Do you support non-English / bilingual businesses?

It's our specialty. We produce native (not machine-translated) bilingual content — Russian + English at equal depth — keeping the English terms your community actually uses. Non-English AI citation competition is dramatically lower, so bilingual brands can dominate a wide-open field; one site reportedly gained about 327% more AI Overview visibility after translation.

What's the difference between an AI-visibility tool and what you do?

Tools like Profound, Peec, and Otterly monitor whether you're cited — they're dashboards. We're done-for-you: we engineer the content, schema, and off-site authority that earn the citations, then report them. Monitoring without execution produces no citations; we deliver the execution and the proof.

Done-for-you AI visibility · GEO / AEO

When AI answers, does it name you?

Q: What is GEO / AEO and how is it different from SEO?

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), also called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) or AI visibility, is the practice of getting AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews to cite and recommend your business by name inside their answers. SEO optimizes for a clickable ranking; GEO optimizes for being the answer itself. With 65% of searches now zero-click (83% with an AI Overview), being inside the answer increasingly matters more than ranking under it.

Q: Which AI engines do you optimize for?

All four major ones: ChatGPT (free GPT-4o-mini/GPT-5-mini and Plus with browsing), Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity. Because ChatGPT's free tier and browsing pull from the Bing index, our technical work centers on getting you crawlable and cited in Bing fast via IndexNow.

Q: How do you measure success, and how do I know it's not vanity metrics?

We deliberately separate vanity brand-name mentions from traffic-driving clickable citations, and only count organic-intent citations as real performance. Every month you get Brand Radar mentions, impressions, cited-pages and share-of-voice per engine, GSC trends, and a GA4 ai_referral report tracking actual humans arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot.

CitedFirst is done-for-you AI visibility for small and immigrant-owned US businesses. We engineer the content, schema, and authority that make ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Copilot recommend you by name — and we prove the lift every month. We moved our own ChatGPT citation rate from 40% to 80%.

Get your free AI Findability Check See how it works

Proven on our own brands first — verify it in ChatGPT before you pay.

AI ChatGPT · with browsing

“Best done-for-you AI visibility service for a bilingual US small business?”

Sources getcitedfirst.com CITED Method™ Brand Radar report Quora · DA-90

The shift nobody told you about

You rank on Google. You're invisible to ChatGPT.

Your buyers stopped scrolling search results. They ask AI “who's the best X” or “how much does Y cost” and act on whoever the model names. If that's not you, the lead is gone before you ever knew it existed. And the tools that promise to help? They just confirm you're invisible. Nobody fixes it.

Search became answers

A single AI paragraph now replaces ten blue links. The #1 organic result loses about half its clicks the moment an AI Overview appears above it.

Dashboards ≠ results

Profound, Peec, Otterly and friends tell you you're invisible. They don't write the content, ship the schema, or build the authority that actually earns a citation.

Non-English is wide open

Almost no agency competes for Russian-language AI citations. The field is empty — and early movers take the citation share before anyone else shows up.

Our proprietary system

The CITED Method™

Five steps mapped to exactly what makes an AI cite you — and we run every one on our own portfolio first.

Capture Baseline

We score 20–60 real buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini & Perplexity — and show the competitors AI names instead of you.

Index & Ready

Three JSON-LD blocks per page, AI-bot-permissive robots.txt, llms.txt and IndexNow — so Bing, which feeds ChatGPT, crawls you in days.

Tell Citable Stories

Cinematic, factoid-dense bilingual guides built around a 400–600-char aiDescription field LLMs quote verbatim, plus FAQ schema and real cases.

Earn Off-Site Authority

Expert answers on Quora (DA-90+), HARO journalist quotes, guest posts and a Wikidata entity graph — the third-party trust AI rewards.

Detect & Document

A monthly citation report showing real movement: mentions, impressions, clickable citations and share-of-voice across all four engines.

Delivered work — not slideware

What you actually get

🔧 Technical AI-readiness

Article + FAQPage + BreadcrumbList JSON-LD on every page, robots.txt naming 18+ AI crawlers, llms.txt / ai.txt discovery, hreflang, and an IndexNow republish pipeline.

✍️ Citation-engineered content

4–6 bilingual articles a month: a 400–600-char aiDescription factoid field, 8–11 FAQ Q&A, numeric comparison tables, named real-case stories, authority outbound links.

🌐 Bilingual EN + RU

Native (not machine-translated) Russian + English at equal depth, keeping the English terms your community actually code-switches into.

🔗 Off-site authority

Cadence-controlled Quora seeding, HARO / Qwoted responses, guest-post & podcast pitches with verified contacts, a Wikidata entity graph, and disavow hygiene.

