How WIDE is your AI Recommendation Gap™?

Ask ChatGPT or Gemini who to call for what you do. If it names a competitor, you have a gap.

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Customers are asking AI assistants for recommendations before they ever open a search results page. Here is what many established businesses are finding.

You built the reputation. Your competitors are getting the recommendation.
Want to know why AI recommends them instead of you?
Google says you're one of the best. AI keeps recommending your competitor. Why?

What Is the
AI Recommendation Gap™

The AI Recommendation Gap™ is the difference between the reputation your business has earned through years of service and sales versus the overall authority which AI actually communicates when customers ask for a recommendation.

AI assistants do not know your track record. They build an answer from what is written about you online: your website, your Google Business Profile, directories, reviews, press mentions and the questions you have answered publicly. When that record is thin, inconsistent or silent, the assistant recommends the business it can describe with confidence, even if that business has done half the work you have.

Example gap

What Google shows Top-rated, hundreds of reviews

What customers say Referred by name, repeat work for years

What AI answers Recommends a competitor

Why Thin, inconsistent information about the business online

The gap Wide

That's what the
AWU Authority Engine™
is designed to address.

We help businesses become the trusted answer customers find online.

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How the Authority Engine closes the gap

The AWU Authority Engine™ works on the sources AI reads from. It fixes the technical issues that stop your website from being read correctly, adds the schema and FAQ content that make your answers machine-readable, and keeps your Google Business Profile complete and current.

Citation Boost™ then distributes consistent business information across more than 1,000 directories, websites and data sources, and monthly press releases, articles and visibility monitoring keep the record growing. Over time, AI has a clear, consistent and corroborated account of your business to draw on.

What happens on the AEO Discovery Call

A conversation with Steve Oakes about where your business stands in AI-powered search, and what it would take to close the gap.

We ask the major AI assistants who they recommend for what you do, in the area you serve.
We compare that answer with what Google, your reviews and your customers already say about you.
We look at the sources behind the answer: your website, Google Business Profile, citations and the questions you answer publicly.
You leave knowing how wide your gap is and what it would take to close it.