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Research on how AI assistants choose businesses

Sourced guides on how customers find businesses through Google and AI — and how to improve your chances of being the one they choose.

Zakaria Reziki · September 7, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Visibility for Law Firms: A Practice-Area Playbook

How ChatGPT and Gemini choose which law firm to recommend: practice-area prompts, bar profiles, advertising rules and multi-partner attribution.

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Zakaria Reziki · September 6, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Visibility for Dentists: Getting Chosen When Patients Ask AI

How ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity decide which dentist to recommend — the review and listing signals that matter, plus a weekend fix list for one practice.

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Zakaria Reziki · September 5, 2026 · 9 min read

Structured Data for AI Search: What Still Matters

Which schema.org types—Organization, LocalBusiness, Product, FAQPage—still help AI assistants recommend your business, and which markup is wasted effort.

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Zakaria Reziki · September 3, 2026 · 9 min read

Why Reddit Decides So Many AI Answers

Reddit’s OpenAI and Google licensing deals, plus authentic-sounding threads, make it a top AI source. Here’s how to join Reddit without getting banned.

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Zakaria Reziki · September 2, 2026 · 9 min read

How Online Reviews Shape What AI Recommends

See which review sites AI assistants read, why recent detailed reviews beat star averages, and a review-request cadence that stays policy-compliant.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 26, 2026 · 10 min read

When AI Gets Your Business Wrong: The Correction Playbook

A four-step workflow for fixing wrong AI information about your business: find the claim, trace the cited source, fix it at the source, then verify the answer moved.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 24, 2026 · 9 min read

How to Get Cited by Perplexity

Perplexity retrieves before it answers and cites by default. Here is how to become eligible, which page shapes get quoted, and how to verify citations with your own prompts.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 22, 2026 · 9 min read

How to Appear in Google AI Overviews

What Google's own documentation says about AI Overviews and AI Mode eligibility, which controls actually affect inclusion, and how businesses can measure and improve appearance.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 21, 2026 · 9 min read

How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT

A practical, ChatGPT-specific playbook: how answers form from model memory versus live search, which sources get cited, and the exact order of fixes if you're absent.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 20, 2026 · 12 min read

The AI Visibility Audit: A 20-Point Checklist

A runnable AI visibility audit: 20 checks across crawlability, entity consistency, earned signals, citability and measurement — each with how to test and what passing looks like.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 19, 2026 · 10 min read

How to Track Your Brand Mentions in ChatGPT

A practical method for ChatGPT brand monitoring: build a buyer-question prompt set, fix your cadence, log presence, position, sentiment, competitors and citations, then read the trend.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 18, 2026 · 9 min read

GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes for Your Team

A side-by-side of what carries over from SEO into generative engine optimization, what stops paying off, and how to split ownership across your team.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 16, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Visibility for Local Businesses: A Practical Playbook

How assistants answer near-me prompts, and what a local business must fix in Google Business Profile, reviews, citations and site markup to get recommended.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 15, 2026 · 9 min read

llms.txt: What It Is and How to Write One

An honest guide to llms.txt — what the proposal actually specifies, why Google says it doesn't use it, the exact format, a worked example, and where it fits.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 14, 2026 · 12 min read

How AI Assistants Decide Which Businesses to Recommend

A stage-by-stage walkthrough of how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot go from a user prompt to a named business — and what you can influence at each step.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 13, 2026 · 11 min read

AI Share of Voice: How to Measure and Benchmark It

A precise formula for AI share of voice, why per-assistant numbers diverge, a benchmark table template you can copy, and how to turn each SoV gap into an action.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 9, 2026 · 12 min read

Best AI Visibility Tools in 2026, Compared

An honest comparison of AI visibility tracking tools — Growli, Profound, Otterly, Peec and Scrunch — judged on assistant coverage, evidence trails, prompt tracking and price.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 7, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Visibility: The Complete Guide (2026)

What AI visibility is, why it differs from SEO rankings, the signals ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity actually weigh, and how to measure and improve your share of AI answers.

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Zakaria Reziki · August 8, 2026 · 10 min read

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): The Complete Guide

What GEO is, how it differs from SEO, how ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews pick their sources, and a practical checklist — llms.txt, citability, structured data — to get recommended.

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Research on how AI assistants choose businesses

AI Visibility for Law Firms: A Practice-Area Playbook

AI Visibility for Dentists: Getting Chosen When Patients Ask AI

Structured Data for AI Search: What Still Matters

Why Reddit Decides So Many AI Answers

How Online Reviews Shape What AI Recommends

When AI Gets Your Business Wrong: The Correction Playbook

How to Get Cited by Perplexity

How to Appear in Google AI Overviews

How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT

The AI Visibility Audit: A 20-Point Checklist

How to Track Your Brand Mentions in ChatGPT

GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes for Your Team

AI Visibility for Local Businesses: A Practical Playbook

llms.txt: What It Is and How to Write One

How AI Assistants Decide Which Businesses to Recommend

AI Share of Voice: How to Measure and Benchmark It

Best AI Visibility Tools in 2026, Compared

AI Visibility: The Complete Guide (2026)

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): The Complete Guide

Weekly AI search growth tips