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The AI SEO agency that makes AI recommend your business.

The AI SEO agency that makes AI recommend your business.

Foundier gets law firms, clinics and B2B service firms named when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews who to hire.

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Where your customers now ask ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Google AI Overviews

Four signs AI search is quietly costing you business.

If two of these sound familiar, AI search is already costing you leads. Some businesses have all four and never realize they're connected.

You rank on Google. But ask ChatGPT who to hire in your category, and your name never comes back.
Qualified leads have felt quieter over the last 6 to 12 months, and nothing in your analytics explains why.
Agencies keep pitching you "AI SEO," but not one has explained what they'd actually change on your site.
You want to know exactly where you stand in AI search before spending a dollar trying to improve it.

That last one takes 48 hours to answer, free. Get your snapshot →

AI recommends your competitors every week. You'll never see it happen.

Right now, someone is asking ChatGPT who to hire in your category. It names three businesses. Yours isn't one of them. They don't dig further. They book a call with the first name they were given.

No notification. No dip in your analytics. Just a pipeline that goes a little quieter each month while everything on Google looks perfectly fine.

This isn't a content problem more blog posts will fix. AI engines and Google decide who to name using completely different signals. A business can own page one of Google and be invisible in ChatGPT for the exact same search. Most don't find out until the gap has been widening for months.

The businesses cited inside AI answers today will own their categories for years. The window to become one of them is open now, and it's closing as your competitors move.
Entity clarity

AI has to describe your business clearly and consistently before it will cite you. We make sure it can.

Schema engineering

Valid structured data that matches your pages and leaves no doubt about who you are and what you do. The technical layer most agencies skip entirely.

Citation-ready content

Pages that answer what your buyers actually ask, in your own first-hand voice. Written for people first, so search engines and AI understand them too.

Visibility monitoring

Citation share tracked every month across all four engines. Not a dashboard you check. Active management.

58%
fewer clicks to the #1 Google result when an AI Overview appears above it.
Ahrefs, 300,000-keyword study, December 2025
94%
of B2B buyers now use generative AI somewhere in their purchase process.
6sense Buyer Experience Report, 2025
2×
how much more often people click a link when AI hasn't already answered them.
Pew Research Center, 2025

Getting cited by AI takes three disciplines. Foundier runs all three.

Design that earns trust on arrival. Technical foundations AI engines can parse. Content structured to be quoted. Most agencies do one. The businesses AI actually names have all three, working together.

Design that earns trust in three seconds

AI sends people to your site already half-convinced. Your design decides whether that trust is confirmed or lost on arrival. Every Foundier site is built to make that moment land.

Technical foundations AI engines can read

Schema markup, entity signals, crawlability, structured data. Without them, even great content gets passed over. With them, AI can verify your business and cite it with confidence.

Content built to be quoted, not just read

Clear headings, direct answers and first-hand expertise competitors can't copy. Google says the content that wins in its AI features is the same people-first content that wins in Search, so that is what we build.

$750/ audit
AI Visibility Audit
Three audits in one report: AI visibility across four engines, a technical SEO and schema audit, and a competitor citation analysis. Five business days, credited toward whatever you build next.
25 buyer questions tested across 4 AI engines
Schema and structured data audit
Competitor citation share analysis
Prioritized action plan, quick wins first
30-minute walkthrough call included
Full refund if we miss the 5-day deadline
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Six services. One outcome: your business, cited by AI.

As an AI SEO agency, we run every service toward one outcome: getting your business named when someone asks AI who to hire in your category. You won't need all six. Start with a free snapshot, and the audit tells you which ones you need, and in what order.

