The AI Visibility Field Notes

• AI Search Visibility for Local Businesses: What It Is and How to Measure It

  A customer with a burst pipe used to open Google, scan a map pack, and call the third result. A growing share of them now open ChatGPT and type "who should I call for an emergency plumber in Austin right now." The assistant names two or three businesses and stops.

• How to Run an AI Visibility Audit (Full Protocol, Free)

  This is the whole protocol. It takes about 45 minutes per business once you have run it twice, and it produces a document you can charge $500–$1,500 for. Nothing here is withheld — the paid workbook automates the scoring, but the method below is complete on its own.

• AEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes When Answers Replace Links

  Most comparisons of answer engine optimization and search engine optimization are written to sell one of them. This one is written to be usable by someone who already sells SEO and is deciding whether to add a second service line.

• How to Productize an AI Visibility Service (Pricing, Packaging, Delivery)

  A service becomes a product when the scope, the price, the deliverable and the delivery time are decided before the sales call rather than during it. Everything below is a decision you make once.

• Why ChatGPT Doesn't Recommend Your Business (and the 4 Fixes That Change It)

  Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity who the best business in your category and city is. If your name is not in the answer, this is why — and the reasons are more fixable than they look.

• How to Start an AI Visibility Business With Almost No Money

  You can start an AI visibility business for under $30. The whole business is one skill: checking whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews recommend a local business, then fixing why they don't. Free AI accounts, a spreadsheet and a written report are the only tools you need t…