Get found
by AI.
Not an agency reciting best practices. I run the SEO for a real family shop, and I publish the export every time it gets cited. With receipts.
The scanner is free and takes no email. Audits start at $75 and are scoped before you pay.
Real numbers.
What I did for one real family shop →
Real data from a real family shop (Krafty Bandit, a small boutique). It is my mother's shop, I am not paid by it, and I did the work myself. "Cited" means AI answers pulled from the shop's pages on how-to queries (Microsoft Clarity AI Visibility export, 6/10 to 7/23/26, Microsoft Copilot and partner surfaces only, not ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overviews). Those citations drove under 1% of sessions: cited is not visited, and I track them as separate scoreboards. Merchant Center approval went from 0 of 1,795 products to the full catalog on 6/16 to 6/17/26; the prior state was "Limited", not "rejected". Sales grew too, but attribution is multi-causal, so I don't claim that. Corrections get published rather than edited out of the record: see llms.txt.
Or have me do it
AI SEO and ecommerce SEO for small businesses: get found in Google and in AI answers, with real receipts.
The classic work still runs underneath: keyword research, on-page and technical SEO, local SEO, the search engine optimization that grows organic traffic. The new work sits on top: getting the same store named inside the answer itself. I do both on a real shop and publish what happens, including the engines where nobody can show you a number yet.
Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization, GEO and AEO, for people who run a real business rather than an enterprise. AI search visibility for local shops and Shopify stores, done with receipts.
Eight services, from $75, priced on the size of the site and how much is already broken. Scoped before you pay. I will tell you if you do not need me yet.
The tool I prospect with, open sourced
Assay grades a business's AI readiness from their own page source, then refuses to build the outreach packet until you have recomputed the findings from source you pasted yourself.
Six deterministic checks. MIT licensed. Source only, no packaged build. Nothing in it sends.
The free guides
The method in plain English, no email wall. Start at the top.
What is GEO? A plain-English guide for small business owners
What AI engines actually cite, why more than 80% of a real shop's citations came from just two guide pages, and the six-move playbook.
Read the GEO guide →Can AI read your store? The 10-minute check
Five real questions, your robots.txt, one product page, one machine-read. Find out whether ChatGPT can even see your business.
Run the 10-minute check →Set up your measurement stack in 30 minutes
GSC, Bing, Clarity, and GA4 with an AI-referral channel group, installed before you write a word of content. All free.
Install the stack →The build, on camera
Every video teaches one concrete thing you can go do, backed by a real store instead of a slide deck.
I Built a Team of AI Employees to Run My Mom's Shopify Store
Google had approved zero of her 1,795 products. The whole catalog went live in a weekend, and AI answer engines cited the shop 143 times between June 10 and July 23 on $0 in ads. The full build, including what flopped, drops as video #1.
Can AI Even Read Your Store? Check Yours in 10 Minutes
9 Things I Made Claude Do for a Real Shopify Store
I Ran a Fortune-500 SEO Playbook on My Mom's Tiny Shop
I don't teach GEO from a whiteboard. I do it to a real store, and I show you the receipts, good and bad.
I run the search and AI-visibility work for my mom's boutique, Krafty Bandit. Real Shopify store, real products, real customers. I rebuilt its data, its schema, and its content until AI answer engines started citing it, and I documented every step, including the parts that didn't work.
Most people teaching "get found by AI" have never done it to a business they actually own. That gap is the whole reason this channel exists. If a strategy can't survive contact with a real shop and a real budget, I'm not going to hand it to you.
Receipts, in writing
GEO, AEO and search, tested on a real shop and written up so you and the AI crawlers can both read it.
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Read →Questions owners actually ask
Short answers, first sentence first. These are the questions small business owners bring me most. Nineteen more on the FAQ page.
What is the difference between GEO and SEO?
SEO gets you ranked in a list of links. GEO gets you named in the answer itself. Classic SEO optimizes for Google's ten blue links; GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) optimizes for the single answer that ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google's AI gives when someone asks a question. You still need both: the AI engines learn who you are from the same web the search engines crawl.
What is GEO? What is AEO?
GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization: making your business visible in the answers AI engines generate. AEO stands for Answer Engine Optimization: structuring your content so answer engines can quote it directly. In practice they overlap almost completely, and both come down to the same work: let the AI crawlers read you, tell them plainly who you are and what you sell, and get named in the places they already trust.
Can AI responses really be influenced?
Yes, and you can watch it happen. AI engines recommend businesses they can read and that other sources they trust talk about. Allow their crawlers, publish clear facts about your business in structured form, and get named in the articles, lists, and communities the engines cite. I did this for my family's Shopify shop and logged every citation as it landed. What you cannot do is trick an engine into loving you. The work is visibility, not manipulation.
Why does my business need local SEO if customers use AI now?
Because the AI engines learn about local businesses from local sources: your Google Business Profile, reviews, directories, and local press. When someone asks an AI "best donut shop near me," the engine assembles its answer from those signals. Weak local SEO means the AI has nothing to recite about you. Local SEO used to be about ranking on a map. Now it also decides whether you exist in the answer.
How do I get my store cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity?
Three moves, in order. First, plumbing: make sure your robots.txt does not block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot, and add Organization, Product, FAQPage, and review schema to your store. Second, clarity: say what you sell in plain words on your homepage, the words a customer would type. Third, presence: get your store named in the third-party pages the engines already cite, because engines recommend who others vouch for. The first two you can finish in a week. The third is the ongoing work, and it is the part that moves recommendations. Start with the free AI Readiness Scanner to see which you are missing.
Steal the playbook.
The real GEO/AEO checklist I run on live stores, plus Candor, the free Claude "AI employee" team from the launch video. No fluff, no theory. Get it first, straight to your inbox.