AI Engine Optimization · for legacy businesses

When someone asks AI to find a business like yours — does your name come up?

You've earned trust the hard way — over years of real work. But the moment people started asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI to find a business, that reputation stopped carrying you. We make AI see you, trust you, and recommend you — by name.

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AI assistant

You asked

This is the question that decides your next customer. Right now, you may not be in the answer.

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USER
  find the best {trade} near me

ASSISTANT
  // ranking legacy sources...
  const answer = sources
    .filter(s => s.trusted)
    .sort(byAuthority)[0];
  return answer.name;

The shift

Search didn't disappear. It moved into the answer.

For twenty years, being found meant ranking on a page of blue links. Now people ask a question and get one answer — assembled by AI from the sources it trusts. If those sources don't clearly say who you are, what you do, and why you're the one to pick, the AI fills the gap with someone else. Being excellent isn't enough anymore. You have to be legible to the machines doing the recommending.

What we do

We make your reputation legible to AI.

We don't chase rankings. We build the three things AI weighs before it names a business.

Authority

your own house

What your website, profiles, and listings clearly say about you — in the structured way AI reads.

Citations

what others say

Consistent mentions across the directories, maps, and local sources AI cross-checks before it trusts you.

Reputation

the signal

Reviews with the volume, recency, and substance that tell AI you're the proven, safe recommendation.

Do all three well, and you stop being invisible — you become the answer.

How it works

Start by finding out what AI actually says about you.

Your Digital Health Check-up is a plain-language read on three questions — no jargon, no lecture. You get a clear picture of where you stand, an AI Visibility Score to watch over time, and a short, specific plan for the climb.

Get your Digital Health Check-up

Foundation plans from $600/mo — introductory. Founding Clients lock 50% for life.

Accuracy

Is your information correct everywhere AI looks?

Reputation

Do customers and the web vouch for you?

AI Visibility

Does AI actually know and recommend you?

AI Visibility Score

A 300–900 band — like a credit score for how AI sees you.

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300 • 900

Proof, in the open

We're running our own method on our own studio — in the open.

Before we ask a legacy business to trust the method, we're proving it on one we own: Studio JK Photography, a Denver studio with 30+ years behind the camera. We ran the same Check-up on ourselves, found the same gaps most legacy businesses have — and we're working the plan in public. Watch it with us: the honest version, not a highlight reel.

Inside Studio JK Photography — a photographer editing at the monitor in the Denver studio, softbox and seamless backdrop behind them

"If the score moves, and clients follow, the method works. So we're testing it on ourselves first."

Founding Clients

Co-build the method. Lock the price for life.

Our first cohort of clients aren't buying a discount — they're shaping how this works. Founding Clients lock 50% off for the life of their engagement, in exchange for a quarterly working session and permission to tell their story. A limited number of seats, across a handful of verticals.

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Two founding-client partners sharing a relaxed moment inside a legacy Colorado family business

Find out where you stand

Find out what AI says about you.

A short, plain-language check-up. No obligation, no jargon — just a clear read on how AI sees your business today.

— Your Accuracy, Reputation, and AI Visibility, in plain language.
— Your AI Visibility Score on the 300–900 band.
— A short, specific plan for the climb.