AI Search · GEO Advisory

When AI recommends someone in your category, is it you?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers are already naming businesses like yours. Advisory for brands that want to be the one named. Work directly with the operator who does this daily, not a deck and a junior team.

The Shift

The category recommendation moved from search results to a single answer.

A customer used to type a query, scan ten links, and pick. Now they ask an assistant "who's best for this," and it hands back one or two names. If you're not one of them, you don't lose position three. You lose the conversation entirely.

These systems don't rank you. They decide whether they trust you. That trust is built from signals: consistent identity across the web, clean structured data, third-party corroboration, and content that answers the real question. Miss those and the best product in the market stays invisible.

Most brands don't have a visibility problem. They have a legibility problem. The machine can't read them clearly enough to risk recommending them.

How We'd Work

Advisory that gets installed, not handed over.

This is one lane of my advisory work, run directly with you. No account-manager layer, no report that sits in a drawer.

01 · Diagnose

Where you actually stand

A live citation check across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI, benchmarked against your competitors. We find out what the machine currently believes about you, and where it's confused.

02 · Prioritize

A plan ordered by leverage

The fixes that move confidence most, sequenced first. Entity cleanup, structured data, corroboration, content that answers the question. Not a hundred tasks. The handful that matter.

03 · Install

Built with your team

We do the work alongside your people so the system stays after I'm gone. The goal is a brand that keeps earning recommendations without me in the room.

All of it runs on what I call the confidence engine: the loop where machine-readable structure, consistent identity, and corroborated authority feed each other until an AI system treats you as a safe recommendation.

FRDTLAB · The confidence engine

Who This Is For

For brands ready to be the answer.

  • Founders and CMOs who can see AI eating their top-of-funnel and want a real operator on it, not a wait-and-see memo.
  • E-commerce and service brands whose customers already ask AI for recommendations, where being left out of the answer costs real revenue.
  • Teams with SEO in place who know the ground has shifted and need someone who's already living on the new ground.

If you want a slide deck about where search is heading, I'm not your person. If you want the work done with you, keep reading.

Client Story

What it looks like on the ground.

Audrey's Laundry & Cleaning is a local service business in Washington Township and Romeo, Michigan. The work: make a small operation legible to AI search, so when someone nearby asks an assistant where to take their laundry, the business is in the answer instead of nowhere. Same five signals, applied to a company most people would say is too small to bother.

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Proof

Someone who does this for a living.

I run AI search daily inside a real e-commerce catalog and with businesses on the ground, and I speak on this work at the industry's main stages. This isn't commentary from the sidelines.

6x · PPC Hero Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts
TrueClicks Top 50 PPC Experts · 2024 · 2025
Ragan / PR Daily Top Women in Marketing, 2024 · Agency Leader
Stages: SMX · SMX Advanced 2026 · brightonSEO · Pubcon · Hero Conf · MnSearch
Bylines: Search Engine Land · MarTech
Based: Detroit, Michigan · working everywhere

Twenty years of doing the work. Not narrating it.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What does an AI search consultant actually do?

Makes your brand legible and trustworthy to AI systems so they recommend you when someone asks a question in your category. That means fixing entity consistency, structured data, corroborated authority, and content that answers the real question, then measuring where you show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI.

How is GEO different from SEO?

SEO earns a ranking. GEO earns a recommendation. AI systems don't hand back ten links; they give one answer and maybe two names. GEO builds the confidence signals that put you in that answer. It sits on top of solid SEO, it doesn't replace it.

Do you work with my industry or platform?

The levers are system-level, so they apply across e-commerce, local service, B2B, and professional services, and across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and whatever ships next. The work is tailored to your category and your data.

What does engaging look like?

It starts on the Work With Me page with a short intake. From there it's advisory: a diagnosis of where you stand, a prioritized plan ordered by leverage, and hands-on work with your team to install it. Built with you, not handed over as a report.

I'm not sure I'm ready. Where do I start?

The free AI Visibility Scorecard tells you where you stand in two minutes. If the gap is clear and you want it closed with you, the advisory door is open.

Be the answer

The brands getting recommended started before it was obvious.

Two minutes to see where you stand. One conversation to close the gap.

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