What ranks gets retrieved
Owned content
When an AI assistant looks something up live, it pulls from pages that already rank in Google and Bing. We engineer your site content, structure, and entity signals so you’re the source it cites.
• Search Systems Engineering by Argos Infotech
Search didn’t die. It multiplied.
Your buyers now decide across Google, Maps, AI Overviews, ChatGPT-style assistants, Perplexity, reviews, citations, and owned conversion surfaces — often before they ever reach your site. Search Systems Engineering measures where you stand, identifies what is missing or inaccurate, and improves the signals that make your business easier to find, cite, trust, and choose.
5 surfaces scored • 0 obligation • delivered in 7 days.
Tracked monthly
— updated every month across all surfaces
Google
“structural engineer near me”
AI Overview
ChatGPT
“best party-wall surveyors”
Cited
Maps
Your Brand — local pack
4.9 · 312 reviews
Visibility
87
01 — The Shift
Rankings answer the wrong question.
For twenty years, visibility meant one thing: position on a results page.
Now AI assistants summarize, recommend, and decide on your buyer’s behalf — and they don’t show ten blue links. They show one answer.
60% of Google searches now end without a click. 41% of brands we audit are misdescribed by at least one AI assistant — wrong pricing, wrong category, wrong capabilities. Traditional rank trackers give you zero visibility into any of it.
The question is no longer “Where do we rank?” It’s “Where are we visible when buyers decide — and is what they hear correct?”
Google Search
AI Overview
ChatGPT
Google Maps
Perplexity
What We Do
We engineer visibility across every surface that decides.
One system, run on a monthly cadence. No guesswork, no “content calendar and hope.” Every action traces back to a measured gap — across Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Maps. SEO and digital PR done well, with a measurement layer on top that tells us what’s actually moving.
What’s mentioned gets remembered
Earned authority
AI assistants also answer from what they learned across the web — reviews, articles, Reddit, and trusted publications. We place the authoritative mentions that teach those systems to recommend you.
What we can’t see, we can’t fix
Measurement
Every month we test 1,200+ buyer prompts across Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Maps — where you appear, where competitors do, and what each engine says about you.
02 — The Method
Measure first. Then engineer what moves.
One system, run on a monthly cadence. Every action traces back to a measured gap.
1st Step
Measure
We track 1,200+ buyer prompts and queries across every surface monthly — where you appear, where competitors do, and what each engine actually says about you. Visibility index, per surface.
2nd Step
Diagnose
We isolate why you’re absent or misrepresented: entity gaps, weak citations, thin authority signals, schema and structure failures, missing ground truth. Output: a ranked gap report.
3rd Step
Engineer
Targeted fixes in priority order — entity and schema architecture, authoritative source placement, content engineered for citation, local signal repair. Shipped changes, logged.
4th Step
Compound
Re-measure every cycle. What moved stays; what didn’t gets re-engineered. Authority compounds across surfaces — gains in one feed the others. Month-over-month delta.
03 — Correctness
Showing up isn’t enough. You also have to be right.
AI assistants speak about your brand with total confidence — even when they’re wrong. We audit every material claim engines make about you (pricing, category, capabilities, service area, competitor framing), flag every inaccuracy by severity, and fix the ground truth they learn from. Every engagement includes one.
AI Answer Monitor
9 platforms · live
Pricing accuracyAccurate
Service areaOutdated
Competitor recommendedFlagged
Citation foundVerified
Source-of-Truth pages
A set of canonical pages on your own site — including a dedicated facts page — that AI systems cross-check when they answer questions about you.
Entity signals
Consistent name, location, and profile data across Google, Maps, directories, and the Knowledge Graph, so you’re recognized as one clear business — not confused with someone else.
Accuracy monitoring
Ongoing testing across the major AI assistants, so when something goes wrong we catch it and correct the source — fast.
04 — Engagements
One method. Three shapes.
Every engagement runs the same measurement system. The shape depends on where your buyers decide. Engagements are scoped after your audit — you’ll know the gap before you spend a dollar.
Local Visibility
For businesses that win or lose on local discovery.
Maps, “best near me” prompts, and AI recommendations in your area.
Best for
Clinics, law firms, contractors, retail, restaurants, multi-location operators.
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Growth Engine
For companies whose category is being decided in AI answers right now.
Full 5-surface measurement and engineering, monthly cadence — entity architecture, citation-engineered content, claim correctness, and share-of-answer tracking.
Best for
SaaS, growth teams, B2B platforms, online services, scaling companies.
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Brand Authority
For mid-market brands defending category position.
How engines compare, describe, and recommend you against named competitors — with quarterly strategy reviews and executive visibility reporting.
Best for
Mid-market brands, marketing leaders, category challengers, national firms.
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05 — First 30 Days
In 30 days, you’ll know exactly where you stand.
The first step is not more content. It’s a clear visibility baseline — where you appear, where competitors are being recommended, what AI systems say about you, which sources are being cited, and what needs to be fixed first.
Days 1–7 · Baseline audit — every surface scored, every material claim verified or flagged.
Days 8–14 · Gap review — a working session on where you’re invisible, where you’re wrong, what it’s costing.
Days 15–28 · First fixes shipped — entity structure, ground truth, priority citations go live.
Day 30 · First delta report — movement, measured. The monthly cadence compounds from here.
Correctness fixes often move within weeks. Share-of-answer gains in competitive categories typically show meaningful deltas by month two to three, and compound from there.
Run my free visibility auditVisibility audit · sample
Visibility score
+14 this month
Competitor share
Cited sources
yourbrand.com
g2.com
reddit.com
forbes.com
wikipedia.org
Priority actions
Fix outdated pricing on AI sources
High
Reclaim citation on top 3 prompts
Med
Add comparison page for category
Low
06 — Results
Measured visibility, not vanity reporting.
Every number below comes from the same tracking system clients see in their monthly reports. Medians across active engagements — calls, forms, direction requests, AI citations, share of category prompts, accuracy, and competitor presence, all in one workflow.
Sample dashboard — illustrative metrics.
AI Citations
+312%
median increase within six months
Category Prompts Cited
64%
where the median client is recommended
Prompts Tracked
1,240
per client, every month, across 5 surfaces
Client Retention
88%
retained beyond twelve months
Surfaces Measured
5
Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Maps
Entity Accuracy
98%
post-engagement, tested across platforms
07 — FAQ
Fair questions, straight answers.
Short, direct answers to the questions buyers ask before an engagement.
How is this different from regular SEO?
Traditional SEO optimizes for one surface: a ranked results page. We measure and engineer visibility across five — including AI assistants that cite sources and make recommendations instead of showing links. SEO is a component of the system, not the system.
Can you guarantee we’ll appear in ChatGPT’s answers?
No one can, and anyone who guarantees it is guessing. What we guarantee is measurement: you’ll see exactly where you appear, how that changes month over month, and what we did to move it. Our retention rate exists because the deltas are real.
How fast will we see movement?
Correctness fixes — engines saying wrong things about you — often move within weeks. Share-of-answer gains in competitive categories typically show meaningful deltas by month two to three, and compound from there.
What is the free visibility audit?
Five surfaces scored, every material claim engines make about you verified, delivered in seven days. If the audit shows you’re fine — good, you’ll know. If it doesn’t, you’ll know exactly what to fix. It’s yours to keep either way.
What do you need from us to start?
For the audit: your domain and your top three competitors. That’s it. For an engagement: edit access to your site or a working relationship with whoever has it, and one stakeholder for a monthly review.
What does it cost?
Engagements are scoped after the audit, because pricing before measuring is exactly the kind of guesswork we exist to replace. The audit itself is free and yours to keep either way.