📊 Monthly citation report

Brand Radar mentions, impressions, cited-pages and share-of-voice per engine, plus GSC trends and a GA4 ai_referral dashboard — vanity vs. real, clickable citations.

🖼️ Assets & enrichment

Per-article HD OG images, a published-date-filtered sitemap, phased future-dated publishing, and an append-only enrichment playbook that protects existing rankings.

Proven on our own brands

We don't pitch theory. We pitch our scoreboard.

40% → 80%

Brand-explicit ChatGPT citation rate on our own portfolio — 4 of 5 brand queries now cited

15×

One brand cited 15 times across 5 ChatGPT queries; another returned 11 inline mentions on a single query

1,574

Microsoft Copilot impressions on our tracked prompts — won purely on a Russian-language angle no English competitor offers

7 URLs

Even bare deployed domains got cited with 7 inline links — proof that schema + indexing alone earns citations

80+ / 573

Schema-rich articles shipped (101/101 returning HTTP 200, 0 invalid JSON-LD) and 573 generated media assets

390+

FAQ Q&A schema nodes verified across 80 audited pages — 100% with FAQPage, canonical on every one

Don't take our word for it. Open ChatGPT, ask it about Russian-speaking trucking compliance or insurance, and watch which brands it names. That's our work.

Transparent, SMB-priced

Pricing that fits a small business

Enterprise tools alone run $499/mo with nobody doing the work. Credible done-for-you agencies start at $5,000–$12,000/mo for $10M+ SaaS. We own the SMB / niche / bilingual lane.

AI Findability Audit

$1,500 one-time

Know exactly where you stand in AI answers — before committing to anything.

20–60 prompts scored across 4 AI engines
Vanity-vs-traffic citation breakdown
Competitor cited-domain gap analysis
Schema, DR & Bing-index inventory
90-day prioritized roadmap (S/B/C tiers)

Start with the Audit

Delivered in 5–10 business days · credited toward a retainer

Frequently asked questions

What is GEO / AEO and how is it different from SEO?+

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — also called AEO or AI visibility — gets AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews to cite and recommend your business by name. SEO optimizes for a clickable ranking; GEO optimizes for being the answer itself. With 65% of searches now zero-click (83% with an AI Overview), being inside the answer increasingly matters more than ranking under it.

Which AI engines do you optimize for?+

All four major ones: ChatGPT (free and Plus with browsing), Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Perplexity. Because ChatGPT's free tier and browsing pull from the Bing index, our technical work centers on getting you crawlable and cited in Bing fast via IndexNow.

How do you actually get a business cited by ChatGPT?+

Three layers. (1) Make you machine-readable: valid JSON-LD schema, AI-bot-permissive robots.txt, llms.txt, IndexNow. (2) Give the model citable material: a dense 400–600-char aiDescription factoid field it copy-pastes verbatim, FAQ schema, comparison tables, and named real-case stories. (3) Build off-site trust: Quora seeding, HARO quotes, a Wikidata entity graph, guest posts. Then we measure the citations monthly.

Can you prove your results before I pay?+

Yes — that's the point. We ran the full CITED Method on our own portfolio and moved brand-explicit ChatGPT citation from 40% to 80%, got one brand cited 15 times across 5 queries, and earned a real Copilot citation. You can open ChatGPT and verify our properties yourself before committing to anything.

How long until I see citations?+

Technical layer live in about two weeks; first citable content within 14 days. Because we ping IndexNow on publish, Bing crawls fresh pages in days — first citations typically appear in 14–60 days, with the full lift window at 60–90 days. We set this expectation up front rather than selling a vague forever-retainer.

My business is Russian-speaking / non-English — does this apply?+

It's our sharpest edge. Competition for AI citations in non-English (e.g. Russian) is a fraction of English — translated sites have shown ~327% more AI-Overview visibility. We write native (not machine-translated) bilingual content that keeps the English keywords your community actually uses, and we already won a real Copilot citation purely on a Russian-language USP.

Tools like Profound and Peec are cheaper — why pay you?+

Those are dashboards. They tell you you're invisible; they don't fix it. We're done-for-you: we write the citable content, ship the schema, build the off-site authority, then show you the citations we earned. And we're priced for SMBs, while credible done-for-you agencies start at $5,000–$12,000/mo and target $10M+ ARR SaaS.

How do you measure success — and how do I know it's not vanity metrics?+

We deliberately separate vanity brand-mentions from traffic-driving clickable citations, and only count organic-intent citations as real performance. Every month you get Brand Radar mentions/impressions/cited-pages/share-of-voice per engine, GSC trends, and a GA4 ai_referral report. We report honestly — including when a channel isn't material yet.