134K clicks in 4 months
1.01M impressions at a 13.2% click-through rate.
- 134K
- Clicks
- 1.01M
- Impressions
- 13.2%
- CTR
- 7.7
- Avg. position
Google Search Console
LLM Visibility Optimization
LLM Visibility Optimization for Accurate Brand Answers
For brands that are overlooked or described inaccurately in assistant answers. We document the observed answers, correct unclear brand facts and source pages, and recheck relevant questions over time.
Human-managed, AI-powered. Senior strategists own the account, and a Technical Operations Specialist does the work.
- 58.5%
- of US Google searches now end without a click
- Sparktoro 2024 Study
- 9×
- higher conversion rate from AI-driven (LLM) traffic
- Lutz Finger via Forbes, 2025
- 920%
- average AI traffic growth across managed AEO campaigns
- Internal campaign data
- 4.4×
- AI search visitors are more likely to convert than organic search visitors
- Semrush, 2025
134K clicks in 4 monthsGoogle Search Console
From zero to 1,250 clicksGoogle Search Console
952K impressions in 3 monthsGoogle Search Console
What Is LLM Visibility Optimization?
LLM visibility optimization is the work of making large language models know your brand, understand your category better because of you, and name you when someone asks. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot are now front doors to buying decisions. The brands they name get the customer. The brands they skip never enter the conversation.
There is no rank tracker for this. You cannot check position one. Visibility inside a language model is spread across thousands of phrasings of the same question, and your brand either shows up consistently or it does not. Measuring that, then moving it, is a discipline of its own.
- Training data: models learn from what the open web says about you. Consistent, accurate coverage in sources they trust shapes what a model believes your brand is.
- Real-time retrieval: most assistants now pull live pages mid-answer. Your current site, recent articles, and recent mentions decide what gets read back to a buyer today.
- Citation patterns: models reuse sources they judge clear, credible, and easy to extract. Earn that judgment repeatedly and you become a default reference in your category.
Traditional SEO gets you ranked. TopFound gets you recommended.
Why LLM Visibility Matters
Search behavior already moved. 58.5% of US Google searches now end without a click, according to the Sparktoro 2024 Study. People ask an assistant and act on the answer.
AI Answers Are the New First Page
Buyers no longer scan ten blue links. They ask one question and act on the response. If a model does not name you, you were never in the running, and the loss never shows up in your analytics.
Recommended Traffic Converts Better
Research published on Forbes by Cornell faculty member Lutz Finger in 2025 found a 9× higher conversion rate from AI-driven LLM traffic. Semrush put AI search visitors at 4.4× more likely to convert than organic search visitors. The recommendation does the persuading before the click.
Authority That Compounds
Every accurate mention, trusted link, and well-structured answer makes the next recommendation easier to win. Average AI traffic growth across our managed AEO campaigns is 920%, based on internal campaign data.
A Competitor Already Holds Your Spot
Every category has one or two brands the models reach for by default. In most industries that position was never deliberately won. Whoever does the work first takes it, and displacing them later costs far more.
How TopFound Builds LLM Visibility
Senior strategists set direction, own the account, and stay accountable for the outcome. A Technical Operations Specialist runs research, content, schema, authority, and reporting underneath them. You get software throughput with a human answerable for the result.
01
Baseline Your Model Presence
We query ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot with the questions your buyers actually ask, then record where you appear, which competitor appears instead, and how accurately each model describes you.
02
Map the Questions That Matter
We build a map of your customer topics and the real AI questions attached to them, ranked by commercial value. Growth tracks up to 70 questions, Scale up to 140, Custom AEO plans up to 500.
03
Tune the Site for Google and AI Crawlers
Clean structure, correct schema, extractable claims, and crawl access for AI agents. Growth covers your priority templates. Scale tunes the whole site.
04
Publish Content AI Can Quote
30 on-brand articles a month with images on Growth, 60 on Scale, and 45 to 90 on-brand SEO & AEO articles on Custom AEO plans. Every piece is written to be the clearest source on its question.
05
Build the Authority AI Models Trust
3 to 5 links a month from trusted sites averaging a 35+ trust score, plus 3 to 5 genuine mentions across Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook. Scale runs 6 to 10 links and 5 to 8 mentions.
06
Report, Review, Adjust
Weekly written updates, weekly strategy calls, and direct Slack access to your strategist and Technical Operations Specialist. We show what moved, what did not, and what changes next month.
