Get your business recommended by AI

When millions ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude for recommendations – your business needs to be in the answer. We aim to make that happen.

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Senior strategists, not account managers. Measurable AI visibility, not vague promises. Straight talk, not jargon.

We’ve built the processes, monitoring tools, and content strategies that get businesses recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. If you’re ready to move first, let’s talk.

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The Next Search Engine Already Exists

Millions of people now ask ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity instead of typing into a search bar. When someone asks an AI "who's the best provider of X in my area?" — your business needs to be in the answer.

AI Optimization is the practice of positioning your brand, your content, and your authority so that large language models cite, recommend, and reference your business. This isn't a future trend — it's happening right now, and the businesses that move first will dominate.

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How We Get Your Business Cited by AI

AI models don't rank pages — they synthesise information and cite sources they trust. Getting cited requires a fundamentally different approach to traditional SEO.

LLM-Optimized Content

AI models favor content that is well-structured, factually authoritative, and clearly answers specific questions. We create and restructure your content so LLMs can easily parse, understand, and reference it — including clear definitions, structured data, direct answers, and comprehensive topic coverage.

  • Question-and-answer formatted content that mirrors how people prompt AI
  • Structured data & schema markup optimized for AI crawlers
  • Comprehensive topical coverage that establishes authority
  • Clear, factual, citable statements LLMs can directly reference
  • Content architecture designed for AI parsing, not just Google crawling

Citation Building

LLMs learn from the web. The more your brand is mentioned, cited, and referenced across authoritative sources, the more likely AI models are to recommend you.

  • Digital PR placements in publications LLMs crawl
  • Brand mentions across authoritative industry sources
  • Expert commentary & thought leadership distribution
  • Wikipedia, knowledge graph & reference source optimization

Google AI Overviews

Google's search results are increasingly dominated by AI-generated overview panels. We optimize your content to appear in these zero-click answers.

  • Featured snippet & AI Overview targeting
  • Structured content optimized for answer extraction
  • E-E-A-T signals that Google's AI trusts
  • Source attribution optimization

Monitoring & Measurement

This is a new frontier, and most agencies can't tell you if their work is actually landing. We've built monitoring processes that track your brand's visibility across AI platforms — so you can see tangible results, not just promises.

  • Brand mention tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity
  • Competitor AI visibility benchmarking
  • Citation frequency & sentiment analysis
  • Google AI Overview appearance tracking
  • Monthly reporting on AI visibility alongside traditional SEO metrics

Your AI Optimization Roadmap

AI optimization is a new discipline, but our approach is proven and structured. Click each phase to see what happens.

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AI Audit
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Strategy
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Content
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Citations
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Technical
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Measure

AI Visibility Audit Month 1

Before we optimize anything, we need to understand where your brand currently stands across the AI landscape. This isn't a traditional SEO audit — it's a fundamentally different analysis.

LLM Brand Testing

We systematically query ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and other major AI platforms with hundreds of prompts relevant to your business. Who do they recommend? Do they know you exist? What do they say about you versus competitors? This gives us a clear baseline.

AI Overview Analysis

We analyze which of your target keywords trigger Google AI Overviews, who currently appears in those overviews, and what content formats Google's AI is pulling from. This tells us exactly where the opportunities are.

Content Citability Assessment

We audit your existing content through the lens of an AI model. Is it structured in a way LLMs can parse? Does it contain clear, citable statements? Does it demonstrate the authority signals that make AI models trust a source? Most websites fail this assessment — and that's exactly where the opportunity lies.

Competitor AI Positioning

We map how your competitors appear across AI platforms. Who gets cited? For which queries? What content and authority signals are driving their visibility? This competitive intelligence shapes our entire strategy.

AI Optimization Strategy Month 1–2

Based on the audit, we build a comprehensive strategy that spans content, technical, and authority-building — all designed to make your brand the one AI models trust and recommend.

Platform Prioritisation

Not every AI platform matters equally for every business. We identify which platforms your target audience actually uses and prioritize accordingly — whether that's ChatGPT for consumer queries, Perplexity for research-heavy buyers, or Google AI Overviews for search-driven traffic.

Content Roadmap

We map out exactly what content needs to be created, restructured, or enhanced to maximize AI citability. This includes new LLM-optimized pages, FAQ restructuring, schema implementation, and authority content that AI models will reference.

Citation Strategy

A detailed plan for building the external authority signals that make LLMs trust your brand — digital PR targets, expert commentary placements, knowledge base contributions, and brand mention campaigns.

Your Sign-Off

Nothing happens without your approval. You'll see the full strategy, understand the reasoning behind every recommendation, and shape the plan before we execute.

LLM Content Creation & Optimization Months 2–6+

Content is the foundation of AI visibility. We create and restructure content specifically designed to be picked up, parsed, and cited by AI models.

