Answers

The questions specialty manufacturers and industrial distributors actually ask us about AI search — answered directly, with no gate and no form. If your question is not here, email us and we will answer it and add it.

• How do I get my company to show up when buyers ask AI for a supplier?

  AI engines name the suppliers whose content they can read, extract, and attribute — so you get named by publishing direct answers to the questions your buyers actually ask, and by appearing …

• What is generative engine optimization, and how is it different from SEO?

  Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of getting your business named and cited inside AI-generated answers, on engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews…

• Does SEO still matter now that buyers start with AI?

  Yes. AI engines ground their answers in crawled web content, so the crawlability, structure and credibility work that drives SEO is the same work that gets you cited in AI answers. What chan…

• How much does AI search optimization cost?

  Industrial-specialist SEO and GEO agencies typically charge $2,500–$15,000 per month with six- to twelve-month minimums, and the budget tier generally starts around $1,500 per month. Foundva…

• How do I check what AI says about my company?

  Write down the five questions your buyers actually ask, run each through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, and log three things per answer: whether you were named, which competitors were, and …

• Why does AI recommend distributors and directories instead of my company?

  Because distributors, directories and trade publications publish the page shapes engines find easiest to quote — comparison tables, size charts, category listings and buying guides — while m…

• What is llms.txt, and does my site need one?

  llms.txt is a plain-text file at the root of your website that summarises what your business does, who it serves and where your key pages live, written for language models rather than browse…

• Can we do AI search optimization in-house?

  Yes — the method is public and none of it is technically difficult. The constraint is almost never capability; it is whether someone in your company can reliably spend a few hours a month on…

• What did we find auditing AI visibility for industrial manufacturers?

  Across audits of specialty manufacturers and industrial distributors, the majority were absent from AI answers in their own core category — including several that have led their niche for de…