AI Search Visibility (GEO/AEO) for NZ Businesses
The Search Game Just Changed. Most Kiwi Businesses Haven’t Noticed.
For 20 years, the rule was simple: rank on Google, get found, win the customer.
That rule is breaking. Today, 60% of digitally-savvy buyers already use AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Perplexity to research products and services — and by the end of 2026, half of all online queries will be AI-influenced.
Here’s the problem: when these AI platforms answer questions about your category, one of three things happens to your business:
- They don’t mention you at all
- They mention you but get key facts wrong (your pricing, your services, your location, your offer)
- They confidently send the customer to your competitor instead
Traditional SEO won’t fix this. AI assistants don’t read your website the way Google does, they don’t rank pages the way Google does, and they don’t reward the same signals. You need a different game plan — built specifically for how AI models discover, interpret and cite your business.
That’s exactly what the Bizweb AI Visibility service does.
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity about your industry, does the AI mention you? Does it get the details right, or worse, does it recommend your competitors instead of you?
If you're not sure, you're not alone. And right now, that's costing you sales.
Think of it as a WOF for Your AI Presence
Just like a vehicle WOF tells you what’s safe and what needs fixing before it costs you, our free AI Visibility Audit shows you exactly how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe your business right now, what’s accurate, what’s wrong, and where competitors are quietly winning the share of voice that should be yours.
It takes a few minutes to set up. You get a full report. No cost, no obligation, no credit card.
How It Works
1. Free Baseline AI Visibility Audit: We analyse exactly how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity currently describe your brand, your services and your category. You see what each AI says about you today, the gaps, the inaccuracies, and where competitors are taking your share of voice.
2. Content & Technical Optimisation Based on the audit, we recommend the changes AI models actually respond to: AI-friendly content structures, schema and structured data, llms.txt files, AI-optimised sitemaps, and AI Private Pages, content built specifically for AI consumption without cluttering your customer-facing website.
3. Ongoing Monitoring & Reporting Every month you get an executive summary showing what’s improved, what’s changed across each AI platform, and what to prioritise next — plus a detailed implementation guide with the specific changes to make.
4. Strategic Oversight from the Bizweb Team: AI platforms update their models constantly. Steve and the team keep your visibility strategy aligned with how these systems are evolving, so you stay ahead of competitors who treat AI visibility as a one-off project.
What You Actually Get
The Bizweb AI Visibility service is built on a leading AI monitoring platform paired with hands-on strategy from the Bizweb team. Together, you get:
- A clear picture of how AI currently talks about your brand across every major platform
- Identification of inaccuracies, content gaps and missed opportunities
- Optimisation of your website content and structure for AI ingestion
- Monitoring of which AI bots are crawling your site and what they’re consuming
- Benchmarking against your competitors across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity
- Clear, actionable recommendations every single month
- A real human from the Bizweb team reviewing the data and guiding the strategy — not just a software dashboard
3-month minimum commitment: To deliver meaningful AI visibility improvements for your business takes 60–90 days to show up properly. This includes monthly monitoring, reporting, strategic recommendations and ongoing optimisation guidance.
Choose Your Package
🔍 AI Visibility Audit
See exactly where you stand in AI search.
📊 AI Insights
Monitoring + Reporting
$997+GST setup fee - includes first month
🚀 AI Managed Service
Monitoring + Reporting + Done-For-You Implementation
$1497+GST setup fee - includes first month
The Bizweb Promise
You already know our 5x guarantee on our marketing services. AI Visibility works differently; the wins are about being found, recommended and trusted by AI platforms, which compounds into more leads and sales over months, not days.
What we do guarantee: every month, you’ll see exactly what’s changed, what we’ve done, and what’s next. No black box. No vague reports. No surprises.
Frequently Asked Questions
SEO optimises your website to rank in Google (and other search engines’) list of search results. AI Visibility (sometimes called GEO – Generative Engine Optimisation, or AEO – AI Engine Optimisation) optimises your business to be mentioned, accurately described and recommended by AI assistants that synthesise answers instead of returning links. Different signals, different content structures, different success metrics. Both matter; they’re complementary, not competing.
Most clients see meaningful changes in how AI platforms describe them within 60–90 days, which is why we ask for a 3-month minimum. Some changes (like fixing factual inaccuracies) can land within weeks. Building genuine authority and citation share takes longer.
Currently, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Perplexity are the four platforms driving the vast majority of AI-influenced research today. As new platforms gain meaningful market share in NZ, we add them.
It helps, but it’s not required. AI Visibility and SEO share some foundational ground (clean technical setup, quality content), but the optimisation work is genuinely different. Plenty of businesses start AI Visibility before their SEO is where they want it.
Then we focus on accuracy, completeness and competitive positioning, making sure what’s said about you is correct, comprehensive and persuasive compared to what’s said about your competitors.
Bizweb is Hamilton-based, and we work with businesses all over the world. The great thing is that AI Visibility isn’t location-dependent, so we can take on clients from anywhere, however we do love helping kiwi businesses win locally and beyond.
Yes. AI Visibility works alongside your existing Grow, Scale or Explode package. Talk to Steve about bundling.