Client site · name under NDA

379K impressions in AI answers. Four months.

Impressions in Google's AI features, from the client's own Search Console, with daily AI impressions roughly doubled over the window. Measured with the tool we built for it.

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Google Search Console, Generative AI features report: 379K total impressions, daily impressions rising from about 2K to about 4K between May and September 2026
The client's Google Search Console, Generative AI features report. Property name hidden, nothing else changed.
The numbers

What moved.

  • 379Kimpressions in Google's AI features, from Search Console.
  • ~2×daily AI impressions, start of the window to the end.
  • 4months, measured on one engagement.
  • 6AI engines CitedSpy tracks on every engagement.

The first three numbers are from one engagement. The fourth is what we measure with, for every client.

Why this is the new click

The answer is read before the results are.

The questions hit hardest are the how-to and deadline ones: when is it due, how much is it, how do I file. If your category runs on those, being named inside the answer is worth as much as ranking under it.

  • 34.5%

    less click-through at position one

    when an AI Overview appears on the page. Ahrefs.

  • 58%

    in the 2026 follow-up

    the same measure, a year later, as AI answers spread. Ahrefs.

  • 8%

    click a result under an AI summary

    against 15% on a page without one. Pew Research.

How an engine chooses a brand to name

Four signals, and what we build for each.

What AI engines look for when naming a brand, and the work that answers it
What the engine looks forWhat we build
A clear answer it can quoteAnswer-first blocks of 40 to 60 words, numbered steps, tables of deadlines, rates and penalties.
Facts it can trustFAQ, how-to, organization and pricing schema, with one price and one set of facts across every site you run.
Other sites that mention youMentions where buyers ask: Reddit, trade forums, Quora, YouTube how-tos, trade media.
The pages it already citesThe pages the engines quote for your topics, including the best-provider lists your competitors wrote, and a place on them.
Measured, not screenshotted

An AI answer changes every time. So we ask many times.

One screenshot proves nothing. CitedSpy asks the same questions across engines, again and again, and reports the average.

CitedSpy citations view: every source AI engines cite, which ones cite you, and the ones missing you
The gap list: every source that cites a competitor and not you. Demo workspace.
  • Every major engine

    ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.

  • One number, weekly

    An AI Visibility Score from 0 to 100, and share of voice against the competitors you name.

  • A gap list that becomes the work

    Sources citing a competitor and not you are next month's outreach plan.

  • Joined to Search Console

    Rankings next to AI mentions per topic, so you see which moved, and what moved it.

What we will not do

In a trust-led category, a penalty costs more than it gains.

No private blog networks, no paid link farms, no bulk directories, no spikes. Every link sits inside relevant content on a site your buyers read, aimed at the page that needs the authority, and reported with its URL, target, anchor and live date.

And no promised rankings or AI placements. We commit to the work, and show what it moved.

The same method, on a new site

From zero to 2.57M impressions in three months.

A separate engagement, also under NDA: a new single-page site reached 2.57M impressions and 4.8K clicks in its first three months, at an average position of 8.6.

Google Search Console, three months: 4.8K clicks, 2.57M impressions, 0.2% CTR, average position 8.6, rising from zero
Search Console, June to September 2026, from launch. Property name hidden.

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