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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.

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§ LOCATIONS

Monaco · MC

Geneva · CH

New York · USA

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