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AI Visibility Audit
You've probably typed your category into ChatGPT and watched someone else come up. The audit is three in one: a full AI visibility check across all four engines, a technical and schema audit, and a competitor citation analysis. One report, five days, credited toward whatever you build next.
How visible your business is across all four AI engines
Who's being recommended instead of you, and what they're doing that you're not
The gaps keeping your business out of AI recommendations
A prioritized action plan so you know exactly what to fix first
$750 · 5 days · full refund if we miss the deadlineRun my audit
AI SEO
AI SEO Services
AI SEO Services get your business cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, without rebuilding your site. When AI blends what it knows about you with what it retrieves in the moment, this makes sure your site is structured to be retrieved, trusted, and quoted, so your name comes up.
Your business positioned as the authoritative answer in your category
Your website restructured so AI understands and trusts what you do
The right signals sent to every AI engine that matters
A system that compounds. The longer it runs, the stronger your position.
$3,000 to $6,500 · 2-6 weeksSee AI SEO services
Website Design
AI-Ready Website Design
AI-Ready Website Design builds citation signals into your site from day one. Your website is the foundation of everything AI knows about your business, and if it isn't structured right, AI can't read it and won't recommend you. Built from the ground up to be readable, credible, and citable. Not retrofitted.
A site structure that AI engines can read and understand
Every page built to establish your authority in your category
Design and copy that converts the visitors AI sends your way
Ready for AI search from the moment it goes live
From $5,000 · 4-8 weeksSee website design
Technical SEO
Technical SEO + Schema
Technical SEO and schema fix the foundation AI engines need before they'll cite you: schema markup, structured data, crawlability, and Core Web Vitals. Technical problems mean AI either can't read your site or won't trust it. This clears the invisible barriers that make everything else deliver.
Every technical issue found and fixed: speed, errors, structure
Your site mapped in a language AI engines understand
Page speed improved so visitors stay and search engines trust you
AI-specific signals configured so every engine can find and read you
$2,000 to $4,000 · 2-4 weeksSee technical SEO
Ongoing
AI Visibility Monitoring
AI Visibility Monitoring keeps you cited as the engines evolve. Platforms update constantly and competitors don't stop. Monitor keeps your position; Grow adds new citation-ready pages every month. Maintenance included in both.
Monthly report on exactly where AI is recommending your business
Continuous improvements as AI engines update their behavior
Your website kept fast, secure, and AI-ready every month
No minimum contract. Stop any month.
From $1,250 / monthSee monitoring plans
Maintenance
Website Maintenance
Website Maintenance keeps your site fast, secure, and AI-ready every month: updates handled, security patched, backups running, schema and performance maintained. Everything in the background so your site keeps delivering, and never quietly breaks.
Monthly updates so your site never falls behind
Security monitored and patched before problems start
Daily backups so nothing is ever lost
Speed and performance maintained so visitors stay
$299 / monthSee maintenance plan
Start hereAI Visibility Audit

You've probably typed your category into ChatGPT and watched someone else come up. The audit is three in one: a full AI visibility check across all four engines, a technical and schema audit, and a competitor citation analysis. One report, five days, credited toward whatever you build next.

$750 · 5 days · full refund if we miss the deadlineRun my audit
AI SEOAI SEO Services

AI SEO Services get your business cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, without rebuilding your site, so your name comes up when buyers ask.

$3,000 to $6,500 · 2-6 weeksSee AI SEO services
Website DesignAI-Ready Website Design

A site built from the ground up to be readable, credible, and citable by AI engines, with design and copy that converts the visitors AI sends you.

From $5,000 · 4-8 weeksSee website design
Technical SEOTechnical SEO + Schema

Schema markup, structured data, crawlability, and Core Web Vitals: the foundation AI engines need before they'll cite you.

$2,000 to $4,000 · 2-4 weeksSee technical SEO
OngoingAI Visibility Monitoring

We track where you stand across all four engines, fix what shifts, and grow your citation share every month. Maintenance included. No minimum contract.

From $1,250 / monthSee monitoring plans
MaintenanceWebsite Maintenance

Updates handled, security patched, backups running, schema and performance maintained, so your site never quietly breaks.

$299 / monthSee maintenance plan

Diagnose first. Then fix only what's broken.

No retainers before evidence. No guessing dressed as strategy. Every engagement follows the same four steps, and the first one is free.

Step 1 · Snapshot (free)

We check what AI says about you

Five buyer questions across four engines, who's named instead of you, and three fixes. In your inbox within 48 hours. Get yours →

Step 2 · Audit

We map your full AI search position

Five days, $750. 25 buyer questions, technical SEO and schema, competitor citations, and a ranked fix plan walked through on a call.

Step 3 · Build

We fix what the data says to fix

Technical foundations, citable content, or a full rebuild, whichever gap the audit found. Your $750 is credited.

Step 4 · Compound

Citations measured, never assumed

Pre and post citation tests on every engagement, tracked monthly, so you always know exactly what changed.

Five days from now, you'll know exactly what's costing you citations.

There's no dashboard for the leads that never arrived. No alert when ChatGPT names a competitor instead of you. Most businesses have no idea whether AI is quietly routing their customers elsewhere.

The AI Visibility Audit ends the guessing, and it's three audits for one price: your AI visibility across every major engine, a full technical SEO and schema audit, and a competitor citation analysis showing exactly who's winning your category and why. One report, a ranked fix list, and a 30-minute call to walk through every finding.

Every paid engagement starts here. It's built to do one of two things: hand you quick wins you can implement yourself, or lead straight into the work that closes the gaps it finds. Either way, you leave knowing exactly where you stand.

$750  ·  Delivered in 5 business days  ·  Credited toward any engagement  ·  Full refund if we miss the deadline
AI Visibility Audit · $750

What the audit covers

Delivered in 5 business days

Citation presence across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
Competitor citation share: who your category names instead of you, and why
Schema and structured data audit: every error, gap, and outdated markup
Entity clarity assessment: how AI engines currently model your business
Content gap analysis: which pages need restructuring to earn citations
Prioritized action plan: quick wins and deep fixes, sequenced by effort and impact
30-minute walkthrough call with the person who built the report
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THE FOUNDIER POSITION

Four beliefs about this moment in search. They shape every audit, every engagement, and every honest conversation about whether we’re the right fit.

If these don't sound like your worldview, we'd rather you find that out here than three months in. If they do, the free snapshot is the next step.

