AI Search

“When buyers ask AI, it names us.”

This is the newest thing CEOs ask us for. AI Search is how CESSON works toward it: being named and cited when your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity or Google’s own AI who to hire.

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The report

Eight grades, one page, yours to keep.

What ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s AI say when a buyer asks who to hire: where you are named, who is named instead, whether AI can read your site, and what to fix first.

AI Reality CheckSample · Oct 2026

Named by AI assistantsD

Named in Google’s AI answersC

What AI says about youB

Can AI read your siteF

Answers worth quotingC+

Found on GoogleA-

Can an AI agent buy from youD

Using AI, or talking about itB-

Overall2.1 / 5

Isn’t this just SEO?

Google itself says that optimizing for its AI answers is still search optimization, and we agree. What changes in practice is what gets cited: clear answers to real buyer questions, in places AI reads, and a reputation the assistants can verify. That is why AI Search and SEO run together at CESSON, under one fee and one team.

What’s included

The work, line by line

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The questions your buyers ask AI
We map the questions a buyer types into an assistant before hiring a company like yours, run each one several times per assistant, and report how often you’re named and who is named instead.
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What AI reads about you
Your site, your listings and your crawler permissions, cleaned up so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s bots can read your pages and trust them.
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Answers worth quoting
Pages and articles written to answer a buyer’s question so plainly that an assistant quotes them. Video included.
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What ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude say about you
Reputation, the AI side. We watch what the assistants say about your company and your people, find the sources they took it from, and work on what’s wrong.
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Presence where AI draws from
Reddit, review sites, YouTube, LinkedIn and industry directories are where assistants form opinions. We make sure yours is there, in your own voice.
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A monthly report in plain words
Where you appear, where competitors appear and what moved, with the visits and leads that arrived from AI assistants counted in your own analytics.

Usually run together with SEO and Content & Social Media. If your own team will do the work, see AI Only. See all eight services

How it works

Step 1

The AI Reality Check

A free 25-minute session and a written report with eight grades. You see the gap before you spend a dollar.

Step 2

First 90 days

Fix what AI reads, publish the first answers, set the baseline presence rate. We review it with you every month.

Step 3

Compound

Every month adds answers and citations, and a report that shows the movement in your own numbers.

Part of a CESSON engagement, from $3,500 a month.One flat monthly fee covers the mix of services your business needs; it is not $3,500 per service. No setup fee. Six months to start, with a checkpoint at 90 days, then month-to-month on 30 days’ written notice. No surprise bills, no hourly billing. You own your accounts and your data. See what an engagement looks like.

Three things we put in writing

The buck stops with Philippe

Philippe Cesson sets the strategy, reviews and directs all the work, and answers for the result. A named member of the CESSON team runs it day to day.

No surprise bills

One flat monthly fee. We don’t bill by the hour, so call, text or email as often as you need to. We answer within half a business day.

Reports in plain words

Leads and revenue from the data you already own. No jargon, no vanity numbers.

Questions we hear

Before you book

It builds on it. The same clean site and the same content serve both. What AI Search adds is buyer questions answered plainly enough for an assistant to cite you, your presence in the places assistants read, and the watching of what they say.
Fixes to what AI reads show within weeks. Citations build over months, which is why an engagement starts at six months, with a checkpoint at 90 days, and we show you the movement every month rather than promising a date.
The work, in writing, and a monthly report that shows where you were named and where you weren’t. We don’t promise a citation, because the assistants decide that and their answers change from one day to the next.
Yes, if someone on your team will put time into it every week. That is AI Only: CESSON Guidance at $500 a month or Badass Coaching at $1,500 a month.
Philippe Cesson sets the strategy, reviews and directs all the work, and answers for the result. The buck stops with him. A named member of the CESSON team runs your account day to day, and you will know by name everyone who works on it. When an account needs an extra specialist, that person joins the team and works with you directly.
AI Search is part of a CESSON digital marketing engagement, which starts at $3,500 a month for the mix of services your business needs. It is one flat fee for the engagement, not $3,500 per service, and most engagements run between $4,000 and $6,000. No setup fee. Six months to start, with a checkpoint at 90 days, then month-to-month on 30 days’ written notice. The terms are on the pricing page, and two worked examples show what six months looks like.

See what your buyers’ AI says about you.

Twenty-five minutes on Zoom. A written report with eight grades.