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§ CHAPTER III · AI SEARCH · THE ANSWER ENGINE
The shelf inside the model.
When a category query is put to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity, three or four houses get named. We engineer the conditions under which yours is one of them.
§ THE POSITION
AI search is not ranking. It is recall. A model recommends what it has been trained to regard as canonical. The work is to be treated as canonical — deliberately, repeatedly, and in public.
§ THE WORKINGS
Four instruments we run — continuously.
§ 01 · CITATION MEASUREMENT
We instrument the models.
A prompt library of 400-600 decision queries per engagement, run daily against every major LLM. We see exactly when you are cited, by whom, and in what position.
§ 02 · ENTITY CANONICALIZATION
We teach models who you are.
Wikidata, Wikipedia, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, reputable press. The canonical surfaces that LLM training pipelines treat as authoritative — aligned and maintained.
§ 03 · ANSWER-SURFACE TUNING
We rewrite what gets quoted.
When tracking shows a competitor is being cited where you should be, we engineer an answer that is provably more complete, balanced, and correctly formatted.
§ 04 · SHELF PLACEMENT
We defend the shortlist.
Models return three or four houses per category. We work — every week, without exception — to keep you one of them, on the queries that matter most to your revenue.
§ THE QUERIES · WHAT WE TRACK
Six query families, every engagement.
§ 01
Best-in-category
"best [category] for [audience]" — the shortlist query. The single highest-value surface.
§ 02
Alternatives
"alternatives to [competitor]" — captured recall, ready to be routed.
§ 03
Comparisons
"[you] vs [them]" — the decision-making query, engineered to close.
§ 04
How-to & definition
"how to [task]" and "what is [term]" — the earliest-funnel authority queries.
§ 05
Expert recommendation
"what does [analyst / editor / category] recommend" — the secondary-authority query.
§ 06
Your own name
"who is [you]" — the memory query. The one that proves the training worked.
§ THE STANDING ORDER
Ranked. Recommended. Remembered.
Memory is the highest form of distribution. We engineer for memory.
COMMISSION THE SHELF →
§ WORK
§ LOCATIONS
Monaco · MC
Geneva · CH
New York · USA
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