How to get your business recommended by AI

When a buyer asks an AI assistant "who's the best [what you do]?", the model names one or two businesses. Getting on that shortlist isn't luck — it comes down to three levers you can actually control: entity clarity, citation density, and quotable content. Here's the playbook in priority order.

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What's the fastest win?Entity clarity. Add Organization schema and an llms.txt file, and make your homepage say plainly what you do, where, and for whom. Models can't recommend a business they can't confidently resolve — this unblocks everything else.

What moves the needle most over time?Citations on the sources models trust: the review platforms, directories and 'best of' roundups for your category and city. Models recommend businesses they see referenced consistently across the open web.

How do I know if it's working?Baseline, fix, re-scan. A free Cited scan scores whether 8+ engines name you today and hands you the highest-impact fix first — then daily monitoring shows the score move as fixes land.

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