Over the past year, companies began noticing a pattern:
customers check information in AI assistants first — not on Google, not on websites.
This changes how brands are discovered.
If an assistant cannot explain your product, your positioning collapses at the very first touchpoint.
This short breakdown explains how generative engines retrieve and rank information (2 min):
The main point: AI systems don’t “rank” pages — they surface brands based on clarity, structured signals, and consistency across sources.
Data
- The broader geo-marketing / location-intelligence market is projected to hit $21.4B in 2025 and grow to $147B by 2035.
- 84% of marketers already use some form of AI-enhanced targeting and geolocation.
- Technical analysis shows that AI assistants increasingly rely on structured data and external references rather than website content alone.
This is already happening across SaaS, DTC, and services.
One useful action to start:
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity the same simple question:
- “Which companies help with [your category]?”
- If your brand doesn’t appear — the assistant isn’t “confident” in you.
- That’s the first signal to review your AI-visibility footprint.