Answer-First Content

LLMs look for clear, direct answers to specific questions. We create content that leads with definitive statements, provides comprehensive context, and structures information in a way AI models can easily extract and reference.

Existing Content Restructuring

Your best existing content is likely buried in formats LLMs struggle with. We restructure it — adding clear headings, direct answers, structured data, and citable statements — without losing your brand voice or SEO value.

Thought Leadership & Expert Content

AI models weight authoritative sources heavily. We help you create genuine thought leadership content — original research, expert guides, industry analysis — that establishes your brand as the authority LLMs should reference.

In-House Writing Team

All content is written by our in-house team. No offshore outsourcing, no AI-generated filler. Real writers who understand both SEO and the emerging requirements of AI optimization.

Citation Building & Authority Months 2–6+

LLMs learn from the web. The more your brand is mentioned, cited, and referenced across authoritative sources, the more likely AI models are to recommend you in their responses.

Digital PR for AI Visibility

Traditional digital PR earns backlinks. Our AI-focused PR campaigns earn brand mentions and citations on the specific types of publications that LLMs crawl and weight heavily — industry publications, news sites, educational resources, and reference materials.

Expert Commentary & Thought Leadership Distribution

We position your team as experts in your industry by placing commentary, quotes, and analysis in publications that AI models reference. This builds the authority signals that make LLMs trust your brand.

Knowledge Base & Reference Optimization

Wikipedia, industry wikis, professional directories, and other reference sources carry enormous weight with AI models. We ensure your brand's presence across these platforms is accurate, comprehensive, and optimized.

Brand Mention Monitoring

We track every mention of your brand across the web and identify opportunities to strengthen, correct, or expand your presence in the sources AI models rely on.

Technical AI Optimization Months 1–3

Beyond content, there are technical signals that influence how AI models discover, parse, and trust your website.

Structured Data & Schema

We implement comprehensive schema markup — Organization, Product, FAQ, HowTo, LocalBusiness, and more — giving AI models clean, structured data they can directly reference. This is one of the highest-impact technical interventions for AI visibility.

AI Crawler Access

Some websites inadvertently block AI crawlers through robots.txt, rendering issues, or JavaScript-heavy architectures. We ensure your content is fully accessible to the crawlers that feed AI training data and retrieval systems.

Content Architecture

We restructure your site architecture to support topical authority — clear topic clusters, logical internal linking, and content hierarchies that signal deep expertise to both search engines and AI models.

Page Experience & E-E-A-T Signals

Author bios, credentials, publication dates, editorial standards, clear sourcing — the trust signals that influence both Google's AI Overviews and third-party LLMs. We ensure your site communicates authority at every level.

Measurement & Reporting Monthly, Ongoing

AI optimization is only valuable if you can measure its impact. We've built monitoring processes specifically for this emerging channel.

AI Platform Monitoring

Regular, systematic querying of major AI platforms to track how often your brand is mentioned, recommended, and cited — and how this changes over time. We benchmark against competitors so you can see your relative positioning.

Google AI Overview Tracking

We track which of your keywords trigger AI Overviews, whether your content appears as a source, and how this affects your overall organic traffic and click-through rates.

Gorilla Reports

AI visibility metrics integrated into your existing Gorilla Reports alongside traditional SEO and PPC data — giving you a single view of your entire digital presence.

Strategy Reviews

Regular calls to review AI visibility progress, discuss emerging developments in the AI landscape, and adapt strategy as platforms evolve. This is a fast-moving space — we stay ahead of the curve so you don't have to.

We See Exactly Which AI Bots Are Crawling Your Site

We built a proprietary crawler analysis tool that sits on your server and monitors every AI bot that visits your website — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Meta AI, PerplexityBot, and more. This isn't guesswork. It's real server log data.

Gorilla Crawler Intelligence
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Gorilla Crawler Intelligence — Overview dashboard showing total crawler hits, AI crawler hits, search crawler hits, and daily crawler activity chart
Gorilla Crawler Intelligence — Hourly distribution, AI vs Search vs Tools breakdown, crawler leaderboard, and HTTP status codes
Gorilla Crawler Intelligence — Most crawled pages vs AI crawler focus pages comparison

Why This Matters

Most businesses have no idea that AI bots are already crawling their website — and they have zero visibility into what those bots are looking at, how often they visit, or whether they're even getting access. Our Crawler Intelligence tool changes that completely. By analysing raw server logs, we give you a clear picture of every AI and search crawler hitting your site — and use that data to inform your entire AI optimization strategy.

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AI Bot Identification

We identify and track every AI crawler — GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), Google-Extended (Gemini), Meta AI, PerplexityBot, and others — so you know exactly who's consuming your content.

