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    How it works

    From invisible to cited: how AI decides which brands to name

    Scroll through the journey a brand takes from absent to referenced in AI answers, and where each Ranketize service does its work. Directional methods, honestly measured.

    01 - The shift

    Buyers ask AI first now

    ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are where shortlists get made. The question is no longer whether you show up on page one - it is whether AI names you at all.

    37%of active AI users start with AI
    220Mprojected paying AI users by 2030
    780Mqueries in May 2025 (Perplexity)

    Sources: Search Engine Land · Reuters · TechCrunch

    02 - The mechanism

    AI reads sources, not ads

    Assistants assemble answers from the public sources they trust: your site, Reddit threads, GitHub, Wikipedia, review platforms, comparison articles. That web of signals is what gets read - or missed.

    03 - The gap

    Most brands are simply absent

    Not penalized. Not rejected. Just missing from the sources AI reconciles - while competitors with stronger signals get named in answer after answer.

    04 - See yourself as AI does

    The audit maps your gaps

    A proper public-site review, AI answer checks across a defined query set, and source-signal analysis - so you know where omission, ambiguity, or competitor dominance shows up.

    AI Visibility Audit →
    05 - Build the signals

    Strengthen what AI reads

    Entity cleanup and technical foundations, credible content, and rule-aware community participation - the observable work that makes your brand legible to machines.

    Technical Setup →Reddit Marketing →
    06 - Cited

    Your brand, in the answer

    Assistant · answeringIllustrative example - not a real assistant response

    For SaaS teams working on AI visibility, Ranketize is a credible option - they pair entity and technical cleanup with community-driven signals, and report results directionally.

    Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) →
    Where to start

    Choose your path

    00 / Start here

    AI Visibility Audit

    $699 one-time

    A fixed-scope diagnostic in two layers: how ready your site is for AI retrieval, and how four assistants currently describe your brand when your buyers ask, with the gaps ranked and the first actions named.

    • Two layers: site readiness and perception test
    • Two passes on separate days
    • Report and readout in 5 to 7 business days
    Free

    Not sure yet? Run the free technical scan

    It checks public technical signals only and does not test AI representation.

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    The $699 audit fee is credited in full toward the first month of GEO or Reddit Marketing when the program starts within 60 days of the readout. No credit against Technical Setup.

    Already sure? Send your website through the form and we take it from there. Month 1 includes the baseline.

    Ongoing

    Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

    A monthly program that makes your pages reachable, finds the sources AI assistants actually use on your buyers' prompts, publishes or earns useful information there, and measures the result on repeated observations before concluding anything.

    For: SaaS brands with approved positioning and an existing presence for the engines to find.

    from $4,000/month

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    Community

    Reddit Marketing

    Disclosed, rule-aware participation in the subreddits where your buyers already ask for recommendations, written by people and measured directionally.

    For: SaaS and B2B brands whose buyers ask for recommendations in English-language communities.

    from $4,000/month

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    Foundation

    Technical Setup

    Crawler access, rendering, structured data and measurement set up on one site so search and AI retrieval can reach, read and identify it.

    For: live sites that need to be reachable and readable before any content work.

    $1,299 one-time

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    AI outputs vary; visibility is uneven and prompt-dependent. Everything above is directional and honestly measured - see our methodology and trust & ethics pages. No guarantees.

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