Getting Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews
Buyers have quietly changed how they research. Instead of scanning ten blue links, they ask ChatGPT for a shortlist, check Google's AI Overview before clicking, or let Perplexity summarise the options. In each case an AI model decides which brands get named — and if yours isn't in that answer, you're invisible at the exact moment someone is choosing. That is the real problem AI search optimisation solves: not chasing a keyword ranking, but making sure language models understand who you are, what you do, and why you're a credible answer. It's less about tricks and more about being machine-legible and genuinely authoritative. Good work usually looks unglamorous. It starts with an audit of what the AI engines currently say about you — often wrong, outdated, or blank. Then it fixes the plumbing: clean structured data, a consistent entity across your site, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and directories, and content written to answer real questions directly rather than bury the an...