You can optimize for AI search forever without knowing whether it works. Here's a pennies-a-week probe that fires the questions your users would ask a grounded model, checks whether the citations point back to you, and logs the trend — turning "is any AI citing me?" from a hope into a falsifiable number.

Now that AI chat is becoming the new status quo of search engines, the rules for staying visible have changed for small businesses and solopreneurs.

Every GEO ("generative engine optimization") tool, including ours until recently, sells some version...