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How do you get cited by AI chats?

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.

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  • AI citation optimization is the practice of structuring your brand, content and technical signals so answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews quote and link to you when users ask questions in your category. It combines entity clarity, machine-readable content, schema, and external authority into a single discipline distinct from classic SEO.
Why this matters now

Slow movers get left behind. Strategically.

Every quarter, more queries are answered by a model instead of a results page. The brands that are cited today are training the defaults for tomorrow. This is not a panic. It is a window — and it is closing in the categories that matter.

Models compound trust

Once a model learns to cite you, that pattern reinforces across retrieval cycles.

Entity advantage is durable

A clean knowledge graph is harder to copy than a content calendar.

One client per market

We do not work with your competitors. Ever.

How AI citation actually works

Retrieval

Models pull a candidate set of sources from search, embeddings and their own index. If your site is not retrievable, nothing else matters.

Selection

From that set, the model picks the few sources it will quote. Selection rewards clarity, structure and corroboration.

Synthesis

The answer is composed from quoted fragments. Content written in answer form gets used; marketing prose gets summarized away.

Attribution

A small set of links is exposed to the user. This is the new top of funnel — and it is winner-take-most per query.

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Become the answer in your category.

We accept a small number of new retainers each quarter. If you intend to lead — not follow — start an application below.

Machine-readable

Built for both humans and models.

This site itself follows the practice it teaches. Clean schema, an answer-first information architecture, a maintained llms.txt, a working sitemap, and a sober robots.txt. Use it as a reference.