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Get cited by AI search

More people are asking an assistant instead of scrolling a results page. The businesses that get named in those answers are the ones whose sites are built to be quoted.

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20+ years

Building websites, long before it was a side hustle.

260+ websites

Designed, built and launched across the North East.

5.0 on Google

Across 108 reviews, every one of them five stars.

Fixed prices

Agreed in writing before any work starts.

Why your business never gets mentioned

Assistants answer from sources they can read, trust and quote. Most sites fail on at least one.

Nothing is quotable

Pages of marketing language with no direct answers. An assistant has nothing to lift, so it lifts somebody else.

No structured data

Schema tells a machine what your business is, where it is and what it sells. Without it, everything has to be guessed.

Thin or missing detail

Prices, areas covered, accreditations, how the process works. The specifics are exactly what gets quoted.

No corroboration

Assistants cross check. A business with a consistent profile, reviews and directory entries is safer to recommend.

How an assistant decides who to mention

An AI assistant does not rank ten results and let the person choose. It answers, and it names one or two businesses while it does. Getting named depends on whether your site states plainly what you do, where you do it, and what it costs, in language a machine can lift and trust.

Someone asks who does damp proofing in North Shields? It reads the pages And names one or two firms There is no second page to be on. Either the answer has your name in it, or it does not, and the person never sees you were an option.

What the work involves

Much of it overlaps with good SEO. Some of it is specific to how assistants read a site.

Answer led content

Pages restructured so the answer comes first and the detail follows, which is the shape assistants extract from.

Structured data

Organisation, service, FAQ, product and review schema, implemented properly and validated rather than bolted on.

Entity consistency

Your business described the same way everywhere, so the assistant is confident it is dealing with one organisation.

The specifics

Pricing, service areas, accreditations and process, written as facts rather than claims.

Technical access

Making sure crawlers can reach and render the pages, and deciding which assistants you want to allow.

Monitoring

Checking what the main assistants say when asked about your sector in your area, and what they cite.

How it works

1

Baseline

We ask the assistants what they currently say about your sector in your area, and who gets named.

2

Gap analysis

What those cited sources have that you do not, in content, structure and corroboration.

3

Implement

Content restructured, schema added, specifics filled in, technical access checked.

4

Recheck

We ask again at intervals and track whether you start appearing.

Being straight about this

This is a newer field than it is usually sold as, so here is the honest position.

  • Nobody can guarantee a citation. There is no submission form and no ranking dial. You improve the odds, you do not buy the outcome.
  • Most of it is good SEO. Clear structure, real answers, solid schema and a trustworthy business footprint. Any agency charging a fortune for a secret method is selling you the ordinary.
  • It is worth doing anyway. Everything in the list improves normal search results too, so the work is not wasted either way.
  • Volume is still small. For most local businesses this is a minority of enquiries today. It is growing, which is the reason to start.
  • Specifics win. Pages that state prices, areas and process get quoted. Pages of adjectives do not.
  • Reviews still matter. Assistants lean heavily on review signals when recommending a local business.

What it costs

Usually added to an SEO plan rather than bought on its own.

Added to an SEO plan

From £397 a month

The AI visibility work runs alongside the normal SEO, since most of it strengthens both.

One off setup

Quoted

Schema, content restructuring and the specifics filled in across an existing site.

Included in new builds

No extra cost

New sites are built with the structure and schema in place from the start.

Want to know what the assistants say about your sector right now? Ask us and we will check and send you what we find.

AI search questions

Is this just SEO with a new name?

Largely, yes, and anyone telling you otherwise is overselling. The differences are real but modest: structure, schema and quotable specifics.

Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend me?

No. Nobody can. We improve the odds by making your site the easiest and most trustworthy source to quote.

Will this hurt my normal rankings?

No, the opposite. Clear structure and good schema help ordinary search too.

Should I block AI crawlers?

It depends on your business. Blocking protects content but removes any chance of being cited. We will talk it through rather than decide for you.

How would I know if it is working?

We check what the main assistants say about your sector before we start and at intervals afterwards, and record what they cite.

Is it worth it for a small local business?

It is worth doing as part of your SEO rather than as a separate spend. The underlying work pays for itself in normal search.

Let's get your website working harder

Tell us what you are planning and we will come back within one working day with honest advice and a guide price. No tech speak, no sales pitch.

Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. Based at North Tyneside Business Centre, North Shields.