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NEW — AI Search Visibility

Get cited by AI, not just ranked by Google.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is SEO for AI answers. Manova asks ChatGPT and Perplexity the questions your clients' buyers ask, tracks who gets mentioned and cited, and runs 13 detectors to find exactly why your clients don't — and how to fix it.

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The shift

From clicks to citations.

For twenty years the goal was ranking on page one. AI answers changed the game: a handful of brands get named, everyone else is invisible. Your clients' next customer may never see a search results page at all.

37%

of buyers now start research in AI tools, not a search box

3–5

sources cited per AI answer — visibility is winner-take-most

0 clicks

if you're not in the answer, there's no page two to rescue you

The detectors

13 detectors. Four questions.

Every detector reads real AI answers and real crawl data for each client, then outputs a specific, prioritized recommendation — with the fix already drafted.

01

Visibility

Are you in the answer at all?

The first question is brutal and simple: when a buyer asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a recommendation in your client's category, does your client appear? These detectors measure presence — in the answers themselves and in the sources AI engines pull from.

  • Citation Gap

    Buyer questions where competitors get cited in AI answers and your client doesn't. The core visibility scoreboard, rescanned weekly.

  • Citation Source Gap

    AI engines lean on a small set of trusted sources — review sites, directories, comparison pages. This finds the sources being cited in your category where your client is absent or thin.

  • Prompt Trigger Opportunity

    Buyer prompts where the AI answer is generic and no brand owns it yet. The AI-search version of striking distance — a first-mover window.

01Visibility· 3 results
Weekly scan
  • 'best crm for real estate teams' — 0 of 12 answers cite you
    brightpath.example.com·3 competitors cited
    Citation Gap
  • 2 review directories AI cites weekly — you're not listed
    ledgerly.example.com·Cited in 9/12 answers
    Source Gap
  • 'invoice software for canadian freelancers' — no brand owns it
    ledgerly.example.com·Generic answers only
    First-mover window
Ranked by estimated citation impactmanova.pro/ai-search
02

Content quality

Can AI actually use your pages?

AI engines don't rank pages — they extract answers from them. Pages that bury the answer, make claims without evidence, or have gone stale get skipped for sources that are easier to quote. These detectors audit whether your client's content is liftable.

  • AI Extractability

    Flags pages where the answer is buried — no direct answer block, no clean headings, no tables. Then drafts the answer-first restructure.

  • Evidence Gap

    AI engines prefer sources with citable numbers. This finds pages full of claims and empty of stats, and suggests the data points to add.

  • Freshness Gap

    When the sources AI cites in your category are newer than your client's page, you lose by default. Flags stale pages worth refreshing.

  • Query Fan-Out Gap

    AI breaks a buyer prompt into sub-questions before answering. This finds the sub-questions your client has no content for — each one is a brief.

02Content quality· 3 results
Weekly scan
  • /pricing buries the answer — no direct answer block
    northloop.example.com·Extractability: low
    Restructure drafted
  • /blog/best-tools-2024 outdated — AI cites 2026 sources
    brightpath.example.com·18 months stale
    Refresh queued
  • 'is it good for restaurants?' — sub-question unanswered
    shiftbase.example.com·Fan-out gap
    Brief ready
Ranked by estimated citation impactmanova.pro/ai-search
03

Trust & accuracy

Is AI telling the truth about you?

AI engines synthesize what the web says about a brand — and when the web is inconsistent or thin, they guess. These detectors catch the reputation gaps and factual errors that quietly cost recommendations, before a buyer hears them.

  • Reputation Gap

    Weak or missing presence on the review platforms AI engines actually consult in your category. Outputs a prioritized outreach list.

  • Brand Fact Error

    AI stating wrong facts about your client — old pricing, dropped services, wrong locations. Flags the error and traces the stale source feeding it.

  • Entity Inconsistency

    Different names, descriptions, or details across your site, profiles, and directories confuse AI entity resolution. Flags every mismatch to align.

03Trust & accuracy· 3 results
Weekly scan
  • ChatGPT quotes your 2024 pricing — off by a full tier
    ledgerly.example.com·Stale source traced
    Fact Error
  • Absent from 2 review platforms AI cites in your category
    shiftbase.example.com·Competitors: 40+ reviews
    Outreach list
  • 3 conflicting company descriptions across the web
    brightpath.example.com·Entity mismatch
    Align 3 profiles
Ranked by estimated citation impactmanova.pro/ai-search
04

Technical

Can AI even reach you?

None of the above matters if AI crawlers can't access the site, can't parse its structure, or cite it without it ever influencing the recommendation. The plumbing layer of GEO — invisible until it silently zeroes out everything else.

  • AI Crawler Access

    GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and ClaudeBot blocked by robots.txt or an overzealous CDN rule. The most common — and cheapest — GEO fix there is.

  • Structured Data

    Missing or invalid schema that AI systems use to ground facts about your business. Flags the gaps and drafts the JSON-LD.

  • Citation-Without-Influence

    You're cited for a stat or definition, but never recommended as a vendor. Detects when visibility isn't converting into influence — and why.

04Technical· 3 results
Weekly scan
  • GPTBot blocked by a CDN firewall rule since March
    northloop.example.com·2 crawlers blocked
    Unblock — 5 min fix
  • No Organization or Product schema on key pages
    shiftbase.example.com·4 pages affected
    JSON-LD drafted
  • Cited for a statistic, never recommended as a vendor
    brightpath.example.com·6 citations, 0 recs
    Reposition content
Ranked by estimated citation impactmanova.pro/ai-search
The loop

Fix it. Then prove it worked.

Every GEO fix feeds the same verification loop as your SEO fixes: mark it done, and Manova tracks mentions and citations for 12 weeks to tell you whether it actually moved the needle.

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