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The playbook for being found in the AI era.

We publish what we practice. Cornerstone guides that map the surfaces where customers now decide, and how to own each one. Answer-first, no jargon, no gatekeeping.

Cornerstone guides

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Four deep reads that explain how AI search really works, and exactly what to do about it.

Updated for 2026

Guide10 min read

The 2026 AI Search Playbook for Home Services

AI search means the map pack, Google AI Overviews, assistants like ChatGPT, and voice now decide who a local customer calls, often before a website loads. Home-service businesses win by building owned assets, a complete Business Profile, reviews, answer-first content, and clean schema, then running them as one compounding system across every surface.

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Guide9 min read

How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity

Getting cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity means being one of the sources an AI assistant names when it answers. You earn it by publishing clear, well-sourced, extractable content, marking it up with schema, building consistent mentions of your business across the web, and keeping AI crawlers unblocked so the models can read and trust you.

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Guide9 min read

AEO vs SEO: What Actually Changed

SEO optimizes a page to rank in a list of links. AEO, answer engine optimization, optimizes your content to be the direct answer an engine gives inside AI Overviews, snippets, and assistants. They share one technical foundation, but AEO adds answer-first writing, question-based structure, and schema built for machine extraction.

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Winning the Google Map Pack

The Google Map Pack is the block of three local results shown with a map above the ordinary links. Winning it means ranking in that top three, which captures most local calls and directions. Google ranks it on relevance, distance, and prominence, with your Business Profile carrying the most weight.

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