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How AI assistants choose who to recommend

Plain-English research on AI visibility — what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity actually cite, why search rankings don't carry over, and what to fix first. No hype, sources named.

July 1, 2026

Will ChatGPT recommend your firm? How AI assistants actually build shortlists

A quarter of affluent households now start their advisor search in an AI chat window — yet ChatGPT names only a sliver of local businesses. Here's the mechanics behind the shortlist: retrieval, grounding, prompt fan-out, and what makes a firm citable.

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July 3, 2026

Your #1 Google ranking doesn't transfer: why only ~45% of search winners appear in AI answers

Roughly half of Google's map-pack winners are missing from AI recommendations, and an AI Overview above your #1 result cuts its clicks by more than half. Why the two systems diverge — and why the traffic AI does send converts better.

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July 6, 2026

The surfaces AI actually cites: directories, Reddit, and the death of the brochure site

Reddit shows up in roughly 40% of LLM citations, while 97% of llms.txt files went completely unread by AI crawlers in May 2026. An honest look at which surfaces move the needle — and which fixes are necessary but not sufficient.

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