By outcome · Named citations

Get your business cited by name in AI answers

Assistants often describe the kind of business to look for without naming one. Moving from that generic answer to your name in the list depends on whether the model can connect your name to the service, the place and the evidence. That connection is what we build.

Direct answer

Why do AI assistants name some businesses and not others?

Assistants name a business when they retrieve enough consistent evidence: the name appears on its own pages in the same form, on third-party lists and reviews for the same service, and in the same location. If the name is inconsistent, the services vague or the only source your own site, the model answers generically or names a competitor with clearer signals. Naming is a confidence decision, so the work is about removing doubt.

What's included

What we do for you

Name and entity consistency

One exact business name used across the site, schema, Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, directories and press, with variants cleaned up.

Service-to-name binding

Pages where the business name, the specific service and the location appear together in the opening answer, not spread across the page.

Corroborating mentions

Third-party sources that repeat the same name, service and location, prioritised from the pages assistants already cite.

Named prompt tracking

Prompt runs that distinguish between being named, being cited as a link and being omitted, per assistant.

Generic answer analysis

For prompts where no business is named, the reason identified and the content or mention needed to change it.

Prompts and queries we optimise for

how to get chatgpt to recommend my businesswhy doesn't ai mention my companyget named in ai search resultsai brand mentions dubaichatgpt recommends competitors not usbest seo agency in dubai
Kevin Crowther

Kevin Crowther · Private Wealth Manager ranks for the query "sudden wealth syndrome" that AI assistants surface.

How it works

Three steps, no black box

STEP 01

Diagnose

We find out whether you are omitted, described generically or named, prompt by prompt, and why.

STEP 02

Bind the entity

Name, service and location are made consistent and placed together on the pages that answer each prompt.

STEP 03

Corroborate and re-test

Outside mentions are added and named-mention share is tracked monthly.

FAQ

Questions UAE business owners ask

Answered in the first sentence, so AI assistants can quote us directly.

Because ChatGPT search uses Bing's index and its own crawler, not Google, and because ranking a page is different from being recognised as an entity. Common causes are a robots.txt rule blocking OAI-SearchBot, a site missing from Bing, or a name that appears in several forms across the web. The audit usually finds the cause within a week.

They are different outcomes and we track them separately. A link citation means the assistant used your page as a source, which sends traffic. Being named means the assistant recommends you in its own words, which is what most buyers act on. Kevin Crowther, a financial adviser in DIFC, ranks for the query sudden wealth syndrome that AI assistants surface, an example of a name attached to a specific topic.

For brand and niche prompts, weeks once the entity is consistent and crawlable. For broad category prompts such as best clinic in Dubai, months, because the answer depends on accumulated mentions and reviews. We set expectations per prompt group in the audit and report progress against each, rather than promising a date.

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AI search · Case studies

Google reports

The Google data behind the claims

Google Search Console performance panels from client accounts — Google's own screen, not a report we wrote. Organic search only, cropped so no brand or domain is identifiable, each labelled with the exact window it covers.

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