Plain answers about AI and your business
The questions owners actually ask us, answered properly. No promises about rankings, no invented statistics, and every source named and linked.
What Is an AI-Ready Website? The Sacramento Checklist
An AI-ready website is one a machine can read your facts from: hours, address, phone, city, in plain words. Here are the eight checks we score for Sacramento businesses.
September 29, 2026
What Is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) for a Local Business?
GEO means making your business easy for AI answer systems to read, quote, and get right. Here is what it changes for a local business, and what it cannot buy.
September 22, 2026
Which AI Crawlers Can Read Your Website, and Which Matter
Every AI company runs more than one crawler, and only some decide whether you appear in a live answer. The documented list, and how to read your robots.txt.
September 22, 2026
How to Check What ChatGPT Says About Your Business
Ask the assistants yourself in five steps, record what they say, then repeat it. The free method, and why a single check is weaker evidence than it looks.
September 14, 2026
AI Is Giving Customers the Wrong Hours: How to Fix It
AI assistants show the wrong hours because your sources disagree. Fix them in order of control: your website, Google Business Profile, then listings.
September 8, 2026
How Do I Get My Business to Show Up in AI Search Results?
Nobody can sell you a spot in an AI answer. Here are the five levers you control: reachable, readable, consistent, corroborated, and measured.
September 8, 2026
What Does AI Visibility Cost for a Small Business?
AI visibility work is priced in three bands: measuring, fixing your own facts, and ongoing upkeep. Here is what each costs, at market rates and at ours.
September 8, 2026
What Is AI Visibility Monitoring for a Small Business?
AI visibility monitoring is checking, on a schedule, what AI assistants can read and actually say about your business. Here's what it measures and costs.
September 8, 2026
Why Doesn't ChatGPT Know My Business? (And How to Fix It)
ChatGPT can't name your business when its facts about you are inconsistent, vague, or unreadable to machines. Here's what to fix, and how to check it.
August 18, 2026
The longer field notes are on the blog: the first one is why the visits an assistant sends you land in Google Analytics as Direct.
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