You get cited by AI chats by becoming an unambiguous entity, publishing answer-shaped content, exposing machine-readable context, and earning corroborating mentions on sources the model already trusts. Traditional SEO alone is no longer enough — answer engines surface a handful of citations, and you either are one of them or you are invisible.
The shift is structural. Search behavior is moving from ranked lists of links to synthesized answers with a small set of cited sources. The companies that prepare now — by treating their website as a machine-readable knowledge base and their brand as a citable entity — will compound advantage every quarter.
My practice helps a small number of companies become the source AI systems trust. One client per market, per vertical. Long-term retainers only.