What the Program Includes
Multi-Model Visibility Tracking
Recurring measurement across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot against the exact question set your buyers use. Up to 70 questions on Growth, 140 on Scale, 500 on Custom AEO plans.
Answer-First Content Production
On-brand articles with images, built around the questions models are being asked right now. 30 a month on Growth, 60 on Scale, 45 to 90 on-brand SEO & AEO articles on Custom AEO plans.
Technical Readiness for AI Crawlers
Schema, page structure, internal linking, and crawl access tuned so assistants can read your pages, understand them, and quote them accurately.
Authority and Mention Building
Links from trusted publications alongside real participation on the platforms models lean on most, including Reddit, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook.
Newsroom Campaigns
Social posts and Reddit & Quora seeding every month: 10 to 15 posts and 1-2 seeds on Growth, 20 to 30 posts and 3-5 seeds on Scale, and 40 to 60 posts and 5-10 seeds on Custom AEO plans.
A Named Team You Can Reach
A dedicated strategist and Technical Operations Specialist, weekly written updates, weekly strategy calls, and Slack access. We execute the work. We are not a monitoring dashboard.
LLM Visibility Optimization Results
What changes when a brand goes from absent to recommended across the major language models.
From zero to 1,250 clicks
80.9K impressions at average position 5.6.
- 1.25K
- Clicks
- 80.9K
- Impressions
- 1.5%
- CTR
- 5.6
- Avg. position
Google Search Console
952K impressions in 3 months
226 clicks on the closing day, up from single digits in January.
- 5.27K
- Clicks
- 952K
- Impressions
- 0.6%
- CTR
- 14.8
- Avg. position
Google Search Console
LLM Visibility FAQ
Can you control what a language model says about my brand?
No one can control it, and you should be skeptical of anyone who claims otherwise. What you can change are the inputs: accurate content, clean entity signals, and authoritative third-party coverage. Change the inputs consistently and the answers move with them.
How do language models decide what to recommend?
They combine what they learned in training with what they retrieve live at answer time. Both favor sources that are clear, corroborated elsewhere, and easy to lift a factual claim from. That is precisely what we build.
Which models should we optimize for?
All the major ones. We track ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot together, because the underlying work overlaps heavily. Winning one usually lifts the rest, and tracking all of them tells us which answers are still contested.
How quickly can LLM visibility improve?
Some improvements (especially for retrieval-augmented queries) can appear within weeks. Deeper shifts in how a model frames your whole category take sustained authority building, which is why we run this as a continuous program rather than a one-time project.
What is retrieval-augmented generation?
It is when a model searches the live web mid-answer and grounds its response in what it finds. It is the reason your current pages, recent articles, and recent mentions matter today rather than at the next model retrain.
How do you measure something with no rank tracker?
We run a fixed question set across every major model on a schedule and score presence, position within the answer, accuracy, sentiment, and which competitor gets named instead. Growth tracks up to 70 questions, Scale up to 140, Custom AEO plans up to 500.
Does this help our Google rankings too?
Yes, and we do not sell it as a second retainer. One TopFound program covers SEO and AEO together, because the entity clarity, content depth, and authority that earn AI recommendations are the same signals classic search rewards.
Can inaccurate information about us be corrected?
Often, yes. We trace the sources feeding the error, then correct or outweigh them with authoritative material and tighten your entity data so models have one unambiguous version to rely on. It takes consistency across sources, not a single takedown request.
Who actually does the work?
A senior strategist owns your account and stays accountable for the outcome, supported by a Technical Operations Specialist and specialized execution handling research, content, schema, authority, and reporting.
What does it cost and how long am I committed?
LLM visibility work starts at $797/month for the Growth package, $1,297/month for the Scale package, with custom enterprise solutions available for larger organizations.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes. Under our 90-Day AI Traffic Growth Guarantee, qualified Growth and Scale clients get 30% more organic and AI search traffic in 90 days, or we work free until they do. We take on 5 new clients per month so every account keeps senior attention.
Find Out If AI Models Recommend You
We will show you exactly how the major language models describe your brand today, and what it takes to make you the recommendation.
- Live visibility read across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity
- The questions your buyers ask, and who wins them today
- The content and authority gaps holding you back
- A 90-day plan with deliverables and cadence spelled out
We take on 5 new clients per month.