplexity, ChatGPT web search, Google AI Overviews and GLM, plus a model-memory baseline check that has no live web access, for comparison. We run our own tracker weekly; how often we run yours is set in your plan, because every check is real money spent on those engines and there is no point paying for daily numbers on questions that move over weeks. Your dashboard always says when the last check ran. We add new engines to the panel as they become worth tracking.
See where you stand before your competitor does.
Book a free call. We'll walk through your first scoreboard and show you exactly what the AI engines are saying about your business right now.
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