Birmingham, Michigan · Since 2016
AI visibility
for when customers ask AI instead of Google.
Ask ChatGPT for a good contractor in Troy and it names two or three businesses. We build the evidence that decides whether one of them is you.
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- Rêve: first web result for med spa troy
- Free mini-audit, full audit $750
- You keep every profile and login
Why AI skips you
Four reasons an assistant names someone else.
AI models repeat what the web clearly and consistently says about a business. When your evidence is thin or contradicts itself, they name the competitor they’re more sure about.
- 01
Nothing plainly states what you do
Slogans instead of one clear sentence naming the service and the city.
- 02
Your details disagree
A different name, address or phone across the web, so nothing reads as confirmed.
- 03
Nobody else mentions you
A model trusts what other sites say about you more than what you say about yourself.
- 04
No answers to lift
Your pages never answer the questions customers actually ask, so there’s nothing to quote.
Sound familiar?
You’ve asked it about your own business.
- Out of curiosity
“Best glass repair in Troy? Two names came back. Neither one was us.”
- Asking it again
“Different wording, different answer. Still not us.”
- The one that stung
“It gave out our old phone number, from a listing we closed years ago.”
- Later
“Nobody I know even uses that stuff.”
Some of your customers already do, and the answer they get names two shops, not ten.
An assistant repeats what the web says about you. A vague homepage, old listings and a thin review profile give it nothing solid to repeat, so it names a business it’s more sure about.
It doesn’t name the best business. It names the one it’s most sure about.
Search is splitting in two
The list, and the answer.
For twenty years search gave you a page of links and the customer did the sorting. Now a growing share of people get one answer with a couple of names in it. Both are happening at once, and you need to show up in both.
- The list
Traditional search
Ten results, a map, and a customer who compares. Still the bigger channel by far, and still where most of the calls come from today.
- The answer
AI recommendations
Two or three names and a reason for each. No page two, no scrolling. You’re either in the answer or you’re missing from that conversation entirely.
- The overlap
One foundation
Clear facts, consistent details, real reviews and honest answers feed both. That’s why this isn’t a separate program with a separate invoice.
Proof, before the pitch
Real evidence should survive an incognito window.
Result one
A Troy med spa we relaunched, already winning its market.
Rêve came to AlbaTech for a full relaunch. We rebuilt the site, the local-search foundation and the review engine together, and the treatments people actually search for now surface the business.
- Search: med spa troy
- Market: Troy, Michigan
- Result: first web result
- First web result under the map, and it holds that spot every time we check
- In the map pack too, highest rated of the three at 5.0 from 111 reviews
- Also in the pack for botox troy and laser hair removal troy
Result two
Our own studio, first for “microblading Michigan”.
Fine Strokes is our own studio. We built the website and the local search setup around the service customers actually search for. We ran the method on our own business before we sold it to anyone.
- Search: microblading Michigan
- Market: Birmingham, Michigan
- Result: first position shown
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What we actually do
Make the business readable to a machine.
It’s the same foundation that wins Google, aimed at a second reader. The mini-audit is free, a full audit is $750, and the done-for-you Tune-Up runs $1,500 to $3,000. See every tier.
Say it plainly
What you do and where you do it, in one sentence.
A clear description a model can repeat, instead of a tagline it has to interpret.
- One sentence: service and city
- Service and area on every page
- Plain-language pages
- The same name everywhere
Facts in a format machines read
Nothing left for a model to guess.
Your business, services, hours and location marked up, so a model reads them as facts instead of working them out.
- Business schema
- Service and FAQ markup
- Matching name, address and phone
- An llms.txt summary
Proof off your own site
Models trust what others say about you.
Reviews, directories and mentions that back up the same facts your site states.
- A review engine that runs
- Directory cleanup
- Mentions on other sites
- A finished Google profile
Content worth quoting
Answer the real question, in plain words.
Direct answers to what customers actually ask, so there’s something clean to lift with your name on it.
- Pages led by real questions
- Direct answers up top
- FAQ content
- Written for people first
How the work runs
Five steps, in this order, every time.
The audit takes a few days. The fixes typically take a few weeks, depending on the size of the site, and AI answers catch up over the weeks after that.
- 01
Ask the assistants
We put your customers’ real questions to the AI tools and record who gets named, and who doesn’t.
