AI Visibility · GEO
When AI answers, are you in it?
People are starting to ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google’s AI Overviews who to hire in the Treasure Valley — instead of scrolling a page of links.
Someone asks an AI who to hire.
Those answers name a handful of businesses. Not a page of links — a handful of names.
It reads the web its own way.
Crawlers like GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and ClaudeBot, a plain-language llms.txt, structured data, and facts a model can lift and quote.
Blocked, unreadable, uncited.
If your robots.txt silently turns the crawlers away and your pages bury the facts in adjectives, the answer names someone else.
Crawler access, llms.txt, schema, quotable pages.
On a small site that is typically two to four hours of work.
Then we measure whether it moved.
On a retainer the score gets re-run every month. If it did not move, we say so.
Illustration · how an answer engine reads the web · the checks are the audit below · the answer is the goal, not a promise