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Crawl Frequency & Trends

Daily activity charts showing how often each AI crawler visits, when they're most active, and whether crawl frequency is increasing or declining over time — a leading indicator of AI visibility.

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Page-Level Intelligence

See exactly which pages AI bots focus on versus traditional search crawlers. This tells us what content AI models are consuming — and what they're ignoring — so we can optimize accordingly.

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Access & Status Monitoring

HTTP status code analysis ensures AI crawlers are getting clean 200 responses, not blocked by robots.txt misconfigurations, 403 errors, or server issues that silently kill your AI visibility.

AI vs Search vs SEO Tools

Proportional breakdown of AI crawlers versus traditional search bots versus SEO tools — giving you a clear picture of how the crawler landscape is shifting toward AI.

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Strategic Optimization

All this data feeds directly into your AI optimization strategy — ensuring we focus effort on the pages AI bots actually care about and fix issues that prevent them accessing your content.

The Platforms Your Customers Are Using

AI-powered search and answer engines are growing exponentially. These are the platforms we optimize for — and the ones your competitors are already ignoring.

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ChatGPT

The world's most popular AI assistant. Hundreds of millions of users asking it for recommendations, research, and advice every day.

300M+
Weekly Active Users

Google Gemini

Built directly into Google Search through AI Overviews. Reshaping how billions of searches display results and attribute sources.

90%+
Search Market Share

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant, rapidly growing in enterprise and professional use. Increasingly used for research, analysis, and procurement decisions.

Fast Growing
Enterprise Adoption

Perplexity

The AI-native search engine. Answers questions with cited sources — making source visibility critical for brands.

100M+
Monthly Searches

AI Visibility Reporting That Actually Proves Impact

Most agencies can't measure AI optimization results. We've built monitoring and reporting processes that give you tangible proof your investment is working.

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Measurable AI Visibility

AI citation tracking, brand mention monitoring, Google AI Overview appearances, and competitive benchmarking — all pulled into your Gorilla Reports alongside traditional SEO and PPC metrics.

  • LLM citation tracking — systematic monitoring of how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity reference your brand
  • Google AI Overview tracking — which keywords trigger AI Overviews and whether your content appears as a source
  • Competitive AI benchmarking — see how your AI visibility compares to competitors across every platform
  • Brand mention monitoring — real-time tracking of brand mentions across sources that feed AI training data
  • Citation sentiment analysis — not just whether you're mentioned, but how AI models describe and recommend your business
  • Gorilla Analytics — proprietary platform with heatmaps, session recordings, and full visitor tracking alongside GA4
  • Integrated reporting — AI visibility metrics alongside your SEO and PPC data in one comprehensive report

Most Agencies Haven't Even Started

AI optimization is a new frontier. Most agencies are still figuring out what it means. We've already built the processes, the monitoring tools, and the strategies that deliver results.

Capability Typical SEO Agency AI Consultancy Gorilla Marketing
LLM-Optimized Content CreationAdvise Only
AI Citation Building
Google AI Overview OptimizationBasic
Multi-Platform AI MonitoringManual
Traditional SEO Expertise
PPC & Paid Media IntegrationLimited
In-House Content Team
Proprietary Reporting Platform
No Lock-In ContractsVaries
Schema & Structured Data ExpertiseBasicAdvise Only

AI Optimization That Speaks Your Language

AI visibility matters across every industry. The businesses that move first in their sector will establish a compounding advantage that late movers will struggle to close.

Got Questions? We've Got Answers

Straight-talking answers to the questions we hear most often about AI optimization. This is a new space — it's normal to have questions.