01

AI search isn't a feature. It's the new front door.

94% of B2B buyers already bring AI into their purchase process. The businesses named inside those answers will own their categories for years. Treating this as “one more channel” is how categories get lost.

02

Citation is engineering, not a content trick.

Getting cited by ChatGPT isn’t about writing more blog posts. It’s design that earns trust, schema AI can parse, and content structured to be quoted. Three disciplines, one practice, and most agencies do none of them.

03

The work should be inspectable before you hire us.

Most agencies hide their methodology behind retainers and NDAs. Foundier publishes ours in the open. Read the guides. Inspect our schema. Run our audit prompts yourself. Then decide if we’ve earned the check.

04

Compound beats sprint.

AI visibility isn’t a campaign that ends. It’s a foundation that grows. Every engagement is designed to compound over quarters, not a 90-day push that spikes, fades, and leaves you starting over.

What businesses want to know before they fix their AI visibility.

The questions people ask AI about AI search, answered straight, including the parts most agencies won't tell you.

Why is my business not showing up in ChatGPT?
Usually one of three reasons: technical problems that stop search engines and AI crawlers from reading your site properly, inconsistent entity signals across the web that leave your business description unclear, or pages that don't clearly answer what buyers ask. A top Google ranking doesn't guarantee a ChatGPT mention, because each engine retrieves and weighs sources in its own way. A free snapshot shows where you stand in 48 hours, and the AI Visibility Audit pinpoints exactly which gaps are costing you citations, in five days.
My content ranks on Google but AI doesn't cite me. Why?
Ranking and being named overlap, but they aren't the same. Google's own AI features pull pages from its normal index, so strong SEO is the base for AI Overviews and AI Mode. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude run their own search and retrieval, and in our testing they favor businesses whose facts are clear and consistent across the web. When a page buries its answer, or your business details conflict from site to site, you can rank and still go unnamed. Fixing that is usually faster than people expect.
Why is ChatGPT recommending my competitors and not me?
Their signals are cleaner. AI builds a model of each business before deciding who to name: category, services, location, authority, and how consistently those line up across the web. When a competitor's signals are clearer and better structured, the model trusts their description more and names them first. It's rarely about marketing spend. It's about technical signals most businesses have never audited.
Is SEO dead because of AI search?
No, but its job has changed. Strong SEO fundamentals (a clean, fast, authoritative site) are the foundation AI citations are built on. What's changed is that ranking is no longer enough: a #1 result now sees far fewer clicks when an AI Overview answers first (Ahrefs measured a 58% drop in December 2025). The businesses adapting fastest treat AI visibility as a second layer on top of SEO, not a replacement for it. Foundier builds that layer.
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
GEO is the practice of optimizing a business so AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews cite it in their answers. Traditional SEO targets blue-link rankings; GEO targets AI citations. Google says that, for its own AI features, this is simply good SEO: crawlable pages, genuinely useful content and accurate business information. For other AI engines, the same work plus a consistent, earned reputation across the web matters most. It's also called AI SEO or answer engine optimization, the same discipline under different names.
How does AI decide which businesses to recommend?
No engine publishes a formula, so be wary of anyone who claims one. Google says its AI features rely on its core ranking systems: relevant, helpful, crawlable pages. In our testing across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude, the businesses named most often have consistent facts across the web, pages that answer buyer questions plainly, and genuine reviews and coverage. Keyword density barely moves the needle, which is why businesses with strong Google rankings are often absent from AI answers.
What does real AI SEO actually involve?
Three connected workstreams, run together. Entity engineering: giving AI a clear, consistent model of who you are across your site, schema, and third-party sources. Technical foundations: crawlable, fast pages and valid structured data that matches what each page says. Content: pages that answer real buyer questions with first-hand expertise, not copy written for a robot.
How long until I start appearing in AI answers?
AI engines re-index continuously, so changes can surface faster than traditional Google SEO, sometimes within weeks for technical fixes like schema, with citation authority building over the months that follow. The exact pace depends on how competitive your category is and how much foundational work is needed. The AI Visibility Audit identifies which fixes move the needle fastest.
How much does working with Foundier cost?
Start with a free snapshot. The AI Visibility Audit is $750, delivered in five days and credited toward whatever you build next. From there, scope depends on what the audit finds: Technical SEO + Schema runs $2,000 to $4,000, AI SEO Services $3,000 to $6,500, and AI-Ready Websites start at $5,000. AI Visibility Monitoring is $1,250 or $2,500 per month and Website Maintenance $299 per month, all with no minimum contract. Full pricing lives on the services page.
Do I have to start with the audit?
Start with the free snapshot. Any paid build then begins with the $750 audit, because without it every recommendation is a guess. It grounds the work in data specific to your site, your category, and your competitors, and the $750 is credited toward any engagement you book within 60 days.
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Find out if AI is naming your competitors instead of you.

Find out free. Five buyer questions, four AI engines, in your inbox within 48 hours. If you want the full picture after that, the audit is $750 and credited toward any work.

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