Laika · strategic & SEO consulting

AI Search · GEO

Be the answer when they ask about your category.

When your customer asks an AI, your brand has to be in the answer.

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Where

  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Claude
  • AI Overviews

What has changed

The search journey no longer ends in a click.

Before, you searched, clicked, landed on a site and decided. Today part of that decision happens before the click.

Your customer asks ChatGPT, compares in Perplexity, reads an AI summary in Google and arrives at a shortlist of brands without visiting a single site. If your brand isn't in that answer, you're not in the decision.

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GEO / AI SEARCH

What it is and how it works

GEO is improving how models retrieve, understand and recommend your brand.

GEO stands for generative engine optimisation, and it is also called AEO. Where SEO earns you rankings, GEO earns you citations, mentions and recommendations inside the answers AI generates.

It doesn't replace SEO, it builds on it. Without solid technical foundations, structured product data and real authority signals, a model has nowhere to retrieve you from. That explains why many brands with good organic traffic still don't appear when the question is asked in an assistant.

What a model looks at

  1. 01

    Where it retrieves you from

    The sources the model uses when it talks about your category, which are almost never just your own site.

  2. 02

    How it understands you

    Whether it knows what you sell, for whom and how you differ, or whether it mixes you up with a similar brand.

  3. 03

    When it recommends you

    Whether you appear when the question is informational, when it is already a buying one, or in neither.

How we work it

We start by measuring how models see you today and which sources they use when they talk about your category. From there we work the fronts your case needs. We don't attack every engine by default, we prioritise where your customer actually asks.

Engine by engine

Then the specific work depending on where your audience is. Each assistant picks its sources differently, so the plan is tuned engine by engine instead of repeating itself everywhere.

  • ChatGPTChatGPT
  • GeminiGemini
  • PerplexityPerplexity
  • AI OverviewsAI Overviews

How we measure it

AI visibility is not just being mentioned. We turn real search demand into natural prompts so we can track these signals over time and compare you with your competition.

  • 01

    Citations

    Whether you're used as a source of the answer, which is what indicates authority.

    It shows whether assistants trust your brand enough to support an answer.

    Tracked signal

  • 02

    Share

    How much you appear versus your competition on the same questions.

    It reveals whether your presence is growing or another brand owns the conversation.

    Tracked signal

  • 03

    Recommendation

    How often you get recommended when the customer is ready to choose.

    It shows whether you appear when the question already has commercial intent.

    Tracked signal

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Tell us what AI assistants say about your brand.

We ask for you, show you the real answer and tell you whether it's worth working on now or waiting.