AI Optimization — sometimes called LLM SEO, Generative Engine Optimization, or Answer Engine Optimization — is the practice of positioning your brand, content, and authority so that AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity cite, recommend, and reference your business when users ask relevant questions. It's a fundamentally different discipline to traditional SEO. Search engines rank pages in a list. AI models synthesise information from across the web and cite the sources they trust most. Getting your business into those AI-generated answers requires a different content strategy, a different authority-building approach, and a different way of thinking about visibility.
Yes, fundamentally. SEO optimizes your website to rank in a list of search results. AI Optimization positions your brand to be cited and recommended by AI models that synthesise information from across the web. There's significant overlap — authoritative content, strong backlink profiles, and technical excellence benefit both. But AI optimization also requires LLM-specific content formatting, citation building across sources AI models weight heavily, structured data optimized for AI parsing, and monitoring across multiple AI platforms. The smartest approach is running both together — your SEO strengthens your AI visibility, and your AI optimization work feeds back into stronger SEO performance. We do both in-house, so the two disciplines reinforce each other.
Yes — and the earlier you move, the bigger the advantage. ChatGPT has over 300 million weekly active users. Google AI Overviews now appear in a significant and growing percentage of search results. Perplexity is growing rapidly as a search alternative. People are increasingly making purchase decisions, shortlisting providers, and researching options through AI platforms rather than traditional search. The businesses that establish their authority and visibility in AI responses now will compound that advantage over time — just as the early movers in SEO a decade ago built positions that latecomers still struggle to match. The cost of waiting is that your competitors establish themselves as the trusted source while you're invisible.
AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are trained on vast amounts of web data and use retrieval-augmented generation to pull in current information. They favor sources that demonstrate authority, trustworthiness, and relevance. In practice, this means brands that are frequently mentioned and positively cited across authoritative publications, that have well-structured and factually comprehensive content, that demonstrate genuine expertise through original research and thought leadership, and that have strong technical foundations including proper schema markup. It's similar to E-E-A-T in SEO, but applied across the entire web presence rather than just your website. The more your brand appears as a trusted source across the web, the more likely AI models are to cite you.
No — and anyone who guarantees specific AI appearances is either lying or doesn't understand how these models work. AI responses are probabilistic, context-dependent, and change with model updates. What we can guarantee is a proven process that systematically increases the signals AI models use to determine who to cite and recommend. We build your authority, optimize your content for AI citability, and monitor results across every major platform. Our clients consistently see their AI visibility improve over time — moving from invisible to occasionally mentioned to frequently recommended. We track this transparently and report on progress monthly.
Google AI Overviews can show improvements relatively quickly — typically within two to four months as we optimize your content structure and featured snippet targeting. Third-party LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude work differently. Changes to your web presence influence AI responses over time as models are updated and retrieval systems crawl new content. Most clients start seeing measurable improvements in AI citations within three to six months, with significant progress by months six to twelve. The timeline depends on your starting point, the competitiveness of your market, and how much existing authority you have. Like SEO, this is a compounding investment — the work we do in year one continues building your AI visibility in year two and beyond.
We've built structured monitoring processes specifically for this. We systematically query major AI platforms with hundreds of prompts relevant to your business on a regular cadence, tracking whether your brand is mentioned, how it's described, and how this changes over time. For Google AI Overviews, we track which keywords trigger overviews and whether your content appears as a cited source. We benchmark all of this against your competitors so you can see your relative positioning. This data is integrated into your Gorilla Reports alongside traditional metrics. It's not as clean as tracking keyword rankings in Google — the AI landscape is more nuanced — but our approach gives you genuine, measurable insight into your AI visibility progress.
This is a common concern, and the answer is nuanced. Google AI Overviews can reduce click-through rates on some queries — if someone gets the answer directly in the AI Overview, they may not click through to your website. But here's the important part: if your content is the cited source in that AI Overview, your brand is still getting the visibility and credibility. And the work that makes your content appear in AI Overviews also strengthens your traditional organic rankings. The businesses most at risk from AI Overviews are those who aren't optimising for them — they lose both the click and the citation. Our approach ensures that even as search behavior evolves, your brand maintains visibility whether users click through or consume the AI-generated answer.
It can, but it works best alongside SEO. There's significant overlap between what makes AI models cite your brand and what makes Google rank your website — authoritative content, strong external mentions, proper technical implementation, and genuine expertise. Running both together means each discipline strengthens the other. That said, if you already have strong SEO and want to specifically target AI visibility, we can run AI Optimization as a focused add-on or standalone service. We'll assess your situation and recommend the approach that makes the most sense for your business.
Every campaign is custom, so there's no one-size-fits-all price. The investment depends on your goals, the competitiveness of your market, how much existing authority you have, and whether AI Optimization is running alongside an SEO or PPC campaign. We'll never quote you without first auditing your current AI visibility, researching your competitive landscape, and understanding what it will take to achieve your goals. What we can promise is complete transparency — you'll know exactly what you're paying for, what work is being done, and how it's impacting your results.
We kick off with a discovery call to understand your business, goals, and priorities. From there, we conduct a comprehensive AI visibility audit — systematically testing your brand across every major AI platform, analysing your content's citability, mapping your competitor positioning, and assessing your Google AI Overview opportunities. This forms the foundation of your custom strategy. You'll be assigned a dedicated strategist who'll walk you through our findings, present a clear roadmap, and get your sign-off before any work begins. Once approved, we move into content creation, technical optimization, and citation building — with regular updates and strategy calls throughout.
We offer a standalone AI visibility audit for businesses that want to understand where they stand before committing to a campaign. We'll test your brand across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity, analyze your content's AI citability, and benchmark you against your key competitors. It's a useful starting point whether you work with us now, later, or not at all. Give us a call on 0161 850 3963 or drop us a message — we're always happy to talk through your options.