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UK specialist search agency

Most companies are spending on AI. Very few are getting anything back.

Cited & Co helps brands become the answer inside AI assistants — using the SEO fundamentals that have always worked, applied to where people are actually searching now.

Illustrative. Assistant answers vary between runs — which is why we measure citation frequency over time rather than checking a prompt once.

56%

of CEOs report neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI in the last twelve months. The problem is not the models — it is that companies bought tools instead of changing how they are found.

Source: PwC 29th Global CEO Survey, January 2026

What we do

Three pieces of work, described plainly

  • 01

    AI Visibility Audit

    Where you appear in AI answers today, and why. Baseline, competitor comparison, prioritised roadmap.

  • 02

    Answer Engine Optimisation

    Ongoing work to make your brand the cited source across AI assistants and answer engines.

  • 03

    ChatGPT Ads Management

    Planning, buying and optimising paid placement inside ChatGPT — a channel with no benchmarks yet.

Our view

Old rules, new surface

An assistant answering a question about your category is doing what a search engine has always done: identifying which sources are credible, which are relevant, and which can be summarised without embarrassment. The output format changed. The underlying judgement did not.

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Tell us what you are trying to solve

No pitch deck, no sales sequence. We will tell you honestly whether we can help — and if the answer is that you should wait six months, we will say that too.

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