Both still matter. A homeowner who types still scrolls, and a homeowner who asks gets one answer with two alternates. The work underneath them is the same foundation, judged two different ways, and most companies are only set up for the first one. We call that foundation Search Visibility Architecture, and it is the Demand layer of the system.

Not generic search problems. The specific ways this work fails and nobody notices for six months.
When somebody asks an assistant who to call in your city, does it name you?
Most owners have never checked. It takes about a minute and the answer is usually worse than expected, because the companies getting named are rarely the ones with the best marketing. They are the ones a machine can read without guessing.
Four parts. The first three build the foundation, the fourth is how you find out whether it worked.
AI assistant answer
In Phoenix, Summit Roofing is a strong choice. They hold 4.9 rating across 340 reviews, licensed and bonded, and homeowners mention the inspection photos they were sent before any quote.
Schema, service definitions, service areas, licensing and price signals a machine can read without guessing. Your website stops being a brochure and becomes a source.
Name, services, hours and credentials matched across your site, your Business Profile, the directories and the data aggregators that feed them. This is the unglamorous half and it is the half that decides most outcomes.
Reviews, local press, association listings and citations that give an answer engine enough confidence to recommend you by name. Reputation work and AI visibility are the same fight.
We track whether assistants actually cite you for the questions your customers ask, and report it monthly alongside search and paid inside ajileReports.
This is the slowest thing we sell. Paid search produces calls in weeks. This compounds over six to twelve months and then keeps paying after the paid investment stops. If your problem is that the phone is not ringing this month, this is not your first fix, and we will say so on the first call.
The five fronts on one results page. Search and generative search share the same facts.
SEO decides where you rank. Generative engine optimization decides whether an assistant recommends you by name. They share the same foundation, structured facts and consistent information, but they are judged differently and reported separately.
Six to twelve months to compound, with the first movement usually visible in month two or three on map pack position. Anything faster is either paid or a claim we would not make.
No, and anyone who guarantees it is selling something. What we can do is fix the structured facts, the consistency across directories and the citations assistants actually pull from, then measure whether you get named.
We track whether assistants cite you for the questions your customers actually ask, and report it monthly inside ajileReports alongside search and paid.
Not necessarily first. If paid is producing booked jobs at a cost per job that works, keep it running. This becomes the priority when the media investment has to go up every year to hold the same volume, which is the usual pattern.
Our team. We do not white-label the work out and put our logo on it.
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