Getting things ready
Getting things ready
Be the business
AI recommends
AnswerManiac helps businesses get found, understood and recommended when customers ask ChatGPT, Google and other AI assistants what to buy and who to hire.
Two steps. Start with a free AI Recommendation Check to see where you stand today. Then fix it with a fixed-scope 90-day Sprint and re-test the same questions to show what moved.
We implement the changes. We do not just send you a report.
Getting brands cited across every major AI engine
Trusted by
Lanteria is connected to the AnswerManiac founding team.
THE BUYING JOURNEY IS CHANGING
AI is becoming part of how customers compare and shortlist providers.
When customers ask an AI assistant which provider to choose, they do not receive ten blue links. They receive a shortlist.
If your business is absent, misunderstood or positioned in the wrong category, you may never reach the comparison.
94% of B2B buyers used AI during their most recent purchase. Source: Forrester 2026 Buyers’ Journey Survey (18,000 buyers).
WHAT WE DO
Not another report. A team that ships the change.
We find the commercial questions that matter, diagnose why competitors are easier to understand or recommend, and implement the selected website, content, entity and authority changes.
Diagnose
We establish a controlled baseline using an agreed set of buyer questions, platforms, competitors, market and language.
Deliverables: Buyer-question map, dated evidence baseline, competitor/source gap analysis, prioritised release plan.
Build
We fix how the company is described, structure the information AI and customers use, and strengthen decision-enabling content.
Deliverables: Positioning corrections, content or comparison assets, structured-data and technical corrections, approved website changes.
Earn
Where the evidence supports it, we strengthen credible signals beyond the website through profile consistency, reviews, expert contributions and relevant third-party sources.
Deliverables: Agreed profile or source corrections, authority plan, documented releases. Paid placements and PR distribution are scoped separately.
Prove
We re-test the agreed question set under the same stated conditions and show what moved, what did not and what should happen next.
Deliverables: Evidence log, before-and-after measurement, methodology notes, a clear decision review.
START WITH EVIDENCE
Does AI recommend your business when buyers ask who to choose?
We test a small, confirmed set of commercial buyer questions, show how often your business and a relevant competitor appear, and provide the evidence behind every result.
No opaque score. A dated snapshot with the evidence behind every result. Automated findings are human-checked during beta and for qualified leads.
What the Check includes
Three commercial buyer questions
Two AI platforms with repeated observations
One direct competitor observation
Dated evidence with exact counts and denominators
One recommended action
We confirm your inferred category, audience and three unbranded buyer questions before testing.
THE ANSWER METHOD
One method. Six connected stages.
The operating sequence is evaluate → prioritise → execute → re-evaluate. The first three stages establish the foundation. The final three run as an ongoing cycle of creation, proof building and measurement.
- A
Audit
Measure current visibility and the customer actions that matter.
- N
Navigate
Map competitors, customer journeys, source patterns and the best opportunities to move.
- S
Structurefoundation
Fix the website journey, entity consistency, schema and machine-readable foundations.
- W
Write
Produce decision-enabling pages and evidence-led assets worth finding, trusting and citing.
- E
Earn
Build credible third-party validation through reviews, profiles, sources and expert authority.
- R
Refineongoing cycle
Track the fixed questions and conversion actions, then adjust the roadmap from evidence.
Results That Speak for Themselves
90-Day
Proof Gate on Retainers
5+
AI Engines Covered
Dated
AI-answer evidence
$0
Setup Fees
AnswerManiac understood early that SEO for a deep-tech cybersecurity company can’t be generic. In our first three months, they built the technical foundation we needed and helped us think strategically about how our content should be structured. What I value most is their honesty: they tell us what’s realistic, not just what’s easy to promise.
Raíssa Oliveira Soares
Product Marketing Manager · 8Layers
Working with the AnswerManiac team has been a very positive experience. Their technical audits have allowed us to fix serious issues on our site that were holding back our rankings, and they’ve provided blog content specifically focused on the queries we wanted to target. In just a few months we’ve gone from being practically invisible in AI to accumulating hundreds of citations on platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, appearing among the top recommended responses. A professional, methodical, and highly recommended team.