- 02
Fix the description
One clear sentence about what you do and where, repeated the same way everywhere it appears.
- 03
Mark up the facts
Schema, so your location, services and hours are stated for machines instead of implied.
- 04
Build the evidence
Reviews and consistent listings, because models trust other sources agreeing more than a business describing itself.
- 05
Answer the questions
Plain answers on the page, plus an llms.txt summary, then we ask the assistants again.
Why bother now
The door is narrower than search, and it’s open early.
Ten blue links gave ten businesses a chance. An AI answer names two or three and does the choosing for the customer. That’s a much smaller opening, and most of your competitors haven’t noticed it yet.
- An answer names a shortlist, it doesn’t hand over a page of options
- The signals that win it are the ones you already need for Google
- Stale listings keep getting repeated until someone fixes the source
- Early presence compounds, the same way early Google rankings did
Sounds like the next shiny thing an agency wants to sell you? If your basics are broken, that’s what we’ll tell you to fix first.
Fix my marketing leaksWhatever it says about you is what a customer hears. That’s the whole reason this matters.
What you end up with
Plain deliverables, not a mystery retainer.
Everything here is something you can look at, check and keep. If a service can’t be described as a list of things that exist afterward, it’s worth asking what you’re paying for.
- 01
A baseline test
The questions your customers would ask, run across the assistants, with what each one said about you saved.
- 02
One clear description
What you do and where, applied the same way across your site, your Google profile and your listings.
- 03
Facts machines can read
Schema and an llms.txt file, so location, services and hours are stated instead of implied.
- 04
A repeat test
The same questions asked again afterward, so you can see for yourself what changed.
What we turn down
We won’t sell you a mystery AI service.
- No promise that a model will name you, nobody controls that
- No AI package when the basics are still broken
- No invented scores or dashboards
- No recommendation based on the easiest service to sell
The ownership promise
No hostage accounts. No mystery handoff.
Your profiles, website, analytics, data and documentation stay in your name. If we stop working together, nothing breaks and nothing gets held over you.
Common questions
Stuff you’re probably wondering.
Is this different from SEO?+
Mostly it’s the same foundation pointed at a second reader. Clear facts, consistent details and real reviews feed Google and the assistants at once.
What does AI visibility cost?+
The mini-audit is free. A full audit is $750, the done-for-you Tune-Up is $1,500 to $3,000, and monthly monitoring runs $300 to $800. Final pricing gets scoped to your business and your market before you pay anything.
How long does it take to show up?+
The audit takes a few days and the fixes typically a few weeks, depending on the size of the site. AI answers refresh on their own schedule, so real movement usually shows over the weeks after that.
Can you guarantee AI will recommend me?+
No. Nobody can promise that, and anyone who does is guessing. What we control is whether the evidence about you is clear, consistent and worth citing.
How would I even measure it?+
By asking. We run the same set of customer questions across the assistants before and after, and record whether you get named and whether the details are right. There’s no dashboard metric, just a test you can repeat.
What if AI says something wrong about me?+
That’s more common than being ignored, and more damaging. It usually traces back to stale listings or contradictory information, which is fixable once you find the source.
Which assistants actually matter?+
The ones your customers use, which today mostly means ChatGPT, Google’s AI answers, Gemini and Perplexity. They draw on overlapping evidence, so the work that helps with one generally helps with the others.
What is llms.txt?+
A small plain-text file that hands AI models a clean summary of your business and your key pages. It’s cheap to add.
Is this worth it for a new business?+
Not yet. If you’re just getting started and capital is tight, fix the website and the Google profile first. AI visibility pays off once there’s a real business for the web to describe.
Where this fits
The rest of the foundation, and the receipts.
Free AI mini-audit
Does AI name you? →How AI visibility works
The steps in detail →AI visibility pricing
Audit, Tune-Up, monitoring →Conversion-ready websites
Website pillar →Local SEO
Local search pillar →Rêve Medical Spa case study
A Troy med spa relaunch →Fine Strokes case study
Our own studio →The complete guide to local SEO
Read it →One next step
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Thirty minutes with Ervin. We look at your website, your local search and your tracking, the same evidence an assistant reads, and you leave with a ranked fix list whether or not you hire AlbaTech.
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