05/06/2026
Your buyers have started asking AI before they ask Google.
When an ambitious operator in your category types a buying question into ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Mode, one of two things happens.
Either your brand is in the answer, or your competitor is.
Most brands have never checked which.
The document below is The Citation Surface Audit, the check we run to see whether AI search can actually see a brand, and what to fix when it cannot.
Read through, then run move one today: take the ten questions your buyers actually ask and put them into all three engines.
What comes back will tell you how much work H2 needs.
Save it for your next planning session.
Send it to the founder who still thinks SEO and AI search are the same job.