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Plain-language field notes on how AI assistants decide who to name — and how to make sure it's you.

Field note 01

How AI assistants choose which businesses to recommend

It isn't a ranking, and it isn't random. Assistants assemble an answer from what they were trained on and what they can retrieve right now — and only a handful of names survive.

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Field note 02

What is llms.txt — and does it matter yet?

A small file with an outsized amount of hype. The honest version: useful hygiene, not magic, and worth doing for what it signals about the rest of your site.

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Field note 03

GEO vs SEO: being in the answer, not just on the page

Search optimisation got you onto a results page. Generative engine optimisation gets you inside the sentence an assistant writes. Different mechanism, different signals, same stakes.

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See where your business stands.