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Our GEO Methodology

A systematic, four-phase process for making your business visible and citable across every major AI search platform , built on entity infrastructure, not guesswork.

The Problem

Most businesses are invisible to AI search

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for a recommendation in your category, which businesses get named? Almost certainly not yours , unless you have actively built the signals AI models trust.

Traditional SEO optimises for keyword rankings on a search results page. That does not translate to AI citation. AI models pull from structured knowledge, entity signals, and content formatted for synthesis , none of which most businesses have invested in.

The result: early movers in GEO are capturing AI-generated recommendations while the rest remain invisible. That gap widens every month.

Our Approach

A four-phase process that actually works

01

AI Visibility Audit

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We audit your current citation presence across all major AI platforms, identify gaps in your entity infrastructure, and benchmark you against your top competitors. You get a clear baseline and a prioritised action list.

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02

Entity Foundation

We build the structured-data layer and knowledge-graph signals that AI models rely on to trust and cite a source. This includes JSON-LD schema implementation, llms.txt, robots.txt optimisation for AI crawlers, and entity disambiguation.

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03

Citation-Ready Content

We restructure your existing content and create new content engineered to be cited. That means answer-first formatting, authoritative sourcing, FAQ schema, and semantic depth that AI models surface when users ask questions in your category.

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Continuous Optimisation

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Every month we track actual citations, refresh stale content, update schemas for new platforms, and expand coverage to emerging AI search surfaces. Results compound , the work done in month 1 multiplies over time.

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Why it works

What makes our methodology different

Multi-platform coverage

We optimise for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews , not just one channel. AI search is fragmented; your strategy should cover all of it.

Data-driven from day one

We track actual citation counts and brand mention share , not keyword rankings or impressions. If AI platforms are not citing you, you know it immediately.

Entity-first infrastructure

AI models cite sources they trust. We build the structured-data and knowledge-graph signals that make your business a trusted entity , the foundation every other tactic depends on.

Compounding returns

Traditional SEO decays. GEO compounds. Each month of entity signals, content, and citation tracking builds on the last, creating a growing competitive moat.

Tools we use

Methodology backed by real tooling

We have also made a selection of our diagnostic tools available for free. Use them to get an immediate baseline before we talk.

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See our methodology in action

Book a free AI visibility audit and we will show you exactly where you stand, what your competitors are doing, and what we would do first.

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