You’ve done the SEO work. You rank on Google. Then you ask ChatGPT to recommend a product in your category, and your brand simply isn’t there — while a smaller competitor is. This is the moment most e-commerce founders start asking about “AI visibility,” and it’s worth slowing down to actually understand what’s happening before…
Most guides on “author entity optimization” are written for two kinds of people: journalists at large publishers, and founders with a PR retainer. Neither describes the reality for most independent consultants, solo agency owners, or freelancers building a name on Upwork and LinkedIn. You don’t have a comms team. You probably don’t have a Wikipedia…
Quick Answer You can verify your brand’s AI citation status for free by manually running a fixed set of brand, category, and comparison prompts inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, then logging whether your brand is mentioned, linked, or cited as a source. Repeat weekly using the same prompts to track change over time. Why…