AI Visibility

Can AI actually find your business?

Google is not the only front door anymore. People ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's own AI for recommendations now, and if those answers never mention you, you do not exist to them. That is your AI visibility. Here is how to check yours, and what to do about it.

By Fordee · Updated June 2026

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Drop in your site and see your AI visibility in about 60 seconds, how findable you are to Google and AI. The full picture comes in the audit below.

What is SEO?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the work of making your website easy for search engines like Google to find, understand, and trust, so the people already searching for what you do land on you instead of a competitor.

Good SEO is not tricks or magic words. It is a fast, clean site, clear answers to the questions your customers actually ask, and content that earns its spot. Do that, and Google has every reason to show you to the people looking.

What is GEO?

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the same job, but for AI. It is structuring your site so AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews can read it, trust it, and quote you when someone asks them a question.

Here is the difference that matters: SEO gets you into the list of blue links. GEO gets you into the answer the AI hands someone before they ever click a link. Same goal, get found, but a different judge deciding whether you show up.

GEO vs SEO, side by side

They overlap a lot under the hood. A site built right for one is most of the way to the other. But they are not the same, and the gap is where most businesses are invisible right now.

	SEO	GEO
Who you optimize for	Search engines (Google, Bing)	AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity)
What winning looks like	Ranking in the list of links	Getting named in the AI's answer
What moves the needle	Keywords, speed, links	Clear facts, structure AI can quote, being a known name
Where the person ends up	On your site, hopefully	Reading an answer that may never link you

Why this matters right now

This is not a someday thing. It already happened, fast.

900M+

ChatGPT's weekly users as of early 2026, by OpenAI's own count. People are asking it the questions they used to type into Google.

~16%

of Google searches showed an AI Overview by late 2025, the AI answer parked at the top of the results, after peaking near 25% mid-year. (Semrush, 2025)

68%

of US Google searches ended without a single click in early 2026. The answer is right there, so nobody scrolls. (SparkToro / Similarweb, 2026)

Add it up and the picture is simple: a growing chunk of people get their answer without ever visiting a website. If the AI does not know who you are, you are not in the running. That is the whole game GEO is playing, and it is early enough that showing up now, while your competitors are still figuring it out, is a real edge.

Questions I get

Do you actually do this, or just talk about it?

Both. SEO and GEO are two of the nine things FordeeTV does, and yes, I will do them for you, not just hand you a list.

One-line difference between SEO and GEO?

SEO gets you into Google's list of links. GEO gets you into the answer the AI gives before anyone clicks a link.

How do I find out if AI can find my business?

Get an audit. I check whether search engines and AI can actually read, trust, and recommend your site, then hand you a score and a prioritized list of what to fix first.

What's in the audit?

Four things: the technical setup (can crawlers and AI even read you), your content (is there anything worth quoting), your structured data (the machine-readable labels AI leans on), and your brand signals (does AI know you're real). I also ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI what your customers ask, and show you what comes up. You get a score and a ranked list of what to fix first.

Can you fix what you find?

Yes, but that's separate from the audit. The $297 gets you the diagnosis and the ranked plan. If you want me to do the fixes, I'll quote that after, and I'll put your audit fee toward it.

Do I still need GEO if my SEO is good?

You're probably ahead already, since a lot overlaps. But AI judges a few things SEO never cared about, so there's usually a gap worth closing.

Your full AI visibility audit

Curious whether Google and the AIs can actually find you? I will run a full AI visibility audit on your site, scoring your technical setup, content, structured data, and brand signals. I will also ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI the questions your customers actually ask, and show you whether you come up, and who does instead. You get a clear PDF report with your score and a ranked fix list.

Not ready for that? Just tell me what you're building and we'll talk. Start a project →

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