Begoña De la Cruz
Graphic Designer · Ludus
The proof gate structure made it a no-brainer. Lanteria is now recommended by AI when people search for HR management analytics software and HR analytics software.
VP of Digital
Lanteria.com
Disclosure: Lanteria is connected to the AnswerManiac founding team.
Who this is for — and who it isn’t
We do our best work for a specific kind of company. If that is not you, we will say so.
Good fit
- Established B2B software or service company
- Buyers research and compare vendors before purchasing
- An existing marketing foundation and meaningful value per customer
- Willing to invest beyond a one-month traffic experiment
Not a fit
- ×Pre-product company
- ×Consumer product with no considered buying journey
- ×Company needing immediate traffic this month
- ×Company looking only for a self-service tracking tool
Four documented case studies, in detail
We show screenshots, not mockups. Each case study includes the real AI answers, the exact queries, and the citations earned.
Ludus Global earned first-place ChatGPT recommendations on two non-branded VR safety queries
In Ludus’s own blind test in ChatGPT, Ludus ranked #1 on two buyer-intent category queries that contained no brand name, with four direct citations to its site. What we did, what was verified, and what we did not measure.
Read the Ludus case study with screenshots →#1
ChatGPT, category query
5 of 8
Queries cited
11
Direct citations
Held
Position in a later re-check
Ranked #1 for “best ISPM software 2026” in AI answers — on a four-month-old domain
In a contested corner of cybersecurity, 8Layers became the #1 recommended ISPM platform in AI answers — ahead of Silverfort, Saviynt and CrowdStrike — while doubling organic clicks and tripling impressions. Real Search Console data, with head-term rankings honestly flagged as the next phase.
Read the 8Layers case study with screenshots →#1
AI answers, category query
2×
Organic clicks (248→499)
+234%
Impressions (1,476→4,928)
4 mo
Domain age at #1
We ran the framework on ourselves first
Starting position: absent from AI answers for our own category queries. We applied The ANSWER Framework to our own site and tracked a fixed set of unbranded buyer questions.
Absent
At baseline
40 days
To first citations
#1
Perplexity
Result: citations on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Search for competitive queries including “LLM citations agency” and “GEO agency,” and the #1 recommended position on Perplexity for “LLM citation agency.”
Read the full self-audit with screenshots →From missing to a top AI-recommended HR platform
Related-party case study: AnswerManiac founder Andrew Swiler also serves as CEO of Lanteria HR.
Starting position: absent from AI answers for HR software queries. After The ANSWER Framework, Lanteria was recommended as a top HR software for Microsoft 365 on ChatGPT and Perplexity for the tracked prompts, and now ranks on Google for broad queries like “HR analytics software.” Dated snapshot, US, English.
#1
ChatGPT
#1
Perplexity
HR
Category queries
Query set included “best HR software for Microsoft 365” and “HR analytics software,” tracked across ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Disclosure: Lanteria is connected to the AnswerManiac founding team.
Read the Lanteria case study with screenshots →Independent context: in our own research across 100 B2B SaaS companies and 42 buyer-intent queries, 44% received zero AI citations and ChatGPT cited only 32 of 100. Being invisible is the norm, not the exception.
BUILT BY OPERATORS
We built the agency after seeing the problem inside our own companies.
AnswerManiac combines commercial judgment, search experience and engineering. The same people shaping the method are involved in the work and the technology behind it.
Andrew Swiler
CEO & Co-Founder
More than 15 years across private equity, SaaS and e-commerce. CEO and co-founder of AnswerManiac.
Faizan Babar
COO
Full-stack development plus more than ten years in SEO and digital marketing. Builds the systems behind every engagement.
START WITH IMPLEMENTATION
The AI Recommendation Sprint
A fixed-scope engagement for established businesses that want action, not another dashboard or open-ended agency contract.
Limited to the first three unrelated paying clients.
One brand, one market and one language
Eight commercial buyer questions
Two agreed AI platforms
Dated baseline and competitor/source analysis
Two priority improvements implemented
One controlled re-test after 30–45 days
Before-and-after evidence
This is a temporary proof-building price. The standard Sprint is $4,500. Managed continuation is available after a Sprint when the evidence supports it. We guarantee agreed implementation and transparent measurement, not rankings, citations, leads or revenue.
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