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AI search visibility

AI search visibility for Kent and London businesses.

Built so ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read your site and name your business when someone asks for what you do. Most local sites can't be read by those tools at all, so they never come up.

It's built into every site we make.

An illustration of an AI assistant and Claude recommending a local electrician by name, next to the business's own website

Why it matters

Ask ChatGPT for a plumber in your town and see who comes back.

The businesses it names aren't paying for placement, because there isn't any. They're the ones whose websites the AI could actually read. Most local sites can't be read at all, so they were never in the running.

How we deliver it

What we build into your site.

Server-rendered HTML

Your content is in the page itself, not loaded in afterwards. Most AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so if the words only appear once the browser does the work, they see an empty page.

A JSON-LD entity graph

What you do, where you are, your hours and how to reach you, stated as plain facts a machine can't misread. Left to guess from paragraphs, it often guesses wrong.

FAQ content in question and answer format

Real questions with direct answers underneath. That's the format answer engines quote from, rather than a wall of prose they have to interpret.

Explicit AI-crawler access in robots.txt

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended named by hand, so none of them are accidentally locked out by a rule meant for something else.

An llms.txt file

A plain summary of your site that some AI tools look for. Uptake is small so far. It costs nothing, so every site gets one.

IndexNow submission to Bing

Bing feeds Microsoft Copilot's answers. This pushes your changes into that index straight away instead of waiting to be found.

Never a promised outcome. Nobody, including us, controls what an AI chooses to cite. What we build is the groundwork that makes being cited possible in the first place.

The timing

Most local businesses haven't done this yet.

Most searches still go through Google and will for a while yet. But the shift is happening fast, and the work costs nothing extra as part of a build.

The businesses that are readable now are the ones getting named as the habit spreads. Retrofitting a site that was never built for it costs considerably more than doing it right the first time.

How it connects

AI search, local SEO and your Google Business Profile work together.

Being readable by AI crawlers gets you cited. Ranking well in regular search and having an accurate Google Business Profile are what get you found in the first place. We handle all three as one job, not three separate add-ons.

Questions

Straight answers

What we guarantee is that your site can be read, understood and quoted, which is where most local businesses are already out of the running. Nobody controls what an AI chooses to cite, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling you something. Being readable is the part that's in your control, and it's the part we handle.

Get a site AI search can actually read.

Serving businesses across Kent and London — see the towns we cover.