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“I’d shortlist these three:
1.2 billion people use ChatGPT every week1, and it doesn’t answer with a page of links. It answers with a shortlist. Fill in the blanks, ask it yourself, and see who it sends your buyers to.
Ask ChatGPT now ↗or ask Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Copilot or Claude
takes 10 seconds. no sign-up, nothing sent to us.Afflatus is an AI visibility and automation studio. We get businesses named, cited and chosen by AI assistants — then automate what happens when the inquiry lands.
For twenty years, being found meant ranking on a page of links. Now your buyers ask a question and get one answer: three or four names, with reasons. If you’re on that shortlist, you’re in the deal. If you’re not, you never hear the deal existed.
| 1.2 bn | people use ChatGPT every week.1 | OpenAI, Nov 2026 |
| −58% | clicks on Google’s top organic result when an AI Overview appears.3 | Ahrefs |
| 11% | of what ChatGPT cites is also cited by Perplexity. Winning one engine doesn’t win the others.4 | Wellows |
| 2 in 3 | cited pages were replaced within 28 days. Visibility is maintained, not finished.5 | Digital Authority Partners |
Third-party studies differ in method. We quote them as direction, not as a promise about your market. Every numbered claim on this page is sourced at the foot of the page.
A new Business Hub lets companies claim their profile, correct their details, add product feeds — and see how often ChatGPT mentions them and how many people click through. US online businesses can also publish a branded Business Agent.1
a dashboard, not a shortcutOpenAI says claiming doesn’t guarantee better placement.2 But now you can see the numbers. How to claim yours →
Self-serve ads reached 31 European markets in August, on top of the US. They run on the Free and Go plans. OpenAI states that ads don’t influence what ChatGPT answers.26
you can’t buy the answerPaid and earned visibility now sit side by side. You need a plan for both.
Search Console gained a generative AI performance report covering AI Overviews and AI Mode. Bing Webmaster Tools has reported Copilot citations since February.8
most have never opened itFirst-party data exists now. Few companies have looked at theirs.
Google’s first official guide says its AI features need no special files, markup or “AI rewriting” — only helpful, crawlable, trustworthy pages.7
true — for GoogleChatGPT and Perplexity draw on very different sources. One playbook isn’t enough.
Most businesses haven’t looked at any of this yet. That is the window.
See where you stand →Being recommended is half the job. The other half is what happens when the inquiry lands. We fix both — which is why the results show up in revenue, not only in reports.
Before you ask what this costs, work out what it is worth. These are your numbers, not ours. Change them.
This is arithmetic, not a forecast. Nobody has a reliable figure for how many buyers in your market ask AI first, so the third line is your own estimate. Whatever the total, it is the part of your pipeline decided in answers you have probably never read.
No discovery retainers, no hourly billing. You get the scope, the date and the price in writing before we start, usually within 48 hours of a first call.
| Engagement | What you get | Time | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
AI Visibility AuditWhat AI says about you today, and exactly what to fix first. |
60+ buyer prompts across five engines · share of voice against three competitors · accuracy check · technical, content and source gap analysis · prioritized 90-day roadmap · 60-minute walkthrough. | 10 working days | Get the audit → |
Visibility SprintThe first 90 days of your roadmap, done for you. |
Audit included · profiles and facts corrected · 8–12 key pages rebuilt to be quoted · structured data and crawl access · third-party source plan started · dashboard and before/after report. | 6 weeks | Plan a sprint → |
ChatGPT Business Hub setupYour profile claimed, verified and filled in properly. |
Eligibility check · profile copy and policies written to be quoted · guided claim and identity verification · product feed built to spec · baseline of what ChatGPT says today · first insights readout. | 1–2 weeks | See the guide → |
Automation BuildOne high-payback workflow or agent, live on your stack. |
Opportunity-mapping workshop · payback estimate before we build · build, testing and guardrails · documentation and team handover · monitoring · 30 days of support. | 3–6 weeks | Scope a build → |
Studio PartnerVisibility and automation, improved every month. |
Monthly tracking and reporting · continuous content and source work · new automations and improvements · ChatGPT Ads set-up on request · quarterly strategy review. | Monthly, min. 3 months | Let’s talk → |
The audit fee is credited in full against a Visibility Sprint started within 30 days of delivery.
We test the questions your buyers actually ask, in every major assistant. You get the prompts, the raw answers and a scorecard.
Profiles claimed, facts consistent, pages crawlable and clearly structured. Machines can’t recommend what they can’t read.
We build the pages worth quoting and the outside evidence that AI answers are assembled from.
Replies, qualification and reporting get automated, so a recommendation becomes a booked conversation.
Sources shift every month. We re-test, adjust and keep you in the answer.
Not us, and not anyone who says they do. We promise the work, the measurement and the truth about what moved.
No hidden text, no prompt injection, no mass-produced filler. It puts your name at risk. An llms.txt file takes ten minutes; we won’t bill a retainer for it.
You see the prompts we ran, the answers we got and the before and after, in language you can take to your board.
These are the questions your buyers are most likely to ask. Three never mention your name: they show whether AI recommends you unprompted. Open each one in any assistant, then tick what you saw.
Tick what you saw and your score appears here.
Most agencies selling “AI visibility” are SEO shops with a new label. I came at it from the other side.
For years I’ve built AI automation and orchestration for businesses: finding the gap between what a company does by hand and what a well-designed system could do for it, then shipping that system. The assistants now deciding who gets recommended are the same models I build with every day. I know how they retrieve, weigh and cite information.
So Afflatus treats visibility like engineering. Measure. Change one thing. Measure again. No magic, no theater — and you work directly with the person doing the work.
Ghazal Randhawa · Founder, Afflatus StudioGenerative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) are two names for the same job: making sure AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Mode can find, understand and recommend your business when people ask them questions.
The foundations are shared, and Google itself says optimizing for its AI features is still SEO. But assistants draw on different sources, lean heavily on third-party mentions, and each engine cites different sites. Ranking on Google no longer means you appear in the answer. We treat SEO as the floor, not the ceiling.
No — and be careful with anyone who says they can. Nobody can buy or force a place in an AI answer, and OpenAI states that claiming a business profile doesn’t guarantee placement.2 We measure where you stand, fix what holds you back and show you the change over time.
We track a fixed set of buyer prompts across the major assistants and report mentions, citations, share of voice against competitors and accuracy. Where available we add first-party data: OpenAI’s Business Hub, Google Search Console’s generative AI report, Bing’s AI Performance report and your own analytics.
Technical and profile fixes can show up within weeks on assistants that search the live web. Building third-party authority takes longer — plan in quarters, not days. The audit tells you which is which for your market.
Yes, as part of a wider engagement. Ads and organic answers are separate systems — OpenAI states that ads don’t influence answers — so we treat ads as an accelerator, not a substitute for being genuinely recommendable.
If an inquiry waits two days for a reply, the recommendation was wasted. We build the agents and workflows that respond, qualify and follow up, so visibility turns into revenue. Many clients come to us for automation alone.
Established B2B companies, professional-services firms, e-commerce and software businesses with a clear offer and the will to act on findings. Every engagement has a fixed scope and a fixed quote, agreed in writing before we start. Most clients begin with the audit.
Yes. We prepare the profile, guide you through the claim and identity check, build the product feed and read the first insights with you. One thing to know first: claiming doesn’t make ChatGPT recommend you more often.2 Read the step-by-step guide.
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